Book Reviews

Foulds, L. R. 1981, Optimization Techniques: An Introduction, Springer-Verlag New York, New York, 502 pp., $36.00—reviewed by Anthony Loh

Thompson, Mark S. 1982, Decision Analysis for Program Evaluation, Ballinger Publishing Company, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 424 pp., $35.00—reviewed by Gerald F. Smith

Helmer, Olaf 1983, Looking Forward: A Guide to Futures Research, Sage Publications, Inc., Beverly Hills, California, 376 pp., $29.95—reviewed by Paul Gray

Kroeber, Donald and Watson, Hugh 1984, Computer-Based Information Systems: A Management Approach, Macmillan Publishing Company, 866 Third Ave., New York, 506 pp., $33.25—reviewed by Deborah Horn Daniel

Dennis, J. E., Jr. and Schnable, Robert B. 1983, Numerical Methods of Unconstrained Optimization and Nonlinear Equations, Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 378 pp., $37.95—reviewed by Jong-Shi Pang

Strauss, Melvin J. 1981, Computer Capacity, Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York, 265 pp., $24.95—reviewed by Robert R. Moeller