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Advanced Analytics in Practice focusing on breaking down what it takes to build real-world advanced analytics applications.

AGI? No, thank you! Learning and Intelligent Optimization? Yes, please! https://intelligent-optimization.org/

Learn more about how AI is changing businesses and how you can leverage it: Insights, tools, tips, and expert voices

The journal publishes 24 issues a year that focus on the theoretical, practical, and computational aspects of operations research

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.

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.

CSPLib is a library of test problems for constraint solvers.

A game to better understand how CVRP works.

Instances for the CVRP challenge.

Journal covering algorithmic and applied areas of discrete mathematics

It is a peer-reviewed academic journal in operations research. It was founded in 1977 by the Association of European Operational Research Societies

Where Operations Research practitioners share real-world strategies and emerging techniques for optimal decision-making.

Analytics, Data Science, and AI - Actionable insights and thoughts to drive positive business transformation and impact.

One puzzle every week.

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

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.

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)

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

Practical AI for business, my experience starting and selling a company, and other content.

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.

Roundup of Operations Research, Decision Science, and DecisionOps content from Nextmv and the optimization community

Journal about Operations Research from INFORMS

It is a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal covering operations research. It was established in 1981

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.

Business Intelligence using optimal decision making tools.

Instances for several interesting NP-hard problems.

Planning education for real-world stuff, the newsletter for problem solvers at scale.

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).

🌟 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

Laura Albert’s newsletter about OR.

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.

Learn about cutting planes in an adictive way.

Advice from a decision strategist with 19 years expertise in analytics & AI, inc. Gartner, system integrators & industry

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…