Operations Research Transactions ›› 2013, Vol. 17 ›› Issue (1): 10-16.

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The development of military operations research

SHAO Guopei1, XU Xuewen2, LIU Qizhi3, HE Jun1   

  1. 1. Electronic Engineering Institute 2. China Defense Science and Technology Information Center 3. Air Force Command College
  • Online:2013-03-15 Published:2013-03-15

Abstract: Military operations research (MOR) is an interdisciplinary subject emerged in the beginning of the 1900s. It mainly studies the theories and methods for military systems with quantitative analysis and decision optimization. This paper reviews the development history of MOR and it's development in China. This paper gives an overview of the main theoretical approaches and research content of MOR, looks forward to the future development of MOR.

Key words: military operations research, system analysis, modeling and simulation, optimization