Operation Research
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Operation Research Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Operation Research (subject code 3151910) as prescribed for Electrical Engineering · Semester 5 divides the course into 3 units, covering 31 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (3151910)Unit 1 Operations Research
- Origin of Operation Research
- Historical Standpoint
- Different Phases
- Scope and Application of Operations Research
- Linear Programming Problem: Introduction
- Requirement of LP, Basic Assumptions
- Formulation of LP, General Statement of LP, Solution techniques of LP: Graphical Methods
- Analytical Methods: Simplex
- Big M and Two Phase
- Special Case of LP Problem
- Graphical Sensitivity Analysis
- Introduction of Primal and Dual Problems
- Economic Interpretation.Introduction of Goal and Integer Programing
- Dynamic Programming: Steps involved in dynamic programming
- characteristics and explanation of dynamic programming
- formulation of Deterministic and probabilistic dynamic programming
Unit 2 Transportation and Assignment
- Transportation Problems definition
- Linear form
- Solution methods: North west corner method
- least cost method
- Vogel’s approximation method
- Degeneracy in transportation
- Modified Distribution method
- Unbalanced problems and profit maximization problems
- Transhipment Problems
- Assignment Problems and Travelling sales man Problem
Unit 3 Queuing Theory
- Basis of Queuing theory
- elements of queuing theory
- Kendall’s Notation
- Operating characteristics of a queuing system
- Classification of Queuing models