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INFO-F524

Continuous optimization

academic year
2024-2025

Course teacher(s)

Bernard FORTZ (Coordinator) and Dimitrios PAPADIMITRIOU

ECTS credits

5

Language(s) of instruction

english

Course content

  • Unconstrained optimisation - Constrained optimisation, Lagrangean. - Lagrangean relaxation in combinatorial optimisation - Column generation for linear / integer programming - Interior point methods

Objectives (and/or specific learning outcomes)

Acquiring basic methods in continuous optimisation and their application, being able to model and solve optimisation problems with the right algorithmic tools.

Prerequisites and Corequisites

Required and Corequired knowledge and skills

Linear programming (e.g. INFO-F-310)

Teaching methods and learning activities

Course and projects

Contribution to the teaching profile

Acquisition of highly specialized and integrated knowledge in optimisation and operations research.

Other information

Contacts

Bernard Fortz Campus de la Plaine Bâtiment NO Local 2.N3.203

Campus

Plaine

Evaluation

Method(s) of evaluation

  • Oral examination
  • Group work

Oral examination

Group work

Group project and oral exam

Mark calculation method (including weighting of intermediary marks)

50% project, 50% exam.

Language(s) of evaluation

  • french
  • english

Programmes