UNIVERSITY of UDINE

Degree in Computer Science

Syllabus of the course on

Models and Algorithms for Resource Management

a.y. 2001-2002

instructors: Paolo Serafini, Fabio Tiozzo, Giuseppe Lancia

Finalità: The course is the prosecution of the course Operations Research and aims at giving the conceptal and practical tools to cope with real life resource management problems. The course is divided into thee parts. In the first part general modeling techniques are presented; in the second one, throughout a detailed presentation of real life cases, one sees how these techniques are applied and in the third part programming tools are presented to build up the final software.

1) COMPLEX MODELS AND HEURISTICS (16 hours) - Paolo Serafini

Integerated Routing, Allocation and Scheduling Models. Local Search. Greedy methods. Disaggregation.

2) CASE STUDIES (16) - Fabio Tiozzo (Cybertec, Trieste)

3) BUILDING A COMPLEX CODE (16) - Giuseppe Lancia (University of Padova)

Exam: Oral examination.

Information on Operations Research and Optimization may be found at INFORMS (Institute for Operations Research and Management Science) or at CIRO (Centro Interuniversitario in Ricerca Operativa)