C&O 370 - Deterministic OR Models (WINTER SEMESTER 1996)

Information related to the teaching activities of Professor Henry Wolkowicz; The material is related to the course taught in the WINTER SEMESTER 1996 (with Prof (Chuck/Charles) Haff).

Please note that all files are accessible by anonymous ftp to orion.uwaterloo.ca:pub/henry/teaching/w96/370.w96.

Available:

The final will be held 9-12AM Tuesday April 9/96, in MC 4042/4045.
You may be interested in: SIAM Report on Mathematics in Industry,
with advice for students planning nonacademic careers.

Please tell me of any problems, suggestions, ... (Send email to Henry.)

Also Available:


Office Hours

Here are the office hours for the semester

(Chuck/Charles) Haff, MC5025: M 1-2, W 1-2:30, F 1-2:30
Wolkowicz, MC6065: M 2-1, R 3-4
Ding, MC5126: W 11-1
Zhao, MC5136A: F 10-12

GAMS Software Information

(See e.g. the FAQ or the GAMS home page.) You can get help locally on GAMS in MC2048, (8:30-12, 1:00-4:30) from Colin Cambpell, campbell@dcs1. There is also a uw.gams newsgroup and a uw.co.co370 newsgroup. There is an online library of sample gams programs. I have made many of these, as well as some new ones, available here.

OTC, Optimization Technology Center

Besides using GAMS, there is the new Optimization Technology Center. The center's mission is to make potential users in industry, government, and academia aware of how optimization techniques can aid their work, and to make the latest techniques widely available. Center products are designed to help at each stage of problem solving, from modeling real-world applications through solving the mathematical problem to interpreting the results. You may want to look at some case studies.
Note: the LP solver uses MPS input format:
MPS format description
MPS format example

Assignments, Midterm, and Solutions

Following are assignments, the midterm, and solution files.

The midterm will be held 7-9PM on Friday March 1 in MC 4020/4021.
The final will be held 9-12AM Tuesday April 9/96.

You can use lpmovie to solve linear programs with MATLAB. The tar file lpmovie.tar.Z contains all the files you need. This file is available in the same directory as the solution files. (You can use the command: tar xvf lpmovie.tar) Alternatively, the files are available on the undergrad.math machines, in the /u2/co350 and /u3/co370 accounts.

The assignments are included in the course handout.

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