AGEC 641
Operations Research Methods in Agricultural Economics
Overheads
Chapter 1: Basics of Decision Making
Chapter 2: Basic LP Problem
Chapter 3: Solving and Interpreting LP Models
Chapter 4: Duality in Linear Programming Code
Chapter 5: LP Modeling Part II
Chapter 6: Toward Proper Modeling
Chapter 7: More LP Problems & Gluing Models
Chapter 8: Dynamic LP Models
Chapter 9: Nonlinearities and Approximations
Midterm Exam 2023 exam
Chapter 17: Misbehavior Models
Chapter 10: Modeling Summary
Chapter 11: Multi-Objectives
Chapter 12: Nonlinear Optimization Conditions
Chapter 13: Price Endogenous
Chapter 14: Risk Modeling Part I Part II
Chapter 15: Handling Indivisibilities Part I
Chapter 16: Handling Indivisibilities Part II
Homework
Group homework by no more than 3 personsChapter 3-4: Q2, 5, 7, 9-13; Due Feb 8th
Chapter 5 : Q3, 6, 9, 13, 14; Due Feb 14th
Chapter 6-7: Q3, 4, 7, 12, 18, 19, 20; Due Feb 21st.
Chapter 8: Q2 Chapter 9: Q2,4,5 Midterm practice: Q2 ; Due Mar 4th
Chapter 10-13 Q2, 5, 10, 15; Due Mar 20th
Chapter 14 Q 3, 6, 8; Due Mar 27th
Chapter 15-16 Q2, 4, 13; due Apr 3rd.
Complete Book (pdf)
Chapter 1 - Introduction
Chapter 2 - The Linear Programming Problem
Chapter 3 - Matrix Algebra Solution of LP Problems
Chapter 4 - LP Duality
Chapter 5 - Algebraic LP Modeling, Duality and Solution Interpretation
Chapter 6 - Toward Proper Models
Chapter 7 - Additional LP Models
Chapter 8 - Multi-year Dynamics and LP
Chapter 9 - LP Modeling: Nonlineatities and Approximation
Chapter 10 - Modeling Summary
Chapter 11 - Multi-Objective Programming
Chapter 12 - General Nonlinear Programming
Chapter 13 - Price Endogenous Modeling
Chapter 14 - Risk Modeling
Chapter 15 - Relaxing Continuity Assumptions - Integer Programming
Chapter 16 - Applied Integer Programming
Chapter 17 - Fixing Improperly Working Models
Chapter 18 - Validation of Programming Models
Chapter 19 - Getting the Most from a Modeling System
Appendix 1 - Using Summation Notation
Appendix 2 - Running GAMS on a PC
Text examples implemented in GAMS in zipped format