This book presents fundamental concepts of optimization problems and its real-world applications in various fields. The core concepts of optimization, formulations and solution procedures of various real-world problems are provided in an easy-to-read manner. The unique feature of this book is that it presents unified knowledge of the modelling of real-world decision-making problems and provides the solution procedure using the appropriate optimization techniques. The book will help students, researchers, and faculty members to understand the need for optimization techniques for obtaining optimal solution for the decision-making problems. It provides a sound knowledge of modelling of real-world problems using optimization techniques. It is a valuable compendium of several optimization techniques for solving real-world application problems using optimization software LINGO. The book is useful for academicians, practitioners, students and researchers in the field of OR. It is written in simple language with a detailed explanation of the core concepts of optimization techniques. Readers of this book will understand the formulation of real-world problems and their solution procedures obtained using the appropriate optimization techniques.

Section 1: Essential Mathematics and Software 1. Basic Calculus 2. Matrix and Determinant Algebra 3. LINGO-18: Optimization Software SECTION 2: OPTIMIZATION4. Introduction to Optimization 5. Linear Optimization Problems 6. Non-Linear Optimization Problems 7. Optimization under Uncertainty 8. Multi-Objective Optimization 9. Applications of Optimization

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