Did Your Toaster Just Spam Me?
Last year 10 billion of these devices were connected to the internet, and there are estimates that up to 212 billion devices will be connected by 2020. The Internet of…
IFORS 2014 Triennial Conference will be held in Barcelona, Spain.
The IFORS 2014 Triennial Conference will be held in Barcelona, Spain, July 13-18 2014. It will bring operational researchers from around the globe together. The deadline for Abstract submissions is…
BBVA Innova Challenge
baobab is proudly participating in BBVA Innova Challenge with an application to manage data on credit card consumers in Madrid. The application was built using AIMMS software and the language…
Can I buy an ethical smartphone?
Fairphone is a social enterprise. We started in 2010 as a project of Waag Society, Action Aid and Schrijf-Schrijf, aimed at raising awareness about conflict minerals in electronics and the…
Computer Science Education Week: December 9-15, 2013
This year, Code.org is launching the Hour of Code as part of the annual Computer Science Education Week (CSEdWeek), a celebration geared to encourage interest in the field and show…
Optimization Applied to Health Care
Optimization is often related to logistic problems, supply chains or resource management, where its aim is to get the more profit the better. However, this is a misconception of the…
Google, maps and FedEx
Google now offers a new maps engine, running in its servers, for businesses. The idea is to use maps as documents to represent data. It seems FedEx has built some…
Sparklines for Excel
A set of free User Defined Functions for Microsoft Excel® to create Sparklines. The simple, intense, word-sized graphics invented by Edward Tufte & implemented by Fabrice Rimlinger. Very good graphics…
How Google Converted Language Translation Into a Problem of Vector Space Mathematics
To translate one language into another, find the linear transformation that maps one to the other. Simple, say a team of Google engineers To translate one document, actual translation services rely…
OptNAR team (UPM) in final of AIMMS/MOPTA modeling competition
Three UPM students are finalist AIMMS/MOPTA modeling competition. The OptNAR team, consisting of Raúl Pulido, Natalia Ibañez and Adrián Aguirre (INTEC), will present the results of their solution to a specific ‘Operating theater planning problem’ at the MOPTA conference on 14-16 August in Bethlehem, America.
They are researching at the UPM, in the Industrial Engineering doctorate program in the Math-based Decision Making in Logistics and Operations.
In this competition, teams consider a particular instance of an OR scheduling and sequencing problem. The goal of each team is to develop effective, quantitative, user-friendly tools to support an OR manager’s scheduling and sequencing decisions by using the AIMMS modeling environment.