Advanced Optimization Techniques detailed syllabus for Industrial Engineering & Management (IEM) for 2021 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna Universities official website and presented for the IEM students. For course code, course name, number of credits for a course and other scheme related information, do visit full semester subjects post given below.
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Course Objectives:
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Unit I
INTEGER PROGRAMMING
Branch and Bound technique -cutting plane algorithm method – Travelling Salesman problem – Traveling Salesman Problem – Branch and Bound Algorithms for TSP – Heuristics for TSP – Chinese Postman Problem – Vehicle Routing Problem
Unit II
DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING
Characteristics of Dynamic Programming Problems – Deterministic Dynamic Programming -Forward and Backward recursive recursion – selected dynamic programming application -investment model – inventory model – replacement model -reliability model – stage coach problem.
Unit III
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Unit IV
NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING – II
The Karush-Kuhn-Tucker (KKT) Conditions for Constrained Optimization – Quadratic Programming
– Separable Programming – Convex Programming – Nonconvex Programming
Unit V
NON-TRADITIONAL OPTIMIZATION
Overview of Genetic algorithms, Simulated Annealing, neural network based optimization.
Particle Swarm optimization, Ant Colony Optimization, Optimization of Fuzzy Systems.
Course Outcomes:
- Know how to solve integer programming problems
- Able to solve Dynamic programming problems
- Familiar in solving unconstrained non-linear optimization problems
- Familiar in solving constrained liner optimization problems
- Know how to solve non-linear optimization problems using Meta heuristic algorithms
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