Operations Research - Tapa blanda

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.This book: gives well-defined algorithms to illustrate the different techniques of operations research; discusses inventory problems with calculus; and 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.

NITA H. SHAH is Reader, Department of Mathematics, Gujarat University, Ahmedabad. She is a Post Doctoral Fellow of the University of New Brunswick, Canada. She has published over 90 research articles in various reputed journals. Dr. Nita Shah's areas of interest include inventory models, forecasting and neural networks. RAVI M. GOR is Assistant Professor, Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts of India (ICFAI) Business School, Ahmedabad. Earlier, he was Head, Department of Mathematics, Science College, Dholka, Gujarat. He has authored three books and has also published several articles in reputed research journals. His areas of interest are operations research and discrete mathematics. 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.