Decision Methods

Code:

EA0026

Acronym:

MD

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Basic Sciences
OFICIAL	Interp/Personal professional attitudes and capac.

Instance: 2007/2008 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Web Page:	http://www.fe.up.pt/~mac/ensino/MD20072008.html
Responsible unit:	Fundamental Sciences and Electrotechnics
Course/CS Responsible:	Master in Environmental Engineering

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
MIEA	35	Syllabus since 2006/07	3	-	6	56	162

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

Endow the students with competences to:
- identify and approach decision problems in a structured way;
- build models for decision problems;
- use quantitative methods to obtain solutions for models;
- use spreadsheets for the models analysis and solution generation;
- begin to use the information extracted from the models to induce and motivate organizational changes.

Program

Introduction to Operational Research (OR)
Decision Analysis
Modeling
Linear Programming (LP)
LP – Simplex algorithm
Integer Programming
Networks and Graphs:
- Transportation problems
- Assignment problems
- Maximum flow and Shortest path
Multicriteria Decision
Queuing systems
Statistical and Discrete Simulation

Mandatory literature

Hillier, Frederick S.; Introduction to operations research. ISBN: 0-07-118163-6

Complementary Bibliography

Antunes, Carlos Henggeler 340; Casos de aplicação da investigação operacional. ISBN: 972-773-075-2
Clemen, Robert T.; Making hard decisions. ISBN: 0-534-92336-4
Tavares, Luís Valadares 070; Investigação operacional. ISBN: 972-8298-08-0

Software

Solver do Microsoft Excel

keywords

Physical sciences > Mathematics > Applied mathematics > Operations research

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Description	Type	Time (hours)	Weight (%)	End date
Subject Classes	Participação presencial	56,00
Homework	Teste	20,00		2007-12-21
Final exam	Exame	20,00
	Total:	-	0,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Description	Type	Time (hours)	End date
Self study	Estudo autónomo	66
	Total:	66,00