Ask HN: Problems in Operations Research

1 points by guilhermeasg 11 years ago | 1 comment

I'm an Industrial Engineering undergrad student looking for a topic for my dissertation on Operations Research. Are there any problems you consider worth exploring?

I had a couple data competitions [1][2] in mind, but I'm not sure they're viable "Operations Research" problems.

[1]: http://www.drivendata.org/competitions/5/

[2]: https://www.kaggle.com/c/walmart-recruiting-sales-in-stormy-weather

switch33 11 years ago |

Reddit has a few subreddits for operations research. You may have better luck there: https://www.reddit.com/r/msor/ , https://www.reddit.com/r/sysor/.

Also google has some famous operation research tools: https://github.com/google/or-tools .

I think operations research is a very broad topic. There is probably heavy overlap in managing large graphs of information as well.