Lecture: Introduction to Operations Research

Dr. Liang Zhao

• Assignment before the class: see the PandA site (submit the answer to the mini test. There is no need to prepare slides).

• Students: Ismail, Sakakibara
• Time: 2:45pm-4:15pm, April 14, 2020 (JST)
• Place: the Internet (with Zoom)
• Assignment before the class: Please prepare a 5-10 minutes presentation in the class. A PDF file of the presentation should be submitted after the class.
  • Ismail ← Optimal Convey Size, see wikipedia-or.pdf, p3, first paragraph
  • Sakakibara ← https://www.emerginginvestigators.org/articles/a-simple-printing-solution-to-aid-deficit-reduction

General information on assignment

Usually a good presentation should contains:

• Problem definition: What is the problem that we want to solve? Its background and previous studies.
• Observation and method to solve the problem
• Result (e.g., empirical data)
• Conclusion and future work including references