MTM4501 – Operations Research (Fall 2024-2025)

Instructor Information

• Instructors: Hale Gonce Köçken (Gr. 2) and Gökhan Göksu (Gr. 4)

• 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: Tuesday, 09:00-12:00

• Classroom: KMB-203

• Office Hours: Monday, 13:00-16:00

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.

Tentative Course Schedule

• Week 1 (01.10.2024): Definition of Operations Research (OR) and Its History, Decision Theory: Decision Making Under Certainty, Decision Making Under Risk, Decision Making Under Uncertainty
  [Slide]

• Week 2 (08.10.2024): Network Analysis: Network Definitions, Minimal Spanning Tree Algorithm
  [Slide]

• Week 3 (15.10.2024): No Class
  [No Class]

• Week 4 (22.10.2024): Shortest Path Algorithms: Dijkstra's Algorithm, Floyd's Algorithm
  [Slide]

• Week 5 (29.10.2024): Republic Day
  [Republic Day]

• Week 6 (05.11.2024): Maximal Flow Algorithm
  [Slide]

• Week 7 (12.11.2024, Joint Session at KMB-202): Review
  [In Class Materials]

• Week 8 (19.11.2024, 09:00-11:00): Midterm I
  Midterm I will take place at KMB-211, KMB-224, KMB-320!

• Week 9 (26.11.2024): CPM: Network Representation, Critical Path Computations, Construction of the Time Schedule, Linear Programming Formulation of CPM, PERT
  [Slide]

• Week 10 (03.12.2024): Crashing the Project
  [Slide]

• Week 11 (10.12.2024): Deterministic Inventory (Stock Control) Models: Economic Order Models (EOQ), Production Models
  [Slide]

• Week 12 (17.12.2024): Midterm II
  [Midterm II]

• Week 13 (24.12.2024): Queuing Systems: Elements of a Queuing Model, Generalized Poisson Queuing Model, Specialized Poisson Queues
  [Slide]

• Week 14 (31.12.2024): Single-Server Models, Multi-Server Models
  [Slide]

• Week 15 (07.01.2025): TBA
  [Slide]

Course Evaluation

• Midterm I: 35 %

• Midterm II: 25 %

• Final: 40 %