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 [...]
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 [...]
There are various softwares used by OR professionals, and a particular class is designed to solve linear programming (LP) models. There are a multitude of LP software available, but among these, I’ve chosen to study AMPL due to the following reasons:
flexibility
Similar to other environments such as the statistics software R, or the programming language Python, [...]
I began my graduate study in the 2nd semester of the year 2006. Back then, I was deciding between two OR tracks at UP Diliman, one offered by the Math Dept. and the other by the Industrial Engineering Dept. I emailed the former and I was told that the focus is more on the theory [...]
