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I am Professor Emeritus of Management Science at Michigan State University (US). My background is in math, and I work primarily in discrete optimization.

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Why is it important to choose big-M carefully and what are the consequences of doing it badly?
Jun 4, 2019
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Optimization terminology: "Exact" v. "Approximate"
Jul 9, 2019
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How can I deal with non-operations research managers?
Jun 6, 2020
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What are the reasons OR industry projects fail?
Oct 30, 2019
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Combinatorial Optimization: Metaheuristics, CP, IP -- "versus" or "and"?
Jun 5, 2019
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Where can I find open source LP solvers?
May 30, 2019
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What are the main differences between Operations Research in the academic world, in the enterprise world and in the government world?
Jun 10, 2019
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Python vs C++ performance on Discrete Optimization
Apr 13, 2022
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How to innovate in OR
Jul 30, 2019
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What are the most-used technical skills in OR?
Oct 28, 2019
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OR.SE Meetup at INFORMS?
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R shiny Dashboard: How to add vertical scrollbar to dashboard sidebar?
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Integer programming formulation of the partition problem
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How to linearize the product of a non-binary discrete variable and a continuous variable?
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Does the problem of P vs NP come under the category of Operational Research?
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Resources to learn about modeling within the scope of Linear/Integer programming?