Operations Research (Math 339)
Fall 2015
Textbook Links
The textbook is ``Introduction to Mathematical Programming: Applications
and Algorithms, Volume 1" by Wayne Winston and Munirpallam Venkataramanan.
It is the 4th edition, and links are below if you'd like more information
about it.
NOTE to students who have the older textbook: The first 10 chapters of
this text are identical to the first 10 chapters of ``Operations Research:
Applications and Algorithms''. We will cover material from Chapters 2, 3,
4, 6, and 7-9 (time permitting).
- Here
is the Amazon.com link
- The book is no longer being published, but there are plenty of sources
for the text online. See me if you have problems obtaining the text. The
ISBN is 0534359647.
First day stuff
Material By Chapter
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 6 (Sensitivity Analysis)
Chapter 7 (Transportation Problem)
- Section 7.1 Links
- Homework for Section 7.2
- Homework for 7.3: Solve exercises 1 and 3 from Section 7.1. Get
a basic feasible solution using Vogel's Approximation Method (VAM).
- Homework for 7.4: Section 7.4 (p 392), problems 1-4.
- Homework for 7.5: Section 7.5 (p 398), 1, 2 4. Problem 6 is kind of
fun to try out.
- Homework due on Wed Nov 18: 7.3, 3 and 7.4, 1-4.
- Homework for 7.6: p 403, 1-4.
Chapter 8 (Network Models)
- Homework for 8.1/8.2: p. 418, #2-8.
- Homework to turn in on Friday, Dec 4: Section 7.5, #2, sect 7.6,
#3, section 8.2, #2, 3.
- Homework for 8.3: Do problem 9 in 8.2, then 4-7 in 8.3.
- Homework for 8.4: 5(a), 6, 7, 9, 10, 16, 17 (a couple of problems were
added, and the solutions are included below under "Exam 3").
Material for Exams (removed)
Maple/LINDO/LINGO/Data files
For the Curious...