Probability Models in Operations Research

Long a mainstay of manufacturing, industrial engineering has expanded into transportation, health care, logistics, services and nearly every other aspect of doing business. Cassady (industrial engineering, U. of Arkansas) and Nachlas (industrial and systems engineering, Virginia Technical U.) Provide students and professionals a background in what is becoming and increasingly important part of the study of industrial engineering, probability modeling. They introduce the basics of probability modeling, they analyze random and multiple random variables. They introduce stochastic processes, Poisson processes, discrete-time and continuous-time Markov chains, and close with a full description of Markovian queuing systems. They include well-chosen illustrations, a set of interesting applications, a full range of worked equations, and sets of homework problems, making this classroom text also suitable for self-study. Annotation c2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)