4 papers
Final Exam Scheduling at Bucknell University: A Case Study and Open-Source Tool
Clara Chaplin, Stanley Gai, Samuel C. Gutekunst +5
Problem Definition: Final exam scheduling is a common but challenging optimization problem. At Bucknell University, a small liberal arts institution, the problem is particularly co…
What is the Best Way to Do Something? A Discreet Tour of Discrete Optimization
Thiago Serra
In mathematical optimization, we want to find the best possible solution for a decision-making problem. Curiously, these problems are harder to solve if they have discrete decision…
Making a Case for Research Collaboration Between Artificial Intelligence and Operations Research Experts
Radhika Kulkarni, Gianluca Brero, Yu Ding +7
In 2021, INFORMS, ACM SIGAI, and the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) hosted three workshops to explore synergies between Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Operations Research (…
When Lift-and-Project Cuts are Different
Egon Balas, Thiago Serra
In this paper, we present a method to determine if a lift-and-project cut for a mixed-integer linear program is irregular, in which case the cut is not equivalent to any intersecti…