Monthly Archive: June 2012

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Solving Vehicle Routing Problem

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...

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Reference Journey

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...

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Easiest Way to Use Matlab over Java

I think Matlab is often needed for OR people, for solving equations, taking derivatives, etc.. Although I like mathematical software, I am using Object Oriented Programming instead, since I’m more familiar to them. However due to limitations of programming languages, we...

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Forgotten Scientists

“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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Inventory or Stock? Observations from an OR Congress

Today, I attended National Operations Research and Industrial Engineering Congress in Turkey (YAEM 2012) in Istanbul. [L] Congress will continue for two more days. Such congresses are beneficial in terms of networking, learning and sharing. I had a chance to meet...

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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...