RESOURCE MANAGEMENT TECHNIQUES

MC9242          RESOURCE MANAGEMENT TECHNIQUES                         

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UNIT I                 LINEAR PROGRAMMING MODELS                                                       9

Mathematical Formulation - Graphical Solution of linear programming models – Simplex method – Artificial variable Techniques- Variants of Simplex method

UNIT II            TRANSPORTATION AND ASSIGNMENT MODELS                            9

Mathematical formulation of transportation problem- Methods for finding initial basic feasible solution – optimum solution - degeneracy – Mathematical formulation of assignment models – Hungarian Algorithm – Variants of the Assignment problem

UNIT III           INTEGER PROGRAMMING MODELS                                                    9

Formulation – Gomory’s IPP method – Gomory’s mixed integer method – Branch   and bound technique.

UNIT IV           SCHEDULING BY PERT AND CPM                                                         9

Network Construction – Critical Path Method – Project Evaluation and Review Technique – Resource Analysis in Network Scheduling

UNIT V            QUEUEING MODELS                                                                                9

Characteristics of Queuing Models – Poisson Queues - (M / M / 1) : (FIFO / 8 /8),    (M / M / 1) : (FIFO / N / 8), (M / M / C) : (FIFO / 8 / 8), (M / M / C) :  (FIFO / N / 8) models.

Total No. of Periods : 45

TEXT BOOKS

1. Taha H.A., “Operations Research : An Introduction “ 7^th Edition, Pearson Education,  

    2004.

REFERENCES

1. A.M.Natarajan, P.Balasubramani, A.Tamilarasi, “Operations Research”, Pearson

    Education, Asia, 2005.

2. Prem Kumar Gupta, D.S. Hira,  “Operations Research”, S.Chand & Company Ltd, 

    New Delhi, 3^rd Edition , 2003.