Operations research analysts use advanced methods of analysis to help organizations solve problems and make better decisions.

With over 12,500 members from around the globe, INFORMS is the leading international association for professionals in operations research and analytics. INFORMS promotes best practices and advances in ...

Type of Research: Operations Research Motivation for Research: Large combinatorial optimization problems involve an exponentially growing decision space, where finding a good solution often becomes ...

The scientific temper of operations research creates a near-ideal competitive landscape. The progress should be attributed to a combination of openness and scientific skepticism.

Operations research/systems analysts bring mathematics and computer modeling to decision-making in order to provide commanders with the best available information and improve the success rate of ...

Facility location and optimization problems have long been a central focus in operations research and applied mathematics, addressing the challenge of strategically placing facilities to serve a ...

Operations researchers use mathematics to solve business problems.

The Journal of the Operational Research Society, Vol. 32, No. 9 (Sep., 1981), pp. 783-792 (10 pages) This paper first presents a formulation for a class of hierarchial problems that show a two-stage ...