Toward a philosophy of operations research

Philosophy of Science 20 (1):59-66 (1953)
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What is operations research? What is sufficiently new about it to constitute it a “new science”? And how is it related to philosophy?1. What it is. MOR's definition, based on Kittel's, runs as follows:Operations research is a scientific method of providing executive departments with a quantitative basis for decisions regarding the operations under their control

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