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A curated index of Operations Research resources — solvers, courses, books, datasets, communities and more. Classified by type, topic and audience.
- Advanced modeling for discrete optimizationCourse
Course about advanced modeling for discrete optimization, covering topics such as debugging or predicates
- Basic modeling for discrete optimizationCourse
Course about basic modeling for discrete optimization with MiniZinc
- COMAP contestsChallenge
Consortium for Mathematics and its applications
- COMAP mcm-icmChallenge
COMAP's Mathematical Contest in Modeling (MCM) and Interdisciplinary Contest in Modeling (ICM) are international contests for high school students and college undergraduates. The contests challenge teams of up to three students to analyze, model, solve, and present solution reports to an open-ended application problem. In these contests research, analytics, and applied intelligence are just as important as time management and problem selection. Are you and your team up to it?
- Decision Management Community challengesChallenge
Community for Decision Management, including Machine Learning and Optimization
- Discord: CVXPYCommunity
The CVXPY Discord community is a group of people who use the CVXPY software to solve convex optimization problems in Python
- Discord: HiGHSCommunity
The HiGHS Discord server.
- Discord: Operations ResearchCommunity
Discord community about Operations Research
- Discord: OR-ToolsCommunity
Discord community about OR-Tools, a Google framework for mathematical modeling and solvers
- Discrete Optimization courseCourse
Course about discrete optimization covering a wide range of optimization techniques such as Constraint Programming, Local Search or Column Generation
- Hands-On Mathematical Optimization with PythonBook
A gentle introduction to optimization with Python.
- Introduction to Operations ResearchBook
An introduction to Operations Research with theory from Linear Programming to simulation, passing through Nonlinear Programming, Game Theory, Metaheuristics or Network flows, among others.
- Kaggle Optimization ChallengesChallenge
Challenges around TSP variant with Santa Claus
- Operations Research: an introductionBook
A book covering the basics of Operations Research
- OPTIL.ioChallenge
Challenges with different optimization problems
- ROADEF challengeChallenge
Bi-annual challenges from the French Operational Research (OR) and Decision Support Society. 2026: https://gitlab.com/Orange-OpenSource/network-optimization-tools/challenge-roadef-2026/-/tree/main/sprint_results
- RWTHx: Mathematical Optimization for EngineersCourse
Course about all things mathematical optimization: unconstrained, LP, NLP, MIP, Global optimization, Dynamic optimization, ML for optimization, and optimization under uncertainty.
- Shell AI challengeChallenge
Annual challenges organized by Shell AI team.
- Solving algorithms for discrete optimizationCourse
Course about solving discrete optimization problems with different techniques: Constraint Programming, Mixed Integer Programming and Local Search
- Stack Exchange: Operations ResearchCommunity
Stack Exchange about Operations Research topics
- Subreddit: Operations ResearchCommunity
Subreddit about Operations Research
- Subreddit: OptimizationCommunity
Subreddit about Optimization
- X (Twitter): Operations Research listCommunity
X (Twitter) list with accounts related to Operations Research