Learning Features
This ninth edition of Introduction to Management Science includes many features that are designed to help sustain and accelerate the student’s learning of the material. Some of these features remain from the previous editions while others are new to this edition. Several of the strictly mathematical topics—like the simplex and transportation solutions methods—are on the accompanying CD-ROM. This frees up text space for additional modeling examples in several of the chapters, allowing more emphasis on computer solutions with Excel spreadsheets, and added additional homework problems. In the following sections, we will summarize these and other learning features that appear in the text.
1. Management Science
2. Linear Programming: Model Formulation and Graphical
Solution
3. Linear Programming: Computer Solution and Sensitivity
Analysis
4. Linear Programming: Modeling Examples
5. Integer Programming
6. Transportation, Transshipment, and Assignment Problems
7. Network Flow Models
8. Project Management
9. Multicriteria Decision Making
10. Nonlinear Programming
Etc.