Linear Optimization  640:354:02


Time:  M,Th 8:10-9:30am
Place: RAB 204, Douglass campus
Office Hours: by appointment   
Office: 
143, RUTCOR Building , Busch Campus
Phone: (732) 445-0685
E-mail:
 boliac@rutcor.rutgers.edu 
Web-page: http://rutcor.rutgers.edu/~boliac

Text:“Elementary Linear Programming with Applications”
          Bernard Kolman and Robert E. Beck


General Information

Course Outline


Final Exam: Wednesday, May 12, 8:00-11:00pm, RAB 204

 

Office Hours

This week: T,W,Th,F, 2:00-4:00pm

Next week: M,T, 2:00-5:00pm

 

Review Problems for the Final Exam

 

Solutions to Review Problems Part1

Solutions to Review Problems Part2

 

Solutions to HW#7 

 

Material covered in class and homework assigned

Monday, May 03

                 Review

 

Thursday, April 29

                The Maximal Flow Problem (section 5.4, cont.)

                The Shortest Path Problem (section 5.5)

                Dijkstra’s Algorithm and Example

                Homework Assignment (due on or before Wednesday, May 12)

                      problem 6 (5.4) [find the maximal  flow and the minimal capacity cut]

                      problem 4 (5.5) [find the shortest paths between node 1 and any other node in the graph]

 

Monday, April 26

                The Maximal Flow Problem (section 5.4)

 

Thursday, April 22

                The assignment problem (section 5.2, cont.)

                Graphs and Networks: definitions (section 5.3)

 

Monday, April 19

                The Assignment Problem (section 5.2)

                Homework Assignment (Due Thursday, April 29)

 

Thursday, April 15

               Second Midterm Exam

   Review Problems for the second midterm exam

   Solutions to Review Problems (Part I)  

   Solutions to Review Problems (part 2)

 

   Solutions to Homework 6

   Solutions to Homework 5

   Solutions to Homework 4

 

Monday, April 12

                The Transportation Problem (section 5.1, cont.)

 

Thursday, April 8

               The Transportation Problem (section 5.1, cont.)

 

Monday, April 5

                Cutting Plane Methods (section 4.2, pages 262-268 only)

 

Thursday, April 1

                Examples of Integer Programming Problems (section 4.1)

 

Monday, March 29

                The Dual Simplex Method (section 3.4, cont.)

                The Revised Simplex Method (section 3.5)

                Homework Assignment, due Monday, April 12     

        

Thursday, March 25,

               Computational relations between the Primal and Dual problems (section 3.3, cont.)

               The Dual Simplex Method (section 3.4)

                I will assign a new homework on Monday

 

Monday, March 22

               Computational relations between the Primal and Dual problems (section 3.3, cont.)

 

 

Thursday, March 11

                The Duality Theorem (section 3.2 cont.)

                Homework Assignment (due Thursday, March 25)   

 

Monday, March 8

                The Duality Theorem (section 3.2 cont., up to Complementary Slackness)

 

Thursday, March 4

                The Duality Theorem (first part of section 3.2, everything up to the Weak Duality Theorem)

 

Monday, March 1

               Duality (section 3.1)

               Homework Assignment (due Monday, March 8)         

 

Friday, February 26

               Midterm Exam

               Review Problems for the midterm exam

               Solutions to the review problems  

 

Monday, February 23

               Artificial Variables (section 2.3, the Two-Phase method only)

 

Thursday, February 19:

              The Simplex Method for Problems in Standard Form (section 2.1)

              Pivoting Formulas

 

Monday, February 16:

              The Simplex Method for Problems in Standard Form (section 2.1, everything up to "Forming a New Tableau" part on p. 111)

Thursday, February 12:

             Basic Solution (cont. section 1.5)

             Homework Assignment (Due Thursday, February 26)


Monday,  February 9:

               Basic solutions (section 1.5)

 

Thursday, February 5:

             The Extreme Point Theorem (cont. section 1.4)

 

Monday,  February 2:
            
Geometry of Linear Programming Problems (section 1.3)
              The Extreme Point Theorem (section 1.4)

 

Thursday, January 29:

            Geometry of Linear Programming Problems (section 1.3)

            Homework assigned: problems 2,4,14, 34 in section 1.3 (due Thursday, Febryary5) Solutions

Monday, January 26:

            Matrix notation  (section 1.2)

Thursday, January 22:

The Linear Programming Problem (section 1.1)

            Homework  assigned: problems 2,4,8,11 in section 1.1 (due Thursday, January 29) Solutions