Operational Research: Methods and Applications
Abstract
Throughout its history, Operational Research has evolved to include a variety of methods, models and algorithms that have been applied to a diverse and wide range of contexts. This encyclopedic article consists of two main sections: methods and applications. The first aims to summarise the up-to-date knowledge and provide an overview of the state-of-the-art methods and key developments in the various subdomains of the field. The second offers a wide-ranging list of areas where Operational Research has been applied. The article is meant to be read in a nonlinear fashion. It should be used as a point of reference or first-port-of-call for a diverse pool of readers: academics, researchers, students, and practitioners. The entries within the methods and applications sections are presented in alphabetical order. The authors dedicate this paper to the 2023 Turkey/Syria earthquake victims. We sincerely hope that advances in OR will play a role towards minimising the pain and suffering caused by this and future catastrophes.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2303.14217,
title = {Operational Research: Methods and Applications},
author = {Fotios Petropoulos and Gilbert Laporte and Emel Aktas and Sibel A. Alumur and Claudia Archetti and Hayriye Ayhan and Maria Battarra and Julia A. Bennell and Jean-Marie Bourjolly and John E. Boylan and Michèle Breton and David Canca and Laurent Charlin and Bo Chen and Cihan Tugrul Cicek and Louis Anthony Cox and Christine S. M. Currie and Erik Demeulemeester and Li Ding and Stephen M. Disney and Matthias Ehrgott and Martin J. Eppler and Güneş Erdoğan and Bernard Fortz and L. Alberto Franco and Jens Frische and Salvatore Greco and Amanda J. Gregory and Raimo P. Hämäläinen and Willy Herroelen and Mike Hewitt and Jan Holmström and John N. Hooker and Tuğçe Işık and Jill Johnes and Bahar Y. Kara and Özlem Karsu and Katherine Kent and Charlotte Köhler and Martin Kunc and Yong-Hong Kuo and Judit Lienert and Adam N. Letchford and Janny Leung and Dong Li and Haitao Li and Ivana Ljubić and Andrea Lodi and Sebastián Lozano and Virginie Lurkin and Silvano Martello and Ian G. McHale and Gerald Midgley and John D. W. Morecroft and Akshay Mutha and Ceyda Oğuz and Sanja Petrovic and Ulrich Pferschy and Harilaos N. Psaraftis and Sam Rose and Lauri Saarinen and Said Salhi and Jing-Sheng Song and Dimitrios Sotiros and Kathryn E. Stecke and Arne K. Strauss and İstenç Tarhan and Clemens Thielen and Paolo Toth and Greet Vanden Berghe and Christos Vasilakis and Vikrant Vaze and Daniele Vigo and Kai Virtanen and Xun Wang and Rafał Weron and Leroy White and Tom Van Woensel and Mike Yearworth and E. Alper Yıldırım and Georges Zaccour and Xuying Zhao},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.14217},
year = {2024}
}