Published on16. Februar 2026Aspects of OR - Integer Programming (Part 1)From LP to IP: why integrality matters, the combinatorial explosion, LP relaxations, and why rounding fails.operations-researchorinteger-programmingoptimizationenglish
Published on16. Februar 2026Aspects of OR - Integer Programming (Part 2)Branch and bound: the workhorse algorithm for integer programming, explained with a complete example showing all three pruning types.operations-researchorinteger-programmingbranch-and-boundoptimizationenglish
Published on16. Februar 2026Aspects of OR - Integer Programming (Part 3)Cutting planes: tightening LP relaxations by slicing off fractional solutions, with Gomory cuts and cover inequalities.operations-researchorinteger-programmingcutting-planesoptimizationenglish
Published on16. Februar 2026Aspects of OR - Integer Programming (Part 4)Branch-and-cut and how modern IP solvers work: combining branch and bound with cutting planes, presolve, heuristics, and parallelism.operations-researchorinteger-programmingbranch-and-cutoptimizationenglish
Published on16. Februar 2026Aspects of OR - Linear Programming (Part 1)An introduction to linear programming: definitions, standard form, geometric intuition, and practical examples.operations-researchorlinear-programmingoptimizationenglish
Published on16. Februar 2026Aspects of OR - Linear Programming (Part 2)The simplex method explained: slack variables, tableaux, pivoting, degeneracy, and a complete worked example.operations-researchorlinear-programmingsimplexoptimizationenglish
Published on16. Februar 2026Aspects of OR - Linear Programming (Part 3)Duality in linear programming: the dual problem, strong duality, complementary slackness, shadow prices, and sensitivity analysis.operations-researchorlinear-programmingdualityoptimizationenglish
Published on16. Februar 2026Aspects of OR - Traveling Salesperson Problem - Heuristics (Part 2)Construction and improvement heuristics for the TSP: nearest neighbor, greedy, 2-opt, 3-opt, and Or-opt.operations-researchortspheuristicsoptimizationenglish
Published on16. Februar 2026Aspects of OR - Traveling Salesperson Problem - Metaheuristics (Part 3)Metaheuristics for the TSP: simulated annealing, genetic algorithms, and ant colony optimization.operations-researchortspmetaheuristicsoptimizationenglish
Published on25. November 2024Aspects of OR - Traveling Salesperson Problem (TSP)A brief introduction to the Traveling Salesperson Problem (TSP)operations-researchortspoptimizationenglish