Introduction to Management Science (10th Edition)

Index

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S.S. Central America

Saaty, Thomas

Saddle point

Safety stocks 2nd

Sample mean

Sample variance

Santos, Ltd.

Scheduling (LP) example

Scientific method

Scope statement

Scoring models

Seasonal adjustments

Seasonal factor

Seasonal patterns

Sensitivity analysis 2nd 3rd

Sensitivity analysis (in linear programming) 2nd

        changes in constraint quantity values

        changes in objective function coefficients

        computer analysis

        Excel 2nd 3rd

        graphical analysis 2nd

Sequential decision trees

Server

Service level

Service rate

Service times

        exponential distribution

Set covering problem (01 integer programming)

Shadow price 2nd 3rd 4th [See also dual value]

Shared slack

Short-range forecasts

Shortage costs 2nd 3rd 4th

Shortest route problem

        Excel

        linear programming formulation

        permanent set

        QM for Windows

        solution steps

Simplex method 2nd

        artificial variable 2nd

        basic variables

        degeneracy

        entering nonbasic variable

        infeasible problem

        leaving basic variable

        maximization problem

        minimization problem

        mixed constraint problem 2nd

        multiple optimal solutions

        negative quantity values

        nonbasic variables

        optimal solution

        pivot column

        pivot column tie

        pivot number

        pivot row

        pivot row tie (degeneracy)

        sensitivity analysis

        summary steps

        tableau

        unbounded problem

Simplex tableau

Simulated time

Simulation 2nd

        applications

        continuous probability distributions

        Crystal Ball

        environmental and resource analysis

        Excel 2nd 3rd 4th

        finance

        marketing

        Monte Carlo process

        of a queuing system 2nd

        of an inventory system

        production and manufacturing

        pseudorandom numbers

        public service operations

        random numbers 2nd

        statistical analysis

        trials

        verification

Simultaneous solution (of linear equations)

Single-server waiting line system

Slack

Slack variables

Slope of a line 2nd 3rd

Smoothing constant 2nd

Solver (Excel)

Soquimich (SA)

Spanning tree

Standard deviation 2nd

Standard model form (in linear programming)

Standard normal distribution

State (of a system)

Statement of work

States of nature

Statistical dependence

Statistical independence

Statistics

Steady-state

Stepping stone method

        closed path

        iteration

        summary steps

Stigler, George 2nd

Strategies (in game theory)

Subjective probability 2nd

Suboptimal solution

Substitution method (in nonlinear programming)

Surplus variables

Synthesization