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Prescriptive analytics: optimisation and simulation
Although prescriptive analytics is not a newcomer, thanks to the attention brought about by big data, machine learning and others, the family’s “older sister” is now much better received. However, due to the lack
How to use Prescriptive Analytics to reduce operating rooms’ waiting lists
The average times on the waiting list for surgical interventions by the National Health System (SNS) in Spain began to increase around the year 2012 and, after slight fluctuations, reached 121 days as of December 31, 2
Prescriptive Analytics in energy trading
Although trading is usually connected with the stock market, in which Prescriptive Analytics is used extensively to optimize purchases and sales of securities such as stocks or bonds, it also exists in other markets, s
Three different methods to solve the travelling salesman problem
The travelling salesman problem The travelling salesman problem (TSP) consists on finding the shortest single path that, given a list of cities and distances between them, visits all the cities only once and returns to





