Convex and concave sets. Separating and supporting hyper plane theorems, Revised simplex method to solve Linear Programming problems, Bounded variable problems.
Integer programming: Integer & mixed integer programming problems, Gomory’s algorithm, Branch and Bound algorithm, Cutting plane Method.
Goal programming: Graphical goal attainment method, Simplex method for GPP, Ranking and weighting of multiple goals, Applications of Goal programming.
Separable programming, Piece-wise Linear approximations to non-linear functions, Reduction to separable programming problem to LPP.
Dynamic programming: Introduction, Bellman principle of optimality, solution of problems with finite number stages, solution of LPP by dynamic programming.