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In spite of the efficacy of Operations Research (OR), its tools are still underused, due to the difficulties that people experience when describing a problem through a mathematical model. For this reason, teaching how to approach and model complex problems is still an open issue. A strong relation exists between (video) games and learning: for this reason we explore to which extent (real time) simulation video games could be envisaged to be an innovative, stimulating and compelling approach to teach OR techniques.
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Maggiorini, D., Previti, S., Ripamonti, L.A., Trubian, M. (2013). Resources Optimization in (Video) Games: A Novel Approach to Teach Applied Mathematics?. In: Nicosia, G., Pardalos, P. (eds) Learning and Intelligent Optimization. LION 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 7997. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-44973-4_20
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