Cyberinfrastructure - Current Activities Operations Research: take 1 • Research 1. Repositories for implemented algorithms. Informs resource collection: > 100 packages and online programs 1. COIN - OR 2. NEOS Server 3. Specific algorithms e.g. Ye’s semidefinite opt code 2. Repositories for test problems. Informs resource: 25 instance sets & generators. 1. DIMACS combinatorial challenge sets 2. MIPLIB, LP test sets 3. Problem specific sets e.g. TSP,QAP,VRPTW. 3. Simulation tools: relatively few, often commercial-linked 4. Stat tools: several libraries and web-available routines Cyberinfrastructure - Current Activities Operations Research: take 1 • Education 1 ...

 

• Textbook: Introduction to Operations Research, F. Hillier & G. Lieberman, 10th edition • Grade: 25% exercises + 25% mid-term exam + 50% final exam ( ) • Email: xli_whu@163.com • Course website: http://xiaoxili.weebly.com/teaching • TA: • Office: xxxx • Office hour: to be specified 2 • Course materials: Textbook + PPT/Board + Lecture notes + Case papers • Course goals: 1. analyze the real-application problem and design for it a OR model; 2. able to solve some small-scale OR problems by hand (algorithm); 3. know how to use some software (ex. Excel) to solve some ...