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Although we couldn’t attend INFORMS 2012 this year as OR-Complete, we would like to share you that there is INFORMS TV 2012 channel on Youtube, consists of 18 videos regarding INFORMS 2012. Here is a video on the expectations of attendees;
Linear Optimization (aka Linear Programming, LP) is one of the earliest improvement in Operations Research history. Despite the fact that there are more than 73 years passed since Kantorovich modeled first LP, it is still widely used in many sectors. In...
Well, as a Matrix fan, I thought if we are really in ‘the Matrix’ then there could be some changes in Operations Research. I would like to start with the question ‘What is the Matrix?’ for those who don’t know the...
Today, one of professors in my department talked about content of two new courses of him. He is planning one graduate-level course and one undergraduate level. While describing the courses, he stated that the graduate one will focus on academic issues...
In his site, OR/MS Today and Analytics Magazine, John Toczek is publishing OR problems, examples and puzzles. As the description of his site suggests, the content is consist of “Decision Support puzzles for applied mathematicians” and also for OR people. Michael...
While surfing the waves of the internet, I encountered with a video, which is very effective in terms of describing Analytics and OR. The video is created and uploaded by INFORMS on Youtube, with support from IBM. Although, there are more...
Football -aka soccer, the European football- is one of the most popular sports in the world. By having ambitious and successful teams, numerous supporters and perhaps the first and foremost unbelievably high budgets, football should be in the interest of Operations...
First of all, what is “Vehicle Routing”? Vehicle Routing -VRP- is a common problem type in OR, which aims to provide service to demand points with a certain number of vehicles. VRP is introduced by Dantzig and Ramser (1959) -as Truck...
I think Matlab is often needed for OR people, for solving equations, taking derivatives, etc.. Although I like mathematical software, I am using Object Oriented Programming instead, since I’m more familiar to them. However due to limitations of programming languages, we...
Today, I attended National Operations Research and Industrial Engineering Congress in Turkey (YAEM 2012) in Istanbul. [L] Congress will continue for two more days. Such congresses are beneficial in terms of networking, learning and sharing. I had a chance to meet...
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How can OR Help or Damage Network Security?
12 Apr, 2013
