Modelação de Sistemas

The Operational Research approach to problems involves several steps. The first step includes a modelling phase – modelling a system and/or a process. This phase requires imagination, conceptualization ability and uses knowledge from different areas, like Statistics, Probabilities and Computing.

This course intends to increase the skill of coordinating knowledge in different areas and help students to learn how to model processes and systems. Classes will take place in computational laboratories and, whenever possible, Excel spreadsheet will be used to solve case studies. Students will have the opportunity to create procedures using the Visual Basic module in Excel spreadsheets.

If necessary, the case study subjects will be introduced. Afterwards, the students will have a limited time to write a small report describing the different techniques used in the case study resolutions and main results. Finally, different approaches will be presented. The case study will also be analysed in the global framework of Operational Research.