Operations Research

Foreword

Operations Research - An Introduction, written by Dr P. Mariappan, takes into account the whole gamut of undergraduate, postgraduate and professional courses that will require a good knowledge of operations research. It has a singular merit of catering to the requirements of students of introductory as well as advanced level courses.

The contents have been arranged on the principle of gradation. The ten chapters of the book are arranged in a logical sequence of Introduction, Linear Programming Problems and so on, before the concept of Dynamic Programming is discussed at the end.

There are two distinctive features that make the book stand apart—first, it is based on the self-taught learning method and second, the book has an exclusive ...