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C&O 370 - Deterministic OR Models (FALL 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/f97/370.f97.
BEWARE - under construction!!! The homework is not complete yet. But, most things are done.

DISCLAIMER: Due to the nature of WWW, links and information get out of date. I provide these links in the hope that they help with the course as well as create additional interest. I do try and keep these links as current as possible, i.e. links may be added and/or deleted during the semester. )
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 with the address: co370-feedback@orion.uwaterloo.ca (send anonymous feedback)

Available:

• course handout;
  • course outline;
  • Office Hours;
  • Homework; Case Studies Project and Case Evaluation Scheme (Solutions for Fall/97 are on reserve at the Davis Library, call number XE 1238);
  • Projects:
    
    Project Information; Project List; Project and Case Evaluation Scheme.
    (PLEASE read the following tips: Project Report Guide; Presentation Tips. Also, Giving a Talk, guidlines, and a simple guide to html and a whole lot of info on designing home pages. )
    List of chosen projects with student names and presentation choices, times, and URLs). .
• Info on Assignments, Midterm, Final, and Marks

• Mathtools.net, the portal is free and contains over 20,000 useful links to technical computing programmers, covering MATLAB, Java, Excel, C/C+, Fortran and others.
• 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.
  The GAMS manual is on hourly reserve at the library: call number XE1492.
• OTC, Optimization Technology Center;
  and the new Java-based interactive simplex tool. (For other LP codes see the Simplex Place, also Java-based, or you can use a java applet for small problems, from Bob Vanderbei at Princeton Univ.)

You may be interested in:

• My list of OR sites.
• 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.
• A Mathematical Programming Glossary, by Harvey J. Greenberg

• centerfolds for accountants
• 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.
• 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.
Or you can use a java applet for small problems, from Bob Vanderbei at Princeton Univ.

Final Exam, Assignments, Midterm, and Solutions

The fall/97 midterm is a 2-hour exam
Nov 7, Friday
7-9PM MC4061 and MC4064
(conflicts in MC4064 5-7PM)
("Warning: Dates in Calendar are closer than they appear.")

The outline and the fall/97 midterm are available.
solution for problem 2 using transshipment problem; solution for problem 3 in GAMS; solution for problem 4 in GAMS are available.

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

final exam scheduling gives: DEC. 11, 2-5, PAC GYM AREA 6
outline fall/97 final exam! final exam fall/97, with gams model for problem 1 and dynamic programming solution for problem 1.

The assignments are included in the course handout;

a matlab file with the latest marks is available here;
final course grades.
Also, here are histograms for: midterm exam; final exam; final grade;

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