Operations Research
Optimize, Simulate, Understand![How good is the MILP solver in SAS/OR?](https://blogs.sas.com/content/operations/files/2017/02/AdvancedAnalytics-4.png)
There has been a lot of speculation over the years about the quality of the optimization solvers in SAS/OR, in particular the mixed integer linear optimization (MILP) solver. Measuring the performance of optimization solvers and comparing different solvers on a test set is a crucial part of modern optimization solver development.
![SAS at the 2016 INFORMS Annual Meeting](https://blogs.sas.com/content/operations/files/2017/02/AdvancedAnalytics-3.png)
The 2016 INFORMS Annual Meeting will be held at the Music City Center and Omni Nashville Hotel in downtown Nashville, TN on November 13-16, with pre-conference events starting on Saturday, November 12. SAS will be a major participant in this conference. Over two dozen people from SAS will attend, with
![Operations Research Talks at Analytics Experience 2016](https://blogs.sas.com/content/operations/files/2016/09/1464037026405.png)
Analytics Experience 2016 will be held on Sept. 12-14, 2016 at the Bellagio in Las Vegas, NV. There will be a great number of excellent talks and demonstrations at the conference, covering many aspects of SAS analytics and many practical applications. Several of these sessions deal directly with the use
![Dr. Salah Elmaghraby and the Evolution of SAS/OR Resource-Constrained Scheduling](https://blogs.sas.com/content/operations/files/2016/08/Elmaghraby1.jpg)
In 1967, just a short time before a group of graduate students at North Carolina State University (NCSU) were starting a software company they called SAS, Dr. Salah Elmaghraby joined the faculty of NCSU as a Distinguished University Professor. In the 1970s, Dr. Elmaghraby led the effort to create one
![Computing an Optimal Blackjack Strategy with SAS/OR](https://blogs.sas.com/content/operations/files/2016/06/doubledown_heatmap.png)
At the most recent SAS Global Forum in Las Vegas, I gave a demo on using SAS/OR to compute an optimal strategy for the casino game blackjack. For anyone who wasn't able to attend, I'd like to show some of the code and results here.
![SAS/OR at SAS Global Forum 2016](https://blogs.sas.com/content/operations/files/2017/01/AdvancedAnalytics-2.png)
This year's SAS Global Forum conference will take place April 18-21 at The Venetian in Las Vegas. For SAS/OR, SAS staff will present two Super Demos and three papers: