Optimization

Catalog description

This course focuses on problem formulation, software technologies and analytical methods for optimization serving as an introduction to a wide variety of optimization problems and techniques including dynamic programming, network flows, integer programming, heuristic approaches, Markov chains, game theory, and decision analysis. This course provides tools to formulate engineering problems as the optimization of some function under some set of constraints. As such operations research is a quantitative discipline that deals with the application of advanced analytical methods to help make better decisions. This course employs techniques from other mathematical sciences, such as mathematical modeling, statistical analysis, and mathematical optimization and provides optimal or near-optimal solutions to complex decision-making problems. (Cross-listed with IEEN 5313 Optimization.)