The Analytic Hierarchy Process: Planning, Priority Setting, Resource Allocation (Decision Making Series)

Business & Money

Saaty, Thomas L.

Management & Leadership

McGraw=Hill

The first graduate-level text devoted to the subject, this classic offers a concise history and overview of methods as well as an excellent exposition of the mathematical foundations underlying classical operations research procedures. It begins with a review of historical, scientific, and mathematical aspects; examples and ideas related to classical methods of forming models introduce discussions of optimization, game theory, applications of probability, and queuing theory. Carefully selected exercises illustrate important and useful ideas. This text is an ideal introduction for students to the basic mathematics of operations research as well as a valuable source of references to early literature on operations research. 1959 edition.

Mathematical Methods Of Operational Research

Engineering & Transportation

Engineering

The Spirit and the Uses of the Mathematical Sciences.

Analytical Planning: The Organization of Systems (International Series in Modern Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Vol 7)

Pergamon Pr

This broadly philosophical work touches on almost every facet of modern life--business, society, technology, interpersonal relationships, and more--in a sustained exploration of how we can best deal with our rapidly changing world. The authors focus particularly on the personal and societal challenges of the future and our innate potential to effectively deal with them. Concentrating on general expectations about the future rather than on specific prognostications, they offer suggestions on how to orient our thinking and behavior to make the most of likely future scenarios.

Embracing the Future: Meeting the Challenge of Our Changing World

Politics & Social Sciences

Boone, Larry W., Ph.D.

Social Sciences

Praeger Pub Text

Computing Science is a science of constructive methods. The solution of a problem has to be described formally by constructive techniques, if it is to be evaluated on a computer. The Marktoberdorf Advanced Study Institute 1988 presented a comprehensive survey of the recent research in constructive methods in Computing Science. Some approaches to a methodological framework and to supporting tools for specification, development and verification of software systems were discussed in detail. Other lectures dealt with the relevance of the foundations of logic for questions of program construction and with new programming paradigms and formalisms which have proven to be useful for a constructive approach to software development. The construction, specification, design and verification especially of distributed and communicating systems was discussed in a number of complementary lectures. Examples for those approaches were given on several levels such as semaphores, nondeterministic state transition systems with fairness assumptions, decomposition of specifications for concurrent systems in liveness and safety properties and functional specifications of distributed systems. Construction methods in programming that were presented range from type theory, the theory of evidence, theorem provers for proving properties of functional programs to category theory as an abstract and general concept for the description of programming paradigms.

Decision Making with the Analytic Network Process (NATO Asi Series: Series F: Computer & Systems Sciences)

Vargas, Luis G.

Economics

Springer

Mathematical models of arms control and disarmament: Application of mathematical structures in politics (Operations Research Society of America. Publications in operations research)

Foreign & International Law

wiley

Mathematical Methods of Operations Research

The first graduate-level text devoted to the subject, this classic offers a concise history and overview of methods as well as an excellent exposition of the mathematical foundations underlying classical operations research procedures. It begins with a review of historical, scientific, and mathematical aspects; examples and ideas related to classical methods of forming models introduce discussions of optimization, game theory, applications of probability, and queuing theory. Carefully selected exercises illustrate important and useful ideas. This text is an ideal introduction for students to the basic mathematics of operations research as well as a valuable source of references to early literature on operations research. 1959 edition.

Science & Math

Mathematics

Dover Publications

Nonlinear equations have existed for hundreds of years; their systematic study, however, is a relatively recent phenomenon. This volume, together with its companion, Nonlinear Mathematics (Dover 64233-X), provides exceptionally comprehensive coverage of this recently formed area of study. It encompasses both older and more recent developments in the field of equations, with particular emphasis on nonlinear equations because, as Professor Saaty, maintains, "that is what is needed today." Together the two volumes cover all the major types of classical equations (except partial differential equations, which require a separate volume). This volume includes material on seven types: operator equations, functional equations, difference equations, delay-differential equations, integral equations, integro-differential equations and stochastic differential equations. Special emphasis is placed on linear and nonlinear equations in function spaces and on general methods of solving different types of such equations. Above all, this book is practical. It reviews the variety of existing types of equations and provides methods for their solution. It is meant to help the reader acquire new methods for formulating problems. Its clear organization and copious references make it suitable for graduate students as well as scientists, technologists and mathematicians. "...a welcome contribution to the existing literature..." — Math. Reviews.

Modern Nonlinear Equations (Dover Books on Mathematics)

MATHEMATICS

Elements of Queuing Theory With Applications

Dover Pubns

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by Saaty, Thomas L.. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Books by Saaty, Thomas L.