Professor emeritus of operations research at Stanford University. Dr. Hillier is especially known for his classic, award-winning text, Introduction to Operations Research, co-authored with the late Gerald J. Lieberman, which has been translated into well over a dozen languages and is currently in its 8th edition. The 6th edition won honorable mention for the 1995 Lanchester Prize (best English-language publication of any kind in the field) and Dr. Hillier also was awarded the 2004 INFORMS Expository Writing Award for the 8th edition. His other books include The Evaluation of Risky Interrelated Investments, Queueing Tables and Graphs, Introduction to Stochastic Models in Operations Research, and Introduction to Mathematical Programming. He received his BS in industrial engineering and doctorate specializing in operations research and management science from Stanford University. The winner of many awards in high school and college for writing, mathematics, debate, and music, he ranked first in his undergraduate engineering class and was awarded three national fellowships (National Science Foundation, Tau Beta Pi, and Danforth) for graduate study. Dr. Hillier's research has extended into a variety of areas, including integer programming, queueing theory and its application, statistical quality control, and production and operations management. He also has won a major prize for research in capital budgeting.

Offers comprehensive coverage of fundamentals, an extensive set of interesting problems and cases, and practice operations research software used in conjunction with examples from the text.

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 7 Linear Programming under Uncertainty 8 Other Algorithms for Linear Programming 9 The Transportation and Assignment Problems 10 Network Optimization Models 11 Dynamics Programming 12 Integer Programming 13 Nonlinear Programming 14 Metaheuristics 15 Game Theory 16 Decision Analysis 17 Queing ANalysis 18 Inventory Analysis 19 Markov Decision Processes 20 Simulation Appendix 1 Documentation for the OR Courseware Appendex 2 Convexity Appendix 3 Classical Optimization Methods Appendix 4 Matricies and Matrix Operations Appendix 5 Table for a Normal Distribution

For over four decades, Introduction to Operations Research by Frederick Hillier has been the classic text on operations research. While building on the classic strengths of the text, the author continues to find new ways to make the text current and relevant to students. One way is by incorporating a wealth of state-of-the-art, user-friendly software and more coverage of business applications than ever before. The hallmark features of this edition include clear and comprehensive coverage of fundamentals, an extensive set of interesting problems and cases, and state-of-the-practice operations research software used in conjunction with examples from the text. The tenth edition includes new section and chapters, updated problems, and state-of-the-practice operations research software used in conjunction with the examples from the text.

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