Teaching Methodologies
The following teaching methodologies are used in this curricular unit:
1. Verbal methods (say), making use of the educational resources: Demo, Explanation, Dialogue, and Questioning.
2. Intuitive methods (show), making use of the educational resources: Demo, Audiovisual, and written texts.
Learning Results
The goals of this course are:
1. Acquire skills to apply various techniques in order to get results that enable the support of decision making.
2. Give appropriate training for future studies/specialized work in the field of Operational Research.
3. Develop the capacity for abstraction, intuition, critical thinking and interdisciplinary/integrated reasoning ability.
Program
0. Introduction
Decision making and Operational Rearch
Formulation of problems and mathematical models construction
1. Linear Programming
Description of Linear Programming problems
Formulation of Linear Programming problems
Resolution of Linear Programming problems by graphical method
Resolution of Linear Programming problems using Simplex method
2. Introduction to the Queueing Theory
Introduction
Structure and concepts of queueing systems
Modeling queues
Characterization of distributions of arrival and service: negative exponential distribution and Poisson distribution
Birth and Death Processes
Fundamental Relations
Classification of queues
Models based on the process of birth and death
3. Project Management
Introduction
Construction of the project network
Methods of project planning
Grading Methods
- - Exame escrito - 100.0%
- - Prova escrita individual - 70.0%
- - Trabalho de grupo - 30.0%
Internship(s)
NAO
Bibliography
Ferreira, Manuel Alberto M.; Amaral, Isabel; “Programação Matemática”; 2ª Ed.; Edições Sílabo, 1995
Taha, Hamdy A.; “Operations Research, An Introduction”; 5th Ed.; Prentice Hall International Editions, 1995
Hill, Manuela Magalhães; Santos, Mariana Marques; “Investigação Operacional – Vol. 2 – Exercícios de Programação Linear”; Edições Sílabo, 2009
Bronson, R.; Naadimuthu, G.; “Investigação Operacional”; 2ª Ed.; McGraw-Hill, 2001
Tavares, L. Valadares et al.; “Investigação Operacional”; McGraw Hill, 1996
Costa, Ruy Araújo; “Investigação Operacional”; Universidade Aberta, 2002
Costa, Ruy Araújo; “Elementos de Investigação Operacional”; Universidade Aberta, 2002
Hillier, F. S.; Lieberman, J. J.; “Introduction to Operational Research”; 7th Ed.; McGraw-Hill, 2001