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Terminated in academic year 2012/2013

Operations Research B

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction Czech
Code 157-0301/02
Abbreviation OVB
Course title Operations Research B
Credits 4
Coordinating department Department of Systems Engineering and Informatics
Course coordinator Ing. Eva Moravcová, CSc.

Subject syllabus

1. Game theory. Definitions of games. Two-Person Zero-Sum Games
2. Mixed strategies, interpretation of mixed strategy probabilities.
3. Cooperative and non – cooperative games. Nonzero games. Prisoners dilemma
4. Dynamic programming. Process sequencing. Bellman’s "principle of optimality". Recursive algorithm.
5. Deterministic problems. Resources allocation, knapsack problem equipment replacement, shortest path, inventory control.
6. Queuing theory. Queuing models. Poisson process, exponential distributions.
7. Flow diagrams for different types of models.
8. Inventory control. Models for inventory management. The deterministic models.
9. Stochastic inventory models
10. Replacement, maintenance and inspection.
11. Optimization models for the improvement of system and equipment reliability.

Literature

ANDERSON et all. An Introduction to Management Science (with Printed Access Card) 896 p., 13th ed. South Western 2012 I ISBN-13: 9781111532222
LITTLECHILD, S. C. AND M. SHUTLER. Operations research in management.Prentice
Hall,New York 1991.

Advised literature

Taha.A. Operations Research: An Introduction (9th Edition) 832 p. Pearson 2010 ISBN-10: 0131391992 ISBN-13: 9780131391994
Anderson at all. An Introduction to Management Science (with Printed Access Card) 896 p., 13th ed. South Western 2012 I ISBN-13: 9781111532222