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Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code	Course Unit Title	Type Of Course	D	U	L	ECTS
IND 5024	CONSTRAINT PROGRAMMING	ELECTIVE	3	0	0	8

Offered By

Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR ŞEYDA AYŞE YILDIZ

Offered to

INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING - NON THESIS
INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING
INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING
INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING - NON THESIS (EVENING PROGRAM)

Course Objective

The course aims to provide an introduction to combinatorial optimization and to give an understanding of constraint programming solution technique to solve combinatorial problems.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1	To get the students acquainted with combinatorial optimization problems in practice
2	To develop the students' mathematical modeling abilities in defining combinatorial optimization problems
3	To get the students acquainted with basic methodologies underlying the constraint programming technique
4	To make the students use a constraint programming tool

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week	Subject	Description
1	Introduction to combinatorial optimization, complexity of combinatorial optimization problems (COPs)
2	Applications of combinatorial optimization
3	Overview of solution techniques for COPs
4	Introduction to constraint constraint programming, constraint satisfaction problems in operations research
5	Introduction to constraint programming algorithms
6	Constraint propagation and domain reduction
7	Combining backtracking seearch and constraint propagation
8	Search and strategies for constraint programming, variable and value ordering, optimization algorithms
9	Midterm
10	Comparison of constraint programming to mixed integer programming and hybrid strategies
11	Overview of IBM ILOG Optimization Suite
12	Problem solving using IBM ILOG Optimization Suite
13	Project Presentations
14	Project Presentations

Recomended or Required Reading

Selected material from literature on constraint programming
IBM ILOG OPL Language User's Manual, 2009

References:
K. Marriott, P.J. Stuckey. Programming with Constraints. MIT Press, 1998
Michela Milano (ed.) Constraint and Integer Programming Towards a Unified Approach. Kluwer academic Publishers, 2004

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

The course is taught in a lecture, class presentation and discussion format. Besides the taught lecture, student presentations are organized and they are presented at the scheduled lectures for all the students.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER	SHORT CODE	LONG CODE	FORMULA
1	MTE	MIDTERM EXAM
2	ASG	ASSIGNMENT
3	RPT	REPORT
4	FIN	FINAL EXAM
5	FCG	FINAL COURSE GRADE	MTE * 0.30 +ASG +RPT/2 * 0.30 +FIN * 0.40
6	RST	RESIT
7	FCGR	FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT)	MTE * 0.30 +ASG +RPT/2 * 0.30 +RST * 0.40

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

English

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Assoc.Prof.Dr. Şeyda Topaloğlu
e-mail: seyda.topaloglu@deu.edu.tr
Tel : 301 7611

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities	Number	Time (hours)	Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures	12	3	36
Preparations before/after weekly lectures	12	1	12
Preparation for midterm exam	1	30	30
Preparation for final exam	1	40	40
Preparation for term paper	1	30	30
Preparation for homeworks	3	15	45
Midterm	1	2	2
Final	1	2	2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)			197

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LO	PO.1	PO.2	PO.3	PO.4	PO.5	PO.6	PO.7	PO.8	PO.9	PO.10
LO.1	3		3		4				3	3
LO.2	4	4	3		3		4	4		4
LO.3		4		4		4		3
LO.4	3	3		3	3		3	3	3	3

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Description of Individual Course Units

Offered By

Level of Course Unit

Course Coordinator

Offered to

Course Objective

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

Mode of Delivery

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

Recomended Optional Programme Components

Course Contents

Recomended or Required Reading

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Assessment Methods

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

Assessment Criteria

Language of Instruction

Course Policies and Rules

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Office Hours

Work Placement(s)

Workload Calculation

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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