1.INTRODUCTION
2.OVERVIEW OF THE OPERATIONS RESEARCH MODELING APPROACH
3.INTRODUCTION TO LINEAR PROGRAMMING
4.SOLVING LINEAR PROGRAMMING PROBLEMS:THE SIMPLEX METHOD
5.THE THEORY OF THE SIMPLEX METHOD
6.DUALITY THEORY AND SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS
7.OTHER ALGORITHMS FOR LINEAR PROGRAMMING
8.THE TRANSPORTATION AND ASSIGNMENT PROBLEMS
9.NETWORK ANALYSIS,INCLUDING PERT-CPM
10.DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING
11.GAME THEORY
12.INTEGER PROGRAMMING
13.NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING
14.MARKOV CHAINS
15.QUEUEING THEORY
16.THE APPLICATION OF QUEUEING THEORY
17.INVENTORY THEORY
18.FORECASTING
19.MARKOV DECISION PROCESSES
20.DECISION ANALYSIS
21.SIMULATION
APPENDIXES
ANSWERS TO SELECTED PROBLEMS
INDEXES
AUTHOR INDEX
SUBJECT INDEX