Project overview
Operations research can be regarded as a collection of useful tools and techniques for optimizing complex systems and decision-making. As most of the members of our team have an operations research background, we have a broad spectrum of general-purpose techniques in our toolbox. In addition, we have developed deeper skills in some of those techniques by means of our range of theoretical and practical experience.
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Integer programming is a powerful tool to model and tackle sophisticated optimization problems, such as resource scheduling, production planning and transportation problems. Even though integer problems are usually hard to solve, advanced techniques are being developed and integrated to state-of-the-art solvers (e.g. CPLEX, XPress, GAMS, AMPL) to push the limits of practical tractability further and further. Thus it is successfully used in practice to solve complex problems. However not all integer programming formulations (of the same problem) have the same computational behavior, and learning how to design the 'right' model of a problem comes with experience. Our group has a strong track record of successful applications of integer programming techniques.
