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This volume provides an applications-oriented introduction to the role of management science in decision-making. The text blends problem formulation, managerial interpretation, and math techniques with an emphasis on problem solving. In addition, a problem-scenario approach introduces quantitative procedures through situations that include both problem formulation and technique application. A notes and comments section provide warnings, limitations, recommended applications, and other tips. Extensive linear programming coverage includes problem formulation, computer solution, and practical application. The text covers transportation, assignment, and the integer programming extension of linear programming, as well as advanced topics like waiting line problems, simulation, and decision analysis. It also includes a large selection of problems includes self-test problems with complete solutions and 20 case problems.
Product Identifiers
Publisher Cengage Learning
ISBN-13 9780314096876
Author David Ray Anderson, Thomas Arthur Williams, Dennis J. Sweeney
Publication Name Introduction to Management Science: a Quantitative Approach to Decision Making
Format Hardcover
Language English
Subject Management
Publication Year 1996
Type Textbook
Number of Pages 900 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height 250mm
Item Weight 700g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author Thomas Arthur Williams, Dennis J. Sweeney, David Ray Anderson
Country/Region of Manufacture United States