Educational Courses (Dr. Mark Sh. Levin)

(a) general description of combinatorial optimization problems, methods, etc.
(b) basic combinatorial optimization problems (knapsack, traveling salesman problem, assignment, etc.)
(c) practical works (formulation of applied problems, design of solving schemes,
design of WEB-pages for combinatorial optimization problems)

References
1. M.Sh. Levin, Application of Combinatorial Optimization Models in Computer-Aided Systems,
VNIITEMR, Moscow, 1986 (in Russian)
2. M.Sh. Levin, Combinatorial Engineering of Decomposable Systems, Kluwer, 1998.
3. M.Sh. Levin, Composite Systems Decisions, Springer, 2006.

(a) properties of information technology,
(b) multicriteria decision making,
(c) human-computer interfaces and human factors,
(d) combinatorial models (e.g., knapsack, selection, assignment and allocation),
(e) decision support systems (DSS),
(f) components of information technology,
(g) multicriteria analysis and selection of components above,
(h) system integration (integration or synthesis of the components into a whole system).

Realization: Febr.-June 1995,
Inst. for Politics, Economics and Low (Moscow)
Language: Russian

Practical works of two kinds:
(i) multicriteria analysis, comparison and selection of components;
(ii) system integration.

References:
M.Sh. Levin, On Teaching of Information Technology. Nauchno-Tekhnicheskaya Informatsiya,
Ser. 1, No. 5, pp. 14-23, (in Russian) 1996.

Realization: Febr.-June 1999
Dept. of Ind. Eng. and Management, The Ariel College (Israel)
Language: Hebrew; Materials: Hebrew & English

Practical works:
(i) design and management of product life cycle for certain products

References:
M.Sh. Levin, Combinatorial Engineering of Decomposable Systems, Kluwer, 1998.

Realization: April 1995 & October 1996, Academy for Russian Economy (Moscow, Russia)

References:
M.Sh. Levin, Typical Decision Making Problems in Preparation of Business Plans.
Scentific and Technical Information Processing, 22, 24-34, 1995.

Realization: Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University); Moscow, Russia;
Course for Faculty of Radio-Engineering and Cybernetics:
(1) Fall 2004 (Sept. 2004-Jan 2005),
(2) Spring 2005 (Febr. 2005-June 2005),
(3) Fall 2005 (Sept. 2005-Jan. 2006),
(4) Spring 2006 (Febr. 2006-June 2006),
(5) Fall 2006 (Sept. 2006-Jan. 2007),
(6) Spring 2007 (Febr. 2007-June 2007),
(7) Fall 2007 (Sept. 2007-Jan. 2008),
(8) Spring 2008 (Febr. 2008-June 2008)

Practical works: hierarchical morphological design, multicriteria ranking, knapsack problem, clustering,
method of ideal point, multiple-choice problem, hierarchical evaluation of composite system, clustering, etc.

(Students Papers)
References:
1. M.Sh. Levin, Combinatorial Engineering of Decomposable Systems, Kluwer, 1998.
2. M.Sh. Levin, Composite Systems Decisions, Springer, 2006.
3. M.Sh. Levin, Application of Combinatorial Optimization Models in Computer-Aided Systems,
VNIITEMR, Moscow, 1986 (in Russian)
4. M.Sh. Levin, Course "System Design: Structural Approach", Paper no. DETC2006-99547,
ASME Int. Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (IDETC/CIE2006)
Volume 4a: 18th Int. Conf. on Design Theory and Methodology DTM, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 475-484, 2006.
5. M.Sh. Levin, Towards Teaching of System Design.
Information Technologies and Computer Systems (Russian Academy of Sciences),
Issue 2, 89-94, 2007 (in Russian)
6. M.Sh. Levin, Student Research Projects in System Design.
Int. Conf. on Computer Supported Education CSEDU 2009, Lisbon, vol. 2, 67-72, 2009

(a) basic problems: (i) selection of system components, (ii) assignment/allocation of system components, (iii) design of system hierarchies;
(b) basic combinatorial optimization problems (problem of representatives, knapsack problem, multiple choice problem, assignment/allocation problem, morphological clique, clique in multipartite graph, graph coloring, spanning tree problem, Steiner tree problem, hierarchical clustering);
(c) dynamic system reconfigurution.

References
1. M.Sh. Levin, Combinatorial Engineering of Decomposable Systems, Kluwer, 1998.
2. M.Sh. Levin, Composite Systems Decisions, Springer, 2006.
3. M.Sh. Levin, Towards System Configuration Design.
Int. Conf. on Complex Systems ICCS 2007 (New England Complex Systems Inst.),
InterJournal Complex Systems, Paper No. 2162
4. Levin M.Sh., Combinatorial optimization in system configuration design.
Autom. and Remote Control, vol. 70, no. 3, pp. 519-561, 2009.
5. M.Sh. Levin, Combinatorial optimization in system configuration design.
Electronic Scientific Journal "Information Processes",
2008, vol. 8, no. 4, pp. 256-300 (in Russian).


ADDITIONS:
(1) The MIT Open Course Ware program
(2) Synthesis Engineering Education Coalition
(3) Data Mining Tutorials by Prof. Andrew Moore (CMU)
(4) Systems Engineeering Advanced Research Initiative (MIT)
(5) Directory of Systems Engineering Academic Programs (INCOSE)
(6) Council of Engineering Systems Universities (CESUN)
(7) Computer Science in Russia
(8) Site "TeorMin" (in Russia)
(9) MIT System Design and Management Program
(10) Graduate School of System Design and Management (Japan's Keio Univ., Tokyo)
(11) Singapore University of Technology and Design SUTD (open doors: Apr. 2012)
(12) "Integrated Product and Process Design" program, College of Engineering, Univ. of Florida
(13) Course "Interactive system design" (Prof. Chris Johnson, Glasgow University, UK)
(14) Dept. of Systems Engineering Design (Univ. of Waterloo, Canada)
(15) Center for Computational Thinking (CMU, Microsoft Research)
(16) Independent University of Moscow
(17) NSF Cluster "Systems Engineering and Design"
(18) Computational Infrastructure for Operations Research (COIN-OR)
(19) Webometrics Ranking of World Universities
(20) SCImago Journal & Country Rank (Scopus-based)