Course Catalog - 2006-2007

     

CAAM 475 - INTEGER & COMB OPTIMIZATION

Long Title: INTEGER AND COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION
Department: *Computational & Applied Math*
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Prerequisite(s): CAAM 378 OR CAAM 464 or permission of instructor
Description: Modeling and solving optimization problems with discrete components, graphs and networks; network flow problems; minimum spanning trees; basic polyhedral theory; the knapsack problem; the plant location problem; the set packing problem; computational complexity; branch and bound; cutting planes; Lagrangian relaxation and Bender's decomposition. Cross-list: ECON 475.