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operational research

the application of mathematical and statistical techniques to industrial processes as a means of establishing optimal operating procedures and systems. Such techniques as LINEAR PROGRAMMING, NETWORK ANALYSIS, computer-based SIMULATION techniques, COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN and STOCKHOLDING MODELS can be used in various areas of a firm's operations to establish cost-effective and efficient working practices.
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Clinical trials, although not considered actual operational research, formed a substantial component of the research undertaken in the field.
Operational research during the Ebola emergency
Smith, "An approximate measure of value," Journal of the Operational Research Society of America, vol.
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Estimating of returns to scale using data envelopment analysis" European Journal of Operational Research 62(1): 7484(1992).
INTERVAL LEFT AND RIGHT RETURNS TO SCALES
Dezalay, "Branch and Bound Crossed With GA to Solve Hybrid Flow-Shops", European Journal of Operational Research 107, pp 389-400, 1998.
Solucion del problema de flow shop flexible aplicando el Algoritmo Genetico de Chu-Beasley
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Critical, emancipatory, and pluralistic research for education: a review of critical systems theory
We hope that this collection will be of interests to a wide range of individuals: researchers and practitioners in system science, system dynamics and operational research, management and public policy.
Public sector applications of the system dynamics approach
1967, Introduction to the Theory of Operational Research.
An order level EOQ model for deteriorating items in a single warehouse system with price depended demand in non-linear (quadratic) form
Economics in Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Mphys in Temple University of Philadelphia, and he has two master degrees of Economics and Operational Research and also a bachelor degree of Physics.
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It is also a vehicle for the latest results in natural computing, artificial intelligence, machine learning, operational research and natural sciences, genetic programming, neural networks, landscape analysis, artificial immune systems, and experimental computing.
Range of new journals from Springer
The tenth International Symposium on Operational Research in Slovenia--SOR'09, http://www.
SOR '09
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Operational research for health policy; making better decisions; proceedings.
Operational research for health policy; making better decisions; proceedings

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