There are, generally speaking, two types of people in the mathematical optimization software field: • Optimization solver developers: The technical experts who devise and implement the algorithms that ...

Some people say that money makes the world go round; others say it’s love. Although there is undoubtedly some truth to those statements, the reality is that — more and more every day — our world today ...

Enthusiasm for the potential impact of AI on hospital operations is often based on its impact in other industries. However, non-health care companies invest in AI after having digitized and optimized ...

What do the following—planning an airline hub, political gerrymandering, and a museum renovation—have in common? They’re all problems that can be tackled by mathematicians using a process called ...

Supply chains consist of imperfect humans struggling to make perfect decisions. In the end, though, it all comes down to a game of numbers. That, at least, is the theory behind mathematical ...

In Part 1 of this series on optimization and recovery, we considered two limitations of optimization processes and the light they shed on pseudo-recovery. Let’s now think more about what the ...