The key for lecturers is as follows:
ALL: All instructors.
AIB: Professor Arnold Barnett, Sloan School of Management
ARO: Professor Amedeo Odoni, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
RCL: Professor Richard Larson, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Lecture notes files
| Lec # |
lectures |
Lecturers |
| 1 |
Introduction, Overview |
ALL |
| 2 |
Pedestrian Crossing Problem 1 |
AIB |
| 3 |
Pedestrian Crossing Problem 2 |
AIB |
| 4 |
Functions of Random Variables 1 |
AIB |
| 5 |
Functions of Random Variables 2
Wall of Shame: Barrier Example (PDF)
Crofton's Methods (PDF) |
AIB |
| 6 |
Geometrical Probability I
Geometrical Probability in the Sky (PDF) |
AIB |
| 7 |
Geometrical Probability II |
AIB |
| 8 |
Some Transportation Models
Second Nearest Neighbor: Spatial Poisson Example (PDF) |
AIB |
| 9 |
Introduction to Queues; Little's Law
Queueing Systems 1 (PDF) |
ARO |
| 10 |
Markov Birth-and-Death Queues
Queueing Systems 2 (PDF) |
ARO |
| 11 |
More General Markov Queues
Queueing Systems 3 (PDF) |
ARO |
| 12 |
The M/G/1 Queue and Extensions
Queueing Systems 4 (PDF)
The M/G/1 Queueing System (PDF)
Preemptive Priority Queues (PDF) |
ARO |
| 13 |
Quiz 1 |
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| 14 |
Congestion Pricing (PDF)
Queueing Systems 5 (PDF)
Queueing Systems 6 (PDF) |
ARO |
| 15 |
Queueing Networks; Dynamic Queues |
ARO |
| 16 |
Hypercube Queueing Model I
Spatial Queues I (PDF - 1.4 MB) |
RCL |
| 17 |
Hypercube Queueing Model II
Spatial Queues II (PDF) |
RCL |
| 18 |
The Queue Inference Engine |
RCL |
| 19 |
Introduction to Networks
Networks 1 (PDF) |
ARO |
| 20 |
Node and Edge Covering
Networks 2 (PDF) |
ARO |
| 21 |
Location Problems
Important Heuristics for TSP (PDF) |
ARO |
| 22 |
Probabilistic Routing and Location
TSP Problem 6.7 (PDF) |
ARO |
| 23 |
Simulating Randomness |
AIB |
| 24 |
Implementation |
RCL |
| 25 |
Quiz 2 |
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| 26 |
Final Roundup |
ALL |