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The disk that comes with the book contains the student-oriented linear programming code SMPX, written by Professor Evar Nering of Arizona State University. The authors also recommend inexpensive linear programming software for personal computers. * More review material on linear algebra* Elementary linear programming covered more efficiently* Presentation improved, especially for the duality theorem, transportation problems, the assignment problem, and the maximal flow problem* New figures and exercises* Computer applications updated* Added disk with the student-oriented linear programming code SMPX, written by Professor Evar Nering of Arizona State University* New guide to inexpensive linear programming software for personal computers

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• Prologue: Introduction to Operations Research
• Review of Linear Algebra: Matrices
• Gauss-Jordan Reduction
• The Inverse of a Matrix
• Subspaces
• Linear Independence and Basis
• Introduction to Linear Programming: The Linear Programming Problem
• Matrix Notation
• Geometry of Linear Programming Problems
• The Extreme Point Theorem
• Basic Solutions
• The Simplex Method: The Simplex Method for Problems in Standard Form
• Degeneracy and Cycling
• Artificial Variables
• Further Topics in Linear Programming: Duality
• The Duality Theorem
• Computational Relations between the Primal and Dual Problems
• The Dual Simplex Method
• The Revised Simplex Method
• Sensitivity Analysis
• Computer Aspects
• Integer Programming: Examples
• Cutting Plane Methods
• Branch and Bound Methods
• Computer Aspects
• Special Types of Linear Programming Problems: The Transportation Problem
• The Assignment Problem
• Graphs and Networks (Basic Definitions). The Maximal Flow Problem
• The Shortest Route Problem
• The Critical Path Method
• Computer Aspects
• Appendices: Karmarkar's Algorithm
• Microcomputer Software
• SMPX
• Answers to Odd-Numbered Exercises
• Index