Puzzle: Plans Adopted June 19, 2026Decision Intelligence (DI) can only have an impact when the plans it creates get executed. Which is to say, the plans have to be accepted by the operators. Can you...
Puzzle: Unit Commitment June 12, 2026Due to the advent of renewables, the math of power generation has shifted from predictable arithmetic to a volatile high-dimensional puzzle. As an asset manager at Spinners, the DS power...
Puzzle: Demigods of Optimization June 3, 2026Traditional scheduling assumes knowledge of how long tasks take. In the reality of hospitals, we may at best have a good guess how long a surgery will take. Can you...
Puzzle: ER May 29, 2026Sometimes clients come to you with classical optimization problems. Today is such a day. The city of Chicago has asked you to find optimal locations for their 80 ambulances. Classical...
Puzzle: Pipelining May 25, 2026Petrodactyl is the DS oil company. Their supply chain is hitting a bottleneck when they have 450,000 kL of (200,000 kL) Petrol, (150,000 kL) Diesel, and (100,000 kL) Kerosene that...
Puzzle: Classical Production Planning with a Twist May 20, 2026Gluglug is the big biofuel company in DS City. They want to optimize their production. You have known how to do that since your very first linear programming class. Or...
