Tools for thinking : modelling in management science /
Michael Pidd.
- 3rd ed.
- Chichester, U.K. : Wiley, 2009.
- x, 292 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Models as convenient worlds -- Management science : making sense of strategic vision -- Problems, problems -- Some principles of modelling -- Soft systems methodology -- Cognitive mapping, SODA and journey-making -- System dynamics -- Decision analysis -- Optimization modelling : linear programming -- Computer simulation : visual interactive modelling and Monte Carlo simulation -- Heuristic search -- Model assessment and validation.
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Problem solving--Simulation methods. Management science--Simulation methods. Decision making--Simulation methods.