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Operations Research: Methods and Applications - MATH2140

Faculty: Faculty of Science

School: School of Mathematics and Statistics

Course Outline: http://www.maths.unsw.edu.au/

Campus: Kensington Campus

Career: Undergraduate

Units of Credit: 3

EFTSL: 0.06250 (more info)

Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 2

Enrolment Requirements:

Prerequisite: MATH1031(CR) or MATH1231 or MATH1241 or MATH1251.

Excluded: ECON2208

CSS Contribution Charge: 2 (more info)

Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule

Further Information: See Class Timetable

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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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