本書是美國史丹福大學的Frederick S. Hillier 與Gerald J. Lieberman 兩位教授合著之Introduction to Operations Research 第十一版的導讀版。該書初版為1967 年,其後歷經多次編修,以符合作業研究的發展趨勢,使其成為作業研究的經典著作,也是公認最理想的作業研究基礎教材。對學生而言,原著之優異處在於提供了明確的學習動機、清楚而直覺的解釋、專業的實務範例、優異的教材組織、非常有用的支援軟體以及適當但不會過於艱深的數學。因此,歷年來有近百萬學生藉由此書學習作業研究。此外,原著持續增添最新教材,並以淺顯易懂的文字解說這些新內容,也是教師在教學研究時不可或缺的參考書籍。
Table of Contents CHAPTER 1 Introduction
CHAPTER 2 Overview of How Operations Research and Analytics Professionals Analyze Problems
CHAPTER 3 Introduction to Linear Programming
CHAPTER 4 Solving Linear Programming Problems: The Simplex Method
CHAPTER 5 The Theory of the Simplex Method
CHAPTER 6 Duality Theory
CHAPTER 7 Linear Programming under Uncertainty
CHAPTER 8 Other Algorithms for Linear Programming
CHAPTER 9 The Transportation and Assignment Problems
CHAPTER 10 Network Optimization Models
CHAPTER 11 Dynamic Programming
CHAPTER 12 Integer Programming
CHAPTER 13 Nonlinear Programming
CHAPTER 14 Metaheuristics
CHAPTER 15 Game Theory
CHAPTER 16 Decision Analysis
CHAPTER 17 Queueing Theory
CHAPTER 18 Inventory Theory
CHAPTER 19 Markov Decision Processes
CHAPTER 20 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