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Jayant
Rajgopal
1039 Benedum Hall
Industrial
Engineering
University of
Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA
15261
Tel. +1 412
624 9840
Fax +1 412 624
9831
rajgopal@pitt.edu
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TEXT
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Introduction to
Mathematical Programming
(4th
ed.) , by Wayne L. Winston & M. Venkataramanan,
Duxbury Press, CA (2004).
REFERENCES
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Operations Research:
An Introduction
(7th
ed.), by Hamdy A. Taha,
Prentice-Hall,
New York (2003).
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Introduction to
Operations Research
(8th ed.), by Frederick S. Hillier and Gerald J. Lieberman,
McGraw Hill, New York (2005).
COURSE OUTLINE
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This is an introductory
course in operations
research (OR). The objective is to introduce the student to the OR
process
and to a number of different areas within OR. The primary emphasis will
be on linear programming and its applications, covering modeling, the
simplex
method, postoptimality analysis, and the transportation and assignment
problems. In addition, we will spend time on the general methodology of
operations research and on mathematical model building. Other areas
such
as network flows, PERT/CPM, integer programming and goal
programming
will also be covered, with the amount of emphasis depending on the time
available. Students are expected to do a significant amount of
reading
on their own, and to keep up with the lectures. A PC-based
software
package will be used - students may use LINDO
(which comes
packaged
with the textbook), add-ins to spreadsheet packages (such as the Solver
add-in that comes with Excel),
or any other system of their choice.
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