Operations Research

This course has been designed in English language to cover the following aspects in Six modules and each module is for 2 weeks. 

Module 1: Introductory module of e-Learning course on the development, definition, characteristics and phase of scientific method, types of models and general methods for solving operations research models.

Module 2: Introduction to linear programming, formulation of linear programming problem, graphical solution, Simplex method, artificial variable technique, duality principle and sensitivity analysis.

Module 3: Introduction to transportation problem, formulation and optimal solution.   

Module 4: Unbalanced transportation problems, degeneracy. Assignment problem, formulation and optimal solution.

Module 5: Introduction to sequencing, terminology, notations and assumptions, problems with n-jobs 

and two machines, optimal sequence algorithm, problems with n-jobs and three machines. 

Module 6: Introduction to theory of games, two-person zero-sum games, the maximum –minimax principle, games without saddle points – mixed strategies, 2 x n and m x 2 games – graphical solutions, 

dominance property, use of L.P. to games.

1. Operations Research: an introduction, Hamdy A. Taha, Pearson Education.

2. Operations. Research: theory and application, J.K. Sharma, Macmillan Publishers.

3. Introduction to Operations Research: concept and cases, Frederick S. Hillier and Gerald J. 

Lieberman, Tata McGraw-Hill