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MA3605:03

Operations Research and Modelling

Townsville

HECS Band 2

26 hours lectures, 13 hours practice classes. Semester 2. (Additional lectures may be offered.) 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%); examination (60%).