The second edition of Management Science: The Art of Modeling with Spreadsheets by Steve Powell and Ken Baker will expand upon the essential skills needed to develop real expertise in business modeling. By adding more coverage of management science topics, broader coverage of Excel, focused chapters, and new exercises and cases, this edition will be easier to use in a wide variety of undergraduate and MBA courses.

Management Science: The Art of Modeling with Spreadsheets

Business & Money

Baker, Kenneth R.

POWELL

Management & Leadership

wiley

An up-to-date and comprehensive treatment of the fundamentals of scheduling theory, including recent advances and state-of-the-art topics 
Principles of Sequencing and Scheduling strikes a unique balance between theory and practice, providing an accessible introduction to the concepts, methods, and results of scheduling theory and its core topics. With real-world examples and up-to-date modeling techniques, the book equips readers with the basic knowledge needed for understanding scheduling theory and delving into its applications. The authors begin with an introduction and overview of sequencing and scheduling, including single-machine sequencing, optimization and heuristic solution methods, and models with earliness and tardiness penalties. The most current material on stochastic scheduling, including correct scheduling of safety time and the use of simulation for optimization, is then presented and integrated with deterministic models. Additional topical coverage includes: <ul>
<li>Extensions of the basic model</li> <li> Parallel-machine models </li> <li> Flow shop scheduling </li> <li> Scheduling groups of jobs </li> <li> The job shop problem </li> <li> Simulation models for the dynamic job shop </li> <li> Network methods for project scheduling </li> <li> Resource-constrained project scheduling </li> <li> Stochastic and safe scheduling </li> </ul>
Extensive end-of-chapter exercises are provided, some of which are spreadsheet-oriented, and link scheduling theory to the most popular analytic platform among today's students and practitioners—the Microsoft Office Excel® spreadsheet. Extensive references direct readers to additional literature, and the book's related Web site houses material that reinforces the book's concepts, including research notes, data sets, and examples from the text. Principles of Sequencing and Scheduling is an excellent book for courses on sequencing and scheduling at the upper-undergraduate and graduate levels. It is also a valuable reference for researchers and practitioners in the fields of statistics, computer science, operations research, and engineering.

Principles of Sequencing and Scheduling

Trietsch, Dan

John Wiley&Sons, Inc.

The update to the second edition of Management Science: The Art of Modeling with Spreadsheets by Steve Powell and Ken Baker is revised to be compatible with Microsoft Excel 2007. Like the original second edition, the text expands upon the essential skills needed to develop real expertise in business modeling. In principle, two students could work side by side in a course, one using the Second Edition and relying on Excel 2003, the other using the Update Edition and relying on Excel 2007. They will be able to learn the same skills, as both versions of the book are self-contained.

Management Science: The Art of Modeling with Spreadsheets, Excel 2007 Update

Now in its third edition, Management Science helps business professionals gain the essential skills needed to develop real expertise in business modeling. The biggest change in the text is the conversion of software from Crystal Ball to Risk Solver to reflect changes in the field. More coverage of management science topics has been added. Broader coverage of Excel demonstrates how to create models. Additional open-ended case studies that are less structured have also been included along with new exercises. These changes will help business professionals learn how to apply the information in the field.

Powell, Stephen G.

Reflects the latest applied research and features state-of-the-art software for building and solving spreadsheet optimization models Thoroughly updated to reflect the latest topical and technical advances in the field, Optimization Modeling with Spreadsheets, Second Edition continues to focus on solving real-world optimization problems through the creation of mathematical models and the use of spreadsheets to represent and analyze those models. Developed and extensively classroom-tested by the author, the book features a systematic approach that equips readers with the skills to apply optimization tools effectively without the need to rely on specialized algorithms. This new edition uses the powerful software package Risk Solver Platform (RSP) for optimization, including its Evolutionary Solver, which employs many recently developed ideas for heuristic programming. The author provides expanded coverage of integer programming and discusses linear and nonlinear programming using a systematic approach that emphasizes the use of spreadsheet-based optimization tools. The Second Edition also features: <ul>
<li> Classifications for the various problem types, providing the reader with a broad framework for building and recognizing optimization models </li> <li> Network models that allow for a more general form of mass balance </li> <li> A systematic introduction to Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) </li> <li> The identification of qualitative patterns in order to meaningfully interpret linear programming solutions </li> <li> An introduction to stochastic programming and the use of RSP to solve problems of this type </li> </ul>
Additional examples, exercises, and cases have been included throughout, allowing readers to test their comprehension of the material. In addition, a related website features Microsoft Office® Excel files to accompany the figures and data sets in the book. With its accessible and comprehensive presentation, Optimization Modeling with Spreadsheets, Second Edition is an excellent book for courses on deterministic models, optimization, and spreadsheet modeling at the upper-undergraduate and graduate levels. The book can also serve as a reference for researchers, practitioners, and consultants working in business, engineering, operations research, and management science.

Optimization Modeling with Spreadsheets

Introduction to sequencing and scheduling

Successful business modeling is much more than a technical discipline; it's an art. And as in most professional disciplines, you can tell the experts apart from the novices by the creativity they bring to the craft. That's why Steve Powell and Ken Baker's THE ART OF MODELING WITH SPREADSHEETS covers spreadsheet engineering, management science techniques, and those essential craft skills needed to develop real expertise in business modeling. Features: * Balanced and streamlined coverage of spreadsheet engineering, management science techniques, and modeling craft. * The CD-ROM packaged with this text features all of the spreadsheets referred to in the text, as well as three software tools of special importance to business analysts: Premium Solver, Crystal Ball, and Sensitivity Toolkit (featuring four sensitivity tools)

The Art of Modeling with Spreadsheets: Management Science, Spreadsheet Engineering, and Modeling Craft

A concise, non-technical introduction to the important principles of management science that introduces the most commonly used models and techniques. Combining text with case studies and emphasizing sensitivity analysis throughout, it introduces students to the practical aspects of decision problems that occur in the management context of a wide variety of fields and disciplines. The book includes many exercises and actual case studies, enabling students to practice formal analyses and understand models in the classroom. Separate chapters are featured on integer programming, forecasting, newsboy analysis and detailed coverage of branch and bound, deterministic simulations and Wagner-Whitin algorithm.

Management Science: An Introduction to the Use of Decision Models

Kropp, Dean H.

Elements of Sequencing and Scheduling

Kenneth R Baker

Elements of Sequencing & Scheduling

Economics

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Management Science: The Art of Modeling with Spreadsheets

Principles of Sequencing and Scheduling

Management Science: The Art of Modeling with Spreadsheets, Excel 2007 Update

Management Science: The Art of Modeling with Spreadsheets

Optimization Modeling with Spreadsheets

Introduction to sequencing and scheduling

The Art of Modeling with Spreadsheets: Management Science, Spreadsheet Engineering, and Modeling Craft

Management Science: An Introduction to the Use of Decision Models

Elements of Sequencing and Scheduling

Elements of Sequencing & Scheduling