Tagged: Operations Research

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On Content of Undergraduate Operations Research Courses

Today, one of professors in my department talked about content of two new courses of him. He is planning one graduate-level course and one undergraduate level. While describing the courses, he stated that the graduate one will focus on academic issues...

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Can OR Techniques be Derived by Imitating the Nature?

Initially, I would like to give the answer of this question. Yes, can be. Indeed, there is a derived word for this approach, Biomimetics, copying the nature or benefit from natural opportunities while deriving solutions to the problems. An instance in...

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Football and Operations Research

Football -aka soccer, the European football- is one of the most popular sports in the world. By having ambitious and successful teams, numerous supporters and perhaps the first and foremost unbelievably high budgets, football should be in the interest of Operations...

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Reference Journey

Couple of days ago I wondered what will happen if I would trace back references of a randomly chosen OR paper. So, I selected article #7 from March/April 2012 issue of Operations Research journal and started investigating: Jonathan Kluberg and Georgia...

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Forgotten Scientists

“No scientific discovery is named after its original discoverer.” – Stigler’s law of eponymy. Stigler named the sociologist Robert K. Merton as the discoverer of “Stigler’s law”, consciously making “Stigler’s law” exemplify Stigler’s law. (Stigler’s law of eponymy – Wikipedia) Why this happens? Most...