Operations Research

Author: Xu Yu
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Publish Date: 2001-08-01
Features: "Operations Research" is one of the important foundational courses for undergraduate management majors. This textbook is suitable for students of various management disciplines at the undergraduate level and corresponding learners at all levels. The features of this textbook are: it aims to reflect the achievements of the teaching content and curriculum system reform research project for the 21st century, adapting to the cultivation direction of a solid foundation, broad, and high quality, as well as the learning-oriented, innovative, and personalized cultivation methods. It integrates the teaching experience and reform achievements of teachers over the years, focusing on the conciseness of material selection, the integrity of the framework structure, and the acceptability of language expression, enabling learners to grasp the characteristics of operations research, the essence of optimization models, and the core of optimization methods in a relatively short time. This achieves the systematization, refinement, and agility of teaching content, laying a solid foundation for learners to further expand their research fields. The textbook strives to have a reasonable overall framework, where principles, models, methods, and applications are organically combined, with a clear and inspiring approach, making it easy for students to apply knowledge to different situations. The basic concepts are accurate, the analysis of principles is thorough, the steps of methods are clear, and the operationality is strong. It highlights management, application cases, and small practice materials, providing conditions for students to delve deeper into research and practice.