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Best ways to use machine learning / AI as an OR scientist

I have come across GUROBI's webinar "Mathematical optimization and machine learning". In essence, Mathematical Optimization (MO) and Machine Learning (ML) are different but complementary technologies. Simply put – Mixed Integer Programming (MIP)…
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Well-known parent/child pairs in the field of OR

Does the apple fall not far from the tree in operations research? Who are well-known Parent/Child pairs in operations research? I can't claim this: my father was a chemist and my son, at fifteen, has not yet caught the OR bug.
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Small Traveling Salesman Problem instance

The Traveling Salesman Problem is perhaps the most studied of all combinatorial optimization problems. There has been a lot work in solving TSP instances to provable optimality. Concorde solves very large instances to provable optimality, with the…
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TSP with revenue maximization

How to approach a traveling salesman problem with an aim to maximize revenue at each town visited in a certain number of days (total number of towns is greater than what can be visited in the given time window) ? The demand for the product being…
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Working with absolute values in constraint in a LP or MILP

Having all the approaches explained in the blog called "OR in an OB World" (this address) in my mind, I would like to ask the following question: What is the best practice to make a constraint linear when for a variable in constraints, there is an…
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What are the modern optimization methods for large systems?

I came across the preface of Optimization Theory for Large Systems (you can read it in Amazon). The author claims in the table (page v) that some of the methods such as Dantzig Wolfe decomposition, some column generations, etc. are not widely used…
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Variable fixing based on a good feasible solution

Suppose you have a combinatorial optimization problem that is formulated as a mixed integer linear program (minimization). The problem size is denoted $n$ and the expected $n$ is around $100$. The integer program has $O(n^5)$ variables and $O(n^2)$…
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Can an integer optimization problem be convex?

I'm trying to wrap my head around an apparent paradox that I've come across while trying to learn more about optimization algorithms: On one hand several sources state that convex optimization is easy, because every local minimum is a global…
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Infeasibility in mathematical optimization models

Sometimes, when solving mathematical optimization models (especially MIPs), they may be infeasible. Is there any comprehensive method to deal with the infeasibility conditions? (especially in complex models)
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Deploying OR solutions and shipping projects

My background is a bachelor in mathematics. I learned basics OR on my own using the following : Introduction to Operations Research by F. Hillier and G. Lieberman Integer programming by l. Wolsey How to Solve It: Modern Heuristics by D. Fogel and…
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Where is the original Dantzig Simplex 1947 paper?

I see from here and many other sources that Dantzig invented the Simplex method in 1947. After much searching, I found that the earliest publication is this in 1956. Does anyone know where the original 1947 paper is?
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As an Operations Research professional, how is your time divided when working on an optimization project?

When working on an optimization project, what is the typical time division (in percentage) between the various tasks that you have to work on: Problem understanding/definition (figuring out what is to be optimised, what are the relevant…
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How Close Is Linear Programming Class to What Solvers Actually Implement for Pivot Algorithms

As part of a final project for my linear programming course, I have been asked to discuss implementations of pivot algorithms, including which combinations of the ideas we have talked about in class this fall are actually used by available solvers…
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Can we replace a binary variable with a continuous variable using a quadratic equality constraint?

Is it possible to replace a binary variable $x$ with a continuous variable that satisfies the quadratic equality constraint $x^2 - x=0$? The function $f(x) = x^2 -x$ is not a convex function. Can this constraint still be helpful in using binary…
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Family of hard instances for Gomory's cutting plane algorithm

Is there a variant of integer programs for which Gomory's cutting plane algorithm demonstrably takes a superpolynomial number of iterations?
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