Frederick S Hillier,
Stanford University Gerald J Lieberman,
Late of Stanford University
ISBN: 0073376299 Copyright year: 2010
Feature Summary
Feature: Updates have been made to the material to reflect the current state of the art.
Feature: Application vignettes have been added that describe dramatic success stories regarding real applications of operations research to excite students about the relevance of the techniques they are learning.
Feature: New problems have been added that involve reading and commenting on one of the provided articles that describe a dramatic application of operations research.
Feature: A new section has been added on the important emerging topic of revenue management.
Feature: The Excel® add-ins have been updated for Excel® 2007.
Feature: Extensive coverage of spreadsheets. The text features a web-only chapter on "The Art of Modeling with Spreadsheets" and textbook sections on "Formulating and Solving Linear Programming Models on a Spreadsheet," "Performing Sensitivity Analysis on a Spreadsheet," "Using Spreadsheets to Perform Sensitivity Analysis on Decision Trees," and "Performing Simulations on Spreadsheets."
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