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Optimization Methods in Management Science

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Assignments

Problem Set 1 – Group 1
Problem Set 1 – Group 2
Problem Set 1 solutions – Group 1
Problem Set 1 solutions – Group 2
Problem Set 2 – Group 1
Problem Set 2 – Group 2
Problem Set 2 solutions – Group 1
Problem Set 2 solutions – Group 2
Problem Set 3
Problem Set 4

Lecture Notes

Behavioral economics
Decision trees 1
Decision trees 2: the value of information
Discussion of projects; slack variables vs. artificial variables
Formulations of linear and non-linear programs
Game theory 1: 2-person 0-sum, or constant sum
Game theory 2
Geometry and visualizations of linear programs
Integer programming formulations
Integer programming formulations, again

Tutorials

Tutorial 1: Introduction to LP formulations
Tutorial 10: Branch and bound
Tutorial 11: Gomory cuts and a little more
Tutorial 2: Algebraic formulations
Tutorial 3: Microsoft® Excel Solver techniques
Tutorial 4: LP transformation techniques
Tutorial 5: Sensitivity analysis in 2 dimensions
Tutorial 6: Converting a linear program to standard form
Tutorial 7: Degeneracy in linear programming
Tutorial 8: 2-person 0-sum games

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