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While building on the classic strengths of the original text, the author continues to find new ways to make this book current and relevant to students. One way is by incorporating a wealth of state-of-the-art, user-friendly software and more coverage of business applications than ever before. The hallmark features of this edition include clear and comprehensive coverage of the fundamentals of operations research, an extensive set of interesting problems and cases, and state-of-the-practice operations research software used in conjunction with examples from the text. INSTALLING ANALYTIC SOLVER PLATFORM FOR EDUCATION Title Page ABOUT THE AUTHORS ABOUT THE CASE WRITERS Dedication Page TABLE OF CONTENTS List of SUPPLEMENTS AVAILABLE ON THE TEXT WEBSITE PREFACE 1 Introduction 2 Overview of the Operations Research Modeling Approach 3 Introduction to Linear Programming 4 Solving Linear Programming Problems: The Simplex Method 5 The Theory of the Simplex Method 6 Duality Theory 7 Linear Programming under Uncertainty 8 Other Algorithms for Linear Programming 9 The Transportation and Assignment Problems 10 Network Optimization Models 11 Dynamic Programming 12 Integer Programming 13 Nonlinear Programming 14 Metaheuristics 15 Game Theory 16 Decision Analysis 17 Queueing Theory 18 Inventory Theory 19 Markov Decision Processes 20 Simulation Appendix 1 Documentation for the OR Courseware Appendix 2 Convexity Appendix 3 Classical Optimization Methods Appendix 4 Matrices and Matrix Operations Appendix 5 Table for a Normal Distribution PARTIAL ANSWERS TO SELECTED PROBLEMS AUTHOR INDEX SUBJECT INDEX Back Cover Glossaries 21 The Art of Modeling with Spreadsheets 22 Project Management with PERT/CPM 23 Additional Special Types of Linear Programming Problems 24 Probability Theory 25 Reliability 26 The Application of Queueing Theory 27 Forecasting 28 Examples of Performing Simulations on Spreadsheets with Analytic Solver Platform 29 Markov Chains Focuses on operations research. This title includes comprehensive coverage of fundamentals, an extensive set of interesting problems and cases, and state-of-the-practice operations research software used in conjunction with examples from the text. Introduction to Operations Research, 10th edition: Textbook for OR major.