This document reviews the main applications of statistics and operations research techniques to the quantitative aspects of Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, fulfilling a pressing need. Data Mining, one of the most important phases of the Knowledge Discovery in Databases activity, is becoming ubiquitous with the current information explosion. As a result, there is an increasing need for trai...

We address the area of scheduling and the diierences between the way operations research and artiicial intelligence approach scheduling. We introduce the concept of constraint programming, and describe how operations research techniques can be integrated in constraint programming. Finally, we give a short overview of the results obtained with our approach.

Multi-attribute utility analysis (MAUA) has emerged as a powerful tool for materials selection and evaluation. An operations research technique, MAUA has been used in a wide range ol engineering areas, of which materials science and engineering is one of the more recent. Utility analysis affords a rational method of materials selection which avoids many of the fundamental logical difficulties o...

Vladimir Y. Chernyak a,b,∗ Michael Chertkov a,c,† David A. Goldberg a,d,‡ and Konstantin Turitsyn a,e§ Center for Nonlinear Studies and Theoretical Division, LANL, Los Alamos, NM 87545 Department of Chemistry, Wayne State University, 5101 Cass Ave,Detroit, MI 48202 New Mexico Consortium, Los Alamos, NM 87544 d Operations Research Center, MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139 e Landau Institute for Theoretic...

In this work, our primary focus is to determine the intersections that exist between the family of QL-implications and the families of (S, N)and R-implications. Toward this end, firstly, we investigate the conditions under which a QL-operation becomes a fuzzy implication. Since the exchange principle and the ordering property of fuzzy implications play an important role in this study, we propos...

Operations research is becoming increasingly prevalent in the natural resource sector, specifically, in agriculture, fisheries, forestry and mining. While there are similar research questions in these areas, e.g., how to harvest and/or extract the resources and how to account for environmental impacts, there are also differences, e.g., the length of time associated with a growth and harvesting ...

The main aim of the paper is to highlight the relation between flexibility and vertical integration. To this purpose, we go through the selection of the optimal degree of vertical disintegration of a flexible firm which operates in a dynamic uncertain environment. The enterprise we model enjoys flexibility since it can switch from a certain amount of disintegration to vertical integration and v...