Category Archives: Optimization

NVIDIA Open-Sources cuOpt for Decision Optimization

Posted on March 19, 2025 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Optimization has always been at the core of computational research, and now, a new frontier is emerging—one where open-source innovation meets GPU acceleration. COIN-OR and NVIDIA are collaborating to bring NVIDIA cuOpt, a GPU-accelerated optimization engine, into the COIN-OR open-source ecosystem. This collaboration … Continue reading →

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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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Combining AI and OR/MS for Better Trustworthy Decision Making

Posted on January 3, 2025 by decisionmanagementcommunity

An interesting event “Bridge: AI+ORMS” will occur on February 25-26, 2025 as a part of the 39th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Philadelphia USA. “The goal of this bridge program is to unite AI and OR/MS practitioners and … Continue reading →

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Constraint Programming: MiniZinc Challenge Results

Posted on September 7, 2024 by decisionmanagementcommunity

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Dantzig’s Story

Posted on July 27, 2024 by decisionmanagementcommunity

“If I had known that the problems were not homework but were in fact two famous unsolved problems in statistics, I probably would not have thought positively, would have become discouraged, and would never have solved them.” George Dantzig The … Continue reading →

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Decision Modeling and Fairness

Posted on July 8, 2024 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Could we achieve fairness in our automatic decision-making? This question was actively discussed in the presentation “How to make optimal decisions (that are unfair, biased and non-objective)” given by Dr. Guido Tack in May of 2024. While Guido used the … Continue reading →

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How to Introduce Optimization

Posted on June 22, 2024 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Prof. Warren B. Powell published a new book “A Modern Approach to Teaching an Introduction to Optimization“. He states: “Optimization should be the science of making the best decisions we can… The vast majority of optimization problems are used to make … Continue reading →

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Solvers for Scheduling and Routing Problems

Posted on April 16, 2024 by decisionmanagementcommunity

LocalSolver has been renamed to Hexaly which claims to be the world’s fastest optimization solver for Routing, Scheduling, and Packing problems. Link Check out also Timefold solver that handles the same problems and now inherited OptaPlanner after Red Hat announced … Continue reading →

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Solving an Optimization Problem by Don Knuth

Posted on April 13, 2024 by decisionmanagementcommunity

In 1960, the famed computer scientist Don Knuth wrote a technical paper in which he considered an integer programming model for minimizing memory access latency of an IBM 650. It included 51 variables and 43 constraints. Knuth ran Gomory’s algorithm on … Continue reading →

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Focus on Decision-Making Under Uncertainty

Posted on March 24, 2024 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Meinoff Sellmann, a well-known expert in Operation Research (OR), gives this advice: “No surfer has ever surfed a wave by paddling to a place where others are already surfing the tube. In 2024, generative AI is the latest fashion. And … Continue reading →

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