Introduction to Operations Research

Overview of the operations research modelling approach; introduction to linear programming; solving linear programming problems - the simplex method; the theory of the simplex method; duality theory and sensitivity analysis; other algorithms for linear programming; the transportation and assignment problems; network optimization models; project management with PERT/CPM; dynamic programming; integer programming; nonlinear programming; game theory; decision analysis; Markov chains; queueing theory; the application of queueing theory; inventory theory; forecasting; Markov decision processes; simulation. Appendices: documentation for the OR courseware; convexity; classical optimization methods; matrices and matrix operations; partial answers to selected problems.