Operation research in Construction Management
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The official GTU curriculum for Operation research in Construction Management (subject code 3721414) as prescribed for C(EA · Semester 2 divides the course into 5 units, covering 22 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 (3721414)Unit 1 Introduction
- Introduction to Operation Research history
- scope and phases of Operation Research
- Classification of Operation Research models
Unit 2 Decision Theory
- Decision strategies - decision under certainty - decision under risk - decision under uncertainty - formulation - decision criterion and decision under competitive situation
Unit 3 Game Theory
- Classification of games
- Two - person
- zero - sum games - formulation of pay off matrix - saddle points -games with pure strategies and mixed strategies - value of the game
- Solution to 2 x 2 matrix
- m x 2 matrix and m x n pay-off matrix
- Graphical method
- algebraic method
- linear programming methods
- Guidelines to modeling an OR project
Unit 4 Linear Programming
- General and standard forms of LPP, Formulation and solution methods - graphical solution - simplex method – dual simplex method
- Transport and assignment models
- Post - optimality analysis
- Complications in LP problems and resolution
- Queuing theory and waiting time - application to industries
- Introduction to dynamic programming and network analysis
- Monte - Carlo system simulations
Unit 5 Case Studies
- Developing mathematical models related to construction projects
- Solution to problems using QSB computer package
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