Presented by: Alkis Vazacopoulos 2025 INFORMS Analytics+ Conference! Indianapolis This workshop introduces participants to the transformative potential of generative AI in mathematical programming using FICO Xpress. Through hands-on demonstrations and practical exercises, attendees will learn how to leverage generative AI to streamline model development, enhance code generation, and improve result interpretation. The workshop covers key…

March 5, 2025, 12pm ET | 9am PT ODH is a software package from Optimization Direct that runs concurrently with FICO Xpress to accelerate and extend your ability to solve large and difficult optimization models. Our new webinar, co-presented by FICO and Optimization Direct, will discuss ODH’s functionality, capabilities, and how it can help solve…

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Case Study Challenge: Increase the speed and complexity of solving delivery matching problems in order to improve delivery time and efficiency for each order. Solution: FICO® Xpress Optimization Results: Using FICO’s optimization solver on a mixed integer problem (MIP), DoorDash has improved solving time by 10–100x and can now assign multiple orders to each driver to…

HOW TO DEPLOY APPLICATIONS THAT COMBINE MACHINE LEARNING/DEEP LEARNING TOOLS AND OPTIMIZATION TECHNOLOGIES SUCH AS XPRESS/ ODH|XPRESS Presented by: Robert Ashford Organizations are increasingly hiring Data Scientists with Open Source skills. They leverage the capabilities and work with Open Source tools like R, Python, Spark, as well as integration with FICO-XPRESS and large data. Come…

We will present at the FICO Technology Workshop at INFORMS https://meetings.informs.org/wordpress/phoenix2023/exhibitor-workshops/#fico Presented by: Robert Ashford Saturday, October 14, 4-6:30 pm, Location: CC-North 121 B ODH-XPRESS Integration ODH is a software package from Optimization Direct Inc. that runs concurrently with MIP optimizers like FICO Xpress to accelerate and extend their capabilities for large and difficult optimization…

Optimization Direct has partnered with and entered into a distribution agreement with FICO. Combining the founders’ industry and software experience and FICO’s Xpress product with the arsenal of Optimization modeling and solving tools from FICO provides customers with the most powerful capabilities in the industry. FICO Xpress solves large-scale optimization problems and enables better business decisions…

HARRINGTON PARK Nj. & BEAVERTON, Ore. October 7 2022. During the last 20 years, Mixed Integer Programming (MIP) problems have become more complex, larger, and equally complex to run. ODHeuristics (ODH) is a new algorithm created by Optimization Direct, designed to run on modern multiprocessor machines. Many cores (24+ ideal) are exploited by the ODH engine…

We are holding technology tutorials and workshops at INFORMS Technology Tutorial at INFORMS ODH Python Primer Presented by: Robert Ashford Monday, October 17, 11:40am-12:15pm   This short tutorial shows participants how to build a basic model using the ODH|CPLEX in Python. This session includes setting the Python environment, reading data from a csv or spreadsheet,…

Political redistricting through mathematical optimization.