Faculty of Business, Economics and Statistics

Department of Business Administration

Chair of Production and Operations Management
(Lehrstuhl für Produktion und Logistik)
o. Univ.-Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Richard F. Hartl

040147
Special Topics in Produktion /Logistik/SCM: Softwaretool in Decision Support

Lecturer

Dates & Places

  • Wednesday 13:15- 14:45 PC 05
  • Starting on 4 March, 2015
  • Important appointments:
    • Test 1: May 13th , 13:15h
    • Test 2: June 10th, 13:15h

Secretary 

Alexandra Ederer


Language of Instruction

English

Course content

This course gives an introduction to programming using Python for decision support applications, with a focus on the Traveling Salesperson Problem (TSP).
  • Part I. Introduction
  • Part II. Python fundamentals
    • Variables and operators
    • Conditional statements and loops
    • Functions
    • Input/Output
  • Part III. Practice on the TSP
    • Construction heuristic
    • Improvement heuristic

    Overview

    • Know what is a decision support system
    • Know why programming is important for decision support
    • Understand the fundamentals of programming
      • variables and simple data structures, arithmetic and boolean operations, conditional statements, loops, functions, input/output
      • no object-orientation, no exception handling, no graphical user interfaces, no software engineering
    • Be able to write Python programs to solve specified problems
      • simple methods for the TSP

      Grading

      • Homework (40%)
      • Tests (30%)
      • Project work (30%)

          Literature

          Course Materials

          ...available on the Moodle e-learning platform.
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