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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...
Initially, I would like to give the answer of this question. Yes, can be. Indeed, there is a derived word for this approach, Biomimetics, copying the nature or benefit from natural opportunities while deriving solutions to the problems. An instance in...
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...
I always wondered “Why would someone try to construct a dual problem?” When I was doing research for my past blog post “Forgotten Scientists“, I accidentally found my answer. Kuhn says that duality should have these two elements: (a) a pair...
Couple of days ago I wondered what will happen if I would trace back references of a randomly chosen OR paper. So, I selected article #7 from March/April 2012 issue of Operations Research journal and started investigating: Jonathan Kluberg and Georgia...
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...
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How can OR Help or Damage Network Security?
12 Apr, 2013
