Optimization & Operations Research
Metaheuristics, approximation, scheduling, online decisions, mechanism design, quantitative finance.
Topics
Problems attacked from this category
- Ant colony optimization3
- Apportionment and proportional representation4
- Auction design7
- Bet and position sizing2
- Bin packing and partitioning13
- Clustering2
- Coin change1
- Conic and semidefinite optimization4
- Constructive and elite-set search4
- Continuous optimization21
- Cooperative payoff division4
- CPU and resource scheduling4
- Evolutionary computation20
- Extensive-form game solving3
- Facility location2
- Fair division8
- Feature attribution and model explanation1
- Finite-sum optimization3
- Graph diameter1
- Graph partitioning2
- Informed search under budgets1
- Integer and decomposed programming7
- Interest rate and curve modeling4
- Interval scheduling1
- Knapsack2
- Linear recurrence evaluation2
- List update1
- Load balancing2
- Local search and escaping local optima22
- Lot sizing and inventory control5
- LP and SDP rounding techniques4
- Market equilibrium computation2
- Maximum cut3
- Maximum satisfiability3
- Metric embedding2
- Minimum-cost flow1
- Multi-objective optimization5
- Nonsmooth convex optimization5
- Normal-form equilibrium computation5
- Online covering and placement2
- Online learning and regret minimization9
- Online matching and ad allocation3
- Online searching2
- Optimal stopping4
- Optimal transport2
- Option pricing10
- Packet scheduling and link sharing3
- Page replacement and caching policy11
- Portfolio construction6
- Project scheduling3
- Real-time scheduling3
- Risk measurement6
- Sensitivity computation2
- Set cover3
- Shop and parallel-machine scheduling9
- Single-machine scheduling4
- Stable matching and allocation6
- Statistical arbitrage4
- Steiner trees and network design5
- Sublinear and coreset approximation2
- Submodular maximization5
- The k-server problem4
- Trade execution and market making3
- Transportation problem3
- Traveling salesman15
- Vehicle routing2
- Vertex coloring1
- Vertex cover3
- Volatility modeling2
- Volatility surface modeling3
- Voting rules8