Appropriate for a one semester Soph/Jr/Sr/MBA level course in Management Science, Quantitative Methods for Business, or Operations Research. Appropriate for courses/approaches where professors want to use full-strength, specific commercial software. The authors use spreadsheets for simple modeling of each concept, but then move quickly into Lingo, Expert Choice, and Extend.

Foreword.

Preface.

Acknowledgments.

1. Introduction.

PART ONE: MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING.

2. Introduction to Mathematical Programming.

3. Mathematical Programming Sensitivity Analysis.

4. Mathematical Programming Using the LINGO Modeling Language.

5. Transportation and Distribution Planning Using the LINGO Modeling Language.

6. Scheduling, Finance, and Marketing Applications Using the LINGO Modeling Language.

7. Transportation and Distribution Planning Using LINGO's Standard Algebraic Approach.

8. Scheduling, Finance, and Marketing Applications Using LINGO's Standard Algebraic Approach.

PART TWO: DECISION MAKING AND THE ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS.

9. Introduction to Decision Making.

10. The Analytic Hierarchy Process Using Expert Choice.

11. Extensions of the Analytic Hierarchy Process Using Expert Choice.

PART THREE: COMPUTER SIMULATION.

12. Introduction to Computer Simulation.

13. Introduction to Process Simulation Using Extend.

14. Process Simulation Extensions Using Extend.

15. Process Redesign Using Extend.

16. Financial Simulation Using Extend.

PART FOUR: PROJECT ANALYSIS.

17. Project Scheduling Using Microsoft Project 2000.

18. Project Resource and Cost Analysis Using Microsoft Project 2000.

Appendix A: Statistical Concepts.

Appendix B: A Summary Description of All Extend Blocks Used.

Index.