BLG 368E - Operations Research

Course Objectives

1. The methods used in quantitative decision making,
2. Formulation of the business (real life) problems by modeling,
3. To interpret the obtained results from technical and economical viewpoints.

Course Description

Quantitative Decision Making; Model Building and Modeling Philosophy; Linear Programming and Simplex Algorithm; Big M Method; The Two-Phase Simplex method; Duality and Sensitivity Analysis; Transportation Models and Solving Methods; Integer Programming, Network Models, LINDO, LINGO and GAMS Software Packages