Category Archives: Decision Optimization

Decision Optimization Technologies

Decision-making under uncertainty

Posted on March 2, 2025 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Meinolf Sellman: “The key to efficiency and smooth, low-cost, and low-surprise operations is to make better decisions. And that has always been the objective of AI. Not the silly chatbot AI that you see being hyped. Not the expensive AI … Continue reading →

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Decision Optimization and Generative AI

Posted on December 15, 2024 by decisionmanagementcommunity

There are two new articles devoted to this topic: “Optimization and Generative AI” by Alex Fleischer “LLM-ify me – Optimization edition” by Richard Oberdieck

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Nine Solutions for Sep-2024 Challenge “Rental Boats”

Posted on October 4, 2024 by decisionmanagementcommunity

This challenge is about a decision model that can help a boat rental company purchase different boats while satisfying seating, manufacturers, and limited budget requirements. We received 9 solutions and 3 of them used LLMs. Link

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Challenge Sep-2024 “Rental Boats”

Posted on September 7, 2024 by decisionmanagementcommunity

In this challenge you need to help a boat rental company to purchase different boats while satisfying seating, manufacturers, and limited budget requirements. Your solution should maximize the expected profit. Link

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Decision Model as Approximation for Business Problem

Posted on August 16, 2024 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Carlos Armando Zetina: “The model is an approximation for a business’s decision problem because it inevitably needs to make simplifying assumptions such as limited scope, finite horizons, deterministic parameters, and cost approximations to be amenable to solving. Since the optimality … Continue reading →

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Solutions for July-2024 Challenge “Smart Investment”

Posted on August 11, 2024 by decisionmanagementcommunity

We received 9 solutions for our July-2024 Challenge “Smart Investment”.Used decision optimization tools:– IBM CPLEX– Llama3/CPLEX/watsonx– Corticon– Prolog– ChatGPT/Zimpl– IPython/ortools– cDMN– Excel Solver– OpenRules Rule Solver.

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The seven levels of artificial intelligence by Warren B. Powell

Posted on January 31, 2024 by decisionmanagementcommunity

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Solving Decisioning Problems Sequentially over Time

Posted on January 2, 2024 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Prof. Warren Powell wrote: “I recently came to the realization that all the motivating applications of linear programming used by Dantzig were in fact fully sequential (and stochastic). Which means, you do not just solve a single linear program – … Continue reading →

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Smarter Decisions for a Better World

Posted on November 26, 2023 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Operations Research and the Management Sciences (OR/MS) is the computer science technology with probably the most impressive real-world success stories in decision optimization. However, being “too scientific”, OR/MS remains a well-kept secret for many years. The Institute for OR/MS, known … Continue reading →

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Practical Applications, Use Cases, and Testing (DC2023 Notes Part 3)

Posted on September 25, 2023 by jacobfeldman

As usual, DecisionCAMP included presentations devoted to practical applications and case studies of decision modeling and decision optimization. Testing rules-based decision services is extremely important topic in practical decision management especially in the modern CI/CD world. No wonder we had … Continue reading →

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