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OR methods in construction planning and scheduling

Hello, everyone. I am interested in what kind of OR methods can be applied in area of construction planning and scheduling? Can anyone give some successful cases where OR, such as …
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Where did OR people go ?

OK, not really a question. In many years the google group sci.op-research was a great resource, most of the OR community followed the forum (or so it seemed). Lots of optimizations …
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Operations Research on a Mac?

Hello, I know and use some OR applications on Windows but my home computer is a Mac (with Mac OS X), so when I'd like to work at home I always have to boot Win to run those apps. …
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What file format for problem definition is suitable for OR-Exchange?

What would be a text format to state a mathematical programming problem that could be published here on OR-Exchange? Especially for linear programming, I like lpsolve .lp format. …
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How fast/expensive is your number crunching machine?

I have a desktop computer that is getting old. It has a 2-core AMD cpu (64 bits) with 2 Giga bytes of RAM. I frequently hit this RAM cap in my codes (mostly python and R but someti …
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OR-Exchange metadata

Is it possible to get at the data under OR-Exchange? I was idly wondering which times of the day were busiest here on OR-Exchange, and I realised that there are lots of interestin …
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Favorite website for Operations Research related resources?

I have my favorites. I would like to see your favorite websites to get Operations Research resources, ideas, research, formulas, methods, software or tips. Try to answer only one …
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What is the difference between operations research and management science?

Sorry if it's a very basic question but i would like to understand the full answer for the experts. Thanks a lot. Jorge/
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OR Anonymous Job Rumors Website?

Political science and economics have http://www.poliscijobrumors.com/ http://www.econjobrumors.com/ anonymous message boards populated by gossiping grad students. Do we have som …
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What new journal should INFORMS create?

Reading my copy of OR/MS Today, I saw this column by INFORMS president Susan Albin. She says that INFORMS wants to start a new journal, and is looking for proposals. That's kind o …
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How can we improve OR related articles on Wikipedia

Some of the OR related articles on Wikipedia are inaccurate (see this for example) and Wikipedia does not have articles on interesting OR topics (for example there is no article …
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Do OR people publish in conferences?

I have a paper that seems like good fit for CP-AI-OR but the people whose work I am primarily building upon have all published in places like Management Science, EJOR, C&OR et …