Terminated in academic year 2015/2016

Operational Research

Type of study	Follow-up Master
Language of instruction	Czech
Code	352-0548/01
Abbreviation	OVyz
Course title	Operational Research
Credits	4
Coordinating department	Department of Control Systems and Instrumentation
Course coordinator	prof. Ing. Miluše Vítečková, CSc.

Subject syllabus

1. Acquainting with problems and content of subject. Probability theory, conditional probability, relations among independent events.
2. Probability of hypothesis.
3. Continuous random variables, characteristics, distributions.
4. Discrete random variables, characteristics, distributions.
5. Transformation of random variables and their generation.
6. Use of graph theory and random variables in engineering.
7. Graph theory, basic concepts and principles.
8. Minimal and maximal paths in graph, algorithms of solution.
9. CPM and method PERT, algorithms of solution.
10. Hamilton' path and Euler's circle.
11. Capacity of transport net, algorithms of solution.
12. Waiting line models. System M/M/1.
13. System M/M/n.
14. Using waiting line models in practice.

Literature

HILLIER, F. S., LIBERMAN, G. J. Introduction to Operational Research. Mc Graw Hill Higher Education, Boston, 2005

TAHA, H., A. Operations Research: An Introduction. 8th Edition. Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, 2007

Advised literature

HILLIER, F. S., LIBERMAN, G. J. Introduction to Operational Research. Mc Graw Hill Higher Education, Boston, 2005
RARDIN, R. L. Optimization In Operations Research. Prentice Hall, Upper Sadle River, 2005

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