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C&O 370 - Deterministic OR Models
(fall semester 1998)

( Information related to the teaching activities of Professor Henry Wolkowicz; The material is related to the course taught in the FALL SEMESTER 1998. Please note that all files are accessible by anonymous ftp to orion.uwaterloo.ca:pub/henry/teaching/f98/370.f98.
BEWARE - under construction!!!
DISCLAIMER: Due to the nature of WWW, links and information get out of date.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: this file (readme.html) and the course virtual handout (handout.html).

• course handout;
  • course outline;
  • Office Hours;
  • Homework; Case Studies Project and Case Evaluation Scheme (Solutions for Fall/98 are on reserve at the Davis Library, call number UWU1539);
  • 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. )
    List of chosen projects with student names and presentation choices, times. .
• Info on Assignments, Midterm, Final, and Marks

You may be interested in:

• local (UofW) help on computer accounts
• local (UofW) software information
• ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY ON LINEAR PROGRAMMING MODELS Frederic H. Murphy Temple University Philadelphia PA, in ITORMS, Interactive Transactions of ORMS at INFORMS.
• Mathematical Modeling web page by Anne Morlet; with lots of info on books and courses round the world.
• 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; jobs in Operations Research; Occupational Outlook Handbook.
• 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 POL, PRACTICE Online: The Electronic Supplement to INTERFACES
• A Mathematical Programming Glossary, by Harvey J. Greenberg

• Personal Software Information
• Linear Programming CO350, includes notes, information on matlab, e.g. a matlab tutorial etc...
• 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.

-- 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/98 midterm is a 2-hour exam, 7-9PM, Friday, Nov 6, 1998, in MC4041
(in case of conflicts the time will be 5-7PM in MC4064)
("Warning: Dates in Calendar are closer than they appear.")
outline fall /98 midterm exam! fall /98 midterm exam. fall /98 midterm markers' comments.

The fall/97 midterm is 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: midterm winter/96; midterm, solutions, comments fall/96.)

outline fall/98 final exam!
final exam scheduling gives: DEC 17 9-12 PAC GYM AREA 7

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

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