GENERAL INFORMATION: Instructors: Schinas Christos
Semester: 3rd
CREDITS: ECTS Units: 3
Teaching Units: 3
Theory Hours: 2
Exercises Hours: 1
Lab Hours: 0
COURSE PAGE: https://eclass.duth.gr/courses/TMA533/

Course Description

Introduction to Operations Research. Basic elements of Linear Programming. Graphic resolution of problems of Linear Programming. Regular form of a Linear Programming problem. Properties of solutions. Simplex Algorithm: general case. Simplex Algorithm: M-method. Simplex Algorithm: method of two stages. Dual Simplex method. Analysis of sensitivity. Software for Linear Programming pronlems (MatLab, Mathematica, LPSolve, Excel). Transportation Problems. Minimum spanning tree problems. Non-linear methods of optimization. Newton method. Secant method.