Optimization Techniques is designed for undergraduate, postgraduate and research students of various universities offering the course in optimization techniques and operations research. The book contains applications of optimization techniques, classical optimization techniques, formulation of linear programming problems, solution by graphical and simplex method of linear programming problems, artificial techniques: Big method, Two-Phase method, duality of linear programming problem, sensitivity analysis, assignment and transportation problems, sequencing problems, project scheduling : CPM and PERT, dynamic programming problem, travelling salesmen problem, non-linear programming (constrained and unconstrained search techniques).