IFORS' Operational Research Hall of FameAbraham Charnes

IFORS' Operational Research Hall of Fame

Key positions: Operations Analyst, U.S. Army, Ft. Monroe, Virginia (1955–56); Assistant Professor of Operations Research, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (1957–60); Associate Professor of Operations Research, Case Western Reserve University (1960–62); Associate Professor of Operations Research and Management, Sloan School, M.I.T. (1962– 67); Professor of Operations Research and...

Predicting Hall Thruster Operational Lifetime

Operational Research in education

Operational Research (OR) techniques have been applied, from the early stages of the discipline, to a wide variety of issues in education. At the government level, these include questions of what resources should be allocated to education as a whole and how these should be divided amongst the individual sectors of education and the institutions within the sectors. Another pertinent issue concer...

Sixty years of Operational Research

This paper describes the author s experience of 60 years of Operational Research and presents some thoughts on the nature of the work of an Operational Researcher. 2003 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Operational Research: a Multidisciplinary Field

This paper is focusing on the following question: What is Operational Research (OR)? We will show that there is not a single and simple answer. Epistemological assumptions and practical traditions define different types of OR. We have identified three: The technical or hard OR, the practical or soft OR, and the critical OR. Following a historical perspective we will present these three schools....