課程資訊
課程名稱
離散最佳化
DISCRETE OPTIMIZATION 
開課學期
99-1 
授課對象
電機資訊學院  電機工程學研究所  
授課教師
張時中 
課號
EE5077 
課程識別碼
921 U3410 
班次
 
學分
全/半年
半年 
必/選修
選修 
上課時間
星期二5(12:20~13:10)星期四7,8(14:20~16:20) 
上課地點
電二225電二225 
備註
總人數上限:40人 
Ceiba 課程網頁
http://ceiba.ntu.edu.tw/991_dis_opt 
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課程概述

Tentative Outline
1.Course Overview, Algorithms and Complexity and Basics of Optimization.
2.Linear Programming (LP): Problems, Properties and Simplex Algorithms
3.Duality Theorem and Sensitivity
4.Interior Point Methods for LP
5.Network Optimization: Representation, Shortest Path Algorithm and Minimum Spanning Tree Algorithm
6.Maximum Flow and Minimum Cost Flow Algorithms
7.Integer Programming Problems:  Traveling Salesman, Knapsack, … 
8.Barnch-and-Bound and Cutting Plan Methods
9.Integer Linear Programming and CPLEX
10.Mid-term Exam
11.Term Project Topic Identification and Team Forming
12.Simulated Annealing & Tabu Search
13.Genetic Algorithms & Artificial Neural Networks for Optimization
14.Constraint Optimization
15.Term Project Presentations
 

課程目標
- To introduce to students the theory, models, analysis, approximations and algorithms of optimization over discrete variables
- To guide students to apply the theory to and design methods for solving electrical engineering and computer science problems. 
課程要求
Grading
Homework 20% Mid-term Exam 40% Term Project 40%
Participation 5% 
預期每週課後學習時數
 
Office Hours
另約時間 
指定閱讀
Textbook
C. H. Papadimitriou, K. Steiglitz, Combinatorial Optimization:Algorithms and Complexity, Prentice Hall, 1982. 
參考書目
References
1. E. Aarts, J. K. Lenstra, eds., Local Search in Combinatorial Optimization, Wiley, 1997.
1.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combinatorial_optimization
2.J. of Combinatorial Opt. http://www.kluweronline.com/issn/1382-6905
3.Discrete Optimization http://www.elsevier.com/locate/disopt
4.No free lunch in search and optimization
5.Discrete Optimization methods
www.cs.sunysb.edu/~algorith/implement/syslo/implement.shtml
 
評量方式
(僅供參考)
   
課程進度
週次
日期
單元主題
第1週
9/14,9/16  Course Overview, Algorithms and Complexity and Basics of Optimization. 
第2週
9/21,9/23  Algorithms and Complexity;Linear Programming: Problems, Properties, and Simplex Algorithm in Matrix Form 
第3週
9/28,9/30  Linear Programming: Simplex Algorithms, Duality and Sensitivity 
第4週
10/05,10/07  Complementary slackness, sensitivity, Karmakar's interior point algorithm 
第5週
10/12,10/14  Introduction to Network Optimization Problem, Network representation 
第6週
10/19,10/21  Minimum Spanning Tree Problems
–Problem description and greedy algorithm
–Mathematical Formulation
–Optimality proof
Maximum Flow Problem
–Formulation
–Minimum cut, max flow and dualityMaximum Flow Problem
Total Unimodularity
–Minimum cut, max flow and duality 
第7週
10/26,10/28  minimum cost networkflow problem - negative cycle canceling; MCNFP and other network problem conversion. 
第8週
11/02,11/04  matching problems and algorithms; Introduction to branch and bound; 
第9週
11/09,11/11  Traveling Salesman Problem - Branch and Bound(B&B), Cutting Plane Method(Gomory’s Cut); Introduction to scheduling problems; 
第10週
11/16,11/18  Scheduling problems and algorithms: single machine, parallel machine, flow shop scheduling 
第11週
11/23,11/25  Introduction of iLog optimization tool suites CPLEX; 11/25 midterm exam 
第12週
11/30,12/02  Parallel Machine Scheduling; Flow Shop Scheduling and Rescheduling
 
第13週
12/07,12/09  Local Search;Meta-Heuristic Search; Specific Search Strategies;Simulated Annealing; 
第14週
12/14,12/16  Simulated Annealing(Cont.); Stochastic Machines; Convergence Analysis; Genetic Algorithm; 
第15週
12/21,12/23  Genetic Algorithm; Monte Carlo Simulation -based Optimization 
第16週
12/28,12/30  Stochastic optimization problem
Stochastic simulation (Monte Carlo)
Efficient techniques:
Ordinal Optimization (OO)
Optimal Computing Budget Allocation (OCBA)
Application to scheduling semiconductor fabs 
第17週
1/04,1/06  Introduction to constraint programming: modeling, constraint propagation, search, best solution 
第18週
01/11, 13/2011  no class; term project preparation; 
第19週
01/19, 20/2011  Term project presentations