IN spite of the frequency with which operational research has been referred to recently, there are extremely few published discussions from which the layman can obtain an idea of what it is 1. Its ...

Business managers face an endless list of complex issues every day. They must make decisions about financing, where to build a plant, how much of a product to manufacture, how many people to hire, and ...

For years, operational planners have relied on generic software to build the plans that guide every mission within the Department of Defense. Unspecialized tools like Microsoft PowerPoint, Word and ...

DEFINITION AND USE IN WAR THE term Operational research' came into prominence during the War to describe what to the Services was a new type of thinking process used to arrive at answers to questions ...