OR and the Matrix
Well, as a Matrix fan, I thought if we are really in ‘the Matrix’ then there could be some changes in Operations Research. I would like to start with the question ‘What is the Matrix?’ for those who don’t know the...
Well, as a Matrix fan, I thought if we are really in ‘the Matrix’ then there could be some changes in Operations Research. I would like to start with the question ‘What is the Matrix?’ for those who don’t know the...
Today, one of professors in my department talked about content of two new courses of him. He is planning one graduate-level course and one undergraduate level. While describing the courses, he stated that the graduate one will focus on academic issues...
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...
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...
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...
While surfing the waves of the internet, I encountered with a video, which is very effective in terms of describing Analytics and OR. The video is created and uploaded by INFORMS on Youtube, with support from IBM. Although, there are more...
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...