UCL - Operations research

[INMA2491]

[30h + 22.5h] 5 credits

This course is taught in the 2d semester.

Teacher(s):

Language: French

Level: Second

Aims
Main themes
Content and teaching methods
Other information (prerequisite, evaluation (assessment methods), course materials recommended readings, ...)

Aims

To be able to use operations research tools allowing to model and to solve organizational and industrial management problems.

Main themes

Operations research proposes conceptual models in order to analyze complex situations and to allow decision-makers to take the most efficient choices.
These models, deterministic or random, allow a quantitative analysis of organizational and industrial management problems occurring in a wide variety of situations.

Content and teaching methods

The course will tackle the following issues :

- Deterministic and stochastic dynamic programming
- Optimal resources allocation, optimal location
- Planning and scheduling
- Production and stockpile control, supply chains management, logistics
- Reliability, dependability and equipment renewal
- Portfolio management models, risk criteria
- Introduction to game theory
- Simulation techniques

It will take particular care of their articulation with the degree courses in applied mathematics and more specifically with the following courses : optimization (INMA1702 and INMA2471), graph theory (INMA1691) and discrete stochastic models (INMA2470).

Other information (prerequisite, evaluation (assessment methods), course materials recommended readings, ...)

Prerequisite : notions of optimization, especially linear, and of probabilities.