Operations Research Transactions ›› 2012, Vol. 16 ›› Issue (3): 1-48.

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Research report on the development of operations research in China

The Operational Research Society of China   

  • Received:2012-04-17 Online:2012-09-15 Published:2012-09-15

Abstract: Operations Research (OR) is an interdisciplinary subject emerged in the 1930s. It mainly studies how to make optimal or satisfactory solutions through mathematical and computational theories and methods for social and engineering systems. In order to promote the research and  application of OR in China, we invite a dozen of experts in OR and related areas to complete this report  making reference to the review of OR development by many top experts in representative areas in OR. In this  report, we first summarize the features and methodology of OR and make a brief review on the development of  OR with analysis on successful experiences in OR study. Then, we survey the status of some main directions  of this discipline along with some its typical open problems. In the end of the survey we prospect for the  trend of OR in the future. We hope that this report could motivate readers to reflect upon what is the essence  of OR and how OR has grown up and will develop in next decades, and in such a way advance OR development in  China.

Key words: Operations research, mathematical modeling, optimization, algorithms

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