Polio Eradicators Use Integrated Analytical Models to Make Better Decisions - The U.S. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) and Kid Risk, Inc.: Polio Eradicators Use Integrated Analytical Models to Make Better DecisionsPresented by: Steven Wassilak, Mark A. Pallansch, Radboud J. Dui...

Kidney ExchangeMany end-stage renal disease sufferers who require a kidney transplant to prolong their lives have relatives or associates who have volunteered to donate a kidney to them, but whose kidney is incompatible with their intended recipient. This incompatibility can be sometimes overcom...

Transforming E.D. Workflow and Patient Care - When we encounter an unexpected critical health problem, a hospital’s emergency department (ED) becomes our vital medical resource. Improving an ED’s efficiency and timeliness of care, while reducing avoidable readmissions, is fraught with difficultie...

Optimized Fibre Optic Network Design - The National Broadband Network is the largest public infrastructure project undertaken in Australia. Through the use of Operations Research is expected to avoid more than $2.2 Billion in unnecessary construction and design costs on the $36 Billion project....

Hydroelectric Generation and Water Routing Optimizer - We describe a software application that enables owners of generation output from a virtualized Federal Columbia River Power System to safely operate the system while also shaping the generation to meet their energy and economic needs. The ap...

The "Who to Follow" System at Twitter: Strategy, Algorithms & Impact - The Who-To-Follow system at Twitter is an algorithmic data product that recommends accounts for Twitter users to follow. Building the system involved algorithmic, analytics, operational, and experimental challeng...