OPRE 251: Operations Research
2009 Trimester 1
| OPRE 251 | CRN 942, 22 Points (2009 1/3) | |
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| Coordinator: | Dr Mark Johnston |
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| Lecturer: | A/Prof Stefanka Chukova Dr John Haywood |
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| Prerequisites: | STAT 131 or STAT 193 or QUAN 102; 18 pts from MATH 113, 114 or QUAN 111 | |
| Lectures: | Mon Tue Thu Fri 9-10 timetable | |
| Tutorials: | 1 hour per week, time to be arranged. | |
| Laboratories: | Computer lab times to be arranged. | |
| Assignments: | Approximately weekly | |
| Assessment: | Either 40% coursework plus 60% final exam or 100% final exam, whichever is greater. | |
| Course Materials: | A suitable scientific calculator, cost approximately $25. | |
| Textbook: | Hillier, F.S. and Lieberman, G.J., Introduction to Operations Research (8th ed.), McGraw-Hill, 2005. This text also serves as the text for OPRE351 and OPRE352. | |
| Prescription: | Decision analysis, inventory models, linear and non-linear programming, critical path methods. | |
| Description: | Operations research is scientific decision-making, based on the formulation, analysis and optimisation of models for a system. Topics will be chosen from: decision making under uncertainty, simulation modelling, inventory models, reliability, forecasting, game theory, project management, sensitivity analysis, modelling of optimisation problems using linear programming. A computer package will be used to formulate, solve and interpret simple models. No previous computer programming experience is required. | |
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