An optimization problem is one where you have to make the best decision (choose the best investments, minimize your company’s costs, find the class schedule with the fewest morning classes, or so on).

Frontline Systems, developer of the 'classic Solver' add-in that ships with desktop Microsoft Excel, has released a cloud-based, free Solver add-in that works equally well in desktop Excel 2016 and ...

Gurobi is a company that provides a mathematical optimization solver, the Gurobi Optimizer, which helps businesses make better decisions by finding optimal solutions to complex problems. Pulse 2.0 ...

I'm using Excel's Solver utility to help us calculate a day's roster for one section of our business based on averaged demand for staff. I've got an array of possible shifts and a staff multiplier for ...