For over four decades Introduction to Operations Research by Frederick Hillier has been the classic text on operations research. While building on the classic strengths of the text the author continues to find new ways to make the text current and relevant to students. One way is by incorporating a wealth of state-of-the-art user-friendly software and more coverage of business applications than ever before. The hallmark features of this edition include new section and chapters updated problems clear and comprehensive coverage of fundamentals an extensive set of interesting problems and cases and state-of-the-practice operations research software used in conjunction with examples from the text.