IND 508

This course will introduce students to the basic principles of Operations Research with special emphasis on the paradigms associated with linear programming and simplex method. These include generic modelling; mathematical modelling; the "max", "min", and "mixed case" simplex algorithms; sensitivity analysis; duality; dual simplex algorithm; the revised simplex method; and "assignment", "transportation" and "transhipment" models. These subjects will be studied from both theoretical and practical perspectives.