"Introduction to Management Science, 3e, offers a unique model approach and integrates the use of Excel. Through this approach students are better able to grasp the essential concepts covered in the course and see their utility. Each chapter includes a case study that is meant to show the students a real and interesting application of the topics addressed in that chapter. These cases and related applications cuts across all functional ..."
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"Introduction to Management Science, 4e, offers a unique model approach and integrates the use of Excel. Through this approach students are better able to grasp the essential concepts covered in the course and see their utility. Each chapter includes a case study that is meant to show the students a real and interesting application of the topics addressed in that chapter. These cases and related applications cut across all functional are ..."
"CD-ROM contains: Student version of MPL Modeling System and its solver CPLEX -- MPL tutorial -- Examples from the text modeled in MPL -- Examples from the text modeled in LINGO/LINDO -- Tutorial software -- Excel add-ins: TreePlan, SensIt, ..."
"Introduction to Management Science, 2e offers a unique case study approach and integrates the use of Excel. Each chapter includes a case study that is meant to show the students a real and interesting application of the topics addressed in that chapter. This most recent revision has been thoroughly updated to be more “user-friendly” and more technologically advanced. These changes include, a completely new chapter on the art of modeli ..."
"During one of the most nerve-wracking football matches of the 2012-2013 Bundesliga season, life-long friends Franz Dully and Max Vogel begin arguing about whether the wealth of a football club determines its success during the season."
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"Yu Chen Department of Mathematics, Idaho State University, Pocatello, ID, USA.
Carl Chiarella Finance Discipline Group, UTS Business School, University of
Technology, Sydney. Thomas F. Cosimano Department of Finance, Mendoza
College of Business, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, USA. Wouter J.
Den Haan Centre for Macroeconomics, London School of Economics, London,
UK. CEPR, London, UK. Alex A. Himonas Department of Mathemat ..."
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"This book contains a selection of refereed papers presented at the 'International Conference on Operations Research (OR 2011)' which took place at the University of Zurich from August 30 to September 2, 2011. The conference was jointly organized by the German speaking OR societies from Austria (ÖGOR), Germany (GOR) and Switzerland (SVOR) under the patronage of SVOR. More than 840 scientists and students from over 50 countries attended O ..."
Operations Research Proceedings Ser. Operations Research Proceedings 2011 : Selected Papers of the International Conference on Operations Research (or 2011), August 30 - September 2, 2011, Zurich, Switzerland by Hans-Jakob Lüthi, KarlSchmedders and Diethard Klatte (2012, E-book, Revised) by Diethard Klatte, KarlSchmedders, Hans-Jakob Lüthi 607 Pages, Published 2012 by Springer Science & Business Media ISBN-13: 978-3-642-29210-1, ISBN: 3-642-29210-0