Cy @Work

I was unable to attend the previous technical forum on OR practice, but I’ll try to make it this time.
What: Technical forum on OR and Sustainable Development
When: Saturday, 02 August 2008, 1:00-5:00 p.m.
Where: PLDT-Convergent Technologies Center, Room 105, Ateneo de Manila University, Loyola Heights, Quezon City, Philippines
Topics:

Integrating Operations Research Methods with Social Science Models for [...]

I was reading with great interest Steve Pavlina’s article on skill. The author, widely known for his personal development blog, wrote about the skills he has developed through the years in order to become a competent blogger on his chosen field. Some of these core skills include a deep personal development knowledge, communication and technical [...]

Although I didn’t set a specific goal for the number of posts I’ll write per week, I think at least 2 posts per week are necessary to be able to consider myself as an active blogger. I don’t want this blog to go inactive like my previous one which I neglected due to the demands [...]

As an OR novice, I’m very interested in getting to know more about my field. I regularly browse articles from the online version of the magazine OR/MS Today. I’m also on the lookout for resources, websites and blogs about OR.
Recently, the June 2008 edition of the Operations Research of the Philippines (ORSP) Newsletter was delivered [...]

Aside from linear (and mixed integer) programming, dynamic programming (DP) is another favorite topic of mine in our OR courses as it lends itself to diverse and interesting problems. However, in terms of actually getting a solution, I don’t like it as much because we have to do it manually. Unlike for LP/MILP problems which [...]