Table of contents :
1. What Is Operations Research? 2. Modeling with Linear Programming 3. The Simplex Method and Sensitivity Analysis 4. Duality and Post-Optimal Analysis 5. Transportation Model and Its Variants 6. Network Models 7. Advanced Linear Programming 8. Goal Programming 9. Integer Linear Programming 10. Heuristic and Constraint Programming 11. Traveling Salesperson Problem (TSP) 12. Deterministic Dynamic Programming 13. Inventory Modeling (with Introduction to Supply Chains) 14. Review of Basic Probability 15. Decision Analysis and Games 16. Probabilistic Inventory Models 17. Markov Chains 18. Queuing Systems 19. Simulation Modeling 20. Classical Optimization Theory 21. Nonlinear Programming Algorithms Appendix A: Statistical Tables Appendix B: Partial Answers to Selected Problems