ISBN: 9788120331280    Publisher: PHI LEARNING PVT. LTD. Year of publishing: 2007     Format:  Paperback No of Pages: 576        Language: English

This comprehensive book deals with the theoretical aspects of operations research, and explains the concepts with practical examples. It begins by focusing on the need and prerequisites of operations research and moves on to discuss topics such as linear programming, integer programming, nonlinear programming, assignment problems, and inventory models in sufficient detail.

Besides, this text also explains how to achieve different goals in the order of priority to optimize the objective function, various criteria of decision making under certainty, uncertainty and risk, and different techniques of analyzing the time involved in completing the project and the related cost.

KEY FEATURES :

Gives well-defined algorithms to illustrate the different techniques of operations research.

Inventory problems are discussed with calculus.

Provides worked-out examples in each chapter to illustrate the concepts discussed.

This text is intended for the undergraduate and postgraduate students of Mathematics, Statistics, Engineering, and postgraduate students of Computer Applications and Business Administration. In addition, practising executives, consultants and managers will also find the book very useful.
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Nita H. Shah, Ph.D., is Professor in the Department of Mathematics, Gujarat University. She is a post-doctoral visiting fellow of University of New Brunswick, Canada, and visits many universities for research oriented programmes. Dr. Shah has published over 250 research articles in various national and international journals.|RAVI M. GOR, Professor and Dean (academics), St. Kabir Institute of Professional Studies, Ahmedabad |HARDIK SONI is Lecturer, Chimanbhai Patel Institute of Computer Applications, Gujarat University, Ahmedabad. His areas of interest include operations research (inventory control and management), marketing research, network analysis and computer graphics.
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