本课程基于实际应用，涵盖决策领域大规模系统的建模以及运用最新最优化工具优化这些系统。应用领域有：交通和物流规划，模式识别，图象处理，数据挖掘，结构设计，大系统进度安排，供应链管理，金融工程和电信系统规划。建模工具和方法涵盖线性规划，网络规划，离散规划，非线性规划，启发式方法，灵敏度分析，事后最优性分析，大规模系统的分解方法和随机规划。

An applications-oriented course on the modeling of large-scale systems in decision-making domains and the optimization of such systems using state-of-the-art optimization tools. Application domains include: transportation and logistics planning, pattern classification and image processing, data mining, design of structures, scheduling in large systems, supply-chain management, financial engineering, and telecommunications systems planning. Modeling tools and techniques include linear, network, discrete and nonlinear optimization, heuristic methods, sensitivity and post-optimality analysis, decomposition methods for large-scale systems, and stochastic optimization.