Foudations of operations research. With problems and solutions. (Q5920566)

Topics in this textbook on basic results in operations research are linear programming, project scheduling and simulation. The part on linear programming is complete and includes both duality theory and sensitivity analysis of optimal solutions with respect to perturbations of objective function and right-hand side coefficients. Focus in project scheduling is on the computation of earliest and latest starting times of tasks as well as on different buffer times. In all three parts of the textbook the reader can find a large number of very interesting academic as well as applications oriented examples and many exercises. The book concludes with a detailed description of the solution of the exercises.