Description
Book SynopsisBarry Render is Professor Emeritus, the Charles Harwood Distinguished Professor of Operations Management, Crummer Graduate School of Business, Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida. He received his BS in Mathematics and Physics at Roosevelt University and his MS in Operations Research and his PhD in Quantitative Analysis at the University of Cincinnati. He previously taught at George Washington University, the University of New Orleans, Boston University, and George Mason University, where he held the Mason Foundation Professorship in Decision Sciences and was Chair of the Decision Science Department. Dr. Render has also worked in the aerospace industry for General Electric, McDonnell Douglas, and NASA.
Dr. Render has coauthored 10 textbooks published by Pearson, including Managerial Decision Modeling with Spreadsheets, Operations Management, Principles of Operations Management, Service Management, Int
Table of Contents
- Introduction to Quantitative Analysis
- Probability Concepts and Applications
- Decision Analysis
- Regression Models
- Forecasting
- Inventory Control Models
- Linear Programming Models: Graphical and Computer Methods
- Linear Programming Applications
- Transportation, Assignment, and Network Models
- Integer Programming, Goal Programming, and Nonlinear Programming
- Project Management
- Waiting Lines and Queuing Theory Models
- Simulation Modeling
- Markov Analysis
- Statistical Quality Control
APPENDICES
- Areas Under the Standard Normal Curve
- Binomial Probabilities
- Values of for Use in the Poisson Distribution
- F Distribution Values
- Using POM-QM for Windows
- Using Excel QM and Excel Add-Ins
- Solutions to Selected Problems
- Solutions to Self-Tests
ONLINE MODULES
- Analytic Hierarchy Process
- Dynamic Programming
- Decision Theory and the Normal Distribution
- Game Theory
- Mathematical Tools: Determinants and Matrices
- Calculus-Based Optimization
- Linear Programming: The Simplex Method
- Transportation, Assignment, and Network Algorithms
- Business Analytics
