ISE Introduction to Operations Research

By:   Frederick Hillier, Gerald Lieberman
Imprint:   McGraw-Hill Education
Country of Publication:   United States
Edition:   11th edition
Dimensions:   Height: 249mm,  Width: 191mm,  Spine: 33mm
Weight:   1.393kg
ISBN:   9781260575873
ISBN 10:   126057587X
Publication Date:   24 February 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Primary
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Professor emeritus of operations research at Stanford University. Dr. Hillier is especially known for his classic, award-winning text, Introduction to Operations Research, co-authored with the late Gerald J. Lieberman, which has been translated into well over a dozen languages and is currently in its 8th edition. The 6th edition won honorable mention for the 1995 Lanchester Prize (best English-language publication of any kind in the field) and Dr. Hillier also was awarded the 2004 INFORMS Expository Writing Award for the 8th edition. His other books include The Evaluation of Risky Interrelated Investments, Queueing Tables and Graphs, Introduction to Stochastic Models in Operations Research, and Introduction to Mathematical Programming. He received his BS in industrial engineering and doctorate specializing in operations research and management science from Stanford University. The winner of many awards in high school and college for writing, mathematics, debate, and music, he ranked first in his undergraduate engineering class and was awarded three national fellowships (National Science Foundation, Tau Beta Pi, and Danforth) for graduate study. Dr. Hilliers research has extended into a variety of areas, including integer programming, queueing theory and its application, statistical quality control, and production and operations management. He also has won a major prize for research in capital budgeting. 1995 No primary address