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Re:Employee Scheduling by nappy-doo on Sunday March 15, 2020 @07:55AM (#22582928)
I can chime in. Googler here, who knows the OR team very well. They are solving EXTREMELY large problems for customers. I can't tell you who, and I can't tell what problems, but they are among the biggest OR problems you can imagine.

(No, I don't mean within Google, although they solve scheduling problems there as well.)

EDIT: There are articles:

https://cloud.google.com/press-releases/2020/0120/lufthansa

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/19/lufthansa-taps-googles-cloud...

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Re:Employee Scheduling by apelapan on Sunday March 15, 2020 @01:31PM (#22584893)
The articles are more statement of ambition than indication of actually "solving problems". I will follow whatever information gets out about this project with great interest.

The big challenge in making something like this actually work, are not the fancy hightech bits. Dealing with humdrum data integrations and torrential rates of change in rules and constraints, sourced from hundreds of mostly non-technical people across dozens of independent departments is where it gets hard.

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Re:Employee Scheduling by srean on Sunday March 15, 2020 @01:04PM (#22584645)
I am curious if some of the ITA folks landed (no pun intended) there, not because of the airline domain but because of expertise in dealing with complicated constraints.
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Re:Employee Scheduling by sidesquid on Sunday March 15, 2020 @08:43AM (#22583148)
I heard of some projects involved at air controllers?
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