OMA352 Syllabus - Operations Research - 2021 Regulation - Open Elective | Anna University

OMA352 Syllabus - Operations Research - 2021 Regulation - Open Elective | Anna University

OMA352	OPERATIONS RESEARCH	L T P C

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OBJECTIVES: This course will help the students to

• determine the optimum solution for Linear programming problems.
• study the Transportation and assignment models and various techniques to solve them.
• acquire the knowledge of optimality, formulation and computation of integer programming problems.
• acquire the knowledge of optimality, formulation and computation of dynamic programming problems.
• determine the optimum solution for non-linear programming problems.

UNIT I	LINEAR PROGRAMMING	9

Formulation of linear programming models – Graphical solution – Simplex method - Big M Method – Two phase simplex method - Duality - Dual simplex method.

UNIT II	TRANSPORTATION AND ASSIGNMENT PROBLEMS	9

Matrix form of Transportation problems – Loops in T.P – Initial basic feasible solution – Transportation algorithm – Assignment problem – Unbalanced assignment problems .

UNIT III	INTEGER PROGRAMMING	9

Introduction – All and mixed I.P.P – Gomory’s method – Cutting plane algorithm – Branch and bound algorithm – Zero – one programming.

UNIT IV	DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING PROBLEMS	9

Recursive nature of computation – Forward and backward recursion – Resource Allocation model – Cargo – loading model – Work – force size model - Investment model – Solution of L.P.P by dynamic programming .

UNIT V	NON - LINEAR PROGRAMMING PROBLEMS	9

Lagrange multipliers – Equality constraints – Inequality constraints – Kuhn – Tucker Conditions – Quadratic programming.

TOTAL: 45 PERIODS

OUTCOMES: At the end of the course, students will be able to

• Could develop a fundamental understanding of linear programming models, able to develop a linear programming model from problem description, apply the simplex method for solving linear programming problems.
• analyze the concept of developing, formulating, modeling and solving transportation and assignment problems.
• solve the integer programming problems using various methods.
• conceptualize the principle of optimality and sub-optimization, formulation and computational procedure of dynamic programming.
• determine the optimum solution for non linear programming problems.

TEXT BOOKS:

1. Kanti Swarup, P.K.Gupta and Man Mohan, " Operations Research " , Sultan Chand & Sons, New Delhi, Fifth Edition , 1990.
2. Taha. H.A, " Operations Research – An Introduction , Pearson Education, Ninth Edition , New Delhi, 2012.

REFERENCES:

1. J.K.Sharma , " Operations Research - Theory and Applications " Mac Millan India Ltd , Second Edition , New Delhi , 2003.
2. Richard Bronson & Govindasami Naadimuthu , " Operations Research " ( Schaum’s Outlines – TMH Edition) Tata McGraw Hill, Second Edition, New Delhi, 2004.
3. Pradeep Prabhakar Pai , " Operations Research and Practice", Oxford University Press, New Delhi , 2012.
4. J.P.Singh and N.P.Singh , " Operations Research , Ane Books Pvt.L.td, New Delhi , 2014.
5. F.S.Hillier and G.J. Lieberman, " Introduction to Operations Research " , Tata McGraw Hill, Eighth Edition , New Delhi, 2005.