INDIAN IN5TITUTE OF MANAGEMENT, LUCKNOW

PO5T GRADUATE PROGRAMME

COUR5E OUTLINE

Cnursc Tit!c: Quantitativc Ana!ysis Inr Managcmcnt- III (QAM-III) TERMIII, 2011-2012
Unit: 0.5 PGP-I
Instructnr: Irof. . K. Mohanly

1.0 BACKGROUND, OBJECTIVE AND 5COPE
Quanlilalive AnaIysis for managemenl- III is lhe Iasl of a series of lhree comuIsory courses in
quanlilalive lechniques. The courses have been so slruclured lhal QAM-III covers a buIk of O.R.
lechniques and melhods.

In lhis course il is inlended i) lo give an arecialion of lhe robIems lhal can be aroached lhrough
basic O.R. melhods., ii) lo famiIiarizes lhe sludenls vilh lhe various O.R. lechniques avaiIabIe iii) lo
deveIo an underslanding of lhe mechanics of lhose lechniques, and iv) lo deveIo a generaI
avareness of lhe aIicabiIily and Iimilalions of O.R. melhods and lechniques.

Al lhe end of lhe course lhe sludenls are execled lo have a reasonabIe foundalion in O.R., based on
vhich lhey can furlher buiId u and broaden lheir knovIedge base in order lo deaI vilh such more
comIex reaI-Iife silualions from an O.R. oinl of viev.

The Course viII be laughl vilh lhe heI of sread sheel soflvare such as Iremium SOLVIR (Add-in
MS IXCIL).

2.0 TEXT BOOK
Inlroduclion lo Oeralions Research, by I.S. HiIIier and G.}. Lieberman, 8
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edilion(Indian).

3.0 5UGGE5TED READING5
1. Toics in Managemenl Science, by R.I. MarkIand.
2. Quanlilalive Aroaches lo Decision Making by D.R. Anderson, D.}. Sveeny & T.A.
WiIIiams.

4.0 EVALUATION 5CHEME
Quizzes / Assignmenls : 10
IinaI Ixam. : 40

5.0 5E55ION PLAN

5E55ION NO. TOPIC5
1-4 Inleger Irogramming
5-7 Decision AnaIysis
8-10 Queuing Theory
11-14.1 SimuIalion
15 Reviev

AII lhe loics can be referred from lhe book by I.S. HiIIier and G.}. Lieberman.