Practical Management Science

by Winston,Wayne L.

• ISBN13: 9780534371357
• ISBN10: 0534371353
• Edition: CD
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-07-25
• Publisher: Cengage Learning

Summary

In the Second Edition of their popular text, Wayne Winston and Chris Albright continue to build on their highly successful approach of teaching by example while using spreadsheets to model a wide variety of business problems. The authors show the relevance of topics through numerous examples of real-world implementation of management science. The ideal solution for people who want to teach by example and who want to solve real problems with spreadsheets and professional spreadsheet add-ins, this text is always interesting, in part due to the useful cases added to this edition.

Author Biography

Wayne L. Winston is Professor of Operations and Decision Technologies in the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University Chris Albright teaches in the Operations and Decision Technologies Department in the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University.

Table of Contents

Introduction to Modeling	1	(26)
Introductory Spreadsheet Modeling	27	(40)
Introduction to Optimization Modeling	67	(44)
Linear Programming Models	111	(80)
Network Models	191	(84)
Linear Optimization Models with Integer Variables	275	(62)
Nonlinear Optimization Models	337	(62)
Evolutionary Solver: An Alternative Optimization Procedure	399	(50)
Multi-Objective Decision Making	449	(44)
Decision Making Under Uncertainty	493	(70)
Introduction to Simulation Modeling	563	(54)
Simulation Models	617	(98)
Inventory Models	715	(54)
Queueing Models	769	(54)
Regression Analysis	823	(64)
Time Series Analysis and Forecasting	887	(56)
References	943	(4)
Index	947