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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
- Annals of Operations ResearchJournal
The journal publishes 24 issues a year that focus on the theoretical, practical, and computational aspects of operations research
- Basic modeling for discrete optimizationCourse
Course about basic modeling for discrete optimization with MiniZinc
- 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
- 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.
- Computers & Operations ResearchJournal
Operations research and computers interact in many scientific fields of vital importance to our society. These include, among others, transportation, economics, investment strategy, inventory control, logistics, safety, reliability, urban planning, and ecology. Computers & Operations Research (COR) provides an international forum for the application of computers and operations research techniques to problems in these and related fields.
- CSPlibDataset
CSPLib is a library of test problems for constraint solvers.
- CVRPlibDataset
Instances for the CVRP challenge.
- Discrete Applied MathematicsJournal
Journal covering algorithmic and applied areas of discrete mathematics
- 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.
- European Journal of Operational ResearchJournal
It is a peer-reviewed academic journal in operations research. It was founded in 1977 by the Association of European Operational Research Societies
- Geoffrey De SmetContent creator
Co-Founder + CTO at Timefold AI.
- International Transactions in Operational ResearchJournal
It is a peer-reviewed academic journal which is published six times a year by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies. The editorial mission of the journal is to advance the theory and practice of Operational Research and Management Science internationally
- 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.
- Marco LübbeckeContent creator
Professor of operations research at RWTH Aachen University.
- Mathematics Of Operations ResearchJournal
It is a quarterly peer-reviewed scientific journal established in February 1976. It focuses on areas of mathematics relevant to the field of operations research such as continuous optimization, discrete optimization, game theory, machine learning, simulation methodology, and stochastic models. The journal is published by INFORMS (Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences)
- 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.
- Operations ResearchJournal
Journal about Operations Research from INFORMS
- Operations Research LettersJournal
It is a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal covering operations research. It was established in 1981
- 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.
- Prasad VelagaContent creator
President of Optisol, Scheduling Specialist for High-Variety, Order-Driven Production and Resource-Constrained Projects.
- 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.
- 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 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
- 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