'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.