"The Sixth edition of Introduction to Management Science focuses on business situations, including prominent non-mathematical issues, the use spreadsheets, and involves model formulation and assessment more than model structuring. The text has three key elements: modeling, case studies, and spreadsheets. In addition to examples, nearly every chapter includes one or two case studies patterned after actual applications to convey the whole ..."
"This text is a split version of INTRODUCTION TO OPERATIONS RESEARCH (see page #) and incorporates Chapters 1-2, 11-12 and 15-23. The book comes complete with IBM and Macintosh software."