Ted Ralphs

Class Materials

• Administrative Information
• Overview of the Information and Systems Engineering Program
• Diet Problem Spreadsheet
• Excel Sample File
• Excel Solver Sample File

Project Materials

• Overview of the ISE Project
• Overview of Systems Modeling and Optimization
• Project Data File

Reference Texts

• Operations Research Models and Methods, P. Jensen — a fantastic on-line introduction to OR including Excel add-ins

Tutorials

• Excel Premium Solver Tutorial
• IFORS tutORial Project
• J.E. Beaseley’s OR Notes
• Visual Basic Tutorial

• What is Operations Research? — The Bureau of Labor Statistics’ over view of this career field
• INFORMS Web site — the professional society for Operations Research and Management Science (OR/MS)
• INFORMS News Room — lots of information about OR/MS
• The INFORMS OR/MS Resource Collection — an extensive collection of OR links
• INFORMS Student Union — INFORMS resources for students
• Interfaces — am INFORMS journal devoted to the practice of OR/MS
• The World of Operations Reearch and Management Science
• NEOS Guide — a good overview of optimization
• e-Optimization.com — a good collection of information about optimization
• Harvey Greenburg’s Courseware Page
• Mathematical Programming Glossary
• Guide to Optimization Software
• The Traveling Salesman Problem — a page devoted to the world’s best-known optimization problem
• Math World — an amazing on-line mathematics encyclopedia.

List of Pointers to More Sites

• Introduction to Optimization course at MIT — lots of good pointers to sites about optimization.
• OR/MS pointers at OpsResearch.com
• Yahoo’s Operations Research page
• John Mitchell’s optimization pointers
• Kevin Wayne’s OR/CS links

Case Studies and News Items

• OR/MS in the News
• Math Programming in Action
• Cap Gemini Enrst and Young Case Studies Database
• LINDO Model Library
• Application Showcase at e-optimization.com
• Facility location case study — referenced in lecture
• NEOS Case Studies — includes an interactive version of the Diet Problem

Java Applets and Interactive Cases

• The Interactive Warehouse
• The Remote Interactive Optimization Testbed (RIOT) Page
• NEOS Case Studies — includes an interactive version of the Diet Problem
• NEOS Java Graphical LP Solver
• List of Java Applets at the INFORMS Resources site
• LP exlorer — 2 dimensional linear programs

Timetabling Links

• Timetabling Software
• Timetabler
• Free Timetabling Software
• Tablix
• SchoolTool
• Intime
• CELCAT
• Lantiv Timetabler
• gti3
• International Timetabling Competition
• A page about the timetabling process — contains a list of links to timetabling resources