I use the term "pet projects" in reference to a number of long term projects I have on my desk that for various reasons are especially dear to my heart.
I list them here in an arbitrary order.
Project Description Status Worst-Case A mini-campaign to promote proper use of worst-case analysis. Just started (January 2007). tutORial An IFORS project whose aim is to provide the international OR/MS community freely accessible, educationally rich tutorial modules on standard OR/MS topics. More than twenty modules are ready. tutOR A University of Melbourne supported project whose aim is to provide tutorial support for the undergraduate OR subjects at the Department of Mathematics and Statistics. More than twenty five modules are ready. Joy of DP A "popular" DP book supported by interactive web based modules. More than fifteen modules are ready. Revised DP book A revision of my DP book, including 5-6 new chapters. Progress is slow. CCLP Book Composite Concave Linear Programming: a useful and powerful extension of linear programming involving the optimization of a composite linear function subject to linear constraints. The material is ready, but ... progress in writing is slow. ISPCI International Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Indices. An ongoing effort to explain the merit of regarding notation as a tool of thought in Mathematics in general and OR/MS in particular. Not very active at the moment. LW Lose weight! A complete disaster so far. Pizza Attempt to find a really good vegetarian pizza in Melbourne. On hold.
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