Operation Research: Course Outline (MAT 454)
Operations research, is a discipline that deals with the application of advanced analytical methods to help make better decisions.
Course Objective
At the end of this course the students will be able to formulate a real-world problem as a mathematical programming model. Understand the theoretical workings of the simplex method for linear programming and perform iterations of it by hand. Understand the relationship between a linear program and its dual, including strong duality and complementary slackness. Perform sensitivity analysis to determine the direction and magnitude of change of a model's optimal solution as the data change. Solve specialized linear programming problems like the transportation and assignment problems. Understand the applications of basic methods for integer programming Model a dynamic system as a queuing model and compute important performance measures.
Course Outline
- Introduction to Operations Research and real life Phases,
- introduction to linear programming (LP) with examples,
- Graphical solutions to Mathematical Model with Special Cases,
- Simplex Algorithm and its different cases, Big M Method and Two phase Method,
- Scheduling and Blending Problems,
- The Transportation Problems,
- The Transshipment Problems,
- The Assignment Problems, integer Programming, network Models, Inventory Models,
- Dynamic Programming and Queuing Theory.
Text Books
Other Books
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by Mishra, D.N.
Agarwal, S.K.
Date Published: 2009 -
by Sharma, Anand
Date Published: 2009
Pages: 459 -
by Baswell, Albert R.
Date Published: 2009
Pages: 382