Operations Research: An Introduction (7th Edition) - Hardcover

Taha, Hamdy A.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0130323748 ISBN 13: 9780130323743

Publisher: Prentice Hall, 2002

Synopsis

Ideal for both novices and seasoned professionals, this book provides balanced coverage of the theory, applications, and computations of operations research techniques—with a focus on deterministic models, probabilistic models, and nonlinear models. Exceptionally up-to-date, it features intensive use of modern computational tools, including the all-new and extremely-powerful Windows-based TORA®, Excel® spreadsheets, Excel Solver®, LINGO® and AMPL®. It uses carefully designed numerical examples to explain each mathematical concept (rather than using complex mathematical proofs). An accompanying CD-ROM includes the TORA® Optimization system, the ready-to-use Excel® templates, files of all the examples in the book for direct use with TORA®, Excel®, LINGO®, and AMPL®. Introduction To Linear Programming. The Simplex Method. Duality and Sensitivity Analysis. Transportation Model and its Variants. Network Models. Advanced Linear Programming. Goal Programming. Integer Linear Programming. Deterministic Dynamic Programming. Deterministic Inventory Models. Review of Basic Probability. Forecasting Models. Decision Analysis and Games. Probabilistic Dynamic Programming. Probabilistic Inventory Models. Queueing Systems. Simulation Modeling. Markovian Decision Process. Classical Optimization Theory. Nonlinear Programming Algorithms. For anyone involved in Operations Research.

About this title

About the Author

Hamdy A. Taha is a University Professor of Industrial Engineering with the University of Arkansas, where he teaches and conducts research in operations research and simulation. He is the author of three other books on integer programming and simulation, and his works have been translated into Chinese, Korean, Spanish, Japanese, Russian, Turkish, and Indonesian. He is also the author of several book chapters. His articles have appeared in Management Science, Operations Research, and Interfaces Institute for Operations Research and Management Science, Naval Research Logistics John Wiley & Sons, the European Journal of Operations Research International Federation of Operations Research Societies and the AIIE Transactions.

Professor Taha was named a Senior Fulbright Scholar to Carlos III University, Madrid, Spain. He received an Alumni Award for excellence in research and The Nadine Baum Faculty Teaching Award, both from the University of Arkansas, and numerous other research and teaching awards from the College of Engineering, University of Arkansas. He is fluent in three languages and has held positions in Mexico and the Middle East.

From the Back Cover

This seventh edition continues to build on the strength of the first six editions, providing balanced coverage of the theory, applications, and computations of operations research. Complex mathematical concepts are effectively explained by means of carefully designed numerical examples, essentially eliminating the need for the usually obscure formal mathematical proofs. The book includes fully analyzed practical situations and each chapter concludes with summary applications borrowed from published case studies. The role of modern computational tools in enhancing the effectiveness of operations research as a decision-making tool receives considerable attention in this new edition.

New for the Seventh Edition:

• Practically every algorithm in the book is now supported and explained by an appropriate software tool, greatly facilitating the process of explaining concepts that otherwise would be difficult, if not impossible, to demonstrate.
• The powerful Windows®-based TORA software offers new and unique tutorial features, ranging from animated graphical LP solution to dynamic construction of CPM time charts and generation of branch-and-bound search trees.
• For the first time, Excel® templates are designed to solve general problems in dynamic programming, inventory problems, and the analytic hierarchy approach, simply by changing the input data in the template.
• Excel® Solver is used to solve transportation, network, and linear and nonlinear programming problems.
• Commercial AMPL® and LINGO® packages are used to show how very large linear and integer programs are solved in practice.
• Chapters 1 through 14, 17, and 18 have been streamlined to eliminate ambiguity and redundancy in the presentation of the material.
• New material includes a new introduction to operations research, the generalized simplex method, representation of all network models, including CPM, as linear programs, PERT networks,solution of the traveling salesperson problem, and the golden section method.
• Numerous new problems have been added in many chapters.
• Appendix D provides complete solutions to selected chapter problems.

Software Support:

• Easy-to-use menu-driven TORA optimization system.
• Over 20 general and ready-to-use Excel® spreadsheet templates.
• Several Excel® Solver templates.
• Example applications of the commercial packages AMPL® and LINGO®.

Edition details

• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0130323748
• ISBN 13: 9780130323743
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 848