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Quantitative Operations Research - ZEIT8405

Faculty: UNSW Canberra at ADFA

School: School of Engineering & Information Technology @ UNSW Canberra at ADFA

Course Outline: ZEIT8405 Course Outline

Campus: UNSW Canberra at ADFA

Career: Postgraduate

Units of Credit: 6

EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)

Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3

Enrolment Requirements:

Restricted to students enrolled in Graduate Diploma or Masters programs.

CSS Contribution Charge: 2 (more info)

Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule

Further Information: See Class Timetable

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Description

This course carries on from OR Methods and trains students on the selection of appropriate techniques by describing the strengths and weaknesses of models and simulation, so that fit for purpose methods are applied to soluble problems. It will cover the algorithms used to solve hard OR problems including linear programming, transportation, assignment, integer programming, computational complexity including theory of NP-completeness, combinatorial optimisation, nonlinear optimisation, dynamic programming, goal programming, multiobjective optimisation, and heuristics.

Learning Outcomes

At the end of this course you will:
Know about …
  1. different steps of quantitative decision making processes
  2. formulating mathematical programming models for different optimisation problems
  3. algorithms for solving different mathematical programming models
  4. capability and limitations of different solution approaches for solving different classes of optimisation problems
  5. the widely used software in optimisation.
  6. Be able to …
Be able to …
  1. identify optimisation problems in real life decision process
  2. formulate both simple and complex optimisation problems
  3. apply appropriate solution approaches for solving different mathematical programming models
  4. analyse the solutions for gaining insights for better decision making
  5. develop solution approaches for simple case-specific problems

Delivery Mode

Distance

Topics

N/A

Assessment

There are 4 assessment items in this course: 2 assignments, and 2 projects.
Assignment #1 20%
Assignment #2 20%
Project #1 30%
Project #2 30%

Course Texts

Prescribed Text:
Hillier F. & Lieberman G., Introduction to Operations Research, 9th edition, McGraw Hill.

Recommended Texts:
Lecture notes, assignments, solutions, latest news, and other resources are available on the course Moodle site.

Software:
Nil

Resources

N/A
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Study Levels

Undergraduate Study Postgraudate Study Postgraduate Research Study Non-Award Study

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