ENGSCI 255

Modelling in Operations Research

Summary


Semester

Semester 2, 2020

Staff

Extra teaching assistants

Charlie Timings
Please contact Charlie at stats255@auckland.ac.nz for enquiries with regards to the marking of coursework assessments.

Teaching schedule

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Contents


Calendar notes

Emphasises the relationship between business and industrial applications and their associated operations research models. Software packages will be used to solve practical problems. Topics such as: linear programming, transportation and assignment models, network algorithms, queues, inventory models, simulation, analytics and visualisation will be considered.
Prerequisite: 15 points at Stage I in Statistics or Mathematics or EngineeringRestriction: STATS 255

Outcome mapping


Intended learning outcomes
Related graduate attributes
Related assessments

Linear Programming: Be able to formulate linear programs mathematically and in Excel from a problem description, and interpret the resulting output. Comprehend and interpret sensitivity analysis output. Understand and apply integer, non-linear, transportation, transshipment and maximum flow formulations.

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Assignment 1
Assignment 2
Test
Exam

Decision Making and Data Analytics: Decision analysis, accounting for uncertainty. Data analytics techniques in R including data visualisation and data wrangling. Descriptive and predictive analytics, including the classification of data using classification trees, random forests and naive Bayes.

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Assignment 3
Test
Assignment 4
Exam

Simulation: Understand and apply simulation of random processes in R. Comprehension and understanding of random number generation and distributions; the Poisson process; revenue management and inventory management models; queues. Optimisation in simulation; common random numbers.

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Assignment 5
Exam

Assessment


Coursework

5 assignments, 1 test, 1 exam

Exam rules

Final mark is the better of:
50% Exam + 20% Test + 30% Assignments OR
60% Exam + 10% Test + 30% Assignments

You must attain at least 50% overall, and at least 45% in the final exam to pass.

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The exam is 3 hours long, closed book, unrestricted calculators.

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