Overview
- Covers the standard operations research techniques
- Focuses on modeling and makes extensive use of sensitivity analyses
- Includes numerous examples for practice and self-study
Part of the book series: Springer Texts in Business and Economics (STBE)
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This is the third edition of a textbook that has been used in a number of undergraduate courses and covers the standard models and techniques used in decision-making in organizations. The main emphasis of the book is on modelling business-related scenarios and the generation of decision alternatives. Fully solved examples from many areas are used to illustrate the main concepts without getting bogged down in technical details. The book presents an approach to operations research that is heavily based on modelling and makes extensive use of sensitivity analyses. It is the result of the authors’ many years of combined teaching experience.
The third edition includes new topics such as nonlinear programming and reliability theory, as well as additional material on multi-attribute decision-making. Each chapter includes a number of fully solved problems that allow students to practice or self-study. Additional problems are available on the book’s accompanying website.
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Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Dr. H.A. Eiselt is a Professor of Business Administration at the University of New Brunswick (Canada) and an Adjunct Professor with the Department of Industrial Engineering at Dalhousie University (Canada). He is an Associate Editor and Book Review Editor of INFOR. Dr. Eiselt is also a member of the Advisory or Editorial Boards of Computers & Operations Research, and the International Journal of Operations and Quantitative Management. His main research interests are in various aspects of location analysis and decision theory. He has (co-) authored over 120 research articles and written and edited twelve books.
Dr. C-L. Sandblom is an Adjunct and Emeritus Professor of Industrial Engineering at Dalhousie University (Canada). He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Birmingham (UK). Prior to joining Dalhousie, he taught at the Universities of Lund (Sweden), Birmingham (UK) and Concordia University (Canada). Dr. Sandblom has published over 50 research papers and eight booksBibliographic Information
Book Title: Operations Research
Book Subtitle: A Model-Based Approach
Authors: H. A. Eiselt, Carl-Louis Sandblom
Series Title: Springer Texts in Business and Economics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-97162-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-97161-8Published: 17 June 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-97164-9Published: 18 June 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-97162-5Published: 16 June 2022
Series ISSN: 2192-4333
Series E-ISSN: 2192-4341
Edition Number: 3
Number of Pages: XIV, 523
Number of Illustrations: 219 b/w illustrations
Topics: Operations Research/Decision Theory, Operations Research, Management Science, Engineering Economics, Organization, Logistics, Marketing