'Operations Research' is a course offered in the eighth semester of B. Tech. in Mechanical Engineering program at School of Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham.
Unit 1
Linear programming: Formulations - graphical solutions, simplex method, duality, Transportation model, Assignment model-travelling salesman problem.
Unit 2
Decision theory: Decision trees. Game theory - two persons zero sum, mixed strategies; 2 x n and m x 2. Network models - project networks - CPM/PERT, project scheduling, crashing networks and cost considerations, resource levelling and smoothing, shortest route problem, minimal spanning tree problem, maximal flow problem.
Unit 3
Sequencing model - 2 machines n jobs, m machines n jobs-n jobs 2 machines.
Inventory models - deterministic and probabilistic models, Queuing models-poison arrival and exponential service times, single server, multi-server. Simulation: Monte Carlo simulation - simple problems.
- Wagner, H. M. - ‘Principles of Operations Research - Prentice Hall, New Delhi - 1998
- J. K. Sharma. - ‘Operations Research Theory and Applications’ - Macmillan India Ltd, New Delhi - 2013 - 5th Edition
- Taha H. A. - ‘Operations Research: An Introduction’ - Prentice Hall, New Delhi - 2010 - 9th Edition
- Ravindra A., Phillips, D. J. and Solberg, J. J. - ‘Operations Research - Principles and Practice’ - John Wiley & Sons - 2005
- Hadley G. - ‘Linear Programming’ - Narosa Book Distributors Private Ltd. - 2006
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