About This Course

Optimization has many effective and wide applications in all areas of life: resource planning, machine design, automation, business administration, finance, transportation, manufacturing, urban architecture, etc. This course provide students with theoretical foundations of a certain degree of linear programming, integer programming, a number of exact algorithms and basic heuristics. It also introduces optimization softwares and libraries used to build program for solving economic, technological, technical and managerial problems. It includes a team project in which students select and solve a problem in practice.