Information Management and Information System

Operations Research for Management

Release Date: 2017-09-22

1. Basic Course Information

Course Code: 110124
Course Name: Operations Research for Management
Course Type: Specialty course
Periods: 54
Credits: 3
Target Students: Undergraduates Majoring in Information
Assessment: Examination
Preparatory Courses:

2. Course Introduction

As an important component of management sciences and modern management methods, operations research for management being a new and developing course in recent decades, makes researches on optimizing approaches and schedules of all kinds of systems by applying mathematical methods, so as to supply quantitative accordance for decision-makers choosing optimum decision. The course introduces fundamental concepts, principles and methods of linear programming, transportation problem, integer programming, goal programming, and graph theory and its applications, queuing theory and decision analysis. On the basis of emphasizing on establishing mathematical model according to realistic examples, some practical mathematical models and methods in economics and management fields are discussed. Thus, the ability for students of establishing models, solving models, analyzing model solutions and making economic evaluation are cultivated based on practical problems.