Week

Lecture Topics

1

Introduction, Problem Solving and Decision Making, Qualitative analysis, Quantitative analysis.

2 

Model Development, Data Preparation, Model Solution, Introduction to Linear Programming.

3

The Graphical Solution of Two-Variable Linear Programming Problems.

4

Treatment of Special cases, General algebraic approach.

5

Solving linear systems equations, Introduction to Simplex algorithm.

6

Sensitivity analysis of optimization and other problems.

7

MIDTERM

8

Integer Programming

9

The Branch-and-Bound Methods for Solving Mixed Integer Programming Problems.

10

Transportation, Assignment.

11

Transshipment Problems

12

Network Models

13

Network Models

14

General Review