• The assignment is designed to allow you to demonstrate that you can effectively collect, review, and analyze the relevant academic literatures
on a particular topic, which is same as the topic for your assignment 2.
• Each group has to select a company (manufacturing-based OR servicebased) with which you are familiar, select an optimization problem being
faced by the company (e.g., media selection at Telstra, employee scheduling in HSBC, make-or-buy at Toyota, resource allocation at the
University of Melbourne, distribution network design at Pickfords, etc.),
and then collect and review 10 international journal articles, from the past ten years, applying mathematical modelling for the problem to be
studied.
• You should analyze the strengths of these applications and their “valueadd” to the decision making process, and also identify the knowledge
gaps and limitations, if any, and suggest for improvements.
• Introduction – company background, description of the business optimization problem, justification of selection, identification of the
company’s requirements or evaluation criteria, etc.
• Methodology – description of the method used to collect the journal articles, such as databases, searching and filtering criteria, etc.
• Strengths – analysis of the strengths of the articles with respect to the evaluation criteria.
• Weaknesses – analysis of the weaknesses of the articles with respect to
the evaluation criteria.
• Discussions and Conclusions – suggestions for improvement.
• References
• Appendices – including the minutes/notes of meetings.
