COURSE UNIT TITLE

: OPERATIONS RESEARCH

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
BIL 3109 OPERATIONS RESEARCH ELECTIVE 3 0 0 5

Offered By

Computer Science

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASISTANT PROFESSOR UĞUR ELIIYI

Offered to

Computer Science

Course Objective

Throughout this course, students are expected to know and understand common and important optimization problems. Students will develop problem modeling and solving skills and making appropriate decisions from the point of view of optimization.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Be able to understand the characteristics of different types of decision-making environments.
2   Be able to identify the appropriate decision making approaches and tools.
3   Be able to formulate a valid operations research model.
4   Be able to solve the model using computer software, and interpret the results of the model.
5   Be able to make recommendations to improve system operations based on an operations research analysis.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 History of Operations Research, Introduction to optimization problems
2 Transportation Problem, Transportation & Transshipment Models
3 Transportation Algorithm, Assignment Problem
4 Hungarian Method, Network Models, Minimum Spanning Tree
5 Shortest Path problem
6 Maximum Flow problem
7 Minimum Cost Network Flow problems, Network simplex algorithm
8 Midterm exam
9 CPM and PERT
10 Introduction to Integer Programming models
11 Knapsack Problem
12 Packing problems and algorithms
13 Vehicle Routing problems, Travelling Salesman Problem
14 Decision Analysis

Recomended or Required Reading

Textbook(s): Winston, W.L., Operations Research: Applications and Algorithms, 4th edition, Cengage Learning, 2003.
Taha, H., Yöneylem Araştırması; 6. Basımdan Çeviri, Literatür Yayıncılık, Istanbul, 2000.
Supplementary Book(s): Hillier, F.S., Lieberman, G.J., Introduction to Operations Research, 9th edition, McGraw Hill, 2009.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

The course is taught in a lecture, class presentation and discussion format. Besides the taught lecture, group presentations are to be prepared by the groups assigned and presented in a discussion session. In some weeks of the course, results of the homework given previously are discussed.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 ASG ASSIGNMENT
2 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE ASG * 0.45 + MTE * 0.25 + FIN * 0.30
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) ASG * 0.45 + MTE * 0.25 + RST * 0.30


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

ugur.eliiyi@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Will be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 3 39
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 12 2 24
Preparation for midterm exam 1 15 15
Preparation for final exam 1 20 20
Preparation for quiz etc. 3 5 15
Preparing assignments 2 5 10
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 127

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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