Introduction to Operations Research, Spring ’10 (101)

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety"   — Benjamin Franklin. (1706-1790)

Homework List

◊ Jump down to 'This Week ✈'

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Week 1

• Monday, Jan 11
  ¤ Choose an Edelman Award winner; write a one-page summary of the project. Use our library's online access to read articles from INFORM's Interfaces.
  
  
• Wednesday, Jan 13
  ¤ Read “Decision-Aiding Models: Validation, Assessment, and Related Issues for Policy Analysis” by Saul Gass
  
  
• Friday, Jan 15
  ◊ Read Chapter 1
  
  

Week 2

• Monday, Jan 18 — No classes today
  ¤ Dr Martin Luther King, Jr., day
  
  
• Wednesday, Jan 20
  ◊ Read Chapter 2
  
  
• Friday, Jan 22
  §3.1; No 3.1-2, 4
  §3.2; No 3.2-1, 2, 6
  
  

Week 3

• Monday, Jan 25
  §3.4; No 3.4-9 (Use Excel's 'Solver,' not the simplex algorithm)
  
  
• Wednesday, Jan 27
  Rebuilding homework list database
  
  
• Friday, Jan 29
  Rebuilding homework list database
  
  

Week 4

• Monday, Feb 1
  Rebuilding homework list database
  
  
• Wednesday, Feb 3
  Rebuilding homework list database
  
  
• Friday, Feb 5
  ☣ Classes cancelled ☹ because of the weather! ☃
  
  

Week 5

• Monday, Feb 8
  §4.6, No 4.6-1, 5ab, 8
  ◊ Stefan Waner's online Simplex Method Tool
  ✈ Go to the colloquium at 3:00 pm in WA 304.
  
  
• Wednesday, Feb 10
  ◊ "Big M" method and "Two Phase" method Maple worksheet
  
  
• Friday, Feb 12
  ◊ Setup and solve the Warehouse Leasing Project (I'd suggest using Maple)
  
  

Week 6

• Monday, Feb 15
  
  
• Wednesday, Feb 17 &mdash "Elm Farm Ollie Day Eve"
  ☣ Classes are cancelled ☹ because of the weather! ☃ Again! This is getting really old!
  ◊ Think about what's happening in this problem (pdf)
  
  
• Friday, Feb 19
  ¤ The Transmission Problem is due next Friday.
  ◊ To have Maple automatically display large matrices, first do: interface(rtablesize=50)
  §5.1, No 5-1.3 and 5-1.9
  
  

Week 7

• Monday, Feb 22
  ◊ Review the theory of the simplex method
  ☝ Our poster proposal for the INFORMS Conference on O.R. Practice
  
  
• Wednesday, Feb 24
  ◊ Review pivoting strategies
  ¤ Read the paper "Pivot rules for linear programming: A survey on recent theoretical developments" by T. Terlaky and S. Zhang in Annals of Operations Research 46 (1993), 203-233.
  
  
• Friday, Feb 26
  ☣ Yet Again!™ Our class is cancelled ☹ because of the weather! ☃ This is getting really, really old!
  ¤ Just email your Transmission Problem solution to me.
  
  

Week 8

• Monday, Mar 1
  ◊ Read DEA Tutorial
  
  
• Wednesday, Mar 3
  ¤ No class today — my road is blocked by accidents and abandoned cars...
  ◊ Read "Comparing Univ Depts" by John Beasley
  
  
• Friday, Mar 5
  ◊ Review the ACA DEA presentation
  ¤ Prepare to do the A&S DEA analysis!
  
  

Week 9 — Spring Break!

• Monday, Mar 8 — Friday, Mar 12
  ◊ No classes.
  
  

Week 9

• Monday, Mar 15
  §9.1,2,4. No 9.2-1, 9.4-1,2
  
  
• Wednesday, Mar 17
  §9.3. No 9.3-1,2
  
  
• Friday, Mar 19
  ¤ Teams collect the data for our A&S DEA analysis!
  
  

Week 10

• Monday, Mar 22
  ¤ Teams collect the data for our A&S DEA analysis!
  
  
• Wednesday, Mar 24
  §9.6. No 9.6-2,3
  
  
• Friday, Mar 26
  ◊ Markov Process and Triominos Pizza
  §16.1,2. No 16.2-1, 2
  
  

✈ This Week.

Week 11

• Monday, Mar 29
  ◊ Markov Process and Nerds-R-Us
  ¤ "ASU classes" problem in Markov Chains handout
  
  
• Wednesday, Mar 31
  ◊ Periodic Markov Chains
  
  
• Friday, Apr 2
  ◊ A&S data assembly day
  
  

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