Operations Research detailed syllabus for Industrial Engineering & Management (IEM) for 2021 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna University 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
LINEAR PROGRAMMING 9 Introduction to Operations Research – assumptions of linear programming problems -Formulations of linear programming problem – Graphical method. Solutions to LPP using simplex algorithm – Two phase method – Big M method
Unit II
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Unit III
NETWORK ANALYSIS 9 Transportation problems: Northwest corner rule, least cost method, Vogels approximation method- stepping stone method – MODI method – Unbalanced transportation – Assignment problem – Hungarian algorithm -Project Management CPM & PERT. Minimum spanning tree problem: Prims algorithm, Kruskals algorithm -Shortest path problem: Dijkstras algorithms, Floyds algorithm – maximal flow problem: Maximal-flow minimum cut theorem – Maximal flow algorithm
Unit IV
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Unit V
QUEUING THEORY 9 Queuing theory terminology – Single server, multi server- limited and unlimited queue capacity- limited and unlimited population -limited and infinite queue length.
Course Outcomes:
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Text Books:
- Panneerselvam R, Operations Research, PHI, 2009.
- Srinivasan G., Operations Research Principles and Applications, PHI, 2017.
Reference Books:
- Hamdy A Taha, Operations Research – An Introduction, Pearson, 2017.
- Philips, Ravindran and Solberg, Operations Research principle and practise, John Wiley, 2007.
- Ronald L Rardin, Optimisation in Operations Research, Pearson, 2018.
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