Advanced Optimization Techniques detailed syllabus for Industrial Engineering (Industrial) for 2021 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna Universities official website and presented for the Industrial 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.
For Industrial Engineering 5th Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit Industrial 5th Sem 2021 regulation scheme. For Professional Elective-II scheme and its subjects refer to Industrial Professional Elective-II syllabus scheme. The detailed syllabus of advanced optimization techniques is as follows.
Course Objectives:
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Unit I
INTEGER PROGRAMMING 9
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 9
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 9
The Karush-Kuhn-Tucker (KKT) Conditions for Constrained Optimization – Quadratic Programming – Separable Programming – Convex Programming – Nonconvex Programming
Unit V
NON-TRADITIONAL OPTIMIZATION 9
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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