Practical Management Science

by Winston,Wayne L.

• ISBN13: 9780534424350
• ISBN10: 053442435X
• Edition: CD
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-12-24
• 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.

Table of Contents

Introduction to Modeling

Introductory Spreadsheet Modeling

Introduction to Optimization Modeling

Linear Programming Models

Network Models

Linear Optimization Models with Integer Variables

Nonlinear Optimization Models

Evolutionary Solver: An Alternative Optimization Procedure

Multi-Objective Decision Making

Decision Making Under Uncertainty

Introduction to Simulation Modeling

Simulation Models

Inventory Models

Queueing Models 1

Project Scheduling Models

Regression and Forecasting Models.

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