Simulation and optimization are two terms that are often used almost synonymously. Yet they are two fundamentally different techniques. Our new episode “One more thing about…” explains the difference.

Creating tournament schedules seems simple, but in practice it can be quite complex. It’s also a great example of optimization. Learn more about the details and tricks of creating tournament schedules in this episode.

To the untrained eye, it is not immediately obvious whether using a solver is an easy step or impossible. Let’s take a look at problem complexity, scalability to our problem size.