Operational Research

Presentation

In this curricular unit the basic concepts of Operations Research are presented and their application in the Management area

Part of this Programme

Business Management

Level of Qualification|Semesters|ECTS

| Semestral | 5

Year | Type of course unit | Language

3 |Mandatory |Português

Code

ULHT72-81

Recommended complementary curricular units

Mathematic I

Prerequisites and co-requisites

n/a

Professional Internship

Não

Syllabus

• Introduction to Linear Programming
• Formulation of Linear Programming Problems
• Solving Linear Programming Problems: Graphical Method
• Solving Linear Programming Problems: Primal Simplex Algorithm
• Artificial Variable Technique: Two fases Method
• Duality Theory
• Dual Simplex Algorithm
• Post-Optimization Analysis
• Sensitive Analysis
• Transportation Problems
• Assignment Problems
• Network Analysis

Objectives

• Familiarize students with the mathematical formulation of problems and their methods of resolution by Operations Research
• Present the main techniques of Operations Research used to solve problems in the Management area
• Promote the use of software in order to solve problems

Teaching methodologies and assessment

The lectures are theoretical-pratical with presentation of the contents and resolution of proposed problems. A suitable software for problems resolution is also presented.

Evaluation with two tests representing 75% (obtained by simple arithmetic mean) of the final classification and participation and proposed works in lectures representing 25%.

Students must attend at least 75% of classes in order to be considered for continuous evaluation.

Students with 10 or more values are approved.

References

• Hillier,F.S. and Lieberman, G.J. (2010) Introduction to Operations Research , 9th edition, McGraw-Hill international edition
• Taha, H.A. (2017) Operations Research: An Introduction, 10th edition, Pearson
• Winston,W.L. (2003) Introduction to Mathematical Programming: Applications and Algorithms, PSW-Kent

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