Offered By: IBM
Mathematical Optimization for Business Problems
This training provides the necessary fundamentals of mathematical programming and useful tips for good modelling practice in order to construct simple optimization models.
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At a Glance
This training provides the necessary fundamentals of mathematical programming and useful tips for good modelling practice in order to construct simple optimization models.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
In this training, you will explore several aspects of mathematical programing to start learning more about constructing optimization models using IBM Decision Optimization technology, including:
- Basic terminology: operations research, mathematical optimization, and mathematical programming
- Basic elements of optimization models: data, decision variables, objective functions, and constraints
- Different types of solution: feasible, optimal, infeasible, and unbounded
- Mathematical programming techniques for optimization: Linear Programming, Integer Programming, Mixed Integer Programming, and Quadratic Programming
- Algorithms used for solving continuous linear programming problems: simplex, dual simplex, and barrier
- Important mathematical programming concepts: sparsity, uncertainty, periodicity, network structure, convexity, piecewise linear and nonlinear
These concepts are illustrated by concrete examples, including a production problem and different network models.
Syllabus
Module 1 - The Big Picture
- What is Operations Research?
- What is Optimization?
- Optimization Models
Module 2 - Linear Programming
- Introduction to Linear Programming
- A Production Problem : Part 1 - Writing the model
- A Production Problem : Part 2 - Finding a solution
- A Production Problem : Part 3 - From feasibility to unboundedness
- Algorithms for Solving Linear Programs : Part 1 - The Simplex and Dual Simplex Algorithm
- Algorithms for Solving Linear Programs : Part 2 - The Simplex and Barrier methods
Module 3 - Network Models
- Introduction to Network Models
- The Transportation Problem
- The Transshipment Problem
- The Assignment Problem
- The Shortest Path Problem
- Critical Path Analysis
Module 4 - Beyond Simple LP
- Nonlinearity and Convexity
- Piecewise Linear Programming
- Integer Programming
- The Branch and Bound Method
- Quadratic Programming
Module 5 - Modelling Practice
- Modelling in the Real World
- The Importance of Sparsity
- Tips for Better Models
General Information
- This course is self-paced.
- It can be taken at any time.
RECOMMENDED SKILLS PRIOR TO TAKING THIS COURSE
- Basic understanding of Cloud Computing (the concept). It is also helpful if you know Javascript, but not required