Introduction to Management Science: A Modeling & Case Studies Approach w/Spreadsheets, and Student CD-ROM (includes Microsoft Project 2000) - Hardcover

Hillier,Frederick; Hillier,Mark; Lieberman,Gerald

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0072503084 ISBN 13: 9780072503081

Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Irwin, 2001

Synopsis

These authors are well known for their best selling text, Introduction to Operations Research. This new text is also headed for great success, as it offers a unique case-study approach, and it integrates the use of Excel. Each chapter includes a case study which is meant to show the students a real and interesting application of the topics addressed in that chapter. . .

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About the Author

Frederick S. Hillier was born and raised in Aberdeen, Washington, where he was an award winner in statewide high school contents in essay writing, mathematics, debate, and music. As an undergraduate at Stanford University he ranked first in his engineering class of over 300 students.. . Dr. Hillier's research has extended into a variety of areas, including integer programming, queueing theory and its application, statistical quality control, and the application of operations research to the design of production systems and to capital budgeting. He was the first prize winner of a research contest on "Capital Budgeting of Interrelated Projects" sponsored by The Institute of Management Sciences and the U.S. Office of Naval Research. He and Dr. Lieberman also received the honorable mention award for the 1995 Lanchester Prize (best English-language publication of any kind in the field of operations research) for the 6th edition of IOR. He currently serves as the Series Editor for the International Series in Operations Research and Management Science being published by Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Edition details

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Irwin
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0072503084
• ISBN 13: 9780072503081
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 744