WELCOME TO THE BOARD OF QM

DEAR PARTICIPANT, ASSALAMU ALAIKUM

Welcome to the new semester, I hope you are well with your families and try your best to protect yourself from  covid19, I hope you will keep protecting yourself and your colleagues within the school environment.

The first week is the most important week since we will discuss the whole syllabus in a nut of shell, and arranging the students in working groups which contain about '7 members, that will be used within a week.

OUR PLAN IN THIS SEMESTER

 1.  I will introduce the course within the first and the second week

 2. Each group (Expert group) will discuss their own topic within 2 weeks

 3. The second week will be a test week on which each group will do topic one (introduction) and their topic of expertise, the average marks of group member will be recorded, and those students who would not cooperate with their groups will be treated accordingly. 

  4. The third week we will form new groups, whereby the experts will share their knowledge to the group members.

 5. The groups will start to discuss the topics according to their ascending order (of the topic from the blog arrangement). Two topics should be discussed within three weeks
6. The following classes, we will be discussing each topic per day (the topic that you have already discussed in the group), mainly to solve problems risen within the group 

7. Since there are eight topics, we will take 9 weeks to complete the syllabus for face to face in the class (in this part we will discuss the problems you face within the topics)

8. The 11 weeks we will have test no 2.

Each topic will be posted within the blog, and the group should interact there in case of any clarification.

Assessment

 Assignment: 
   Activities 1.  Formulate your group and fill the following FORM within 24 hrs starting                                         immediately after finishing the first class. (3 marks)
                    2.  leaders from the groups should formulate whatsap group and me as an admin                                 (2 marks)
                     3.  Discussing the topic you select and take the attendance on time with pictures                            of the members                                                  (5 marks)

Please feel free to interact by any how, your activeness will really going to matter. don't hesitate to comment 

TOPIC 1: INTRODUCTION TO QM

ASSALAMU ALAIKUM,
Dear participant, this is the topic 1 that we will cover it fully within the two weeks.
Specifically we are going to cover the following:

  -Introduction of the teaching mode for this semester

- Definitions and terminology of Quantitative Techniques

- Essential features of Operational Research (OR)

-Stage in OR

teachers ppt


Discuss The following questions:
1.Define OR
2. What are the essential features of the OR approach
3. How does OR assist management decision making?
4. What are the stages in an OR study?
5. Give reasons why the results of an OR study may not be implemented

TOPIC 2: STATISTICAL INFERENCE, HYPOTHESIS TESTING

Statistical Inference, Hypothesis Testing

Well come to the blog, I expect more participation and active discussion. Please watch these videos and discuss them in the group, i will provide some questions to evaluate your understanding.

           video1 this        video 2 a       2b                video 3

Chapter two of QM manual; Statistical inference, you can comment with any error, this doc is still under process.
I this topic you should cover the following items:

1.      

2.1      Introduction of statistical inference

2.2      Estimation theory

2.3     Characteristics of good estimator

2.4      Confidence interval

2.5      Z-statistics

2.6    t- Statistics
2.7   Testing hypothesis

Notes for 2.4 up to 2.7
Additional notes

Problems with solutions

Testing hypothesis

TOPIC 3:TRANSPORTATION

ASSALAMU ALAIKUM,

Dear participant, in this topic you suppose to cover the following:

1  Introduction to transportation problems

2  The Transportation Algorithm Developing an Initial Solution: Northwest Corner Rule Stepping-Stone Method: Finding a Least-Cost Solution

3  A General LP Model for Transportation Problems (optimal solution)

4  Unbalanced transportation problems and Maximization transportation problems

Dear participant, please watch this videos as continuation of what we would cover in the class.

For further exercise please  FOLLOW ME TO GET TRANSPORTATION WORKING PROBLEMS

Additional summary notes and

problems

TOPIC 4: ASSIGNMENT PROBLEMS

ASSALAMU ALAIKUM,

Dear participant, In this topic we are going to cover the following subtopic:

4.1 The Hungarian Method 

4.2  Linear Program for Assignment, Unbalanced assignment problems and Maximization assignment problems

video 1

video 2, please do not watch this before watching the video 1

Additional Summary notes  and

Problems

TOPIC 5: DECISION ANALYSIS

ASSALAMU ALAIKUM,
My dear participant, in this topic you are supposed to cover the following subtopic:

5.1. Decision making under uncertainty (Optimistic, Pessimistic, Criterion of Realism (Hurwitz Criterion), equally likely (Lapse), minimax regret).

5.2  Decision making under risk (Expected monetary value, expected value of perfect information, expected opportunity loss, 

5.3  Decision tree analysis (listing alternatives, state of nature, probability value, financial outcome)

NOTES FOR DECISION ANALYSIS

ADDITIONAL NOTES

TOPIC 6: INVENTORY MODEL AND CONTROL

ASSALAMU ALAIKUM,

Dear participant, in this topic you have to cover the following content:

6.1  Importance of inventory control

6.2  Inventory decision

6.3  Economic order Quantity: Determining how much to Order

6.4  Re order point determining when to order

6.5  Quantity discount Model

6.6  Use of safety stock

  link for the notes

  GROUP EXERCISE

TOPIC 7: QUEUING AND SIMULATION

ASSALAMU ALAIKUM,


Dear participant, in this topic you have to cover the following content:

7.1  Waiting line costs

7.2  Characteristics of a Queuing system

7.3  Single channel Queuing Model with Poisson Arrivals and Exponential service times (M/M/1)

7.4  Queuing equations and Equations for the Multichannel Queuing Model

7.5.Advantages and disadvantages of simulation

7.6.Monte Carlo Simulation

7.3.Simulation and Inventory Analysis

 please follow this link to have simple ilustration of the queueing topic.

extra notes with simulation

EXERCISE FOR PRACTICE

ALL THE BEST IN YOUR EXAM.

TOPIC 8: NETWORK ANALYSIS

ASSALAMU ALAIKUM WARAHMATULLAH,

Dear participant, in this topic you will cover the following content:

8.1  Minimal spinning tree problem

8.2  Maximal flow problem and technique

8.3  PERT/CPM Drawing the PERT/CPM Network

8.4  Critical Path

8.5  Probability of Project Completion

8.6  PRT Cost

8.7  Project Crashing

8.8  Sensitivity Analysis and Project management