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RE: New Book just published

Posted By Alexander Kolker 03-31-2026 17:00
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The book on a similar subject, focused on healthcare operation management, is available on multiple websites: "Healthcare Management Engineering in Action", Springer, 2024 https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-53663-2 The book provides a novel and unique perspective of OR/MS applications ...

RE: New Book just published

Posted By Alexander Kolker 03-31-2026 17:00
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RE: One More Time About a Synergy of AI and OR/MS

Posted By Alexander Kolker 10-18-2025 20:00
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Mehran, I acknowledge that your ChatGPT output in this case is better than I expected. I underestimated LLM in this particular case. Nonetheless, compare it with a summary from one of my projects performed well before AI LLM. (The project was not completed because of some external reasons). From ...

RE: One More Time About a Synergy of AI and OR/MS

Posted By Alexander Kolker 10-18-2025 11:53
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I'd like to thank everybody who contributed to this ongoing discussion and expressed their views on the role of AI LLMs in OR/MS: Warren Hearness, Irv Lustig, Mehran Hojati, Rahul Saxena. I'd like to present here an example of the problem for which, in my view, the future AI could be useful in OR/MS, ...

RE: One More Time About a Synergy of AI and OR/MS

Posted By Alexander Kolker 10-18-2025 00:06
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Mehran, I appreciate your time testing three LLMs with the updated, improved prompt. The issue, however, is whether AI (LLMs models) are capable of providing added value, or new insights that escaped a qualified OR/MS specialist. From this standpoint, these tested LLMs with improved prompts failed ...

RE: One More Time About a Synergy of AI and OR/MS

Posted By Alexander Kolker 10-16-2025 20:08
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Irv, In general, I agree with your suggestion to modify my question from "Do I really need an assistant..." to "Would ideas from an assistant...be useful ...". The critical issue, however, is that not all assistants are created equal. Collaborating with your colleagues/assistants or AI can be fruitful ...

RE: One More Time About a Synergy of AI and OR/MS

Posted By Alexander Kolker 10-16-2025 13:35
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Irv, Thank you for your feedback. 1st, the link that you suggested https://pubsonline.informs.org/do/10.1287/orms.20 does not work, returning 'An Error has occurred, please contact your System Administrator.' With no exact reference to the authors, I am unable to read this paper. 2nd, you write ...

RE: One More Time About a Synergy of AI and OR/MS

Posted By Alexander Kolker 10-15-2025 11:13
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Warren, I appreciate your taking the time to write your detailed response and suggestions to my post regarding the role of AI for possible synergy with OR/MS. I think the key to our different assessment of the AI role as an enabler and value-added component to OR/MS is in your phrase: "As you can guess, ...

One More Time About a Synergy of AI and OR/MS

Posted By Alexander Kolker 10-13-2025 14:18
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One More Time About a Synergy of AI and OR/MS I have recently attended a webinar organized by the NY Metro INFORMS Chapter on "Synergizing Artificial Intelligence and Operations Research: Perspectives from INFORMS Fellows on the Next Frontier." https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_HI7YOf3 ...

RE: Neuro-Operations Management: A New Frontier in OR/MS?

Posted By Alexander Kolker 09-26-2025 10:32
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"...neuro-OM - a fresh approach that explores the psychophysiological processes behind decision-making in operations and supply chain management. "neuro-OM dives directly into the "black box" of the human mind using tools like eye tracking, heart rate monitoring, and skin conductance to uncover unconscious ...

RE: What Does Hybrid Intelligence Mean to You?

Posted By Alexander Kolker 08-25-2025 13:07
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Garrett, thank you for your initiative to reach out to the authors to see if they'd like to respond. At the same time, I believe that the authors were supposed to respond to questions on their posts without the third-party intermediary. At this time, I have no choice but to assume that the purpose of ...

RE: What Does Hybrid Intelligence Mean to You?

Posted By Alexander Kolker 08-19-2025 11:47
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I am still waiting for the specific answers to my questions from the posters Alex Cosmas and Philipp Ahrens. I scanned the link to the material "QuantumBlack's Hybrid Approach...". Unfortunately, I have not seen anything specific in this material but buzzwords and unsubstantiated claims. --------- ...

RE: What Does Hybrid Intelligence Mean to You?

Posted By Alexander Kolker 08-16-2025 19:32
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Would you please provide specific examples of "value when combining optimization and AI rather than keeping them separate"? Would you specifically demonstrate what AI could do that the structured OR/MS could not? How specifically does AI help "scaling insights quickly"? Thanks for your insight. ...

RE: Why Artificial Intelligence Is the Future of Business

Posted By Alexander Kolker 07-30-2025 10:59
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To keep this discussion meaningful and to avoid fooling yourself into thinking you are doing AI when you actually use only, say, optimization algorithms or simulation modeling, the two points should always be clearly stated: Definition of the term AI that is being used. Is it a strong AI, i.e., imitation ...

RE: Excited to share an upcoming article in IJDS on Synergizing Artificial Intelligence and Operations Research

Posted By Alexander Kolker 07-22-2025 20:20
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To Irv Lustig: Irv, please see below my response to this discussion that I posted about 10 days ago. I completely agree with your comments to Radhika. I am amazed how similar are your comments to my response below. I had a chance to exchange these issues with Holly Wiberg. She is a coauthor of the ...

RE: A bit of History in Simon's Article on Two Heads are better than one

Posted By Alexander Kolker 07-13-2025 10:45
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I agree with Rahul Saxena's statements: "Currently, discussions about AI often serve as a proxy for discussions about LLMs....Numerous other non-LLM AI algorithms are employed in optimization, decision support, evaluation, simulation, forecasting, diagnostics, etc. However, these are so deeply intertwined ...

RE: A bit of History in Simon's Article on Two Heads are better than one

Posted By Alexander Kolker 07-12-2025 13:44
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Regarding the ongoing discussion on synergizing AI and OR/MS, I am somewhat confused about "current AI rage". Any discussion can be meaningful only if the terms being discussed are clearly defined and have the same meaning for everybody involved in the discussion. So, Operations Research (OR)/Management ...

RE: A New Approach to Strategic Analysis for a Changing World

Posted By Alexander Kolker 07-06-2025 11:39
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Bruce, I agree with you. On top of that, my concern was how AI and its role was defined in the discussed context. So far, I saw only some slogans/buzzwords like "AI enhances this framework....". It was not large language model (LLM), but what was it? In what way it enhances...data-driven learning.. ...

RE: A New Approach to Strategic Analysis for a Changing World

Posted By Alexander Kolker 07-05-2025 10:43
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Re: "traditional tools of strategic analysis long relied upon for this purpose may no longer be sufficient. Their limitations stem primarily from their static nature and inability to leverage the full potential of modern information technologies, especially AI." A methodology for sequential decision-making ...

RE: Version 3.8.0 of Decision Modeling

Posted By Alexander Kolker 07-03-2025 16:58
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