Computational Operations Research Exchange (Core): A Cyber-Infrastructure for Analytics

cORe is a new cyber-infrastructure which will facilitate computational Operations Research exchange. OR models arise in many engineering domains, such as design, manufacturing, and services (e.g., banking/finance, health systems), as well as specific infrastructure-centric applications such as logistics/supply chains, power system operations, telecommunications, traffic/ transportation, and many more. In addition, modern OR tools have also been adopted in many foundational disciplines, such as computer science, machine learning, and others. Given the broad footprint of OR, the development of a robust cyber-infrastructure has the potential to not only promote greater exchange of data, models, software, and experiments but also enhance reproducibility and re-usability, both within OR, and across multiple disciplines mentioned above. cORe also has the potential to drastically reduce the computational burden on research communities which study resource allocation using analytics. This paper presents an overview of the functionality, design, and computations using cORe.