Reading instructions

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• Hillier and Lieberman: "Introduction to Operations Research", 10th edition.
  

Please note, the 10th edition came 2014 and is the one that is sold at the KTH bookshop. You may use earlier versions, the reading instructions are for the 9th and 10th editions.

Suggested reading in the book before (or after) the lectures:

Note that these reading instructions are based on last years schedule and may be changed during the course. 

Note also  that in the 10th edition Chapter 16 is called 29 and is not in the physical book, but available as a pdf web chapter. Here are links to the web chapters for both 9th edition Links to an external site.and 10th edition Links to an external site.When you buy the book you get an access code.

Lecture 1:     Course introduction. Markov chains
                        9th edition:   Sections 1.1-1.3, 16.1-16.3.
                        10th edition: Sections 1.1-1.3, 29.1-29.3 Links to an external site.,
Lecture 2:     Markov processes
                        9th edition:   Sections 16.4-16.5, 16.8.
                        10th edition: Sections 29.4-29.5, 29.8 Links to an external site.
Lecture 3:     Sections 17.1-17.5, Exponential distribution, Poisson process 
Lecture 4:     Section 17.6, Birth and death processes, M|M|1 queues, M|M|s
Lecture 5:     Section 17.9, Queues in series, Jackson networks
Lecture 6:     On spare parts optimization (manuscript Download manuscript

Lecture 15:   Guest Lecture from Systecon Download Systecon