Principles of Operations Research---7. The Optimum Optimorum

Robert Machol

Interfaces, 1974, vol. 4, issue 4, 52-53

Abstract: This is the seventh of a set of articles on principles of operations research. As the reader will note, these are somewhat different from similarly titled subjects in the usual textbooks. We continue to spend most of our time in schools learning (or teaching) optimization methods, but the practising OR people do not use them very much. Partly, this is because the problem is rarely defined enough to know an optimum when we see it. More importantly, we are expected in most cases to give an evaluation of a certain course of action and not to reformulate the initial problem.

Date: 1974
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