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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.

Political redistricting can now be completed quickly, fairly and economically through mathematical optimization.

A webinar featuring Optimization Direct Experts. In Partnership with AIMMS. Replay now available.

Article five of five In our first article we identified four scenarios where Machine Learning can cooperate with Mathematical Optimization. Here we identify further reading of two notable resources that can help us learn more about this topic. We encourage practitioners to review these two articles. Machine learning for combinatorial optimization: A methodological tour d’horizon…

Article four of five In our first article we identified four scenarios where Machine Learning can cooperate with Mathematical Optimization. In this article, we will consider Scenario D which is defined as follows: ML can be used to help MOPT solvers to perform better not only for finding solutions faster but for finding more good…

Article three of five In our first article we identified four scenarios where Machine Learning can cooperate with Mathematical Optimization. In this article, we will consider Scenario A and present an example. Scenario A is defined as: ‘The output of ML is input to MOPT.’ This scenario is defined as: Machine learning algorithms calculate the…

Article two of five Alkiviadis Vazacopoulos In our first article we identified four scenarios where Machine Learning can cooperate with Mathematical Optimization. In this article, we will consider Scenario D and present promising results from a real-world application. This scenario is defined as: ML can be used to help MOPT solvers to perform better not…

Article one of five Python is a widely used high-level programming language for general-purpose programming, it is designed to be straightforward to implement. Apart from being open source programming language, Python is a great object-oriented, interpreted, and interactive programming language. It combines remarkable power with noticeably clear syntax. There are modules, classes, exceptions, very high-level…

Article by Sajan Kuttappa on the IBM Big Data and Analytics hub

A GitHub repository of models, samples, data sources and libraries for decision optimization from IBM

Why prescriptive analytics and decision optimization are crucial

We are holding technology tutorials and workshops at INFORMS

IBM DOC V4.0 now available from Optimization Direct

Results of tests on Miplib Open-v7 Models now out