Operations Research: The Science of Better
作者单位：Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge Massachusetts 02139 USA President-Elect - INFORMS Institute For Operations Research and the Management Sciences
会议名称：《中国运筹学会第七届学术交流会》
会议日期：2004年
学科分类：12[管理学] 1201[管理学-管理科学与工程(可授管理学、工学学位)] 07[理学] 070105[理学-运筹学与控制论] 0701[理学-数学]
摘 要：It is a deep honor for me today to give this talk before the most distinguished operationsresearchers in China. I sincerely thank you for the opportunity. I am particularly indebtedto Prof. Xiangsun ZHANG, Academy of Mathematics and System Sciences, for inviting me topresent this lecture. Thank you! Operations Research, co-founded in World War Ⅱin the USA by Philip M. Morse, GeorgeKimball, Bernard Koopman and others, in the U.K. by Frederick Lanchester, Patrick Blackett,Frank Yates and others, was designed as an empirical science using all relevant scientific methodsto solve managerial decision problems.