Advances In Operations Research Research Articles

Editorial for the Special Issue: “Novel Solutions and Novel Approaches in Operational Research”: co-published with the Slovenian Society INFORMATIKA – Section for Operational Research (SSI-SOR)

Abstract This special issue of Business Systems Research (SI of the BSR) is being co-published by the Slovenian Society INFORMATIKA – Section for Operational Research (SSI -SOR). It focuses on recent advances in Operations Research and Management Science (OR / MS), with a particular emphasis on linking OR / MS with other areas of quantitative and qualitative methods in the context of a multidisciplinary framework. The ten papers that were chosen for this Special Issue of the BSR present advancements and new techniques (methodology) in the field of Operations Research (OR), as well as their application in a variety of fields, including risk management, mathematical programming, game theory, gravity, spatial analysis, logistics, circular economy, continuous improvement, sustainability, e-commerce, forecasting, Gaussian processes, linear regression, multi-layer perceptron, and machine learning.

Editorial for the special issue: “Novel Solutions and Novel Approaches in Operational Research”

Abstract This special issue of Business Systems Research (SI of the BSR) is co-published by the Slovenian Society INFORMATIKA – Section for Operational Research (SSI-SOR) and highlights recent advances in Operations Research and Management Science (OR /MS), with a focus on linking OR /MS with other areas of quantitative and qualitative methods in a multidisciplinary framework. Eleven papers selected for this SI of the BSR present improvements and new techniques (methodology) in Operations Research (OR) and their application in various fields of economics, business, spatial science, smart mobility, higher education, human resources, environment, agriculture and social networks.

Recent Advances in Operations Research in Computational Biology, Bioinformatics and Medicine

The EURO Working Group on Operations Research in Computational Biology, Bioinformatics and Medicine held its fourth conference in Poznan-Biedrusko, Poland, June 26–28, 2014. The editorial board of RAIRO-OR invited submissions of papers to a special issue on Recent Advances in Operations Research in Computational Biology, Bioinformatics and Medicine. This special issue includes nine papers that were selected among forty presentations and included in this special issue after two rounds of reviewing.

Application of hybrid metaheuristics in sensor management

The capacity of today's sensor systems has rapidly grown beyond the borders of human controllability. The real time (re)scheduling that is needed to manage them can only be done using state of the art planning and scheduling methods. This paper discusses one of the most recent and promising advances in operations research and artificial intelligence planning systems: hybrid metaheuristics. These robust heuristic search techniques efficiently use limited time and computing resources to produce good schedules within short term. Simulations show the use and performance of these techniques in multi-function radar systems.

Toward an Applied Technology for Quality Measurement in Health Care

Cost containment, financial incentives to conserve resources, the growth of for-profit hospitals, an aggressive malpractice environment, and demands from purchasers are among the forces today increasing the need for improved methods that measure quality in health care. At the same time, increasingly sophisticated databases and the existence of managed care systems yield new opportunities to observe and correct quality problems. Research on targets of measurement (structure, process, and outcome) and methods of measurement (implicit, explicit, and sentinel methods) has not yet produced managerially useful applied technology for quality measurement in real-world settings. Such an applied technology would have to be cheaper, faster, more flexible, better reported, and more multidimensional than the majority of current research on quality assurance. In developing a new applied technology for the measurement of health care quality, quantitative disciplines have much to offer, such as decision support systems, criteria based on rigorous decision analyses, utility theory, tools for functional status measurement, and advances in operations research.

Comments on OR/MS Education

Today, thanks in great part to advances in Operations Research and Management Science, the mathematical coverage in an Industrial Engineering program matches or exceeds that of just about any other engineering discipline; I no longer have an inferiority complex. Rather than trying to pass off all of my work as OR/MS. I take pride that much of it is Industrial Engineering but still of interest to Operations Research and Management Science practitioners. If the educational institutions and the journals would recognize the complementary nature of theory and practice and the importance of both, maybe the fighting over turf and titles can be stopped and the common goals pursued.

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Discussion of Comparative Values of Information Structures

An examination of business information systems must recognize the essential position that these systems occupy in linking the firm's decisionmaking processes with its internal and external environment. If one accepts a premise that the primary objective of such systems is to maximize the effectiveness of the decisions being made, it then follows that considerable attention must be placed upon determining the extent to which they facilitate determining and then achieving optimal operating conditions. Developments during the last decade have had a major impact the design of information systems. Advances in operations research have provided an increased capability for formalizing decision models, as well as an added ability to identify optimal operating conditions, relevant variables, and the sensitivity of the models to parameter variations. Similarly, advances in computer technology have often moved the decision-maker closer to the events, providing an increased capability for on request reporting, together with report formats that are more closely related to the decisions at hand-essentially customized realtime