Bounded Curation: Optimization — Research — I
Saying “Research on Operations Research” has a funny feeling. In this post, I present several resources about optimization that might be of interest to readers. “Research” term is used in a broad sense rather than just academic research. Here we have resources on cloud, benchmarks, market research and solvers (again). Each title is also a link, so that you can follow it to its source.
This is the third part of Bounded Curation series. Previously we had Solvers (see the post end for explanation), and Companies (I and II). Needless to remind, all BC are non-exhaustive, self-curations and they are possibly stale. Basically they are links I stuffed in a list, several months ago.
Cloud Operations Research (CORE) — MSR
Microsoft has a real good research body. Although I’m not sure if it is Cloud “Operations Research” or “Cloud Operations” Research (I believe the latter), many problems posed in the papers are similar to OR problems or can be made into those. If you are interested in challenges in the cloud, take a look at them.
Visualizations of Mittelmann Benchmarks
Many in the research domain are familiar with Mittelmann Benchmarks for optimization solvers. Here in this link you can get detailed visualizations of those benchmarks. Based on problems solvers and time.
Gartner Market Guide for Optimization Solutions (2015)
Gartner published a research on optimization solutions including solvers, modelling languages. Keeping in mind that report is prepared with 2014 data, it includes nice thoughts, definitions and predictions. I’m leaving a gem below. It is possible to obtain the report itself by a simple Google search.
Solver.news
Although not maintained currently, Solver News is one of the specialized content sources on solvers. Take a look and you might find something of interest in there.
Cloud Strategies for Optimization Modelling Software
This presentation is prepared by Robert Fourer of AMPL and it is presented in OR 2017: International Conference on Operations Research.
Rather than strategies the presentation a list of cloud-first solutions for optimization. A significant portion is dedicated to NEOS Server but it also coins names such as Satalia and Quandec. It also mentions Gurobi Instant Cloud, AMPL Online, and IBM Decision Optimization. I must take note though, many links from 6 years ago are not working right now (with the exception of rock solid NEOS and a few others).
There might be a few follow-up posts coming soon…
