Operations Research Resources


	Systems View

			Management Science/Operations Research Consulting





		SOFTWARE WE LIKE



MATLAB- Mathematical and scientific programming environment R- Open Source statistical analysis software Simul8 - Simulation model development environment Visual C# .NET. general programming and software development MS Excel and VBA - application development MS Solver Foundation - Optimization middleware available as an Excel Add-In Optquest - global optimizer, connects to simulation packages Open Solver - open source solver for Excel Gatherspace- Requirements management system MindManager- Concept development and brainstorming

ROUTE FACTORY PRODUCT INFO

Route Factory Spreadsheet Product Data Sheet
Screen shot of Route Factory Spreadsheet main worksheet
Sample Route (MS MapPoint output file)

ARTICLES, PRESENTATIONS, ETC.

Process Modeling and Simulation (Systems View White Paper)
Got Trash? Extending Vehicle Routing to Optimal Container Management (Presentation to Rocky Mountain Chapter of INFORMS, Fall 2011).
OR Consulting: There is no Template (Presentation at INFORMS 2010).
A Case Study Comparing Two Fleet Routing Algorithms (Technical presentation to 2010 INFORMS)
Optimizing a Worldwide Maintenance and Logistics Support Network (Technical Presentation at INFORMS 2008)

SOFTWARE DOWNLOADS

Container Optimization Model (Excel file used in “Got Trash” project described above. Requires MS Solver Foundation Add-in to run.)
County Extractor (Excel tool - finds US counties traversed in a MS MapPoint route and computes traversal time and distance.)

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