ONLINE COURSE ON PRESCRIPTIVE ANALYTICS (3:0)

Source: https://cce.iisc.ac.in/cce-proficience/prescriptive-analytics-mj-2026/ Parent: https://cce.iisc.ac.in/cce-proficience/

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CCE-PROFICIENCE MAY – JULY 2026

Duration

3 months May -July 2026

Schedule

Saturdays

7 P.M.-10 P.M.

Course offered

Online

Exam Duration

31 July to 9 August 2026

Classes Start

9 May 2026

Objectives of the Course

To provide business practitioners and those who are interested in Prescriptive Analytics with a selected set of Management Science and optimization techniques and discuss the fundamental concepts, methods, and models needed to understand prescriptive-analytics and implement these techniques in the era of Big Data.

Syllabus

Introduction to Business Analytics, Linear/Integer/Non-Linear Optimization, Optimization of Network Models, Dynamic Programming, Introdcution to Heuristic Programming, Goal Programming, Selected Multi-Attribute Decision Making Methods, and Monte Carlo Simulation, which are believed to be among the most popular Prescriptive Analytics tools to solve a majority of business optimization problems, with case studies from Business, Industry, and Government applications using LINDO/LINGO/CPLEX/Pulb optimization package(s).

Minimum Qualification required by the candidates

BE/BTech, ME/MTech, Masters in – Business Administration, Management, Operations Research, Computer Science, Computer Applications, Mathematics, Statistics, Commerce, Economics. (3rd year & Final year learners are also eligible to apply.

Reference Books

(1) Wayne L Winston. Operations Research: Applications and Algorithms (Latest Edition). Duxbury Press. An Imprint of Wadsworth Publishing Company, Belmont, California, USA\ (2) Anderson, Sweeney and Williams. An Introduction to management Science: Quantitative Approaches to Decision Making (Latest Edition). South-Western College Publishing.\ (3) U Dinesh Kumar. Business Analytics: The Science of Data-Driven Decision Making. Wiley India, 2017\ (4) Ravindra A., Philips D.T., and Solberg J.J.. Operations Research – Principles and Practice (Latest Ed.), John Wiley and Sons.

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Know The Facilitators

Dr M Mathirajan

Chief Research Scientist

Department of Management Studies, Faculty of Engineering,

Indian Institute of Science

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