C&O 370 - Deterministic OR Models (WINTER SEMESTER 1997)

( Information related to the teaching activities of Professor Henry Wolkowicz; The material is related to the course taught in the WINTER SEMESTER 1997. Please note that all files are accessible by anonymous ftp to orion.uwaterloo.ca:pub/henry/teaching/w97/370.w97. )
PLEASE Please tell me of any problems with this material and/or the course in general. Send email to me. You can also send guaranteed anonymous email to me. You can use one of the three addresses:

• co370-feedback@orion.uwaterloo.ca
• co370-01-feedback@orion.uwaterloo.ca
• co370-02-feedback@orion.uwaterloo.ca

Available:

• course handout;
• course outline;
• Office Hours;
• Homework; Case Studies;
• Projects:
  
  Project Information; Project List; Project Evaluation Scheme.
  (PLEASE read the following tips: Project Report Guide; Presentation Tips. (Also, Giving a Talk, guidlines.) )
  List of chosen projects with student names AND presentation dates .
• Final marks are available
  Info on Assignments, Midterm, Final, and Marks

• local (UofW) software information
• GAMS Software Information ( FAQ), and Matlab Tutorial from the University of Utah. There is an online library of sample gams programs. I have made many of these, as well as some new ones, (including the one presented in class) available here.
• OTC, Optimization Technology Center;
  and the new Java-based interactive simplex tool. (For other LP codes see the Simplex Place, also Java-based).

You may be interested in:

• If you want to test out how good a sailor you are, try sailing Java demo at Princeton University - if you do well, you could apply to their graduate program in O.R.
• A java-based operations research course, THE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF DECISION-MAKING CIV 105 - Winter 1997 - Princeton University. This includes e.g. online knapsack problem.
• Introduction to Operations Research course at Carnegie Mellon Univ. (Michael Trick). Includes notes on: Integer Programming
• nonacademic careers information at SIAM. (Beginning in November 1996, the Web site will allow graduate students in the mathematical sciences interested in finding out more about nonacademic careers to sign up to participate in a mentoring program that will match them with a mathematician working in the nonacademic sector.)
• OR/MS Courses on the Web , list from INFORMS.

• Personal Software Information
• Linear Programming CO350, includes notes, information on matlab, etc...
• Notes on criss-cross pivoting rules.
• Example of criss-cross pivoting rules.
• Notes on the Network Simplex Method for the Transshipment Problem.
• Newton-Raphson method online lessons at the University of Utah.
• Optimization 1B course at Univ. of Cambridge, page by Richard Weber Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics at the University of Cambridge.
• tools for logistics problem solving
• What is Pareto Analysis? A description of this multicriteria problem at Queen's University.

-- GAMS Software Information

-- OTC, Optimization Technology Center

Alternatively, 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.

Final Exam, Assignments, Midterm, and Solutions

The winter/97 midterm is a 2-hour exam, 7-9PM, Friday, Feb. 28, 1997 in MC 2034
(in case of conflicts the time will be 5-7PM in MC 2034)

The outline for the winter/97 midterm is available.

(you may be interested to look at: outline fall/96 midterm; midterm winter/96; midterm, solutions, comments fall/96.)

final exam scheduling
The final exam is on APR 18, from 2-5 in location PAC GYM AREA 9.
outline winter /97 final exam!

The assignments are included in the course handout;
the latest marks are available here;

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