A highly useful reference source for researchers and professionals from the disciplines of Operations Research (OR), IT, Performance Modelling, Computer Sciences, Industrial Engineering, and Applied Mathematics — this edited volume compiles a total of 60 original papers, contributed by eminent Indian researchers. Part I (OR) has 28 papers dealing broadly with mathematical programming, queueing theory, inventory problems and other OR techniques; Part II (IT) contains 12 contributions related to computer and communication networks, information theory, software development, and coding theory, etc.; and Part III is devoted to applications of OR and IT in different industries, including mining, steel, polyester film making and others. A wide range of themes and topics have been covered within these 3 broad areas.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Madhu Jain
Madhu Jain was educated at Connecticut College in the United States, following which she did her master’s in literature from Delhi University and studied French literature at the Sorbonne in Paris. In the seventies she worked as a reporter for the Statesman, moving towards the end of the decade to Sunday magazine to write on politics, foreign affairs and culture. She was also the New Delhi correspondent with the French national daily, La Croix, for a decade before she joined India Today in 1986, where she remained until 2000. Since then she has written for several publications, including Outlook and the Hindu, on contemporary life, art and cinema. She has curated two art exhibitions – Kitsch Kitsch Hota Hai on kitsch and the contemporary imagination and the other on the painter Viswanadhan. Madhu Jain lives in Delhi with her physicist husband Krishna Jain. They have two children.
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