Operations Research (OR) is a field in which people use mathematical and engineering methods to study optimization problems in Business and Management, Economics, Computer Science, Civil Engineering, Industrial Engineering, etc.
This course introduces frameworks and ideas about various types of optimization problems in the business world. In particular, we focus on how to formulate real business problems into mathematical models that can be solved by computers.
This series consists of the following courses:
Coursera: Operations Research (1): Models and applications.
Coursera: Operations Research (2): Optimization algorithms.
Coursera: Operations Research (3): Theory.