TY - BOOK AU - Hillier,Frederick S. AU - Lieberman,Gerald J. TI - INTRODUCTION TO OPERATIONS RESEARCH SN - 9780071267670 U1 - 658.4034 23 PY - 2010/// CY - Boston, Massachusetts PB - McGraw-Hill KW - Operations research KW - Programming (Mathematics) N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction -- ; Overview of the operations research modelling approach -- ; Introduction to linear programming --; Solving linear programming problems : the simplex method -- ; The theory of the simplex method -- ; Duality theory and sensitive analysis --; Other algorithms for linear programming -- ; The transportation and assignment problems -- ; Network organization models --; Dynamic programming -- ; Integer programming -- ; Nonlinear programming --; Metaheuristics -- ; Game theory -- ; Decision analysis --; Markov chains -- ; Queueing theory -- ; Inventory theory -- ; Markov decision processes -- ; Simulation N2 - This operations research text incorporates a wealth of state-of-the-art, user-friendly software and more coverage of modern operations research topics. This edition features the latest developments in operations research ER -