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of better):
Discipline that applies advanced analytical methods
to take decisions to improve operations of a company.
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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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Date
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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 
