# 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**

# Course Fee

|  |  |
| --- | --- |
| **Particulars** | **Amount** |
| Course Fee | 15,000 |
| Application Fee | 300 |
| GST@18% | 2,754 |
| Total | 18,054 |