"Hamdy A. Taha" is a University Professor of Industrial Engineering with the University of Arkansas, where he teaches and conducts research in operations research and simulation. He is the author of three other books on integer programming and simulation, and his works have been translated into Chinese, Korean, Spanish, Japanese, Russian, Turkish, and Indonesian. He is also the author of several book chapters. His articles have appeared in "Management Science, Operations Research," and "Interfaces" Institute for Operations Research and Management Science, "Naval Research Logistics" John Wiley