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Instructor TA
Dr. Walter Johnston Wei Chen
SOM 2.409 FO 1.502 #15
972.883.4833 972.883.4821
Walter.johnston@utdallas.edu wxc103020@utdallas.edu
Office Hours: by appointment TBA
Exams: There will be 3 in class exams, the lowest one of which will be
dropped. NO MAKE-UP EXAMS WILL BE SCHEDULED. Exams will
comprise 70% of your final grade.
A+ A B+ B C+ C D+ D
95 90 85 80 75 70 65 60
ACADEMIC INTEGRITY: While students are encouraged to study
together and discuss topics related to this class, all material turned in for
credit (including, but not limited to, homework and exams) must be the
work-product of the student named with the turned in material. All
suspected violations of this principle will be referred to the appropriate
University parties for Disciplinary Action.
Week Topic
1 Intro to Quantitative Decision Making
2 Defining the Problem and Gathering Data
3 Unconstrained Optimization Review
4 Matrix Algebra / Soln. of Simultaneous Eqns.
5 Lagrange Multipliers
6 Linear Programming (Intro to Excel SOLVER)
7 Example Applications of Linear Prog.
8 What-if, Sensitivity, and Shadow Pricing
9 Example Application of Linear Prog.
10 Review of Probability
11 Conditional Probability
12 Decision Trees (Intro)
13 Expected Value, EVPI
14 Example Applications