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About the Course

Optimization is a common form of decision making, and is ubiquitous in our society. Its applications range from solving Sudoku puzzles to arranging seating in a wedding banquet. The same technology can schedule planes and their crews, coordinate the production of steel, and organize the transportation of iron ore from the mines to the ports. Good decisions in manpower and material resources management also allow corporations to improve profit by millions of dollars. Similar problems also underpin much of our daily lives and are part of determining daily delivery routes for packages, making school timetables, and delivering power to our homes. Despite their fundamental importance, all of these problems are a nightmare to solve using traditional undergraduate computer science methods. This course is intended for students interested in tackling all facets of optimization applications. You will learn an entirely new way to think about solving these challenging problems by stating the problem in a state-of-the-art high level modeling language, and letting library constraint solving software do the rest. This will allow you to unlock the power of industrial solving technologies, which have been perfected over decades by hundreds of PhD researchers. With access to this advanced technology, problems that are considered inconceivable to solve before will suddenly become easy. Watch the course promotional video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hc3cBvtrem0&t=8s...

Top reviews

CD

Mar 8, 2019

Great course, provided a nice introduction to discrete modelling

MM

Feb 23, 2019

Challenging programming assignments and helpful workshops. Good video material. Hoped to have some more real world examples, rather than just fable-based examples.

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By Bhavik J

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Jul 11, 2020

A classic combination of the story mode pitched in learning. I wish that the topics covered in the course were more elaborated.

By J.S. P

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Sep 6, 2020

Great course. Would absolutely recommend.

By Leo

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Jun 20, 2019

Novel, creative and interesting

By CHAABANE H e

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Sep 15, 2022

Very clear and usefull.

By Krunal P

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Jan 28, 2017

Good Assignments.

By Lucas P M

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Jan 7, 2022

The problem-based approach is very interesting and the course is very practical. However, it has no theoretical content, even superficial, to assess the best way to model. Some assignments have bugs or incomplete information that make it difficult to get good grades.

By Malik A

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Dec 28, 2022

terrible time with assignment upload

By Can K

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Feb 6, 2018

Should be called "Minizinc tutorial". The exercises are easy to pass, but the feedback on them are unhelpful, "You can have a better objective function" does not mean anything if you don't say which part of the model should the person improve.