Course detail
Operations Research
ÚSI-REOPAAcad. year: 2020/2021
The course focuses mainly on the basic principles of operational research. First of all, students are familiarized with the fundamentals of linear programming (LP) and with methods of investigating LP problems. Lectures are supplemented with many examples of the practical use of LP – e.g. for the solution of the transportation problem, production optimisation, the optimisation of cutting plans, etc. Students are acquainted with the basic principles of network analysis - CPM, PERT, GERT, and others. Attention is paid to the fundamentals of queueing theory and its practical applications. Students will also be familiarized with the fundamentals of models for production schedules and inventory models.
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Examination: written test; oral examination if necessary
Course curriculum
Case study.
The STORM programme system, the transportation problem: introduction to issues concerned with the transportation problem, approximation methods – the ascending index method, Vogel´s approximation method, an example of a solution of a transportation problem from real-world practice. Post-optimisation analysis. Case study.
Methods of network analysis - CPM, PERT, GERT, time analysis of a node-defined network graph, practical uses of the studied methods, case studies
Inventory models - deterministic model
Queueing system - basic terms
Models of production schedules (Johnson’s algorithm)
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Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences
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Basic literature
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Elearning
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Elearning