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Easy to understand and to the point--and without any jargon--Management Science: Modeling with Spreadsheets uses an active-learning approach and realistic problems to help you understand and take advantage of the power of spreadsheet modeling. With real examples and problems drawn from finance, marketing, and operations research, youll easily come to see how management science applies to your chosen profession and how you can use it on the job. The CD-ROM packaged with this book includes the following useful add-ins: the Palisade Decision Tools Suite (@RISK, StatTools, PrecisionTree, TopRank, and RISKOptimizer); Solver Table, which allows you to do sensitivity analysis; and Premium Solver for Education from Frontline Systems. All of these add-ins have been revised for Excel 2007.Table of Contents: 1. Introduction to Modeling 2. Introductory Spreadsheet Modeling 3. Introduction to Optimization Modeling 4. Linear Programming Models 5. Network Models 6. Optimization Models with Integer Variables 7. Nonlinear Optimization Models 8. Evolutionary Solver: An Alternative Optimization Procedure 9. Multiobjective Decision Making 10. Decision Making Under Uncertainty 11. Introduction to Simulation Modeling 12. Simulation Models 13. Project Management 14. Inventory Models 15. Queueing Models

Easy to understand and to the point--and without any jargon--Management Science: Modeling with Spreadsheets uses an active-learning approach and realistic problems to help you understand and take advantage of the power of spreadsheet modeling. With real examples and problems drawn from finance, marketing, and operations research, youll easily come to see how management science applies to your chosen profession and how you can use it on the job. The CD-ROM packaged with this book includes the following useful add-ins: the Palisade Decision Tools Suite (@RISK, StatTools, PrecisionTree, TopRank, and RISKOptimizer); Solver Table, which allows you to do sensitivity analysis; and...  Read More