{"product_id":"operations-research-a-practical-introduction-paperback","title":"Operations Research: A Practical Introduction - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMichael Carter\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eCamille C. Price\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eGhaith Rabadi\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eOperations Research: A Practical Introduction\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e is just that: a hands-on approach to the field of operations research (OR) and a useful guide for using OR techniques in scientific decision making, design, analysis and management. The text accomplishes two goals. First, it provides readers with an introduction to standard mathematical models and algorithms. Second, it is a thorough examination of practical issues relevant to the development and use of computational methods for problem solving. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHighlights: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cli\u003eAll chapters contain up-to-date topics and summaries\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cli\u003eA succinct presentation to fit a one-term course\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cli\u003eEach chapter has references, readings, and list of key terms\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cli\u003eIncludes illustrative and current applications\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cli\u003eNew exercises are added throughout the text\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cli\u003eSoftware tools have been updated with the newest and most popular software\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMany students of various disciplines such as mathematics, economics, industrial engineering and computer science often take one course in operations research. This book is written to provide a succinct and efficient introduction to the subject for these students, while offering a sound and fundamental preparation for more advanced courses in linear and nonlinear optimization, and many stochastic models and analyses. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt provides relevant analytical tools for this varied audience and will also serve professionals, corporate managers, and technical consultants. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMichael W. Carter is a professor in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEngineering at the University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario (since 1981) and founding\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003edirector of the Centre for Healthcare Engineering (in 2009). He received his PhD in\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCombinatorics and Optimization from the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario. He\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ealso spent seven years at Waterloo as a full-time Systems Analyst in the Data Processing\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDepartment. He is a member of the Canadian Operational Research Society (CORS), the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInstitute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), the Health\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eApplications Society (of INFORMS), the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineering\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e(IISE) and the Society for Health Systems (SHS). He is the Canadian representative for\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eORAHS (EURO: Operations Research Applied to Health Services).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSince 1989, his research focus has been in the area of health care resource modeling and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecapacity planning. As of January 2018, Dr. Carter had supervised 23 PhD students and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e90 Masters and directed more than 250 undergraduate engineering students in over 100\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eprojects with industry partners. He has over 100 former students who now work in the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ehealthcare industry. He is cross appointed to the Institute of Health Policy, Management\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand Evaluation (IHPME) and the School of Public Policy \u0026amp; Governance at the University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof Toronto.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDr. Carter teaches undergraduate courses in Healthcare Systems and Engineering\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEconomics. Graduate courses include Healthcare Engineering, Healthcare Research and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ean Introduction to Operations Research for students in a part-time Master of Health\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAdministration (MHSc) in IHPME.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe was the winner of the Annual Practice Prize from the Canadian Operational Research\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSociety (CORS) four times (1988, 1992, 1996, and 2009). In 2000, he received the CORS Award\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof Merit for lifetime contributions to Canadian Operational Research. He also received\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ean \u003ci\u003eExcellence in Teaching \u003c\/i\u003eAward from the University of Toronto Student Administrative\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCouncil. He is on the editorial board for the journals \u003ci\u003eHealth Care Management Science\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOperations Research for Health Care, \u003ci\u003eHealth Systems\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eIISE Transactions on Healthcare\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSystems. He is an adjunct scientist with the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences in\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eToronto (www.ices.on.ca) and a member of the Faculty Advisory Council for the University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof Toronto Chapter of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI). He is a member of\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe Professional Engineers of Ontario. In 2012, he was inducted as a Fellow of the Canadian\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcademy of Engineering and in 2013, he was inducted as a Fellow of INFORMS, the international\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esociety for Operations Research and Management Science.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCamille C. Price has been a professor of Computer Science at Stephen F. Austin State\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUniversity, Nacogdoches, Texas, and she now continues her academic association as emeritus\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eprofessor. She has also held faculty appointments at the University of Texas at Dallas, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRichardson, Texas; Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas; Colby College, Waterville, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMaine; and Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts; and was a Visiting Scholar in\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe Center for Cybernetic Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe holds BA and MA degrees in Mathematics from the University of Texas at Austin, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand the PhD degree from Texas A\u0026amp;M University, College Station, Texas, with graduate\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003especializations in Computing Science and Operations Research. She held a research fellowship\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eat the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCalifornia, and subsequently was engaged as a technical consultant for research projects\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eat the JPL. Professional memberships include the Institute for Operations Research and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe Management Sciences (INFORMS) and the INFORMS Computing Society, life membership\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ein the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and the IEEE Computer\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSociety, the Association for Computing Machinery, and the Sigma Xi Scientific Research\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSociety.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDr. Price has been the principal investigator on a variety of research projects funded\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eby the National Science Foundation and the State of Texas. She has twice received NASA\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAwards in recognition of technical innovation in task scheduling and resource allocation\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ein specialized computer networks. She reviews research proposals for the National Science\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFoundation and the Canadian Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council. She\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ehas served as an advisory consultant for program accreditation assessments and curriculum\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ereviews at universities in Texas, Oklahoma, Georgia, and Jordan; and as a member of\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe research advisory board for the Texas Department of Transportation. As a consultant\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efor IBM Corporation, she has taught courses in advanced operating systems to IBM technical\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eemployees in Tokyo, Rome, Texas, and Florida. She has been an editorial consultant and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeries Editor in Operations Research for CRC Press, and is currently the Series Editor of\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe Springer International Series in Operations Research and Management Science.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHer primary responsibilities as a faculty member have involved teaching undergraduate\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand graduate courses in computer science and operations research, serving as graduate\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eadvisor for computer science and directing graduate student research projects. She is\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe recipient of Teaching Excellence Awards from her college and department; and her\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eresearch interests and activities have resulted in numerous papers published in scientific\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ejournals and presented at conferences.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDr. Price's research projects have addressed various topics in Operations Research. Her\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ework on heuristic algorithms for mathematical programming problems has been applied\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eto scheduling and allocation of tasks and resources in distributed computing systems, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003enovel computer architectures, load balancing in multiprocessor computer systems, flow\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003econtrol, routing, fault-tolerance in parallel computing systems, and design and analysis of\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eparallel methods for combinatorial optimization.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGhaith Rabadi is a professor of Engineering Management \u0026amp; Systems Engineering (EMSE)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eat Old Dominion University (ODU), Norfolk, Virginia. He received his PhD and MS in\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndustrial Engineering from the University of Central Florida (UCF), Orlando, Florida, in\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1999 and 1996 respectively, and his BSc in Industrial Engineering from the University of\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJordan, Amman, Jordan, in 1992. Prior to joining ODU in 2002, he worked at UCF as Post\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDoc where he led NASA funded projects on developing discrete-event simulations of the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSpace Shuttle ground processes. He was then a visiting assistant professor at the department\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof Industrial Engineering \u0026amp; Management Systems at UCF. He then worked as a\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eresearch director at Productivity Apex, a modeling and simulation firm based in Orlando, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFlorida.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn summer 2003, he received the NASA Faculty Fellowship where he worked on operation\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emodeling and simulation of future space launch vehicles at NASA Langley Research\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCenter in Hampton, Virginia. For their work with NASA, he and his colleagues were\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eawarded the NASA Software Invention Award and the NASA Board Action Invention\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAward. In 2008, he received the Fulbright Specialist Program Award to work with the faculty\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eat the German-Jordanian University in Amman, Jordan.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe was a visiting professor for one year at the Department of Mechanical and Industrial\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEngineering at Qatar University, Doha, Qatar, in 2013-2014 academic year. He taught graduate\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand undergraduate courses in Operations Research, Engineering Economics, and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSimulation, and collaborated with the faculty on research pertaining to port operation\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esimulation and optimization.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 2016, he received ODU's Doctoral Mentoring Award for advising 14 PhD students to\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003egraduation over the past 14 years, and for continuing to work closely and publish with his\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003estudents. Most recently, he with a team of professors and PhD students received NATO's\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGlobal Innovation Challenge Award for their work on humanitarian logistics optimization.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDr. Rabadi's research has been funded by NASA, NATO Allied Transformation\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCommand, Department of Homeland Security, Army Corps of Engineers, Department of\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe Army, Virginia Port Authority, Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding, MITRE Corporation, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBoeing, STIHL, CACI, Sentara Hospitals and Qatar Foundation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis research and teaching interests include Planning \u0026amp; Scheduling, Operations\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eResearch, Simulation Modeling and Analysis, Supply Chain Management \u0026amp; Logistics, and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eData Analytics. He has published a book, and over 100 peer reviewed journal and conference\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003earticles and book chapters. 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