The overall objective of the course is for students to acquire the knowledge and the ability necessary for solving practical
decision-making problems, formulated as problems of mathematical programming, which may arise during a professional
or research career.

• Learn the mathematical formulation of some of the main mathematical programming models and develop the ability to formulate new ones.
• Acquire the ability to determine the most appropriate algorithm and the optimization software for solving these problems numerically.
• The ability to interpret correctly the results provided by the optimization software.

Skills to be learned

• Learn and understand some of the most important problems in linear, integer and nonlinear programming as well as network flows.
• Given the description of a new decision-making problem, be able to formulate the associated optimization problem correctly.
• The ability to implement and obtained the optimum solution for decision-making problems by selecting the most appropriate algorithm and optimization software in each particular case.