OR Approach: modeling, constraints, objective and criterion. Problems of multiple criteria, optimization, model validation and systems design. OR Methodology: mathematical programming; activity networks; dynamic programming; Markov processes; queuing theory. Examples, OR Applications: production planning and scheduling; service systems; health care delivery; Waiting line problems: single and multiple servers with Poisson input and output. Project management through PERT-CPM. 3 credit hours.

Javad Taheri, Ph.D. P.E.
Research Associate Professor
Edward P. Fitts Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
North Carolina State University
Campus Box 7906
111 Lampe Dr., Daniels Hall Room 400
Raleigh, NC 27615-7906, U.S.A.

Office: 368 Daniels Hall
Phone: (919) 513-1906
EMail: jtaheri@ncsu.edu