2025-06-09

2025-06-09 Monday - Operations Research: Optimization Algorithms, Background Reading

LinkedIn post today, by Oleksandr Kaleniuk (author of Manning's Geometry for Programmers book), mentioned a book ("Optimization Algorithms: AI techniques for design, planning, and control problems",  2024 - also see the companion GitHub repository for the book)

... that led me on a brief diversion, researching other books, articles, and journals on optimization algorithms for Operations Research

This blog post is a placeholder, as I continue to collect interesting citations. 

References

 

Journals:  

 

Possibly Interesting Books:  

(in a somewhat arbitrary suggested order of possible interest/value) 

  • High-Dimensional Probability: An Introduction with Applications in Data Science (Cambridge Series in Statistical and Probabilistic Mathematics, Series Number 47) 1st Edition (2018) 
    • 4.7 stars, 74 reviews 
    • "High-dimensional probability offers insight into the behavior of random vectors, random matrices, random subspaces, and objects used to quantify uncertainty in high dimensions. Drawing on ideas from probability, analysis, and geometry, it lends itself to applications in mathematics, statistics, theoretical computer science, signal processing, optimization, and more. It is the first to integrate theory, key tools, and modern applications of high-dimensional probability. Concentration inequalities form the core, and it covers both classical results such as Hoeffding's and Chernoff's inequalities and modern developments such as the matrix Bernstein's inequality. It then introduces the powerful methods based on stochastic processes, including such tools as Slepian's, Sudakov's, and Dudley's inequalities, as well as generic chaining and bounds based on VC dimension. A broad range of illustrations is embedded throughout, including classical and modern results for covariance estimation, clustering, networks, semidefinite programming, coding, dimension reduction, matrix completion, machine learning, compressed sensing, and sparse regression."  

 

Other Books:  

(in a somewhat arbitrary suggested order of possible interest/value)  

 

Commercial Optmization Solutions:  

 

Open Source Optimization Solutions

  • Google OR-Tools 
    • https://github.com/google/or-tools 
    • "OR-Tools is an open source software suite for optimization, tuned for tackling the world's toughest problems in vehicle routing, flows, integer and linear programming, and constraint programming."
    • "After modeling your problem in the programming language of your choice, you can use any of a half dozen solvers to solve it: commercial solvers such as Gurobi or CPLEX, or open-source solvers such as SCIP, GLPK, or Google's GLOP and award-winning CP-SAT."   
    • License:  Apache 2.0

 

Optimization Competitions:  

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