Category: Discussion

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On Content of Undergraduate Operations Research Courses

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...

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Some Recent Metaheuristics

After reading this blog post, I thought it would be a good idea to discuss some new metaheuristics inspired by nature. 1 – Spiral Optimization Developed by Keiichiro Yasuda and Kenichi Tamura in 2011. They approximated focused spiral phenomena to logarithmic...

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Role of computers in application of OR

At the beginning 1900’s mathematical tools to formulate decision problems were available, but lack of computational power prevented us from applying these concepts to large real life systems. Poptech recently shared a list of computers developed between 1938 – 1988. It...

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How to ‘Optimize’ Human Emotions?

As my first post in OR-Complete, I would like to write about an interesting question: Is there any way or approach to quantify human emotions? Well, I encountered with this question at or-exchange and I think it is interesting to talk...