Commentaries on A. Mor, C. Orsenigo and M.G. Speranza “optimization and supervised learning for decision making: competitors or partners?”

Arslan, Okan and Cerrone, Carmine and Eglese, Richard and Ghaddar, Bissan and Golden, Bruce L. and Kunc, Martin and Laporte, Gilbert and Saldanha-da-Gama, Francisco and Salhi, Said and Smith-Miles, Kate and Vigo, Daniele (2026) Commentaries on A. Mor, C. Orsenigo and M.G. Speranza “optimization and supervised learning for decision making: competitors or partners?”. Journal of the Operational Research Society. ISSN 0160-5682

Abstract

This article comprises a set of commentaries provided by scholars in the field for the discussion paper by Mor, Orsenigo and Speranza. Though all appreciate the integration of optimisation and Machine Learning, and considered the topic to be timely and challenging their views also highlight several aspects that ought not to be ignored. The authors then produced their responses to these challenging commentaries in a concise and forward looking spirit. For simplicity, the commentaries are put in alphabetical order of the authors surnames.