Protecting Community Waterways: Applying Analytics, Optimization, and Real Time Control for the Efficient Operation of Sewer Networks - With increasingly intense and more frequent rainfall, urban wastewater collection and treatment systems are often overwhelmed by large rainfall events, resulting...

Optimized School Bus Routing Helps School Districts Design Better Policies - Half of Boston Public Schools’ (BPS) 55,000 students take a yellow school bus to one of 125 schools each day. Planning the 45,000 miles for 646 buses daily was a significant undertaking, requiring 10 people and more tha...

Analytics and O.R. for IBM’s IT Service Deals - IBM Services provides information technology services for clients worldwide, designing, building, running, and maintaining critical infrastructure and IT systems. IBM competes for highly complex IT services contracts, often involving complex client...

Prospective Dynamic Fraud Control for Optimal Profitability in e-Commerce - Businesses and consumers purchase a diverse portfolio of physical and digital products and services online. The dynamic nature of shopping patterns and the adversarial posture of fraudsters make it challenging to stop fra...

RIMAS – Safer Skies in Spain - The International Civil Aviation Organization dictates that each nation must develop a State Safety Program (SSP) to develop a preventative approach for aviation safety oversight and management on a national level. These programs enable strategic decision-making and...

Operations Research Optimizes Offshore Wind Farm Design and Enables a Fossil-Free Future - As one of Europe’s largest producers of electricity Vattenfall is currently expanding its wind energy operations significantly. Operations research (O.R.) techniques are playing a vital role in this, realiz...