"What's the difference between mathematical optimization and machine learning?" This is a question that — as the CEO of a mathematical optimization software company — I get asked all the time.

Logistical chaos is not a new phenomenon in the supply-chain world, but the scale of upheaval caused by COVID-19 is something that stakeholders have never seen before: 94% of Fortune 1000 companies ...

Supply chains consist of imperfect humans struggling to make perfect decisions. In the end, though, it all comes down to a game of numbers. That, at least, is the theory behind mathematical ...

Some people say that money makes the world go round; others say it’s love. Although there is undoubtedly some truth to those statements, the reality is that — more and more every day — our world today ...

The Centre for Operations Research and Decision Sciences (CORDS) is located at Simon Fraser University. With faculty members from Business, Computing Science, Mathematics, SIAT and Statistics, the ...