Includes index.

Contents: Introduction -- Overview of the operations research modeling approach -- Introduction to linear programming -- Solving linear programming problems: the simplex method -- The Theory of the simplex method -- Duality theory and sensitivity analysis -- Other algorithms for linear programming -- The Transportation and assignment problems -- Network optimization models -- Dynamic programming -- Integer programming -- Nonlinear programming -- Metaheuristics -- Game theory -- Decision analysis -- Markov chains -- Queueing theory -- Inventory theory -- Markov decision processes -- Simulation -- Appendix 1: Documentation for the OR courseware -- Appendix 2: Convexity -- Appendix 3: Classical optimization methods -- Appendix 4: Matrices and matrix operations -- Appendix 5: Table for a normal distribution -- Partial answers to selected problems.