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เนื้อหาย่อ : Frederick S. Hillier was born and raised in Aberdeen. Washington, where he was an lics. debale. and music. As an undengn ing class of f over 300 stud dents. He also won the Outstanding Sophomore Debate Debater award. played in the Stanford Woodwind so won the McKinsey Prize for technical writing. Quintet, and won the Hamilton Awand for c excellence in en table achievements in the humanities and social scicnces. Upon his graduation with a B.S. degree in Industrial Engineering, he was awarded three ree national fellowships ngincering with no. (National Science Foundation, Tau Beta Pi, and Danforth) for gra with specialization in operations resear ch. Afer receiving his Ph. h.D. degree, he joined the fe sudy at Stanford faculty of Stanford Vniversity, and also received visiting appointments at Cornell Uni- versity. Carnegie-Mellon Univ nical Univers rsity of Denmark. the Univer- sity of Canterbury (New Zealand). venity, the Techr . and the University of Cambridge (England). After 35 years son the Stanford faculty, he took early retirement from his faculty responsibili- ties in 1996 in order to focus full time on textbook writing, and so now is Professor Emeritus of Operations Resear arch at Stanford. Dr. Hillier's research has e ming, qucucing thcory and its aplication, satistical qualiy control. and the aplication of extended into a variety of areas, including i integer program- operations resear esearch to the design of production in systems ns and to capital budgeting. He has published widely, and his seminal papers have been selected for republication in books of selected readings at least ten times. He was the first-prize winner of a research contest on "Capital Budgeting of Interrelated Projects" sponsored by The Institute Sciences (TIMS) and the U.S. Ofice of Naval Research. He and Dr. Lieberman also re- ceived the honorable mention a award for the 1995 Lanche hester Prize (best English-I -language publication of any kind in the field of operations research), which was awarded by the In- stitute of Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) for the 6th edi- tion of this book. e of Managenent