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Operational Research Grigorios Beligiannis - Undergraduate - (A-) Department of Business Administration of Food and Agricultural Enterprises, University of Patras The course covers in depth the issue of decision making in business environment and the role of Operational Research. Extensive description and analysis of the theory and practice of dealing with decision-making problems in a business environment is performed. Modeling and solving of linear programming problems (LP) is presented and analyzed. The simplex method is described and presented in detail as well as many special cases of LP problems.
Management Information Systems (MBA) Grigorios Beligiannis - Postgraduate - (A+) Department of Business Administration of Food and Agricultural Enterprises, University of Patras The description of the content of the course is as follows: Lesson 1: Network Analysis (Graph Theory) Lesson 2: Applications of Network Analysis (Part 1), shortest path problem, minimum spanning tree problem Lesson 3: Applications of Network Analysis (Part 2), minimum spanning tree problem, maximum flow problem Lesson 4: Project Management Lesson 5: Project management under uncertainty Lesson 6: Project compression Lesson 7: Introduction to Decision Theory - Decision trees Lesson 8: Games with full and incomplete information Lesson 9: Solving games with of two players In the end, two lectures are performed in which the concepts analyzed during the semester are summarized and revision exercises are solved.
Decision Theory Grigorios Beligiannis - Undergraduate - (A+) Department of Business Administration of Food and Agricultural Enterprises, University of Patras The main objective of the course is a detailed presentation of the theoretical and practical framework of the concept and content of decision theory and the importance they have for the modern business. Also, the methodological decision documentation, schemes and algorithms appropriate to address real problems and situations on a business level by exploiting the technology offered by Information Technology.
Introduction to Information Systems Grigorios Beligiannis - Undergraduate - (A+) Department of Business Administration of Food and Agricultural Enterprises, University of Patras The course covers all aspects of analysis, design and development of information systems. A detailed analysis and description of the factors that affect the process of development of information systems and the fundamentals of data modeling techniques and procedures is performed. Many examples are discussed and many information systems analysis and design exercises are presented using well known modeling techniques.
Quality Control Evangelos Grigoroudis - undergraduate - (A-) School of Production Engineering and Management, Technical University of Crete The course focuses on the tools and techniques of Statistical Quality Control and its main objective is to show how statistical methods are used in this area. This course examines the two main branches of Statistical Quality Control, i.e., sampling plans (Acceptance Sampling) and control charts (Statistical Process Control).
Methodology of Operations Research Michael Doumpos - undergraduate - (A+) School of Production Engineering and Management, Technical University of Crete History and framework of operations research, Decision analysis under certainty and uncertainty, Graph theory, Project management, Inventory control, The EOQ model and extensions, Introduction to linear programming models.
Decision Support System NIKOLAOS MATSATSINIS - undergraduate - (A-) School of Production Engineering and Management, Technical University of Crete Introduction to information systems and information technology , Information and Information Systems . Decision Analysis . Decision-making process. Decision making under risk and uncertainty. Multicriteria Decision Analysis .Group Decision . Decision Support Systems. Architectural Decision Support Systems . Systems Human-Computer Interaction . Database Management Systems . Modeling and Database Management.
Financial Calculus Michael Doumpos - undergraduate - (A-) School of Production Engineering and Management, Technical University of Crete Introduction to financial market. Basic concepts of portfolio management. Portfolio optimization models. Bond valuation. Bond management, risk measures, and portfolio strategies. Introduction to financial derivatives. Options. Option valuation models. Hedging. Futures. Value at Ris
Linear Programming Michael Doumpos - undergraduate - (A-) School of Production Engineering and Management, Technical University of Crete The framework of linear programming (LP), modeling examples. Graphical method. The simplex algorithm. Tableau implementation. Duality and dual simplex method. Sensitivity analysis. Parametric programming. Robustness. Integer LP. Special LP problems. Introduction to multiobjective LP. Case studies.
Marketing STELIOS TSAFARAKIS - undergraduate - (A-) School of Production Engineering and Management, Technical University of Crete Object and evolution of Marketing