OBIETTIVI FORMATIVI

The course provides students the basics of operations research, which are most relevant to the strategic and operational planning of enterprises. The course aims to develop optimization models and provide mathematical programming methods, both exact and heuristic, for decision-makers. Students are also provided with the necessary knowledge to understand the structure of an optimization algorithm and to implement it with Python. Emphasis is given to logistics and transportation problems. Students will evaluate the acquiring of their skills by examining, developing and analyzing case studies in a computer classroom using the spreadsheet optimization tool of Excel and ad-hoc software environments. By the end of the course, students will have the skills necessary to identify the methodological approach needed to address a decision-making problem and the ability to apply that method to determine the good solutions.