Prerequisite: Exposure to relevant concepts at undergraduate level and instructor consent
Contents
Multi-terminal Maximal flows, Multi-terminal shortest paths. Multi commodity flows. Synthesis of networks. The general minimal cost flow problem, Minimal cost calculation, Network simplex Method. Matching problems and the bottleneck assignment problem. Application to vehicle routing problems. Determination of size and schedules for transportation fleets. Synchronization of signalized interactions. Project Scheduling with resource constraints, Network flows in the economy, Input-output analysis.
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