This course provides an introduction to computer-based models for decision making the emphasis is on models that are widely used in diverse industries and functional areas, including finance, operations and marketing. Case applications will deal with production planning, inventory control, capacity planning, and portfolio optimization. The main types of tools in the decision models are linear programming, integer programming, and simulation.

Appropriate for anyone who has one course in linear programming and one course in simulation. Exam must be taken prior to the beginning of the second term.

Closed book, three (3) hourse, calculator permitted.

Eppen, Gould, and Schmidt. Introductory Management Science. 4^th ed., (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1993). Chapters 1-4, 7, 8, 13.