Operational Research I

Code:

EIG0022

Acronym:

IO I

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Quantitative Methods

Instance: 2006/2007 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Industrial Management and Engineering Section
Course/CS Responsible:	Master in Engineering and Industrial Management

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
LGEI	0	Plano de estudos de transição para 2006/07	3	6	6	56	160
MIEIG	52	Plano de estudos de transiçao para 2006/07	3	-	6	56	160
		Syllabus since 2006/2007	3	-	6	56	160

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

The main objective of this course is to transmit to the students a global vision of OR, stressing, in particular, its role as a method of approach to decision processes. Besides the methodological aspects, the students are invited to formulate and solve linear programming and project management problems, including the discussion of algorithms and computational behaviour.

Program

OR Methodology: Brief historical note. Ackoff's systemic vision on organizations and decision processes. Classification of decision processes according to Anthony (strategic planning, management control and operational
control). Decision levels and characterization of organizations’ subsystems. The role of the quantitative approach: from the analytical-scientific-quantitative paradigm to the decision support perspective. Phases of the OR method. Structuring the decision process: general difficulties and factors of additional complexity (multicriteria
problems, uncertainty, risk, sequential decisions). Construction of a decision support system (DSS): global design; development and test of the users' interface; database design, development, test and incorporation in
the DSS; modelbase design, development, test and incorporation in the DSS; implementation.
OR Techniques: Linear programming (problem formulation, solving the problem by the simplex method, sensitivity analysis; formulation and solving methods for the transport and assignment problems). Project management (general organizational aspects, techniques for the planning and control of time, cost and other resources - CPM and PERT methods).

Mandatory literature

responsabilidade de vários docentes do GEIN; Notas de apoio e Cópias de acetatos de aulas

Complementary Bibliography

Hillier, Frederick S.; Introduction to management science. ISBN: 0-07-116470-7
João Namorado, Carlos Henggeler Antunes e Maria João Gomes Alves ; Clímaco, (2003)
Antunes, Carlos Henggeler 340; Casos de aplicação da investigação operacional. ISBN: 972-773-075-2
Clímaco; Programação linear multiobjectivo
Winston, Wayne L.; Operations research. ISBN: 0-534-20971-8
Hillier, Frederick S.; Introduction to operations research. ISBN: 0-07-118163-6

Teaching methods and learning activities

In the context of this discipline, we combine classes based on the presentation of methods and techniques by the lecturers (including the discussion of real cases), classes consisting in the presentation and discussion of case studies by the students and problem solving classes (some of them with the help of computers).

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

Description	Type	Time (hours)	Weight (%)	End date
Subject Classes	Participação presencial	56,00
	Total:	-	0,00

Eligibility for exams

The students must attain to, at least, 75% of the classes

Calculation formula of final grade

Case study - 20%
Mini-tests - 80% (40% each)

Examinations or Special Assignments

Not applied.

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

Final exam during the specific periods according to the Faculty calendars.

Classification improvement

The students can repeat one (and only one) of the mini-tests of the discipline.