Operations Research

This book is designed to offer a lively applied presentation of analytical and empirical tools for managerial decision-making. It employs several pedagogical devices to help the students to learn the new concepts quickly and absorb them fully. The concept/example format introduced in this text helps the students to formulate the real world problems easily. The excel template orientation outlined throughout the text will help the students to obtain the needed solutions for all the problems given in exercises. The numerous solved examples under each section will enable the students to solve any type of tricky questions in the university examinations. This book meets the requirements of Engineering and Management students at graduate and postgraduate level.

Contents: Nature and Scope of Operations Research / Linear Programming - I / Linear Programming -II / Linear Programming-III / Transportation and Transhipment Problems / Integer Programming / Assignment Problem / Sequencing Problems / Replacement Models / Waiting Line Models / Decision Theory / Network Analysis / Inventory Control Models / Theory of Games-I / Theory of Games-II / Simulation / Goal and Dynamic Programming / Markov Processes Business Forecasting/ Invest and Break-Even Analysis/ Index

R. Veerachamy was Professor and Chairman, Department of Economics, Bangalore University, Bangalore. He has put in 40 years of postgraduate teaching in Quantitative Techniques for both Management and Economics students. He obtained his M.Sc. (Mathematical Economics), M.A. (Economics) from Madurai Kamaraj University and his Ph.D. (International Business) from Bangalore University. He is a first rank Gold Medalist in Econometrics. He has published several research papers in reputed journals. He has vast experience in curriculum development for both Economics and Management courses. Currently he is Professor and Head, Department of Management Studies, T. John Business School, Bangalore. V. Ravi Kumar is Asst. Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Amrita School of Engineering, Bangalore. He has obtained his B.E. and M.E. degrees from University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering, Bangalore. He has participated in several national and international seminars and received the Best Paper award.