Understanding the process of operational research : collected readings /
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Chichester ; New York :
Wiley,
c1995.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Operational Research / P. M. S. Blackett
- 2. Reminiscences of Operational Research in World War II by Some of its Practitioners / Derman Christopherson and E. C. Baughan
- 3. A History of Operations Research / Florence N. Trefethen
- 4. A Comparison of Operational Research in the U.S.A. and in Great Britain / R. L. Ackoff
- 5. Early OR in the Steel Company of Wales / H. G. Jones
- 6. Internal Organization / R. C. Tomlinson
- 7. Operations Research in Perspective / Hugh J. Miser
- 8. The General Nature of Operations Research / C. W. Churchman, R. L. Ackoff and E. L. Arnoff
- 9. OR/MS: Dead or Dying? RX for Survival / John R. Hall, Jr. and Sidney W. Hess
- 10. The Future of Operational Research is Past / Russell L. Ackoff
- 11. The Changing Role of O.R. / N. R. Tobin, K. Rapley and W. Teather
- 12. Problem Construction and the Influence of OR / Colin Eden
- 13. Could OR be a Science? / M. R. Dando, A. Defrenne and R. G. Sharp.
- 14. The Craft of Applied Systems Analysis / Giandomenico Majone
- 15. A Materialist Analysis of Operational Research / Jonathan Rosenhead and Colin Thunhurst
- 16. Discussion and Recommendations / Commission on the Future Practice of Operational Research
- 17. Operations Research: the Next Decade / Committee on the Next Decade in Operations Research (CONDOR)
- 18. Present Positions and Future Prospects in Management Science / M. C. Jackson
- 19. OR as Technology: Some Issues and Implications / P. Keys
- Conclusion: Towards the Future.