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A curated index of Operations Research resources — solvers, courses, books, datasets, communities and more. Classified by type, topic and audience.
- Adam DeJans Jr.Content creator
Decision Science Leader at Toyota sharing career development tips.
- Advanced modeling for discrete optimizationCourse
Course about advanced modeling for discrete optimization, covering topics such as debugging or predicates
- Ali Al ZoobiContent creator
Operations Research Engineer at Réseau de Transport d'Électricité that shares optimization knowledge in his YouTube channel, Aligorithm.
- Alireza SoroudiContent creator
Lead Data Scientist at Bluecrux with a newsletter about Constraint Programming.
- Amandine MichalskiContent creator
Sales at Gurobi, shares interesting posts about Gurobi.
- Anand SubramanianContent creator
Associate Professor at Universidade Federal da Paraíba + Host of the “Subject to” podcast.
- Andreas Emil FeldmannContent creator
Optimization Expert | Algorithm Design | Operations Research
- ArcadeTSPGame
An arcade-style TSP challenge game written for https://github.com/tunnuz/arcadetsp's 2018 Christmas Party, follow the in-game instructions.
- Basic modeling for discrete optimizationCourse
Course about basic modeling for discrete optimization with MiniZinc
- Beer GameGame
Learn supply chain principles through a visual simulation.
- Borja MenéndezContent creator
Lead Operations Research Engineer at Trucksters with a newsletter about all things Operations Research.
- Bruno VieiraContent creator
PhD Operations Research | Lead Engineer @ FICO
- Burrito Optimization GameGame
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.
- Carlos Armando ZetinaContent creator
Operations Research Scientist at Amazon, shares pragmatic views about delivering value through OR.
- Carolyn MooneyContent creator
Co-Founder + CEO at Nextmv.
- Celso Gustavo Stall SikoraContent creator
Operations Research Expert | Senior Consultant @ Capgemini Invent
- Cemalettin ÖztürkContent creator
Lecturer || Funded Investigator || Logistics, Supply Chain and Smart Manufacturing
- Chahira MouradContent creator
Optimization Data Scientist at MaxAB, spreads the OR word through stories.
- CSPlibDataset
CSPLib is a library of test problems for constraint solvers.
- CVRP GameGame
A game to better understand how CVRP works.
- 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
- Dolores Romero MoralesContent creator
Professor in Operations Research at Copenhagen Business School; Editor-in-Chief of TOP, the OR journal of SEIO.
- Geoffrey De SmetContent creator
Co-Founder + CTO at Timefold AI.
- Iris HeckmannContent creator
VP Product Strategy & Industry Solutions
- Jana BoergerContent creator
Leveraging data in Logistics and Supply Chain Management | #datainlogistics | PhD in Machine Learning | Industrial Engineer
- Javier Berga GarcíaContent creator
Optimization consultant at Decide4AI sharing impactful tips on coding for OR projects.
- Jeffrey Dean KellyContent creator
J.D. Kelly is an Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS) and Advanced Process Control (APC) expert in the process industries including both optimization and estimation technologies otherwise known as Advanced Production-chain Control, Optimization and Estimation (APCOE)
- Judecir CavalcanteContent creator
Senior Data Scientist | Machine Learning Engineer | Decision Scientist | Optmization | Operations Research | Python | SQL | SAS
- Julian HallContent creator
Reader in Mathematics at the University of Edinburgh
- Kathryn WalterContent creator
Sr Operations Research Analyst at Avista
- Kevin TierneyContent creator
Professor of Decision and Operation Technologies at Bielefeld University.
- Laura AlbertContent creator
Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2023 INFORMS President.
- Learn Graph TheoryGame
Interactive resources to learn Graph Theory.
- Learn ORGame
Interactive resources to learn OR.
- Lego ChallengeGame
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.
- Marco LübbeckeContent creator
Professor of operations research at RWTH Aachen University.
- Mathprog-ORlibDataset
This site provides access to a number of Operations Research problem data sets.
- Mehdi NourinejadContent creator
Assistant Professor of Transportation Engineering @ York University | Director of Interactive-OR | Amazon Visiting Academic @ Amazon
- Meinolf SellmanContent creator
Creator of Optimization Solvers, CEO at InsideOpt.
- Michael KatzContent creator
Principal Research Scientist | AI Planning, Reasoning, and Decision-Making Systems; Executive Council Board Member at ICAPS and at AAAI, AAAI Senior Member
- Michael WatsonContent creator
Teaching and writing about all things AI, operations, and his startup experience.
- 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.
- Optimization Games for the YoungGame
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.
- Optsicom ProjectDataset
Instances for several interesting NP-hard problems.
- OR from 0 to 1Course
7-day free email course to kickstart in Operations Research.
- Oskar SchneiderContent creator
Senior Data Scientist at Horvath who shares case studies and mini interviews.
- Pedram Hooshangi-TabriziContent creator
Manager, Operations Research & Data Science | Optimization Expert (Ph.D.)
- Philip WelchContent creator
Logistics Data Scientist + Founder of Open Door Logistics.
- Ponder This!Game
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).
- Prasad VelagaContent creator
President of Optisol, Scheduling Specialist for High-Variety, Order-Driven Production and Resource-Constrained Projects.
- Puzzles and GamesGame
A comprehensive guide to mathematical modeling with more than 140 games as case studies.
- 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.
- Slick Oil GameGame
Deliver 100 barrels to the customer at the lowest cost. Select wells and refineries to choose volume flowing on pipe-lines.
- 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.
- Solving algorithms for discrete optimizationCourse
Course about solving discrete optimization problems with different techniques: Constraint Programming, Mixed Integer Programming and Local Search
- Steven StarkContent creator
OR Scientist at American Tire Distributors. OR, Python, Interviewing Content and More.
- The Cutting PlaneGame
Learn about cutting planes in an adictive way.
- The Knapsack GameGame
A game to play the Knapsack to learn how to solve it.
- The OR-LibraryDataset
OR-Library is a collection of test data sets for a variety of Operations Research (OR) problems.
- Tim VarelmannContent creator
Self-employed OR Engineer at Bluebird Optimization sharing insights about the impact of optimization in businesses.
- Timo BertholdContent creator
Mathematical Optimization Researcher, Teacher, and Manager
- TSP ChallengeGame
Another game with map visualizations for the TSP.
- TSP GameGame
Solve the TSP in a visual way from the Productions and Operations Management (Universitat Wein).
- 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…
- Warren PowellContent creator
Professor Emeritus, Princeton University/ Co-Founder, Optimal Dynamics, shares knowledge about sequential decision problems.
- William Parwoto WironoContent creator
Senior Decision Scientist at Aimpoint Digital | Decision Sciences, Mathematical Modeling
- Zohar StrinkaContent creator
Consultant: Solving the Meta-Problem focused on Data and Supply Chains | Data Analytics, Inventory, Lean Warehouse, Process Improvement