Companies operate in an environment which is becoming increasingly complex and uncertain. They are therefore regularly obliged to take numerous decisions the consequences of which can have significant impacts, including long term impacts. It is crucial in this context to have recourse to engineers capable of understanding these decision processes as effectively as possible.

In the Operational research and decision support tools Toolbox students will:

Acquire the principle concepts and scientific methods of decision support tools to deal with discrete problems
Acquire a global vision and good understanding of techniques stemming from operational research (optimisation, simulation, multi-criteria analysis, …) and of available software programmes
Put into practice the acquired skills through case study work relating to several fields of application.

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Operational research Discrete optimisation Flow simulation Analysis

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