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The study of operations research (OR) is concerned with mathematical methods and tools for solving problems relating to the allocation of scarce resources subject to constraints. Frequently these problems have to do with determining the least cost or greatest profit possible for a cost or profit function subject to constraints such as capacities and required amounts over a very large number of variables. Important problems within this space include minimum cost routing problems, network maximum flow or minimum cost flow problems, and machine scheduling problems. The growing trends in OR increasingly utilize applications of more than one technique and involve individuals from other disciplines. Moreover, they involve a blend of "hard" and "soft" as well as a mixing of different "hard" or "soft" techniques with the increasing use of multiple methods within one piece of analysis. A creative thinking must look in detail at how those from disciplines outside of OR can come to work in the organizations on multi-disciplinary studies. Those who have come from such backgrounds, clearly share their perspectives and experiences. The field of OR is always changing. Its changes are driven by the technology it uses and that it extends, and the applications that it affects.

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Resources in This Category

• A Collection of Modelling and Simulation Resources

  http://www.idsia.ch/~andrea/sim/simtools.html
  Annotated index.

• Decision Tree for Optimization Software

  http://plato.la.asu.edu/guide.html
  Identify potential solution algorithms for your problems.

• Forecasting and Time Series on the Web

  http://www-personal.buseco.monash.edu.au/~hyndman/forecasting
  Includes a collection of publications links.

• Global (and Local) Optimization

  http://www.mat.univie.ac.at/~neum/glopt.html
  Archive of information on global and local optimization.

• Global Optimization

  http://web.ift.uib.no/~antonych/glob.html
  Links to global optimization.

• Logistics: The WWW Virtual Library

  http://logisticsworld.com/logistics
  All the logistic links you ever need.

• Michael Trick’s Operations Research Blog

  http://mat.tepper.cmu.edu/blog
  Thoughts, opinions, and pointers on the world of OR/MS.

• Operations Research by the Beach

  http://orbythebeach.wordpress.com/
  Comments, ideas and analysis of real-life problems from the perspective of an operations researcher.

• Optimization and Operations Research

  http://orion.math.uwaterloo.ca/~hwolkowi/intrstsites.html
  A list maintained by Henry Wolkowicz.

• OR-Library

  http://people.brunel.ac.uk/~mastjjb/jeb/info.html
  A library of problem instances covering various OR/MS areas.

• Principles of Forecasting

  http://www.forecastingprinciples.com/
  Provides practical guide for forecasting.

• Software Surveys

  http://www.lionhrtpub.com/software-surveys.shtml
  A collection of surveys of OR/MS software.

• TORSCHE Scheduling Toolbox for Matlab

  http://rtime.felk.cvut.cz/scheduling-toolbox/
  It performs various off-line and on-line scheduling.

• Unsolved Problems in OR

  http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/~rrw1/research/unsolved.html
  A good collection.

• WORMS

  http://www.worms.ms.unimelb.edu.au/
  World-wide-web for OR/MS.

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