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What sites do you use to find answers to questions about specific operations research questions?

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I check sci.op-research daily, but it seems to be fading slowly into the sunset. (Interestingly, some of the other "serious" USENET groups seem to be doing pretty well. For instance, sci.stat.math does a moderately brisk business.)

ILOG has some forums (soon to be rebranded as IBM?) for math programming questions, though most of the traffic there is specific to CPLEX/OPL.

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  1. Google
  2. GLPK mailing list
  3. OR blogs

LinkedIn is becoming an interesting place for discussion.

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I visit OR-exchange almost everyday. other than that I use Google, many of the my basic questions can be answered by Googling or visiting wikipedia.

If I don't get my answers I typically go and talk to people or send them an email. I have never received valuable answers to technical OR questions by posting to a group (unless it was software related)

PS. I think we also need some effort to clean up wikipedia's OR articles. Some of them are extremely inaccurate (see MRP, MRP II for example)

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I use the GLPK mailing list Ask people on Twitter. Or more usually post on my blog as a shout into the abyss that i hope someone will someday hear.

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You might try OR Crowd. :)

(I set this up some weeks ago, but haven't done the work of publicizing it.)

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Sounds interesting. But is the site down? – Michael Trick Nov 12 at 18:15
Oops. I thought I had both orcrowd.com and www.orcrowd.com working, but the former is faulty. I'm trying to fix it, but in the mean time, I've fixed the link to point to www. – Isaac Moses Nov 12 at 19:25
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my work is mostly limited to optimization and software for optimization. sci.op-research is a very helpful mailing list. Software specific mailing lists like those for AMPL or COIN-OR are also very active.

Other that those, its friends/colleagues, wikipedia and google.

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I used only Google.

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