[Iefac.list] Publication of Two Textbooks on Developing Decision Support Systems.

[Ravindra K. Ahuja]

Dear Colleague,

I am pleased to inform you the publication of the following two books 
whose table of contents are enclosed:

Developing Spreadsheet-Based Decision Support Systems
Michelle M.H. Seref, Ravindra K. Ahuja, and Wayne L. Winston
Dynamic Ideas, LLC, 900 pages

Developing Web-Enabled Decision Support Systems
Abhijit A. Pol and Ravindra K. Ahuja
Dynamic Ideas, LLC, 700 pages

A Decision Support System uses the data residing in spreadsheets 
and/or databases, models it, processes or analyzes it using 
problem-specific methodologies, and assists the user in the 
decision-making process through an interactive graphical user 
interface. Our graduates are frequently being employed in positions 
that require developing and maintaining decision support systems. 
Decision support systems are gaining widespread popularity in 
industry and knowing how to develop such systems will make our 
students highly desirable in the workplace. These textbooks explain 
through numerous examples how to develop such systems. These books 
are ideally suited as textbooks for teaching undergraduate- and 
graduate-level courses in Industrial Engineering, Operations 
Research, Discrete Mathematics, and Management, and can also be used 
as supplementary reference books or as self-study manuals.

We have also developed comprehensive student and instructor material 
necessary to teach courses using these books, including PowerPoint 
Presentations, Course Projects, and Solution Manual. This material is 
available at the book website: www.dssbooks.com. These books 
illustrate concepts and ideas using hands-on examples, tutorials, and 
exercises. The book website contains the soft files needed for 
practice. The website also contains some sample chapters of the 
books. Both books are available for sale at www.amazon.com, and at 
the publisher's website: www.dynamic-ideas.com.

In case you plan to use any of these books as a textbook for your 
course, you can receive free desk copies of the books by 
contacting  the publisher (www.dynamic-ideas.com).

If you have any questions, comments, suggestions, feel free to contact me.

Regards,

Ravi

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Ravindra K. Ahuja
Professor
Dept. of Industrial & Systems Engg.
368 Weil Hall
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL 32611-6595, USA
Phone:   352-870-8401
Email: ahuja at ufl.edu
www.ise.ufl.edu/ahuja
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