(Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences) Nearly 100 unique factors are considered during the complicated task of assigning inmates to Department of Correction's facilities. What once took seven employees nearly a week to accomplish can now be completed in less than 10 minutes at an expected savings of nearly $3 million, thanks to a team from Lehigh University and the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, who were presented the Daniel H. Wagner Prize for Excellence in Operations Research Practice by INFORMS.
from EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science http://ift.tt/2yPo6GQ
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