Scope

• Real applications of OR – forecasting, inventory, investment, location, logistics, maintenance, marketing, packing, purchasing, production, project management, reliability and scheduling
• A wide variety of environments – community OR, education, energy, finance, government, health services, manufacturing industries, mining, sports, and transportation
• Technical approaches – decision support systems, expert systems, heuristics, networks, mathematical programming, multicriteria decision methods, problems structuring methods, queues, and simulation

Last Updated 21 March 2001