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Operations Research

What Will Learn?

  • Course Aims
    By the end of the course the students will be able to: • Identify problems that may be approached using linear programming, transportation, and networking models. • Determine the data required to model an LP problem. • Develop a mathematical LP model of the problem. • Use mathematical tools to analyze the LP model. • Perform sensitivity analysis on the results of an LP model. • Apply various transportation and networking algorithms. • Apply simulation models and make necessary analysis of results • Use computer software to solve LP, transportation, and networking problems
  • Course Goals
  • Quality Education
  • Decent Work and Economic Growth
  • Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure

Requirements

Description

  • English Description

    Introduction to operations research and its applications, Principles of mathematical Modeling, Linear programming: Formulation, Graphical solution, Simplex method, and Duality and sensitivity analysis, Transportation models: Transportation algorithm, Assignment problem and transshipment problem, Network models: Minimal spanning tree algorithm, Shortest route problem and Maximum flow problem, Branch and bound algorithm.
  • Arabic Description

    Introduction to operations research and its applications, Principles of mathematical Modeling, Linear programming: Formulation, Graphical solution, Simplex method, and Duality and sensitivity analysis, Transportation models: Transportation algorithm, Assignment problem and transshipment problem, Network models: Minimal spanning tree algorithm, Shortest route problem and Maximum flow problem, Branch and bound algorithm.
  • Department
    Design and Production Engineering
  • Credit Hours
    3
  • Grades
    Total ( 100 ) = Midterm (25) + tr.Major Assessment (30 = tr.Industry 0% , tr.Project 0% , tr.Self_learning 0% , tr.Seminar 35% ) + tr.Minor Assessment (5) + Exam Grade (40)
  • Hours
    Lecture Hours: 2, Tutorial Hours: 2, Lab Hours: 0
  • Required SWL
    125
  • Equivalent ECTS
    5
  • - Operations Research, an Introduction, 10th Ed., Hamdy A. Taha, Prentice Hall, ISBN-13: 978-0134444017, ISBN-10: 0134444019
  • - Introduction to operations research, 10th Edition Authors: Frederick S. Hillier, Gerald J. Lieberman, McGraw-Hill, ISBN-13: 978-1260575873,ISBN-10: 126057587X - Operations Research, an Introduction, 10th Ed., Hamdy A. Taha, Prentice Hall, ISBN-13: 978-0134444017, ISBN-10: 0134444019.