An Introduction to Management Science
Subtitle: quantitative approaches to decision making
By: David R. Anderson ... [et al.]
Edition: Revised 13th ed.
Publisher: South-Western Cengage Learning
Published: 2011
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 896
ISBN-13: 9781111532222
Notes: "Each new copy of the text contains a printed access code that grants access to the following resources: LINGO student edition, 5 optional chapters focusing on solution algorithms, Microsoft Office Excel worksheets for text examples, Microsoft Office Excel templates for inventory, waiting line, and simulation models, The Mangement Scientist, TreePlan Academic. Microsoft Office Project 2010 60-Day trial version is on a separate DVD-ROM packaged with each new copy of the text."--Back cover.
Table of contents: title: About the authors; title: Introduction; title: An introduction to linear programming; title: Linear programming : sensitivity analysis and interpretation of solution; title: Linear programming applications in marketing, finance, and operations management; title: Advanced linear programming applications; title: Distribution and network models; title: Integer linear programming; title: Nonlinear optimization models; title: Project scheduling : PERT/CPM; title: Inventory models; title: Waiting line models; title: Simulation; title: Decision analysis; title: Multicriteria decisions; title: Time series analysis and forecasting; title: Markov processes; title: Linear programming : simplex method; title: Simplex-based sensitivity analysis and duality; title: Solution procedures for transportation and assignment problems; title: Minimal spanning tree; title: Dynamic programming; title: Appendixes.; title: Building spreadsheet models; title: Areas for the standard normal distribution; title: Values of e -2; title: References and bibliography; title: Self-test solutions and answers to even-numbered problems