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Ask HN: Problems in Operations Research

by guilhermeasg on 5/8/15, 2:55 PM with 1 comments

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

by switch33 on 5/9/15, 12:06 AM
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.