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Hi Everyone, Almost one week after, I wanted to share my observations from my first INFORMS Annual Meeting in Minneapolis. Let me say one thing at the beginning: I really enjoyed the conference and I am very happy to attend even...
Hi everyone, after a long time I would like to write about the classification of the healthcare problems that I have been thinking for a while. Personally, I am interested in application based OR studies especially in healthcare. Since healthcare problems...
Note 1: This reading contains spoilers about the Travelling Salesman. If you do not read any comments about the movie, please keep your willing of reading this post after watching the movie Note 2: I wrote this post after I had...
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...
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...
“No scientific discovery is named after its original discoverer.” – Stigler’s law of eponymy. Stigler named the sociologist Robert K. Merton as the discoverer of “Stigler’s law”, consciously making “Stigler’s law” exemplify Stigler’s law. (Stigler’s law of eponymy – Wikipedia) Why this happens? Most...
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How can OR Help or Damage Network Security?
12 Apr, 2013
