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This blog is moving to nathanbrixius.wordpress.com
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Date: 07/09/2011
2011 INFORMS Conference on Analytics
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Date: 04/08/2011
The Amazingly Wonderful Effectiveness of Operations Research
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Date: 03/11/2011
Optimization modeling using Solver Foundation and Sho
Two days ago, my boss's boss's boss's boss's boss's boss Soma announced the launch of several...
Date: 01/28/2011
Mailbag: Contiguity constraints for project scheduling models
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Date: 01/22/2011
Quadratic Assignment Problems for Bartenders
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Date: 01/12/2011
Project scheduling and Solver Foundation revisited, Part IV
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Date: 01/10/2011
Don't Break the Build
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Date: 01/07/2011
Project scheduling and Solver Foundation revisited, Part III
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Date: 12/20/2010
Project scheduling and Solver Foundation revisited, Part II
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Date: 12/09/2010
Project scheduling and Solver Foundation revisited, Part I
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Date: 11/16/2010
INFORMS trip report
(As always, this post reflects my own views and not necessarily those of Microsoft.) I recently...
Date: 11/09/2010
A fun math problem
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Date: 09/29/2010
The rumored Big Ten realignment is extremely fair...and I can prove it.
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Date: 09/01/2010
Optimal Big Ten realignment using operations research
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Date: 08/31/2010
How to retrieve dual values using Solver Foundation Services
Dual values, or shadow prices, represent the marginal utility of relaxing a constraint. They are...
Date: 08/29/2010
Planning office moves with Solver Foundation: Part V
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Date: 08/23/2010
Using Solver Foundation to get a job at Facebook
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Date: 08/13/2010
Seminar scheduling with OML
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Date: 08/13/2010
Planning office moves with Solver Foundation: Part IV
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Date: 08/09/2010
Planning office moves with Solver Foundation: Part III
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Date: 08/05/2010
Planning office moves with Solver Foundation: Part II
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Date: 08/02/2010
Planning office moves with Solver Foundation: Part I
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Date: 07/25/2010
Quadratic assignment problems: bounds
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Date: 07/21/2010
Converting an Access DB to XML using C#
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Date: 07/21/2010
Microsoft Solver Foundation: blogs and resources
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Date: 07/20/2010
Interesting Solver Foundation blogs, samples, and presentations
Here are some recent examples of great contributions to Solver Foundation from folks outside of...
Date: 07/15/2010
Don’t be a hero when trying to solve set covering problems
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Date: 06/19/2010
Which is faster: Regex.IsMatch or String.Contains?
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Date: 06/03/2010
Solving min-max problems with Solver Foundation
Ben, a member of the Solver Foundation team, wrote a nice post on how to model min-max problems...
Date: 06/01/2010
Mixed integer linearizations for QAP using Solver Foundation
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Date: 06/01/2010
Accessing Solver Foundation report information
My colleague Pavan wrote a great post for the Solver Foundation blog that shows you how to access...
Date: 05/27/2010
Stochastic optimization, kidneys, and ethics
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Date: 05/18/2010
Solving a Knapsack problem with Solver Foundation and LINQ
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Date: 05/06/2010
Traveling Salesman Problems using Solver Foundation: C# code
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Date: 04/26/2010
Microsoft Solver Foundation v2.1 Released
I am pleased to announce the release of Solver Foundation v2.1. The Express edition is available now...
Date: 04/23/2010
Finance / optimization / sports link roundup
I’m hard at work on our upcoming 2.1 release of Solver Foundation. But I’ve come across a few things...
Date: 04/06/2010
Solver Foundation team blog
The Solver Foundation team now has an official MSDN blog. The URL is...
Date: 03/30/2010
A simple prediction algorithm for the NCAA tournament
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Date: 03/18/2010
Solver Foundation 2.1 Preview
The team has been hard at work on the next version of Solver Foundation. Here are some early...
Date: 03/11/2010
Academic License for Solver Foundation
Microsoft Solver Foundation is now available for professors, students, and researchers through the...
Date: 03/09/2010
Internship opportunity on the Solver Foundation Team
UPDATE 4/28/2010: We are no longer seeking new applicants for the position. Perhaps next summer! The...
Date: 03/08/2010
Building large models using Solver Foundation Services
In a previous post I wrote about the Term class and its use in building Solver Foundation models....
Date: 03/05/2010
Podcast: Solver Foundation and units of measure in F#
If you dig F#, or you dig Solver Foundation, or if you dig cool things, then you should check out...
Date: 01/13/2010
A note about "God mode" settings in Windows 7
[I am not a Windows expert and this is all probably totally obvious.] There has been some buzz about...
Date: 01/07/2010
Using the Term class to build models in Solver Foundation
I'd like to spend the next couple posts on "everyday" use of Solver Foundation Services for model...
Date: 01/06/2010
Writing high performance code
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Date: 12/10/2009
Solver Foundation on Hanselminutes
The latest edition of Scott Hanselman's Hanselminutes podcast features yours truly. We talked about...
Date: 12/09/2009
Controlling Simplex and IPM termination conditions
On our MSDN message board there was a question about how to control when the SimplexSolver aborts....
Date: 11/30/2009
Using Solver Foundation's Unconstrained Nonlinear Solver
Hey, did you know that Solver Foundation can solve unconstrained nonlinear optimization problems?...
Date: 10/15/2009