Sandra D. Ekşioğlu

Sandra Ekşioglu is an Assistant Professor at Mississippi State University (MSU), in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering. Her research is focused in the area of Operations Research (OR). She uses OR tools to model and solve large scale supply chain design and management, logistics management and transportation-related problems. Sandra’s research on biomass-to-biofuel supply chain has resulted on a number of innovative models and solution algorithms that improve the performance of this supply chain. She received the NSF CAREER Award in support of this research. Sandra has taught the Information Systems for Industrial Engineers class at MSU for several semesters. This class teaches students how to build Spreadsheet-Based Decision Support Systems. Sandra used the feedback and comments from students to make valuable additions and modifications to this new edition of the book.

Michelle M.H. Şeref

Michelle Şeref has a Ph.D. in Operations Management from the University of Florida and a Master's and Bachelor's degree in Industrial and Systems Engineering from the same university. Michelle wrote her Master's thesis on decision support system development and design while simultaneously working on the first edition of this book and the creation of educational materials for a course in DSS. Michelle's Ph.D. dissertation focused on supply chain management decisions under various marketing strategies, including advance sales inventory management and new product development pricing and timing decisions. Using her advanced education and research experience in optimizing operations decisions, Michelle is now pursuing a second Ph.D. in rhetoric and communication to study the relationship between social behavior and language. Michelle's new dissertation focus is on causes and remedies of miscommunication in intercultural and interdisciplinary communication. She plans to complete her new Ph.D. at Virginia Tech and continue her career in academia.

Ravindra K. Ahuja

Ravindra Ahuja is a Professor in Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Florida, Gainesville, and also the founding President & CEO of Innovative Scheduling, Inc. , a company focused on developing business intelligence solutions for large-scale and complex problems arising in logistics and transportation. Professor Ahuja has contributed both to the theory and applications of Operations Research and his contributions have received highly competitive awards from INFORMS, including 1993 Lanchester Prize, 2003 Pierskalla Award, 2006 Daniel H. Wagner Award, 2007 Koopman Prize, and INFORMS Fellowship in 2008. He is a coauthor of the widely used text and reference book, "Network Flows: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications." He is also a coauthor of the companion book, "Developing Web-Enabled Decision Support Systems," which describes how to build web applications using VB .NET and ASP .NET. Professor Ahuja consults for several Fortune 500 companies.

Wayne L. Winston

Wayne Winston is a professor at the Kelly School of Business at Indiana University, Bloomington, in the Department of Operation &Decision Technologies. He has a Masters degree from MIT in mathematics and a Ph.D. from Yale University in operations research. Professor Winston has written several widely used textbooks on spreadsheet modeling and operations research, including Introduction to Mathematical Programming, Introduction to Probability Models, and Practical Management Science. His primary research areas are spreadsheet models, applied probability, dynamic programming, quality control, and math and sports. He teaches various spreadsheet modeling courses in the MBA program at Indiana University and has been the recipient of the Lilly Award for Teaching Excellence four times. Professor Winston is also involved in several consulting projects with companies including Eli Lilly, Bristol Myers Squibb, Microsoft, Intel, Cisco, the Dallas Mavericks, and the Department of Defense and US Army. He is also a two-time Jeopardy! champion.