Links

Benchmark Problems including Vehicle Routing Problems

• The VRP Web
• VRP Benchmark problems by Transportation Optimization Portal – TOP
• OR-Library
• TSPBIB
• 8th DIMACS Implementation Challenge: The TSP
• Georgia Tech TSP
• TSPTW Benchmark Data Set
• Center for Research on Transportation
• Dr. Marius M. Solomon, Northeastern U, Bench Mark Problems Solutions
• INFORMS Vehicle Routing Software Survey
• Benchmark Instances for the Travelling Salesman Problem with Time Windows (TSPTW)

• TSL Newsletter and VRP benchmark

Operations Research Problems, Solvers, and Links

• The Science of Better
• Prof. Mitchell’s Optimization and Operations Research Sites
• Tom Cavalier’s Optimization Links
• Operation Research.com OR-Links

• VRP Spreadsheet Solver

Open Optimization Sources

• COIN-OR
• SCIP (Solving Constraint Integer Programs)
• GLPK (GNU Linear Programming Kit)
• SYMPHONY (open source solver for MIP)
• Concorde TSP Solver
• LKH(Lin-Kernighan heuristic for TSP)
• VRPH (A library of Heuristics for the VRP)
• Optimization Software (network simplex method + ) by KONRAD-ZUSE-ZENTRUM FUR INFORMATIONSTECHNIK BERLIN
• Combinatorial optimization (Sparse max-flow, Min-cost max-flow, Push-relabel max-flow, Min-cost matching, Max bipartite matching, Global min cut) – C++
• lpsolve

Bin Packing Problem

• Universita di Bologna – D.E.I.S. – Operations Research
• ESICUP(EURO Special Interest Group on Cutting and Packing)
• One-dimensional bin packing : Benchmark data , (readme)
• Electronically Available Papers of Dr. David Johnson at AT&T Labs-Research: Bin packing, TSP

Logistics / SCM

• VICS, the Voluntary Interindustry Commerce Standards Association
• Stanford Global Supply Chain Management Forum,
• Supply Chain Management Center at University of Maryland
• Carnegie Mellon Intelligent Coordination and Logistics Laboratory (ICLL)
• The SupplyChain Council
• Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals
• MIT-Integrated Supply Chain Management Program

English help

• Perdue Online Writing Lab, Proofreading
• THE CORPUS OF CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN ENGLISH (COCA)