Course detail
Optimization Methods I
FSI-FOA-KAcad. year: 2024/2025
The introductory part of this course deals with systems theory and systems analysis. It explains the essence of a system and relationships between the system and its environment. The next part of this course, operations research, presents tools for solving various types of decision problems. This part shows possibilities of optimizing structure and behaviour of systems, and gives foundations for applying the system approach to solving decision problems. On one hand, the course is focused on typical problems of socio-technical systems, and on the other hand on theoretical and application aspects of solution methods. The course gives foundations for applying the system approach to solving decision problems.
Language of instruction
Number of ECTS credits
Mode of study
Guarantor
Entry knowledge
Rules for evaluation and completion of the course
Attendance at seminars is controlled. An absence can be compensated for via solving additional problems.
Aims
Students will be able to distinguish different kinds and types of systems, and will acquire knowledge of ways of their modelling. They will be able to use a system approach to solving problems, and will acquire knowledge of basic techniques and tools for analysis, synthesis and optimization of systems. Students will have a clear overview of operations research models and methods. They will be able to choose a proper approach to decision problem solving, and construct mathematical models for solving practical problems. They will acquire knowledge of fundamental principles of operations research methods, and will be able to solve operations research problems by means of computer.
Study aids
Prerequisites and corequisites
Basic literature
LITTLECHILD, S.; SHUTLER, M. (eds.): Operations Research in Management. Prentice Hall, New York, pp. 298, 1991. ISBN 0-13638-8183
SKYTTNER, L.: General Systems Theory. An Introduction. Macmillan Press, London, pp. 290, 1996. ISBN 0-333-61833-5.
Recommended reading
Elearning
Classification of course in study plans
- Programme N-AIŘ-K Master's 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
Type of course unit
Guided consultation in combined form of studies
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
2. Modelling systems. Systems analysis and operations research.
3. Linear programming problems and their properties.
4. Methods of solving linear programming problems.
5. Sensitivity analysis and duality.
6. Transportation and distribution problems.
7. Formulation and properties of nonlinear programming problems. Optimality conditions.
8. Methods of solving nonlinear programming problems.
9. Integer programming problems, branch-and-bound method.
10. Stochastic optimization problems.
11. Multicriteria decision problems.
12. Problems and methods of game theory.
13. Models of queueing systems.
Guided consultation
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
2. Formulating optimization models.
3. Linear problems, graphical solution.
4. Solving linear problems by means of simplex method.
5. Solving transportation problems.
6. Solving nonlinear problems by means of Kuhn-Tucker conditions.
Elearning