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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
- AliGorithmVideo
YouTube channel with interesting knowledge about optimization.
- Anything you can do I can do betterVideo
Prof Marco Lubbecke talks about optimization in a TED Talk.
- Combinatorial Optimization: Algorithms and ComplexityBook
An introduction to algorithms and computational complexity to solve combinatorial optimization problems
- Conference index Operations ResearchConference
Index with conferences about Operations Research for the following years
- Conference index OptimizationConference
Index with conferences about Optimization for the following years
- CP ConferenceConference
International conference about Constraint Programming
- CPAIORConference
International conference about the integration of Constraint Programming, Artificial Intelligence and Operations Research
- 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.
- Free the world from wasteful scheduling with Timefold AIVideo
Solve NP-hard optimization problems with Timefold AI.
- Hands-On Mathematical Optimization with PythonBook
A gentle introduction to optimization with Python.
- ICORESConference
International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems
- Impactful AnalyticsNewsletter
Analytics, Data Science, and AI - Actionable insights and thoughts to drive positive business transformation and impact.
- INFORMS Calendar of eventsConference
Calendar of events from INFORMS
- InsideOpt Weekly PuzzleNewsletter
One puzzle every week.
- International Conference on Operations Research (OR)Conference
International Conference on Operations Research
- 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.
- MathOpt: Solver Independent Modeling in Google OR-ToolsVideo
A new interface for Google OR-Tools.
- Mathprog-ORlibDataset
This site provides access to a number of Operations Research problem data sets.
- Metaheuristics and Nature Inspired Computing Conference 2023Conference
International Conference on Metaheuristics and Nature Inspired Computing
- Metaheuristics International Conference (MIC)Conference
Metaheuristics International Conference
- Mike Talks AINewsletter
Practical AI for business, my experience starting and selling a company, and other content.
- ML ain’t your only hammerVideo
Introduction to the field of mathematical optimization.
- 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
- 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
- Pragmatic OR: Solving large scale optimization problems in fast moving environmentsVideo
Rubén Ruiz, Principal Applied Scientist at Amazon, shows how he leverages Hexaly at Amazon to solve a gigantic optimization problem that is out of the scope of other MILP solvers.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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…