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Are there any OR challenges that are similar to Kaggle's competitions?
The Helmut Schmidt Universitat contains a list of past, ongoing, and future contests in Operations Research.
https://www.hsu-hh.de/logistik/research/challenges
For example:
Active challenges: ITC ...
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List of Implementations for common OR problems
Let's make an inventory of example code for each common OR problem?
Vehicle Routing Problem
OptaPlanner: explanation + videos - source code (capacitated, time windows, multiple depots, ...)
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Where can I find open source LP solvers?
OpenSolver is an LP/IP/NLP solver that plugs into Microsoft Excel. I used it for some classroom stuff a while back and was quite pleased with it.
If you are interested in metaheuristics, there are ...
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Are there any OR challenges that are similar to Kaggle's competitions?
I personally like Project Euler. This website has mathematical problems that usually require programming to solve them. If you solve a problem you get access to the corresponding problem forum, in ...
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Where can I find open source LP solvers?
Mittelmann benchmarks a number of (LP-)Solvers, some of which are open source. A recent new open source solver is HiGHS.
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List of Implementations for common OR problems
A good place to start is COIN-OR, which aims to "create for mathematical software what the open literature is for mathematical theory".
You can also take a look at Google's OR-Tools. It contains many ...
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Where can I find open source LP solvers?
I compiled a list of solvers I could find last year. Several are COIN-OR-affiliated, but others include Mini-CP, DSP, BiqBin, OSQP, ECOS, and Dakota. (Edit - not all are dedicated LP, see comments ...
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Are there any OR challenges that are similar to Kaggle's competitions?
The French OR society has some interesting OR challenges
http://www.roadef.org/challenge/2018/en/index.php
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Are there any OR challenges that are similar to Kaggle's competitions?
Google Hashcode had some optimization challenges in the past. Problem definitions and data from previous years can be found here.
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Are there Operations Research books by world-famous authors made available on the web?
The Warehouse & Distribution Science by John J. Bartholdi III and Steven T. Hackman. From their site:
This book is a work-in-progress. We are still revising and extending the material and ...
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Are there any OR challenges that are similar to Kaggle's competitions?
There is a competition section held during MOPTA (Modeling and Optimization: Theory and Applications), which is organized annually by Lehigh University. The competition is for students only and ...
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Are there any OR challenges that are similar to Kaggle's competitions?
And we also have the DIMACS implementation challenges #ofcourse
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Are there any OR challenges that are similar to Kaggle's competitions?
For constraint programming, there's the Minizinc Challenge.
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Are there any OR challenges that are similar to Kaggle's competitions?
Here is a link to INFORMS OR and analytics students team competition. You can also find the challenges for previous years and the presentations of the winner team. I believe you need to be registered ...
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Are there Operations Research books by world-famous authors made available on the web?
Just posted on January 16, 2020:
Elements of Scheduling, collected and edited by Jan Karel Lenstra and David B. Shmoys
This {pdf file} presents the fragments of a book on machine scheduling.
Work on ...
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Good resources for solving techniques (Metaheuristics, MILP, CP etc)
You should take a look at a series of three courses at coursera :
Basic Modeling for Discrete Optimization
Solving Algorithms for Discrete Optimization
Advanced Modeling for Discrete Optimization
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List of Implementations for common OR problems
I would, for everything knapsack-like, always go to David Pisingers homepage. Here you can find very efficient codes for knapsack problems (COMBO), multiple-choice knapsack problems (Mcknap), and ...
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Where can I find open source LP solvers?
I believe SCIP is the fastest non-commercial solver. It’s free for academic use. You can check out the benchmarks by Hans Mittelmann for other suggestions.
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Are there any OR challenges that are similar to Kaggle's competitions?
Simulation
The simulation-software company Simio holds an annual student competition.
Arena has one also.
Forecasting
There are the Makridakis Competitions, though they are infrequent. M-4 is just ...
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Suggestion of some courses in sequential decision making
There are a few courses on Coursera that offer such learning materials.
Greedy Algorithms, Minimum Spanning Trees, and Dynamic Programming (Intermediate)
The primary topics in this part of the ...
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Online Education for OR and Developing Decision Support Systems
Check Coursera, edX, Udemy, or any other online courses (such as those of Stanford). For example:
Free: Discrete Optimization course on Coursera, covers column generation and an introduction to (meta)...
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Where can I find open source LP solvers?
Just to add another, easily google-able, resource: Wikipedia, more or less, "maintains" a "List of optimization software" -- which includes the super handy "Mathematical optimization software" ...
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Does there exist an aggregation of videos on optimization?
There are these great introductory lectures on coursera (not sure if that qualifies for your question as they are not research talks):
Discrete Optimization, Solving Algorithms, Basic Modeling and ...
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Does there exist an aggregation of videos on optimization?
In terms of conferences, the Egon Balas Symposium in 2019 contained numerous talks on mathematical optimization. For integer programming specifically, it includes
the Geometric Firefighter Routing ...
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Benchmark problems for combinatorial multi-objective optimisation
vOptLib: Library of numerical instances for MultiObjective Linear Optimization problems
From the site:
vOptLib (short for vector optimization library) is a collection
problem instances for ...
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Solving MIP in Java with free software
Of the open source LP and MILP solvers, I would recommend investigating the COIN-OR based solvers CLP and CBC.
These are C++ based libraries, though work has been done to make them more accessible ...
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Supply Chain Public Data Repository
I was wondering if there is any repository of datasets for supply chain problems?
Global Garment Supply Chain Data - A collection of import data from various retailers - Last updated: October 19, ...
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Google - OR tools for workforce scheduling problems
In addition to the answer from @Mehdi... I've recently started to work with OR-tools and find it very nice for prototyping. The Python interface allowed me to produce a first version of my model ...
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Real world demand dataset
Time Series Data Library
The time series data library from Rob Hyndman has hundreds (~648+) of time-series data. It depends on what you call "demand" and what you require as a "sufficiently long ...
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Dataset human solutions for OR problems
By chance, I happened across this paper earlier today. It discusses human performance in solving the TSP manually. The paper is short but there are a few other references in it that probably provide ...
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