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.
ROADEF/EURO challenge 2014
The French Operational Research (OR) and Decision Support Society (ROADEF) organizes exceptionaly jointly with the European Operational Research Society (EURO) the ROADEF/EURO challenge 2012 dedicated to trains assignment in collaboration…
How algorithms rule the world
How algorithms rule the world The NSA revelations highlight the role sophisticated algorithms play in sifting through masses of data. But more surprising is their widespread use in our everyday…