Course
Syllabus
Instructor
Prof. Dr. Y. Ilker TOPCU
Course description and goals
Learning the methodology and various techniques of OR and
finding optimal solutions to problems: Linear and Integer Programming (including
sensitivity and duality) and Transportation, Transshipment, and Assignment
problems.
We will use the computer software packages LINDO and QM as
well as Microsoft Excel add-in package Solver to solve these models
Assessment
There will be 3 individual assignments:
Midterm exam 1 (30%), Midterm exam 2 (30%),
Final exam (40%).
The 1st midterm exam will be
held on November 6th.
The 2nd midterm exam will be
held on December 11th.
The final exam will be held on December 18th.
The topics covered in the first 5 weeks
will be included on the 1st midterm exam and the topics covered
after the 6th week will be included on the 2nd midterm
exam. All topics covered will be included on the final exam.
Cheating
and plagiarism
Do not. Studying together to understand the material is
fine, but the work you hand in is to be your own. No cheating will be
tolerated: A letter grade of F will be given!
Text
Winston W.L. (2004) "Operations Research: Applications
and Algorithms", Duxbury Press, Wadsworth Inc.
References
Taha
H.A. (2003) "Operations Research: An Introduction", Pearson Education
Inc.
Taha
H.A. (2000) "Yoneylem Arastirmasi",
Literatur Yayincilik (cev. Alp Baray and Sakir Esnaf)
Winston
W.L., Albright S.C. (2001) "Practical Management Science", Duxbury
Press, Wadsworth Inc.
Render
B., Stair R.M. Jr., Hanna M.E. (2003) "Quantitative Analysis for
Management", Pearson Education Inc.
Taylor
B.W. III (2002) "Introduction to Management Science", Pearson
Education Inc
Rardin R.L. (1998) "Optimization in
Operations Research", Prentice Hall Inc.
Walker
R.C. (1999) "Introduction to Mathematical Programming", Prentice Hall
Inc.