UNSW Handbook Course - Operations Research: Methods and Applications

Operations Research: Methods and Applications - MATH2140


	Faculty: Faculty of Science
	School: School of Mathematics
	Campus: Kensington Campus
	Career: Undergraduate
	Units of Credit: 3
	EFTSL: 0.062 (more info)
	Contact Hours per Week: 2
	Enrolment Requirements:
	Prerequisite: MATH1031(CR) or MATH1231 or MATH1241 or MATH1251; Excluded: MATH2160, MATH2180, ECON2208.
	Session Offered: See Class Timetable
	Fee Band: 2 (more info)

Description

An introduction to modelling and solution techniques for linear optimization problems and their application to business and industry. Formulation of problems, the simplex method, duality and sensitivity analysis, integer programming using branch and bound, networks, transportation and assignment problems. Matlab will be used to solve realistic problems.

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