- Operations Research
A Model-Based Approach
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- H. A. Eiselt 0 ,
- Carl-Louis Sandblom 1
Faculty of Business Administration, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada
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Dept. Industrial Engineering, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada
- Covers the standard operations research techniques
- Presents an approach to operations research that is heavily based on modeling and makes extensive use of sensitivity analyses
- Emphasis is on getting insight into problems, rather than computing solutions
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
Front matter, introduction to operations research.
- H. A. Eiselt, C. -L. Sandblom
Linear Programming
Multiobjective programming, integer programming, network models, location models, project networks, machine scheduling, decision analysis, inventory models, stochastic processes and markov chains, waiting line models, back matter.
- Industrial Engineering
- Management Science
- Optimization
- Quantitative Methods
- organization
- Engineering Economics
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“This course resource by Eiselt … is an introduction to operations research at the undergraduate level. The book introduces a wide variety of deterministic and stochastic operations research models, including linear and integer programming, network flows, facility location problems, machine scheduling problems, inventory models, queuing models, and discrete event simulation models. … Summing Up: Recommended. Business and industrial engineering collections serving upper-division undergraduates.” (B. Borchers, Choice, Vol. 48 (3), November, 2010)
“The book gives an overview of the operations research models applied in many practical problems. … The book is a great contribution to the OR models’ application and can be a significant help to the decision makers.” (Kristina Šorić, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1198, 2010)
Authors and Affiliations
H. A. Eiselt
Carl-Louis Sandblom
Bibliographic Information
Book Title : Operations Research
Book Subtitle : A Model-Based Approach
Authors : H. A. Eiselt, Carl-Louis Sandblom
DOI : https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-10326-1
Publisher : Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages : Business and Economics , Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information : Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2010
eBook ISBN : 978-3-642-10326-1 Published: 17 May 2010
Edition Number : 1
Number of Pages : XII, 448
Number of Illustrations : 162 b/w illustrations
Topics : Operations Research/Decision Theory , Optimization , Engineering, general , Operations Research, Management Science , Engineering Economics, Organization, Logistics, Marketing
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