Operations research, known also as management science, provides analytical tools for decision making in the management of complex activities with limited resources. Operations research offers techniques for a scientific approach to problem solving and presents strong interdisciplinary characteristics, with strong relations in particular with computer science. Scope of the course is the learning of techniques for problem solving and of a scientific/technological approach to the solution of complex problems that may arise in management, economics, finance, logistics, transportation, production, network design, information technology.