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Operations Research is a textbook that grooms the students about Operations Research in accordance with the theories and applications related to it. Summary Of The Book Be it planning and distribution of manpower, scheduling of products, or inventory management, every decision that is taken in any organization needs a lot of statistical, economical, and mathematical analysis. Operation Research is a branch of Mathematics that helps people to approach these problems scientifically and to arrive at a decision. The book, Operations Research, by R. Panneerselvam starts with an introduction to operation research, and then it elaborates some of the classic concepts of operation research, like linear and nonlinear programming, parametric linear programming, assignment problem, transportation problem, dynamic programming, goal programming, theory, replacement and maintenance analysis, production scheduling, and integer programming. These concepts are organized as individual chapters. Each chapter of this book contains a set of network techniques, project management, inventory control, queuing theory, decision theory, game questions that will help the reader to gauge their understanding and assess themselves in the respective concepts. At the end of this book, the author has also provided the answers to all the questions that appear after every chapter. Written in easy to understand language and adequate example to make the readers understand the complex concepts of operation research, this book is an ideal textbook for the students of statistics, management studies, masters of mathematics and commerce, all the disciplines of Engineering, and MCA. About R. Panneerselvam R. Panneerselvam is the dean of School of Management, Pondicherry University. He was also the Chairperson of Computer Society of India. Panneerselvam has authored several books for the students of management and engineering. Some of the books authored by him are: Design And Analysis Of Algorithms, Research Methodology, Design And Analysis of Experiments, Interest Tables For Engineering Economics, Engineering Economics, Database Management Systems, and Production And Operations Management. He also holds a PhD degree, and has been teaching in the fields of management and engineering for more than twenty five years.