00884 - Operational Research

Academic Year 2019/2020

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Rimini
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Economics of Tourism (cod. 8847)

Course contents

From the computation of th overbooking to the solving of linearprogramming problems, with integrality constraints too.

There will be a math introduction.

Solving linear programming problems and the symplex algorithm:

  • Changing the basis
  • Relation between basis and vertices of the LP polyhedron
  • Moving to an adjacent vertex
  • Optimality
  • The 2 phase method

IP: linear relaxation, cutting planes, branch and bound, polyhedral methods

Complexity of algorithms

The use of graphs and the relative algorithms

Readings/Bibliography

M. Fischetti, Lezioni di ricerca operativa, Libreria Progetto, Padova

Teaching methods

Lectures

Assessment methods

Oral examination

Teaching tools

Excel and Lingo to solve MIP problems

Office hours

See the website of Massimo Spadoni

SDGs

Quality education Industry, innovation and infrastructure Responsible consumption and production

This teaching activity contributes to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN 2030 Agenda.