TY - BOOK AU - Murty,Katta G. TI - Optimization for decision making: linear and quadratic models T2 - International series in operations research & management science, SN - 9781441912909 AV - T57.74 .M883 2010 PY - 2010/// CY - New York PB - Springer KW - Linear programming KW - Decision making KW - Mathematical models N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Linear Equations, Inequalities, Linear Programming: A Brief Historical Overview --; Formulation Techniques Involving Transformations of Variables --; Intelligent Modeling Essential to Get Good Results --; Polyhedral Geometry --; Duality Theory and Optimality Conditions for LPs --; Revised Simplex Variants of the Primal and Dual Simplex Methods, and Security Analysis --; Interior Point Methods for LP --; The Sphere Methods for LP --; Quadratic Programming Models --; Epilogue --; Index N2 - Linear programming (LP), modeling, and optimization are very much the fundamentals of OR, and no academic program is complete without them. No matter how highly developed one’s LP skills are, however, if a fine appreciation for modeling isn’t developed to make the best use of those skills, then the truly ‘best solutions’ are often not realized, and efforts go wasted. Katta Murty studied LP with George Dantzig, the father of linear programming, and has written the graduate-level solution to that problem. While maintaining the rigorous LP instruction required, Murty's new book is unique in his focus on developing modeling skills to support valid decision making for complex real world problems. He describes the approach as 'intelligent modeling and decision making' to emphasize the importance of employing the best expression of actual problems and then applying the most computationally effective and efficient solution technique for that model ER -