Calibrated Route Finder- Social, Environmental and Cost-effective Truck Routing - Finding the best route with many conflicting objectives is very difficult. The online system Calibrated Route Finder has been developed in collaboration among many companies and organizations and successfully addres...

Optimizing New Vehicle Inventory at General Motors - Getting inventory right enables GM to meet customer demand more efficiently. Optimizing new vehicle inventory has two dimensions: determining how many vehicles, and determining which vehicle configurations. Knowing the best aggregate number of...

IBM Cognitive Technology Helps Aqualia Reduce Costs and Save Resources in Wastewater Treatment - This work takes a deep dive into operational management optimization problems in wastewater treatment plants. We used a constrained Markov Decision Process as the key optimization framework. Our techn...

Data-driven Optimization For Multi-disciplinary Staffing In Mayo Clinic Improves Patient Experience - Emergency Department (ED) patient volumes fluctuate throughout the day leading to delays. Therefore, it is critical to match the staff capacity to the patient demand. A data-driven approach appli...

Implementation of the Genetic Gain Performance Metric Accelerates Agricultural Productivity - Yield is the most important metric for a farmer, as crop output directly impacts profitability. We now refer to the rate of increase in the genetic potential for yield in cultivars as “genetic gain,” and...

Improves Monetization Using Data Analytics - Big data have enabled firms to customize their services to unprecedented levels of granularity. In mobile advertising, once a customer enters the network, the ad-serving decision must be made in milliseconds. In this work, we describe the design and im...