Operations Research detailed syllabus for Industrial Engineering (Industrial) for 2021 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna University 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.
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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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