PHYS 4059 - Physics of Management Science

Course last offered 

 :   

Spring 2018/19

Instructor(s)

 :

Michael Kwok Yee WONG

No. of credits

 :

3



Teaching Pattern

  • Duration of course: about 13 weeks

  • Lecture hour(s) / tutorial hour(s) per week: 3 / 1

 

Content

This course will introduce the concepts and techniques of optimization and modeling in the management of systems and business applications with many variables and constraints.

 

  • Linear programming
  • Network flow models
  • Project management
  • Nonlinear programming
  • Queuing analysis
  • Computer solutions
  • Statistical physics of optimization in complex systems

 

Remarks

  • Exclusion(s): ISOM 3710, IELM 3010