What Research Went into the Beer Game AI?
The research behind the Opex Analytics Beer Game began many months ago at
Lehigh
University.Professor
Larry
Snyder (also a Senior Research Associate at Opex) and his colleague
Professor
Martin Takac, along with PhD
students
Afshin Oroojlooy and
Reza Nazari, set out to
show the successful application of Deep Neural Networks (DNN), typically best suited
for predictive analytics applications, within an optimization problem. The optimization
problem, as you may have guessed, is the beer game.
Larry Snyder brought the Lehigh research together with the Opex development team to
create what is now the Opex Analytics Beer Game. The research done by the team from
Lehigh, paired with the years of experience Opex has in machine learning and inventory
problems, creates a deep set of materials that highlight our expertise and thinking.
Please feel free to read, share and reach out to us with your thoughts regarding any of
the materials we list below. Enjoy!