Mokhtar S. BAZARAA, PhD, is a Professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology. HANIF D. SHERALI, PhD, is a W. Thomas Rice Chaired Professor of Engineering in the Grado Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.C. M. SHETTY, PhD, is a Professor Emeritus at the Georgia Institute of Technology.Professors Bazaraa and Sherali are also coauthors of the complementary bestselling book, Linear Programming and Network Flows, Third Edition, also published by Wiley.