The eighth edition is a major revision that streamlines the presentation of the text material with emphasis on the applications and computations in operations research:

- Chapter 2 is dedicated to linear programming modeling, with applications in the areas of urban renewal, currency arbitrage, investment, production planning, blending, scheduling, and trim loss. New end-of-section problems deal with topics ranging from water quality management and traffic control
to warfare.
- Chapter 3 Present the general LP sensitivity analysis, including dual prices and reduced costs, in a simple and straightforward manner as a direct extension of the simplex tableau computations.
- Chapter 4 is now dedicated to LP post-optimal analysis based on duality.
- An Excel-based combined nearest neighbor-reversal heuristic is presented for the traveling salesperson problem.
- Markov chains treatment has been expanded into new Chapter 17.
- The totally new Chapter 24 present 15 fully developed real-life applications. The analysis, which often cuts across more than one OR technique (e.g. heuristics and LP, or ILP and queuing), deals with the modeling, data collection, and computational aspects of solving the problem. These applications are cross-referenced in pertinent chapters to provide and appreciation of the use of OR techniques in practice.
- The new Appendix E includes approximately 50 mini cases of real-life situations categorized by chapters.
- More than 1000 end-of-section problem are included in the book.

Chapter 1 What Is Operations Research
Chapter 2 Modeling with Linear Programming
Chapter 3 The Simplex Method and Sensitivity Analysis
Chapter 4 Duality and Post-Optimal Analysis
Chapter 5 Transportation Model and Its Variants
Chapter 6 Network Models
Chapter 7 Advanced Linear Programming
Chapter 8 Goal Programming
Chapter 9 Integer Linear Programming
Chapter 10 Deterministic Inventory Models

Etc.