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This class is an applications-oriented course covering the modeling of large-scale systems in decision-making domains and the optimization of such systems using state-of-the-art optimization tools

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Hours of videos

694 years, 4 months

Units & Quizzes

25

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Application domains include: transportation and logistics planning, pattern classification and image processing, data mining, design of structures, scheduling in large systems, supply-chain management, financial engineering, and telecommunications systems planning. Modeling tools and techniques include linear, network, discrete and nonlinear optimization, heuristic methods, sensitivity and post-optimality analysis, decomposition methods for large-scale systems, and stochastic optimization.

This course was also taught as part of the Singapore-MIT Alliance (SMA) programme as course number SMA 5223 (System Optimisation: Models and Computation).

Course Currilcum

  • Optimization Modelling and Computaional Issues in Radiation Therapy Unlimited
  • Increasing the Computational Effectiveness of the Simple Method Unlimited
  • Working with the Basis Inverse Over a Sequence of Iterations Unlimited
  • Applied Lagrange Duality for Constrained Optimization Unlimited
  • Simple Routines for Optimization Unlimited
  • Telecommunications System Design: Minimum-Cost Embeddings of Reliable Virtual Private Networks Unlimited
  • Exact Algorithms for the Minimum-Cost Embeddings of Reliable Virtual Private Networks into Telecommunications Networks Unlimited
  • Column Generation Unlimited
  • Column Generation II: Application in Distribution Network Design Unlimited
  • Module on Large-Scale Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization Unlimited
  • Introduction to Convex Constrained Optimization Unlimited
  • Facility Location and Distribution System Planning Unlimited
  • Network Design: Network Loading and Pup Matching Unlimited
  • Pattern Classification, and Quadratic Problems Unlimited
  • Solution Methods for Quadratic Optimization Unlimited
  • Notes for Class: Analytic Center, Newton’s Method, and Web-Based ACA Unlimited
  • Truss Design and Convex Optimization Unlimited
  • Stochastic Linear Optimization, and Extensions Unlimited
  • Optimization under Uncertainty Unlimited
  • Benders’ Decomposition Methods for Structured Optimization, including Stochastic Optimization Unlimited
  • Truss Structures – Natural Frequency Manipulation via SDP Unlimited
  • Selfish Routing in Capacitated Networks Unlimited
  • System-Optimal Routing of Traffic Flows with User Constraints in Networks with Congestion Unlimited
  • Effective Route Guidance in Traffic Networks Unlimited
  • Effective Route Guidance in Traffic Networks (cont.) Unlimited