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The current table reflects in a realistic way the course development during the several sessions. It allows the student to know in advance what is going
to happen in each session in order to prepare the subject and to organize its work adequately.
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Theory
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Additional readings
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Presentations
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Oct 7, 2009
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Comment about syllabus of the subject.
Hand out of the class notes and web page for slides.
LINEAR PROGRAMMING.
Introduction. Geometry. Properties. Graphical simplex method.
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Mathematical Programming Glossary
Linear Programming FAQ (2005)
2009 Linear Programming Software Survey
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Oct 14, 2009
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Standard form. Basic solution. Partition. |
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Task assignment |
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Oct 21, 2009
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Reduced cost. Pivoting. Simplex method. Tabular form. Tabular form.
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General Equilibrium Model
Underground Train Scheduling in Complex topologies
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Oct 28, 2009
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Initial basic feasible solution. Revised simplex. |
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Bin packing
Medium tyerm hydrothermal coordination model
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Nov 4, 2009
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Product form of the inverse. Base matrix factorization. Strategies of computing reduced costs. |
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PV Fields
Antenna deployment
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Nov 11, 2009
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Dual problem. Dual variables. Economic interpretation. |
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Routing problem
Clustering
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Nov 18, 2009
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Primal-dual interior point method.
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Task assignment |
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Nov 25, 2009
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MODELING OF MIXED INTEGER LINEAR PROGRAMMING PROBLEMS..
Piecewise linear. Convex and concave regions. Special ordered sets. Reformulation.
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ROADEF/EURO Challenge 2010: A large-scale energy management problem with varied
constraints |
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General Equilibrium Model
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Dec 2, 2009
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MIXED INTEGER LINEAR PROGRAMMING.
Branch and bound. Duality. |
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Bin packing
Medium tyerm hydrothermal coordination model
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Dec 9, 2009
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PV Fields
Antenna deployment
Underground Train Scheduling in Complex topologies
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Dec 16, 2009
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Preprocessing. Branch and cut.
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Routing problem
Clustering
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Jan 20, 2009
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NONLINEAR OPTIMIZATION.
Unconstrained problem optimality conditions. |
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Nonlinear Programming FAQ (2007)
1998 Nonlinear Programming Software
Survey |
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Task assignment
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Jan 27, 2010
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Unconstrained problem solution methods. |
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Underground train Scheduling in Complex topologies
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Feb 2, 2010
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Constrained problem optimality conditions. |
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Medium tyerm hydrothermal coordination model
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Feb 10, 2010
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Constrained problem solution methods. Conjugate gradient. |
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MINLP
COmputational INfrastructure for Operations Research COIN/OR.
Web based optimization (NEOS Server for Optimization, Web Enabled Optimisation WebOpt).
On-line Guide to Constraint Programming
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Antenna deployment
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Instituto de Investigación Tecnológica 
