OPERATIONS RESEARCH
UNIT - I
Operations Research – Meaning, Significance and Scope.
Introduction to Linear Programming, Formation, Graphic Method, Simplex Method, Two Phase Simplex Method, Duality,
Conversion of a Primal into its Dual. Dual Simplex- Sensitivity Analysis.
UNIT - II
Assignment Problems – Introduction, Hungarian Method, Variations of the Assignment Problem, Travelling Salesmen
Problem.
Transportation Problems – Methods for finding Initial Solution: NWCM, LCM, VAM, Test for Optimality, Variations in
Transportation Problem, Maximisation Transportation Problems, Transshipment Problem, Dynamic Programming.
Replacement Models.
UNIT - III
Game Theory – Introduction, Two-Person Zero-Sum Games, Pure Strategies, Mixed Strategies
PERT and CPM – Concept, Difference Between PERT and CPM, Phases of Project Management, Critical Path
Analysis, Project Scheduling, Project Crashing.
UNIT - IV
Inventory Control – Meaning of Inventory Control, Types, Reasons for Carrying Inventory, Economic Lot Size, Quantity
Discounts, Deterministic Models .
Sequencing – Introduction, Terminology And assumptions, Processing ‘n’ Jobs Through Two Machines, Three
Machines and ‘m’ Machines.
Queuing Theoretic Models: Basic components of a waiting line process; Basic Structure of Waiting Line Processes;
Queuing theory assumptions; Single Channel- Single Phase Models.
Text Books:
1. Kapoor, V.K, Operations Research.
2. Vohra, N D, Quantitative Techniques in Management.
Reference Books:
1. Sharma, J K, Operations Research, Macmillan, New Delhi.
2. Jain and Rupinder, Operations Research.
UNIT - I
Operations Research – Meaning, Significance and Scope.
Introduction to Linear Programming, Formation, Graphic Method, Simplex Method, Two Phase Simplex Method, Duality,
Conversion of a Primal into its Dual. Dual Simplex- Sensitivity Analysis.
UNIT - II
Assignment Problems – Introduction, Hungarian Method, Variations of the Assignment Problem, Travelling Salesmen
Problem.
Transportation Problems – Methods for finding Initial Solution: NWCM, LCM, VAM, Test for Optimality, Variations in
Transportation Problem, Maximisation Transportation Problems, Transshipment Problem, Dynamic Programming.
Replacement Models.
UNIT - III
Game Theory – Introduction, Two-Person Zero-Sum Games, Pure Strategies, Mixed Strategies
PERT and CPM – Concept, Difference Between PERT and CPM, Phases of Project Management, Critical Path
Analysis, Project Scheduling, Project Crashing.
UNIT - IV
Inventory Control – Meaning of Inventory Control, Types, Reasons for Carrying Inventory, Economic Lot Size, Quantity
Discounts, Deterministic Models .
Sequencing – Introduction, Terminology And assumptions, Processing ‘n’ Jobs Through Two Machines, Three
Machines and ‘m’ Machines.
Queuing Theoretic Models: Basic components of a waiting line process; Basic Structure of Waiting Line Processes;
Queuing theory assumptions; Single Channel- Single Phase Models.
Text Books:
1. Kapoor, V.K, Operations Research.
2. Vohra, N D, Quantitative Techniques in Management.
Reference Books:
1. Sharma, J K, Operations Research, Macmillan, New Delhi.
2. Jain and Rupinder, Operations Research.
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