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A curated index of Operations Research resources — solvers, courses, books, datasets, communities and more. Classified by type, topic and audience.
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- Advanced Analytics in PracticeNewsletter
Advanced Analytics in Practice focusing on breaking down what it takes to build real-world advanced analytics applications.
- AGI? No, thank you!Newsletter
AGI? No, thank you! Learning and Intelligent Optimization? Yes, please! https://intelligent-optimization.org/
- AI for Better PlanningNewsletter
Learn more about how AI is changing businesses and how you can leverage it: Insights, tools, tips, and expert voices
- Amazon ScienceBlog
Blog with news from the Operations Research and Optimization group at Amazon
- Combinatorial Optimization: Algorithms and ComplexityBook
An introduction to algorithms and computational complexity to solve combinatorial optimization problems
- CSPlibDataset
CSPLib is a library of test problems for constraint solvers.
- CVRPlibDataset
Instances for the CVRP challenge.
- FeasibleNewsletter
Where Operations Research practitioners share real-world strategies and emerging techniques for optimal decision-making.
- Flexciton newsBlog
Blog with news from one of the biggest companies in the world optimizing chip making
- Gurobi blogBlog
Blog with news from Gurobi, the company behind one of the most important solvers globally
- Gurobi case studiesBlog
Use cases from Gurobi
- Hands-On Mathematical Optimization with PythonBook
A gentle introduction to optimization with Python.
- Impactful AnalyticsNewsletter
Analytics, Data Science, and AI - Actionable insights and thoughts to drive positive business transformation and impact.
- InsideOpt Weekly PuzzleNewsletter
One puzzle every week.
- Introduction to algorithmsBook
Some books on algorithms are rigorous but incomplete; others cover masses of material but lack rigor. Introduction to Algorithms uniquely combines rigor and comprehensiveness.
- 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.
- Mathprog-ORlibDataset
This site provides access to a number of Operations Research problem data sets.
- Mike Talks AINewsletter
Practical AI for business, my experience starting and selling a company, and other content.
- Modern LP Book - DualityBook
A discussion about books focused on duality theory
- NextmvNewsletter
Roundup of Operations Research, Decision Science, and DecisionOps content from Nextmv and the optimization community
- Operations Research: an introductionBook
A book covering the basics of Operations Research
- Optano blogBlog
Blog with news about optimization of structures and processes (including logistics planning, network planning, production planning…)
- Optimization in open-sourceNewsletter
Business Intelligence using optimal decision making tools.
- Optimization via Relaxation and DecompositionBook
This book offers an up-to-date description of relaxation/approximation and decomposition techniques, demonstrating how their combined use efficiently solves large-scale optimization problems relevant to engineering, particularly in electrical, and industrial engineering, with a focus on energy.
- Optimizing with Column GenerationBook
An interesting book about Column Generation to tackle large-scale optimization problems
- Optsicom ProjectDataset
Instances for several interesting NP-hard problems.
- PlannedNewsletter
Planning education for real-world stuff, the newsletter for problem solvers at scale.
- PRADO seriesNewsletter
🌟 Welcome to the Prescriptive Analytics and Decision Optimization (PRADO) Series 2025! 🌟 The series of presentations about OR in practice, tools, and technologies. 📅 Program Sneak Peek: 🎤 March: Optimizing pharmacy procurement with substitution of drugs
- Punk Rock ORNewsletter
Laura Albert’s newsletter about OR.
- QAPlibDataset
Instances for Quadratic Assignment Problems.
- SNDlibDataset
SNDlib is a library of data for Survivable fixed telecommunication Network Design. Its purpose is to provide data about realistic telecommunication networks (including traffic) available to the research community.
- Solvermax blogBlog
Blog about mathematical modeling with Python and Excel
- The Decision StrategistNewsletter
Advice from a decision strategist with 19 years expertise in analytics & AI, inc. Gartner, system integrators & industry
- The OR-LibraryDataset
OR-Library is a collection of test data sets for a variety of Operations Research (OR) problems.
- TSPlibDataset
TSPLIB is a library of sample instances for the TSP (and related problems) from various sources and of various types.
- Vaidehi Joshi blogBlog
Blog about data structures and algorithms
- VRPlibDataset
This web is dedicated to the study of VRP; we have compiled here a great deal of information about it for public access: technical reports, many different variants of the problem, alternative algorithms and techniques for solving it, some well-known instances of the problem, the best-so-far solutions for those instances, bibliography, related links…