The World of Explainable Optimization

We are a team of researchers working on explainable optimization (XOpt) at the University of Amsterdam (UvA). We maintain this website to collect and promote recent research on XOpt. Please feel free to reach out to us if you would like to see your work listed here.

News

• Our team member Jannis Kurtz will present our work on explainable optimization online at the Dutch Optimization Platform, an initiative of our group to connect to optimizers in the industry. Additionally, Can Li (Purdue University) will present his work on OptiChat. If you are working for a company and are interested to join the presentations, please contact our team member Dick den Hertog.
• We have created the XOpt Mailing List (see Contact for details)
• Our team member Jannis Kurtz will present our work on explainable optimization at the EURO Online Seminar Series on October 13. More information here .
• The International Workshop on Explainability and Inter­pretability in Optimization will be held at the Energie Campus Nuremberg, Germany on September 17-18, 2025 (see Events for details).