Spare parts optimization, Integer convexity and Marginal allocation

This part of the course is not covered by the course book. 

Therefore, two pdf files are provided to explain the theory. 

Here are the Download slides

 used in Lecture 6

 

In exercise 4 a more realistic example of how Marginal Allocation can be applied to maximize the reliability of a satellite by introducing redundancy is described. We recommend that you have a look at the problem formulation before the class, see  Download Satelliten

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The (first part of the) second home assignment applies Spare parts optimization on a test example.