Fire Company Relocation and the Future of Applied Operations Research

Warren E. Walker
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Warren E. Walker: The RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, California, and Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands

Operations Research, 1989, vol. 37, issue 3, 507-508

Abstract: This article is based on a talk given at the 1988 TIMS/ORSA meeting in Washington, D.C., about developments since the 1974 Lanchester Prize was awarded to P. J. Kolesar and W. E. Walker in 1974, for a paper that described an algorithm for dynamically repositioning available fire companies in response to changing patterns of availabilities. The life history of that algorithm motivates a vision for the future of the applied side of the OR profession.

Keywords: information systems: decision support systems; professional addresses: OR/MS philosophy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1989
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