MTM4501 – Operations Research (Fall 2023-2024)

Instructor Information

• Instructors: Hale Gonce Köçken (Gr. 1) and Gökhan Göksu (Gr. 2)

• E-mail (HGK): hgonce [at] yildiz [dot] edu [dot] tr

• E-mail (GG): gokhan [dot] goksu [at] yildiz [dot] edu [dot] tr

• Course Web Site: gokhangoksu.github.io/MTM4501

General Information

• Schedule: Thursday, 09:00-12:00

• Classroom: KMB-213

• Office Hours: Friday, 14:00-17:00 (and/or by appointment)

Expectations and Goals

• To discuss the quantitative models developed to obtain the best results in the decisions to be made, to show the application areas encountered in real life and to teach solution methods.

Course Materials

• Textbook:

  • H. A. Taha (2008). Operations Research: An Introduction, 8/e, Pearson Education.

• Optional Materials (in Turkish):

  • H. A. Taha (2000), Çeviren ve Uyarlayanlar: Ş. A. Baray, Ş. Esnaf, Yöneylem Araştırması, 6. Basımdan Çeviri, Literatür Yayınevi.

Course Schedule

• Week 1 (05.10.2023): Definition of Operations Research (OR), History of OR, Phases of an OR Study
  [Slide]

• Week 2 (12.10.2023): Decision Theory: Decision Making Under Certainty, Decision Making Under Risk, Decision Making Under Uncertainty
  [Slide]

• Week 3 (19.10.2023): Network Analysis: Network Definitions, Minimal Spanning Tree Algorithm
  [Slide]

• Week 4 (26.10.2023): Shortest Path Algorithms: Dijkstra's Algorithm
  [Slide]

• Week 5 (02.11.2023): Shortest Path Algorithms: Floyd's Algorithm (Slides of the Last Week), Maximal Flow Algorithm
  [Slide]

• Week 6 (09.11.2023): Maximal Flow Algorithm (Continued)
  [Slide]

• Week 7 (16.11.2023): CPM: Network Representation, Critical Path Computations, Construction of the Time Schedule
  [Slide]

• Week 8 (23.11.2023): Midterm Exam
  Results are announced in obs.yildiz.edu.tr!

• Week 9 (30.11.2023): Linear Programming Formulation of CPM, PERT
  [Slide]

• Week 10 (07.12.2023): Crashing the Project
  [Slides of Last Week & In Class Notes]

• Week 11 (14.12.2023): Deterministic Inventory (Stock Control) Models: Economic Order Models (EOQ), Production Models
  [Slide]

• Week 12 (21.12.2023): Quiz
  Results are announced in obs.yildiz.edu.tr!

• Week 13 (28.12.2023): Queuing Systems: Elements of a Queuing Model, Generalized Poisson Queuing Model, Specialized Poisson Queues
  [Slide]

• Week 14 (04.01.2024): Single-Server Models, Multi-Server Models
  [Slide]

Course Evaluation

• Midterm: 35 %

• Quiz: 25 %

• Final: 40 %