Postgraduate Course: Dynamic and Integer Programming (MATH11089)
Course Outline
| School | School of Mathematics |
College | College of Science and Engineering |
| Course type | Standard |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Credits | 10 |
| Home subject area | Mathematics |
Other subject area | None |
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Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | Dynamic Programming: Sequential decision processes. Principle of optimality. Applications: network, inventory, option pricing, resource allocation problem, knapsack problems. Stochastic problems. Lagrangian relaxation: The Lagrangian Dual, finding approximate solutions and bounds.
Integer programming: modelling, relaxations, unimodularity, Branch and Bound, Gomory cuts, knapsack problems. |
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | None |
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
| Ability to formulate and solve a sequential decision optimization problem. Ability to formulate and solve optimization problems with integer variables. |
Assessment Information
| Continuous assessment 25%; Examination 75%. |
Special Arrangements
| None |
Additional Information
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| Keywords | DIP |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Julian Hall
Tel: (0131 6)50 5075
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Course secretary | Mrs Frances Reid
Tel: (0131 6)50 4883
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