Research Catalog

Title

Management science/operations research : model formulation and solution methods / Elwood S. Buffa, James S. Dyer.

Author

Buffa, Elwood S. (Elwood Spencer), 1923-2005.

Publication

Santa Barbara : Wiley, ©1977.

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Details

Additional Authors

Dyer, James S.

Description

x, 725 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Series Statement

The Wiley/Hamilton series in management and administration

Uniform Title

Wiley/Hamilton series in management and administration.

Subject

• Operations research
• Management
• Operations Research
• management
• Pesquisa Operacional
• Management science

Note

• "A Wiley/Hamilton publication."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies and index.

Contents

1. An introduction to management science -- II: Evaluative models -- 2. Evaluative models and decision trees -- 3. Utility theory and subjective probability -- 4. Evaluative models for multiple criteria -- III: Predictive models -- 5. Forecasting the environment -- 6. Building mathematical models for prediction -- 7. Computer based corporate simulation models -- 8. Dynamic structural models -- 9. Predicting the effects of risk--Markov chains -- 10. Predicting the effects of risk--queuing theory -- 11. Predicting the effects of risk--Monte Carlo -- IV: Optimizing models -- 12. Elementary optimizing models for inventory management -- 13. Linear optimizing models -- 14. The simplex method -- 15. Network models: transportation and transshipment -- 16. Network models: shortest path and network scheduling -- 17. Optimizing models with integer variables -- 18. Optimizing models for sequential decisions: dynamic programming -- V: Synthesis -- 19. Management science/operations research--a summary view.

ISBN

• 0471119156
• 9780471119159

LCCN

76025058

OCLC

• ocm02346652
• 2346652
• SCSB-9125904

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library