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Operations Research

When operations research emerged in the 1940’s, it dealt with problems of a combinatorial nature, such as logistics, planning and scheduling. Since that time, substantial progress in mathematics, technology and computing power have enabled operations research applications in many domains that require advanced decision making and optimisation. The master’s programme in Operations Research includes modern applications of mathematical modelling and data analysis, including biomedical engineering, bio-informatics, ICT and telecommunications.

Courses are provided by experienced lecturers and researchers of the Department of Knowledge Engineering. The programme emphasises topics relating to current PhD research, including:

• biomedical signal processing, de-noising and event detection with wavelets
• medical image (or video) analysis and image registration
• network formation, network maintenance and cost sharing
• production planning and scheduling, supply chain management
• polynomial optimisation with nD-systems, identity-value solvers and parallel computation
• sparse network estimation with applications in genetics and bio-informatics
• modelling and analysis of electrophysiological wave propagation on cardiac walls
• data mining and pattern recognition in mobile telecommunications data bases
• new developments in evolutionary game theory
• mathematical simulation of dynamical systems and bifurcation behaviour

Operations Research is a two-year master’s programme taught entirely in English.