First Edition of Turban/Meredith's Fundamentals of Management Science

Today, the techniques of management science are known to businessmen, urban planners, farmers, military strategists, space scientists, and public administrators in a host of fields. Words such as "systems," "models", "Optimization", "Simulations" and "cost benefit" are now common in the public vocabulary. The need thus, is great for an introductory text that explains, with a minimum of mathematics, how to formulate decision problems, how to solve them using management science concepts, and how to apply the solutions obtained. As more complex models were developed in the field, relatively more attention was paid to the task of solving the models while less emphasis was placed on the important phases of formulation and application. This book attempts to correct that deficiency by providing a comprehensive discussion of these two crucial phases.