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AM 0121: Operations Research: Deterministic Model

• Please check this site before you come to office hour or final exam. There may be time/place change due to severe weather conditions.

• Note: Final exam will be on 9:00-12:00, Thursday, Dec 15, Wilson Hall 302. Open book. The final is not accumulative, and will cover game theory, dynamic porogramming, formulation of IP.

• Note: There is an extra office hour: Tuesday 1:00-3:00, Dec 13.

• Instructor: Hui Wang, 182 George Street, Rm 223, Tel: (401) 863-2360, huiwang@cfm.brown.edu, Office hours: Tentatively: Thursday 1:00-2:00pm, Friday 11:00-12:00am, or by appoinment.  
  
  
• Teaching Assistant: Mr. Tom dean,, tdean@dam.brown.edu, Office hours: Tuesday 3:00-4:00pm, Wednesday 10:00-11:00am. Room 004, 182 George Street.  
  
  
• Recitation hour: Friday 2:00-3:00. Meeting place: For Sept 30, Room 108, 180 George Street. For the rest of the semester, it will be held at Wilson 304.

• Homework: Homework will be assigned regularly. Completion of at least 80% of the assigned homework is required to receive a passing grade in the course. Late homework will only be accepted if an adequate reason is given one day before the homework is due. Assignments will be posted in the link below. Solutions will be posted online shortly after the due date.

• Exams: There will be a midterm and a final exam. Both will be open book.

• Textbook: Hillier & Lieberman, Introduction to operations research (8th ed). McGraw-Hill Higher Education.

• Grading: 30% homework, 30% midterm, 40% final exam.

• Course Outline [PDF].

• Homework Assignments.

• Reading Assignments.

• Lecture Notes

  • Introduction. [PDF file]

  • Simplex algorithm. [PDF file]

  • Variants of Simplex algorithm. [PDF file]

  • Duality Theory. [PDF file]

  • Sensitivity Analysis. [PDF file]

  • Game theory. [Part 1], [Part 2], [The complete file],

  • Dynamic programming. [Part 1], [Part 2]

  • Integer programming. [Part 1], [A graph]

  • Quadratic programming. [PDF file]