MA3605:03
Operations Research and Modelling
| Townsville | HECS Band 2 |
39 hours lectures, 26 practice classes. Semester 2. This subject may be offered in flexible delivery mode if the class size is small.
Staff: Dr L Bode.
This subject describes mathematical techniques applied to real world problems. Topics will be chosen from: the non-linear oscillator, traffic flow problems, population models, the simplex method, integer programming, network flow problems, general linear programming and transportation problems.
Learning Objectives:
- an understanding of how real world problems involving optimisation and problems from science and engineering can be solved using mathematical techniques;
- to become familiar with and apply commercial software packages to real world problem solving.
Assessment by coursework (tests and assignments) (40%); a three-hour examination (60%).