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Course No.
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Course Title
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Theory
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Practice
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Credit
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Prerequisite(s)
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Stat 261
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Operations Research I
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3
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3
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Stat 110
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Objectives
Introducing to the science of operations research and its importance and some of the main problems.
Course Description:
- Introduction: History and development of O.R., Definition of O.R., Various stages of an O.R. study.
- Linear programming: Formulation of LP problems, The graphical method, Simplex method, The two-phase method, The dual simplex method, The dual problem and its relation with the primal problem.
- The transportation problem: LP formulation, methods of finding initial feasible solution, Testing of optimality and finding the optimal solution.
- The assignment problem: LP formulation, The Hungarian method of solution, The unbalanced AP.
- Inventory models: some deterministic and stochastic models.
- Network analysis: Drawing networks, PERT and CPM methods.
Main text books :
Hamdy A. Taha, Operations Research, Macmillan Publishing Co. (1997).
Barry Render ,Ralph M. Stair, Michael E. Hanna, "Quantitative Analysis for Management", Pearson
Subsidiary books :
Churchman, C.W., Ackoff and E.L. Arnoff, Introduction to Operations Research, John Wiley, (1992).
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