VBA 211E - Deterministic Models in Data Science

Course Objectives

I. To investigate the recent advances and new approaches about operations research and optimization,
II. To teach modeling techniques,
III. To learn about exact and heuristic methods and solve optimization problems using Excel and software packages.
IV. To explore real life applications of optimization models in different areas.

Course Description

To cover most important and recent topics in operations research and optimization such as linear, nonlinear, integer and dynamic programming, combinatorial and network optimization, to learn exact and heuristic solution methods and to apply these methods in Excel and optimization software packages, to learn about applications of optimization to real problems in areas such as marketing, sports, transportation science, health care, energy, military, manufacturing and production planning, supply chain management, finance and economics, logistics and distribution and others.