Operation Research
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The official GTU curriculum for Operation Research (subject code BE04000201) as prescribed for Mechanical Engineering · Semester 4 divides the course into 2 units, covering 52 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 (BE04000201)Unit 1 Operations Research and Linear Programming
- 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
- Sensitivity Analysis
- Primal and Dual Problems
- Economic Interpretation
Unit 2 Transportation and Assignment
- Transportation Problems definition
- Linear form
- Solution methods Northwest corner method
- least cost method
- Vogel’s approximation method
- Degeneracy in transportation
- Modified Distribution method
- Unbalanced and profit maximization problems
- Transshipment Problems
- Assignment Problems and Travelling salesman Problem. 08 15 4
- Queuing Theory: Basis of Queuing theory
- elements of queuing theory
- Kendall’s Notation
- Operating characteristics of a queuing system
- Classification of Queuing models
- Preliminary examples of M/M/1:∞/FCFA 04 10 5
- Inventory Control: Inventory classification
- Different cost associated to Inventory
- Economic order quantity
- Inventory models with deterministic demands
- ABC analysis and VED analysis. 04 10 6
- Replacement theory: Introduction
- Replacement of capital equipment which depreciated with time
- replacement by alternative equipment
- Group and individual replacement policy. 04 10 7 Game Theory: Introduction
- Characteristics of Game Theory
- Two Person
- Zero sum games
- Pure strategy
- Dominance theory
- Mixed strategies (2x2
- Algebraic and graphical methods. 04 10 8 Decision Theory: Introduction
- Decision under certainty
- Decision under risk
- Decision under uncertainty: Laplace criterion
- MaxiMin criterion
- MiniMax criterion
- savage MiniMax regret criterion
- hurwicz criterion
- Decision tree. 04 10 9 Project Management: PERT and CPM Network theory
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