620-362 Applied Operations Research - Lecture Notes

29th July 2008: Introduction, Motivation and Key Points

5th August 2008: Piecewise Linear Models

6th August 2008: Introduction to Integer Programming

8th August 2008: Heuristics

12th, 13th & 15th August 2008: Xpress-MP, Balance transportation (.mos), Bin packing (.mos), Live Programming Problems (.pdf), Live Programming Data (.xls), Network loss (.mos), Network loss data (.txt)

19th August 2008: Branch and Bound

20th & 22nd August 2008: The Gomory Cutting Plane Method

22nd & 26th August 2008: "Good" model vs "Bad" model, Uncapacitated facility location (Formulation 1, Formulation 2, Formulation 2 - on-the-fly; .mos), Lot-sizing (.mos), Human resource planning (.mos)

27th August 2008: Column Generation, Human resource planning (.mos)

29th August 2008: Branch-and-Price, Dantzig-Wolfe Decomposition

2nd September 2008: The Quadratic Assignment Problem

3rd and 5th September 2008: Routing Problems

9th September 2008: Other MIP Problems

10th September 2008: Quadratic Models

12th September 2008: Network Models

16th September 2008: Revision

17th September 2008: Professional skills lecture (by LLSU): Report writing

19th September 2008: Professional skills lecture (by LLSU): Presentation