Lectures
● General Introduction to Operations Research. Overview of OR terminology and history.
● Linear Programming (LP) Model Formulation: LP Model formulation, Simplex Method
● Integer Programming (IP) Model Formulation.
● Evolutionary Algorithms: Introduction to the most common algorithms, which are used for solving optimization problems including Genetic Algorithms, Differential Evolution, Particle Swarm etc.
● Transportation and Assignment Problems; vehicle routing problems, bin packing problem, traveling salesman problem.
● Scheduling Problems; flow shop scheduling, flow shop with blocking, flow shop with no wait, flow shop with lot streaming problems.
● Software systems for operational research.
Seminars
The assignments will consist the coding of the following problems/routines:
● Linear programming
● Integer Programming
● Genetic Algorithms
● Differential Evolution
● Transportation Problem coding
● Scheduling Problem Coding