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    Michael Trick's Operations Research Blog

  • Running Farmville through Operations Reseach

    Michael Trick
    21 Nov 2009 | 6:10 am
    Be sure to check out Tallys Yunes’ post on getting rich in Facebook’s Farmville via linear programming (following up on Mark Newheiser’s post). I think I’ll add this to the introductory course we teach our MBAs. Now if only we could cut down on the lonely animals from other’s farms that hang out in my Facebook feed.

  • Stephen Baker, ex-Business Week

    Michael Trick
    19 Nov 2009 | 1:55 pm
    Stephen Baker, a senior writer at Business Week, is part of the group that was not offered a job after that magazine was bought by Bloomberg. Steve’s journalism has been a tremendous boon to the world of operations research. His cover story “Math will Rock Your World” pointed out all the ways mathematics is affecting business and even mentioned operations research by name. He attended our conferences, and worked some of our stories into the bestselling book “The Numerati”. So what is with the new Business Week? If I can quote Steve about trying to sell the world…

  • Journal Impact and Costs

    Michael Trick
    18 Nov 2009 | 8:42 am
    I am a co-editor of a “new” journal Surveys in Operations Research and Management Science published by Elsevier. I’ll write more about that journal and my thoughts about it in another post. I expect to be blasted by some people whose opinions I value about teaming up with a commercial publisher, but I did have my reasons! I spent time this past weekend in Phoenix at an Elsevier editors conference where there were about 70 editors from a wide variety of fields (lots of medicine and chemistry). During the weekend, there were a number of presentations on things like blogging…

  • Dead words in operations research

    Michael Trick
    17 Nov 2009 | 6:00 pm
    Sometime ago, when writing about Stafford Beer, I wrote: Stafford Beer was one of the founding people in British operational research. He was one of the people who saw operational research in World War II and adapted those methods to work in practice, in his case at United Steel, followed by some consulting companies. He ended up founding many aspects of systems science and “cybernetics” (a term I rarely hear these days). Turns out I was right about “cybernetics”. PhD Comics (a must read for both doctoral students and those who supervise them, live with them, parent them, or…

  • Winston, Sports, Statistics, and Decision Making

    Michael Trick
    16 Nov 2009 | 7:26 am
    Wayne Winston, author of famous textbooks in operations research and a new book on math and sports,  and sports statistics/decision making guru, has a column in the Huffington Post, which certainly catapults him to rock-star status in the operations research world.  The entries are also posted on his personal blog, where he posts additional material. His recent post is on a controversial decision that the coach, Bill Belichick of the New England Patriots (US football) made yesterday.  With just a couple of minutes left to play, Belichick decided to try for a first down on 4th and 2 deep on…
 
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  • Healthcare system improvement project management: how not to manage projects

    6 Nov 2009 | 12:45 am
    Lately, I am finding it difficult to not do the work myself in the projects I'm leading/managing. The excuse I've been using is "well, it's just easier to do it myself than asking someone else for it". However, I end up paying for it with way too many late nights working around the clock. I'll be the first to admit: this is the wrong way to manage projects. I end up feeling burned out and tired doing work that should have been done by others in the team, leaving me without enough energy or time to actually 'manage' the projects. Ultimately, if I continued this way, it would be both bad for me…

  • Healthcare system improvement project management: what's the right balance?

    25 Oct 2009 | 12:06 pm
    I now live in London, UK, and work for a rather famous hospital, renowned for its medical reputation internationally. My role is a project manager on 2 system improvement projects. Such projects are also labeled as "transformation" or "modernisation" projects, depending on where you work. The idea is to work with doctors, nurses, managers, clerical and administrative staff, as well as patient families, who live and breathe the hospital, so that this group of people take ownership of the problems and solutions. We meet one day a week for a full day, and project managers like me and lean…

  • Introducing variability, flow and processes in a funny video to anyone

    13 Sep 2009 | 1:43 pm
    I'm leading on two variability & flow management projects at the hospital right now, and the terms "variability" and "flow" are certainly not something the medics hear much about. I needed a quick way of explaining what the projects are about, what these terms mean, and what kind of problems we are trying to resolve. A colleague suggested this video from the ever popular "I Love Lucy" TV series, episode "Chocolate Factory". It does a wonderful job of making people laugh, as well as acting out some strong parallels to a process, and the variability and flow within the process. Take a look…

  • "Doing good with good OR" - it's not just academic

    22 Aug 2009 | 9:43 am
    ThinkOR reader, Tina asks:I recently graduated from college and am considering going to graduate school to study Operations Research because it is a subject I really like. There's something strangely satisfying about improving the real world with mathematical models. However, I am conflicted about what kind of career path a masters in OR would put me on. In an admittedly naive way, I want to use my education to improve our society. I think that OR can be better applied to many social services to improve efficiency. However, are there currently opportunities like this available? It seems like…

  • Simple Hostel Yield Management Example

    14 Jun 2009 | 10:45 am
    Continuing on from my thoughts in Yield Management in Hostels?, in this article I present a simplified example of how a Hostel might use simple Yield Management principles to increase its profitability.Yield Management or Revenue Management or Revenue Optimization is a set of theories and practices that help companies, typically in the transportation and hospitality industry, gain the most revenue possible by selling a limited product where short-term costs are, for the most part, fixed. Simply put, this is why the prices of plane tickets change every time you check and why you can save on…
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  • controversy is an opportunity for learning

    Laura
    12 Nov 2009 | 1:24 pm
    Every now and then I have one of these days when I know that my students truly understand and apply what they’ve been taught. At those moments, teaching is incredibly rewarding. I am not one to shy away from controversial topics in the classroom. It is important for students to learn how to approach tough topics using OR and numbers, rather than by flinging personal attacks. In my intro to statistics course this semester, I used Larry Summers to make a point about the importance of variance. Originally, it was reported that Summers claimed that there might be some evidence that men were…

  • score one for OR!

    Laura
    2 Nov 2009 | 1:20 pm
    I saw a recent press release about one of Sheldon Jacobson’s projects that investigates vaccination issues for H1N1. What is interesting about the press release is that it  actually promotes the field of operations research. Maybe the grassroots efforts to promote OR are working!  You can read the press release for yourself, but check out the plug for OR: Jacobson’s field is Operations Research (OR for short). OR is a combination of a multitude of tools, including aspects of engineering, computer science, mathematical modeling and algorithms, and statistical analysis. It also…

  • Using OR for good

    Laura
    28 Oct 2009 | 9:22 am
    Margaret Brandeau gave the first WORMS keynote address entitled “From Venn Diagrams to Public Health Policy: An OR Journey” This is my third blog post about the INFORMS Annual meeting. Dr. Brandeau’s excellent talk chronicled her journey from an undergraduate math student at MIT to a OR superstar.  She could recall the exact day when she decided to become an operations researcher.  This day was one of the first days of an applied math class, when her professor outlined several real applications of math.  This opened Dr. Brandeau’s eyes to the many things that math could do. …

  • OR and H1N1

    Laura
    23 Oct 2009 | 10:49 am
    This is the second of three posts about the INFORMS Annual Meeting. I enjoyed a talk by Dr. Richard Larson of MIT about the timely topic of H1N1 and operations research.  I tuned out much of the alarmist news prior to the conference (to keep my sanity) and instead adopted a rigorous handwashing regimen.  Larson’s talk highlighted the many opportunities for addressing H1N1 issues using operations research, including: Queuing for vaccinations. Reneging on vaccinations (some health care workers are refusing required vaccinations). Timing the vaccinations (before the prevalence peaks) is…

  • criminal background checks

    Laura
    22 Oct 2009 | 12:04 pm
    This is the first of three posts about the INFORMS Annual Meeting.  Check back in the next few days for the other two posts. I thoroughly enjoyed the Threats to Life and Limb session.  Thanks to Arnie Barnett for organizing a great session! In this session, Al Blumstein gave a provocative talk about criminal recidivism.  His research is motivated by employe background checks.  Since most records are electronic, arrest records from the distant past survive.  In many cases, a reformed individual could be denied employment for a minor indiscretion committed decades previously.  The data…
 
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  • GreenBuild 2009, Part I

    or4green
    19 Nov 2009 | 6:10 pm
    photo by Brian MaggiLast week, thanks to some CGA civil engineering colleagues, I attended the 2009 Greenbuild International Conference and Expo in Phoenix. Greenbuild is run by the U.S. Green Building Council, the group responsible for LEED green building certification. It was an impressive event with over 28,000 attendees, dozens of educational sessions and hundreds of expo exhibitors. All aspects of building were covered from the green perspective: walls, floors, lighting, plumbing, HVAC, steel, stone, aluminum, wood, etc. A couple of key themes emerged. First, during the design phase,…

  • Papers: mcdm, remanufacturing, wind, tidal power …

    or4green
    8 Nov 2009 | 1:56 pm
    Some more recent papers on green O.R. and related topics: Wind energy management with battery storage by L Zhang and A Wirth in Journal of the Operational Research Society, advance online publication 14 October 2009 Incentive and production decisions for remanufacturing operations by Onur Kaya in EJOR, Volume 201, Issue 2, 1 March 2010, Pages 442-453 The Potential of Tidal Power from the Bay of Fundy by Justine M. McMillan and Megan J. Lickley in SIAM Undergraduate Research Online (SIURO), published electronically July 11, 2008 link to the abstract (scroll); link to the paper (pdf–18MB)…

  • Forestry and Wood Manufacturing Research Group

    or4green
    31 Oct 2009 | 7:19 pm
    There is a Consortium for Research on Renewable Industrial Materials (CORRIM) administered through the University of Washington. Focusing on forestry and wood manufacturing, the consortium consists of members from several universities and industry. Life-cycle assessment seems to be an important part of the methodology. The O.R. connection can be found in their objectives: CORRIM’s research is focused on two objectives: 1) to develop a database and modeling system for environmental performance measurements associated with materials use and, 2) to respond to specific questions and issues…

  • MORS Power & Energy Meeting … Coast Guard Sustainability

    or4green
    26 Oct 2009 | 7:29 pm
    The US-based Military Operations Research Society (MORS) will be holding a Power and Energy Special Meeting, November 30th to December 3rd, 2009 in Reston, Virginia. From the meeting website: The P&E Special Meeting will focus on the requirements and metrics, science and technology, Modeling and Simulation (M&S), processes, and methodologies needed to address the Office of the Secretary of Defense’s (OSD’s) Energy Policy to consider operational energy risk from logistics demand and how to frame Energy Efficiency Key Performance Parameters. The P&E Special Meeting will also…

  • The GreenGov Challenge

    or4green
    25 Oct 2009 | 12:28 pm
    Earlier this month, President Obama signed an Executive Order on Federal Sustainability that extends a previous Executive Order (#13423, discussed near the bottom of this prior post). The new order sets goals for federal agencies in emissions, reduced fossil fuel usage, water management, etc. Along with the Executive Order, the Whitehouse has launched the GreenGov Challenge in which federal employees submit sustainability ideas to be voted on by other federal employees. The top ideas are then passed on to key sustainability figures at each agency. Thousands of ideas have already been…
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  • Buy now! Limited supplies!

    mswd
    19 Nov 2009 | 4:51 am
    Related to my post yesterday, the NY Times today has an article on retailers intentionally keeping stocking quantities low (NY Times, 11/19/09, Luxury Stores Trim Inventory and Discounts).  If the Brioni leather bomber jacket is what you need for that special someone this season, you better get to Saks fast because they have only 1 left – at a mere $5295! (And then you need to see a therapist to explore why you feel compelled to spend $5295 + taxes on an article of clothing which is not suitable for climbing Mt Everest or walking on the moon.) The idea is simple – intentionally…

  • 4Q is time for what’s hot and unavailable

    mswd
    18 Nov 2009 | 6:03 pm
    Every 4th quarter there are stories about what is hot and hard to find. This year, it is the e-reader category, specifically Sony’s Daily Edition Reader ($399) and Barnes & Noble’s Nook ($259). (See WSJ 11/18/09 – Sony Says Some E-Reader Orders May Miss Christmas).  Sony is telling customers that they are now shipping orders on Dec 18th – a little tight to ensure being included as a stocking stuffer. My favorite quote from the article is: “The possibility that Sony, a huge electronics manufacturer, would be caught off guard by supply-chain issues is…

  • H1N1 Production and Forecasts

    mswd
    9 Nov 2009 | 10:14 am
    The following table provides a summary of the H1N1 vaccine forecasts and actual availability: Date Forecast (million doses) Actual 7/30/09 120 by October. 9/12/09 50 by Oct. 15,  9/26/09 40  by mid October 10/17/09 28-30 by the end of October. 11.4 10/26/09 30 by the end of October 10/28/09 23.2 Why the error in their forecasts? My favorite quote (NY Times Oct 25, 2009) is Dr. Thomas R. Frieden, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, “We really thought that having five different manufacturers would buy us some insurance, that they wouldn’t all have problems.”…

  • The diamond supply chain

    mswd
    27 Oct 2009 | 12:39 pm
    Some retailers like to vertically integrate. For example, in clothing the two large players (Gap, Inditex/Zara) are vertically integrated into production (though not to fabric production). Other do not. For example, in athletic shoes (Nike/Adidas), the firms like to outsource production and do not reach all of the way back into the production of materials (such as cows for leather). The Internet giant, Amazon, doesn’t make the stuff it sells (I suspect it outsources production of the Kindle) and the physical world giant, Wal-Mart, also primarily sticks to retailing. The supply chain…

  • Capacity shortages of H1N1 vaccine

    mswd
    21 Oct 2009 | 6:21 pm
    Have you been able to get your H1N1 vaccine? Probably not – it has been widely reported that there are delays in the distribution of this vaccine. The interesting question is why? Reading a bunch of articles on this topic doesn’t shed a whole lot of light. But one figure jumps out at you – as reported in WSJ (10/19/09 – Delay Undercuts H1N1 Vaccine Campaign), the U.S. government has ordered 251 doses from 5 manufacturers. The current U.S. population is just over 300 million, so they have ordered enough to vaccinate over 80% of us. To put this in perspective, the U.S.
 
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  • What’s the DopplERP plan?

    Francisco Marco-Serrano
    14 Nov 2009 | 9:51 am
      Since I decided years ago (around 2003) that I needed to be active to improve my knowledge on Operations Research I’ve tried to look at the real life as an inspiration; that’s how in 2005 ‘FM Waves’ was born, as a notepad for my thoughts. Then, it’s when I took my courses on Operations Management, that [...]

  • My name is Francisco, does it matter?

    Francisco Marco-Serrano
    12 Oct 2009 | 7:20 am
      It seems so if we read Freakonomics, by Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubner. When I first read the book, almost three years ago I couldn’t believe someone had messed about with an attribute that follows us from birth to death: our own name. The hipothesis to test was if the forename was linked to success [...]

  • Don’t Sell me Food, Sell me Health

    Francisco Marco-Serrano
    27 Aug 2009 | 12:54 pm
      This summer, a well-known retailer in Spain has been publicising its products saying it was doing a good job against the crisis feeding a familiy of four (two adults and two children) for just 28 EUR/week (that’s 1 EUR/day per family member). For acomplising that you needed to buy what they recommended (chicken, oranges, bread…), [...]

  • Meet the Decision-Makers (by The Economist)

    Francisco Marco-Serrano
    6 Aug 2009 | 10:48 pm
    I know, I usually refer to The Economist as one of my references…, but that’s the problem behind when you follow such an awesome publication. As if wasn’t enough, you should be following The Economist Intelligence Unit, and The Economist Conferences. (AN: no money or gift has been received to say this; however, hey, we’re on [...]

  • DopplERP.com

    Francisco Marco-Serrano
    12 Jul 2009 | 11:54 am
      Keep an eye on our website. At the moment, this is all we can say.   Similar Posts: No matter… TCO/TCP & BSc Post #136
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  • Flaw of Averages followup: The Average Lie

    Larry
    20 Nov 2009 | 10:18 am
    The Simple Dollar has a great article about the The Average Lie. The reason why I bring up this article because a recent IEOR Tools blog commentator opined in an earlier post on the Flaw of Averages by Sam Savage. The commentator said Sam didn't bring up any good examples. Actually I think Sam did bring up a great example in personal finance of the fallacy of assuming x% average growth rate for the life of an investment vehicle. This article by The Simple Dollar is a great illustration of Sam's example.After posting that article I could think of many different examples of the Flaw of…

  • Social Networks and Operations Research

    Larry
    12 Nov 2009 | 9:30 am
    Based on a request from a blog reader Michael Trick has set up the OR-Exchange as a social networking way to get Operations Research related questions and answers. It is an experiment to see if it would be beneficial to the Operations Research community. For those of us that have used the common Usenet groups in the past we have recently seen it degrade into a chasm of spam. Hopefully with these new networking sites this will help remedy that networking need in the Operations Research community.On another note Analytic Bridge and LinkedIn is also a very good networking and discussion social…

  • Flaw of Averages recap and INFORMS podcast

    Larry
    10 Nov 2009 | 1:42 pm
    I talked about an article about Sam Savage and his new book the Flaw of Averages not too long ago. This past Friday INFORMS released a new podcast in their series the Science of Better interviewing Sam Savage. This is a fascinating interview about the theory in his book and the, unfortunate often, over simplification of decision analysis based on a simple average of a data population. I strongly suggest listening to this podcast as Sam has a unique way of presenting his theories.

  • Legal issues with Data Visualization: AT&T and Verizon "Map For That"

    Larry
    4 Nov 2009 | 10:31 am
    CmdrTaco of Slashdot has a recent entry on AT&T sues Verizon over "Map For That" Advertising. CmdrTaco has a good point in that this story is about a lawsuit over data visualization. Sure there has been litigation in the past with false advertising. Yet this lawsuit is pointing to a topic that Operations Research practitioners take a great interest. Data visualization is often seen as a great tool for comparison. I remember first seeing this TV ad from Verizon and thinking how amazed the difference in coverage between the two carriers. Data visualization can have a great impact on the…

  • GLPK 4.40 released today

    Larry
    3 Nov 2009 | 5:49 am
    Andrew Makhorin, lead developer of the GNU Linear Programming Kit project, released the latest version of GLPK 4.40 today. Some of the following enhancements include...New API routines. Mostly with graphs.New branching and MIP heuristicsAnd of course some bug fixesAs described by Andrew, GLPK is intended for solving large-scale linear programming, mixed integer linear programming, and related problems. GLPK is written in ANSI C and is organized as a callable library.IEOR Tools also had a feature on GLPK on how to use it in the Windows environment as IEOR Tools tutorial: Using GLPK in Windows.
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  • 2011 IFORS Prize Competition

    10 Nov 2009 | 6:26 am
    Subhash Datta, Prize Chair for the 2011 IFORS Prize Competition, has released the mechanics of the 2011 IFORS Prize for OR in Development. In recognition  of the continuing focus of IFORS on developing countries, the first and runner up prize money has been increased. Furthermore, the 2011 competition does not limit the participants to nationals of developing countries.

  • 3rd International Conference of Iranian Operations Research Society

    5 Nov 2009 | 12:18 am
    The Iranian Operations Research Society(IORS), is honored to invite everyone engaged in research, teaching, business, or public services related to Operational Research to attend the 3rd Conference on Operational Research, which will be held in Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran.

  • Call for Papers - International Symposium on Combinatorial Optimization, March 24-26, 2010 Hammamet, Tunisia

    26 Oct 2009 | 8:06 pm
    An International Symposium on Combinatorial Optimization will be held in Hammamet, Tunisia, March 24-26, 2010. The symposium aims to bring together researchers from combinatorial optimization, and from related fields of  operations research and linear and integer programming.

  • 24th Mini EURO Conference

    21 Oct 2009 | 3:09 pm
    We are pleased to announce that the 24th Mini EURO Conference on Continuous Optimization and Information-Based Technologies in the Financial Sector (24th MEC-EurOPT-2010), will be held in Izmir University of Economics, Izmir, Turkey, on June 23-26, 2010.

  • IFORS Represented in the International Symposium on OR

    21 Oct 2009 | 5:04 am
    IFORS President Elise del Rosario was on hand to welcome participants of the 8th International Symposium on Operations Research and Its Applications (ISORA09), held from Sep 20 to 21, 2009 in Zhangjiajie China. An APORS-supported annual meeting, the conference was attended by over 120 participants.
 
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  • SAS and Evidence-based Decision-Making and Analytics in the New York Times

    22 Nov 2009 | 5:39 am
    Today's NY Times has a feature article on the software powerhouse, SAS, which is based in Cary, North Carolina. The article traces its history and founding by Mr. Goodnight and three colleagues from North Carolina State University in 1976 and highlights how, even today, SAS allocates 22% of the company's substantial revenue to research and development. The article has links to SAS's gorgeous campus, which includes a pool, a daycare and preschool for employees' children, on-site medical care, and more! Of the 100 largest companies in the world, 92 use SAS software.However, SAS is now being…

  • Sam Bowles Spoke in our Operations Research Series

    21 Nov 2009 | 6:16 am
    Professor Sam Bowles spoke to a standing room only crowd in our 2009 Fall UMass Amherst INFORMS Speaker Series yesterday at the Isenberg School of Management. The title of his presentation was: The Nature of Wealth and the Dynamics of Inequality from Pre-history to the Knowledge-based Economy. His lecture, which was brilliant, was based on the research behind his co-authored paper in Science, just hot-off-the press, entitled, Intergenerational Wealth Transmission and the Dynamics of Inequality in Small-Scale Societies. The Science article had a commentary by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson,…

  • Air Traffic Snarled Due to Single Point Failure

    20 Nov 2009 | 5:00 am
    Thanksgiving is approaching with its heavy travel via planes, trains, and automobiles and what happens one week prior?! A single failure of a circuit board in the FAA's air transportation communications system snarled air travel yesterday. The full story can be found here. It took hours to fix and flight plans had to be entered manually in the meantime, resulting in numerous cancellations and delays throughout the US.In the article, Professor Michael Ball of the University of Maryland is quoted. Ball is a long-time member of INFORMS and a fellow transportation colleague with whom I have had…

  • A Letter from Al Gore and Trains for Warren Buffett

    18 Nov 2009 | 12:50 pm
    Teaching my transportation & logistics class is always an incredible experience! Today, I shared with my students the New York Times OpEd piece by Bob Herbert, What the Future May Hold, in which he writes: We're trundling along in the infrastructure equivalent of a jalopy, with bridges rotting and falling down, while other nations, our competitors in the global economy, are building efficient, high-speed, high-performance infrastructure platforms to power their 21st-century economies. Herbert then proceeds to imagine an America with rebuilt and healthy metropolitan areas, efficient rail…

  • US Wins the Supercomputer Race!

    17 Nov 2009 | 4:58 pm
    In a study officially released, the US Cray computer, known as Jaguar, is rated the top supercomputer in the world, based on processing speed. The article Science-based US Supercomputer Fastest in the World details how the Jaguar, which is located at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, was rated the top supercomputer out of the Top500. Professor Jack Dongarra of the University of Tennessee is the co-author of this study, which benchmarks the fastest supercomputers in the world. Professor Dongarra is also the long-serving editor of the International Journal of High Performance…
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  • RENeW: Sam Bowles Spoke in our Operations Research Series

    Dr. Anna Nagurney
    21 Nov 2009 | 6:16 am
    Professor Bowles began his lecture by saying that he was very pleased to be speaking in an operations research seminar series because he enjoyed learning about and applying linear programming, going back to the 1960s. ...

  • Stephen Baker, ex-Business Week

    Michael Trick
    19 Nov 2009 | 1:55 pm
    Steve's journalism has been a tremendous boon to the world of operations research. His cover story “Math with Rock Your World” pointed out all the ways mathematics is affecting business and even mentioned operations research by name. ...

  • Senior Defence Scientist in Operations Research

    unknown
    18 Nov 2009 | 6:39 pm
    You will have significant experience in the field of Defence operations research with a strong publication record in the field of operations research as applied in the air domain. Professional contact:Dr Bruce Fairlie on (03) 9626 7720 ...

  • Journal Impact and Costs

    Michael Trick
    18 Nov 2009 | 8:42 am
    I am a co-editor of a “new” journal Surveys in Operations Research and Management Science published by Elsevier. I'll write more about that journal and my thoughts about it in another post. I expect to be blasted by some people whose ...

  • Manager Operations Research - CSX Transportation - Roadtechs.com ...

    unknown
    18 Nov 2009 | 8:23 am
    Manager Operations Research - Find construction jobs at Roadtechs.com.
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  • Zauberformel für Partner-Vermittlungen entdeckt

    nigecus
    2 Nov 2009 | 8:26 am
    Gerade gefunden auf BodySpaceSociety, Love – the Swiss way: sociologists want to “optimize the marri

  • Russell L. Ackoff RIP

    Alastair
    30 Oct 2009 | 4:07 pm
    Hmm… It wasn’t even reported in the news. But apparently Russell Ackoff has passed away just a couple of days ago. When I was looking for that something, I perused a bit into Ops Research even though it was all a blur to me. But Ackoff kind of provided a philosophical bridge of sorts. All my heroes are dying. Does that necessarily mean I have to be one myself?

  • Erroneous Assumptions

    acolucci
    27 Sep 2009 | 7:12 am
    War Games During the days of the Cold War the danger of nuclear proliferation by the hands of the “Red” Soviets weighed heavy over those within the United States Army and the United States government. The impending threat of an nuclear attack and/or war lead to the movement for the monitoring and prediction of enemy military plans by calculation and record of all options within a possible military attack. This threat lead to the eventual research, development and implementation of what is termed in De Landa’s article as war games.  Two war theoreticians named Jomini and Clausewitz…

  • Re-engineering Human decision making mind.

    Rahim Thawer
    16 Sep 2009 | 11:05 pm
    Waterbury Financial Strategies Inc CEO / Founder Rahim Thawer post this week “Re-engineering Human decision making mind.” There is no apprehension how much a human mind can comprehend and generate constant flow of ideas and thoughts.  However, just like anything on this earth, it has to be trained to a degree when it comes to making simple or complex decisions either involving everyday activities or forming future strategies.  Human factors engineering is a science that plays a vital role in decision making for the minds of many individuals whether they are in a manufacturing plant or…

  • Entrepreneurs’ Survival Kit for 2009: Capital Budgeting Decisions with Limited Budgets.

    Rahim Thawer
    13 Sep 2009 | 7:47 pm
    Waterbury Financial Strategies Inc CEO / Founder Rahim Thawer post this week “Entrepreneurs’ Survival Kit for 2009: Capital Budgeting Decisions with Limited Budgets.” The world is currently experiencing a chaos in not only the financial sectors but all industries across the line and the Entrepreneurs of tomorrow will have to embrace the fact that the tough times are not over just yet.  A number of economists have formed their theory and methodologies in regards to this recession as to when it is going to be over, but the reality is, there are too many factors that contribute with too…
 
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