While building on the classic strengths of the original text, the author continues to find new ways to make this book current and relevant to students. One way is by incorporating a wealth of state-of-the-art, user-friendly software and more coverage of business applications than ever before. The hallmark features of this edition include clear and comprehensive coverage of the fundamentals of operations research, an extensive set of interesting problems and cases, and state-of-the-practice operations research software used in conjunction with examples from the text