157-0300 – Operations Research A (OVA)
| Gurantor department | Department of Systems Engineering and Informatics |
| Subject guarantor | prof. Ing. Jana Hančlová, CSc. |
| Study level | undergraduate or graduate |
Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences
• To describe the operations research as an applied systems discipline
• To define basic systems terms and terms from economic and mathematics modeling
• To classify operations research methods
• To explain the substance and application possibilities of the basic methods
• To apply chosen methods model tools to concrete specific problems
• To solve created models with PC use
• To explicate and analyze obtained results
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Summary
The aim of the subject is to make students familiar with basics of the operations research belonging to systems disciplines and solving complex economic problems. Outputs should be knowledge of selected methods of the operations research, its nature, fundamentals, means of use in real situations. Students should be able to formulate problems and consequently design and solve applicable economic-mathematical models using appropriate software tools.
Compulsory literature:
HILLIER, Frederick S. and Gerald J. LIEBERMAN. Introduction to Operations Research. 9th ed. London: McGraw-Hill, 2009. 1088 pp. ISBN 978-80-077298340.
Recommended literature:
TAHA, A. Operations Research: An Introduction (9th Edition) 832 p. Pearson 2010
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Subject has no co-requisities.