Minimize costs? Create a conference schedule with fewest early-morning sessions? In this excerpt from the book Data Smart, find out how to use Excel's free Solver add-in to do some data science ...

Often leaders will think they are driving a problem-solving culture by insistent, or even just encouraging, team members to utilize the tools and templates of problem-solving. However, most ...

Solving this large optimization problem efficiently is a challenge we have been trying to address since the 1970s,” she said. “The key innovation here is that there are fundamental limits to how fast ...

Did you consider yourself a mathematician the last time you sat down to solve a Sudoku puzzle? It’s certainly a mentally ...

Researchers at UCLA and UC Riverside have demonstrated a new approach that overcomes these hurdles to solve some of the most difficult optimization problems. The team designed a system that processes ...

Xiaoning Xu, Feng He, Rong Chen, Qingzhi Zhang, Solving non-linear portfolio optimization problems with interval analysis, The Journal of the Operational Research Society, Vol. 66, No. 6 (JUNE 2015), ...

A conversation with author Anne Morriss on two keys to organizational success. When it comes to solving complicated problems, the default for many organizational leaders is to take their time to ...

Until now, it was unknown how much quantum computers had improved at optimization tasks given the rapid development of powerful hardware.