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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
- Amazon ScienceBlog
Blog with news from the Operations Research and Optimization group at Amazon
- Basic modeling for discrete optimizationCourse
Course about basic modeling for discrete optimization with MiniZinc
- CSPlibDataset
CSPLib is a library of test problems for constraint solvers.
- CVRPlibDataset
Instances for the CVRP challenge.
- Discrete Optimization courseCourse
Course about discrete optimization covering a wide range of optimization techniques such as Constraint Programming, Local Search or Column Generation
- 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
- Mathprog-ORlibDataset
This site provides access to a number of Operations Research problem data sets.
- MIPLearnSoftware
An extensible framework for solving discrete optimization problems using a combination of Mixed-Integer Linear Programming (MIP) and Machine Learning (ML). MIPLearn uses ML methods to automatically identify patterns in previously solved instances of the problem, then uses these patterns to accelerate the performance of conventional state-of-the-art MIP solvers such as CPLEX, Gurobi or XPRESS.
- Optano blogBlog
Blog with news about optimization of structures and processes (including logistics planning, network planning, production planning…)
- Optsicom ProjectDataset
Instances for several interesting NP-hard problems.
- OR from 0 to 1Course
7-day free email course to kickstart in Operations Research.
- QAPlibDataset
Instances for Quadratic Assignment Problems.
- 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.
- 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
- Solving algorithms for discrete optimizationCourse
Course about solving discrete optimization problems with different techniques: Constraint Programming, Mixed Integer Programming and Local Search
- 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…