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An arcade-style TSP challenge game written for https://github.com/tunnuz/arcadetsp's 2018 Christmas Party, follow the in-game instructions.

Learn supply chain principles through a visual simulation.

Web-based app that is intended to act as an entry point for data scientists and problem solvers who could benefit from optimization; the game teaches players why optimization is valuable and important, why it’s difficult (by showcasing the scaling and added complexity of optimization throughout round play), and why solvers and other optimization algorithms are essential in finding an optimal solution.

CSPLib is a library of test problems for constraint solvers.

A game to better understand how CVRP works.

Instances for the CVRP challenge.

The CVXPY Discord community is a group of people who use the CVXPY software to solve convex optimization problems in Python

The HiGHS Discord server.

Discord community about Operations Research

Discord community about OR-Tools, a Google framework for mathematical modeling and solvers

Interactive resources to learn Graph Theory.

Interactive resources to learn OR.

The TLC is a simple constrained integer program turned into a game that you can play in a classroom with Legos. In each round of the game, your team acts as a boutique woodworking company who must decide which items to build and sell to the market. The goal is to decide how many of each type of item to build to maximize profits and beat other teams, where you are constrained by how many component pieces you have available.

This site provides access to a number of Operations Research problem data sets.

Developed to help spark an interest for mathematics in children and young adults. I use optimization concepts in the context of real-life problems as motivation. All you need are a printer to print the pages with the instructions and a pair of scissors to cut out the game pieces.

Instances for several interesting NP-hard problems.

Seems some of us can't see a problem without wanting to take a crack at solving it. Does that sound like you? Good. Forge ahead and ponder this month's problem. We'll post a new one every month, and allow a month for you to submit solutions (we may even publish submitted answers, especially if they're correct).

A comprehensive guide to mathematical modeling with more than 140 games as case studies.

Instances for Quadratic Assignment Problems.

Deliver 100 barrels to the customer at the lowest cost. Select wells and refineries to choose volume flowing on pipe-lines.

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.

Stack Exchange about Operations Research topics

Subreddit about Operations Research

Subreddit about Optimization

Learn about cutting planes in an adictive way.

A game to play the Knapsack to learn how to solve it.

OR-Library is a collection of test data sets for a variety of Operations Research (OR) problems.

Another game with map visualizations for the TSP.

Solve the TSP in a visual way from the Productions and Operations Management (Universitat Wein).

TSPLIB is a library of sample instances for the TSP (and related problems) from various sources and of various types.

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…

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