Case Studies
Purpose
A case study lets you dig into a non-trivial Optimization problem and formulate, test, and compare models for that problem. It is a more business-oriented type of work, as you have to perform computational experiments in order to obtain a result.
The instructor acts as the company that contacted you for the work. The ideal setting is one in which you only ask the instructor to provide information about the problem, not the model.
However, the instructor is available for hints on the type of solver to use, parameters, what to do if something goes wrong, etc.
Rules
- Completing the case study is necessary to receive a grade for this course.
- Every group consists of two to four students enrolled in the course.
- Every student is part of exactly one group.
- The list of projects is given below and will be updated soon.
- Once you have formed a group and chosen the project, send me an email with the names and the project.
- Projects are assigned on a first-come, first-served basis. I will update the list of assigned projects as soon as I can.
- A short report (one per group) is due before or at the final exam, December 9.
- You can use whatever material you find at the library or on the Internet. However, you should provide appropriate reference in the report (article, book, website, etc.).
- All or most coding work that is needed is in AMPL. You are also very welcome to choose different modeling or programming languages, as long as you solve the problem.
Projects
- Graph clustering (pdf). (Assigned)
- Network design (pdf). (Assigned)
- Wind farm (pdf). (Assigned)
- Plant location (pdf). (Assigned)
- Road network planning (pdf). (Assigned)
- Scheduling (pdf). (Assigned)
- Portfolio selection (pdf). (Assigned)
- Production planning (pdf). (Assigned)
- Railroad routing (pdf). (Assigned)
- Location of emergency vehicles (pdf). (Assigned)