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Challenges for Operations Research as a Scientific Discipline at the Beginning of the 21st Century

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Operations Research Proceedings 1998

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The paper gives in Chapter 1 a view on global challenges when approaching the next century. We will develop into a world with 10 billion people or more, a globalized economy, and an environment close to collapse. The importance of technical innovations and suitable world-wide economic regimes is worked out. Against this background, in Chapter 2 challenges to science in general are discussed. Important topics concern a world-wide and more ecological accounting, global education networks, progress in medical care and social infrastructure and contributing to good governance. In Chapter 3, we give a few hints to the future role of Operations Research. We also point at important contributions of Operations Research and related disciplines to topics such as optimization, decision making, planning, scheduling, and logistic. In Chapter 4, we finally give some hints to the general topic of knowledge organisation, which is gaining more and more importance. This includes a better understanding of the internet as a framework for distributing knowledge as well as understanding businesses, universities, and even states and humankind as complex organisms and learning systems. In this context, different levels of information processing, be it neural-network type mechanisms, rule processing, or mathematical models and their interplay, have to be addressed accordingly.

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Radermacher, F.J. (1999). Challenges for Operations Research as a Scientific Discipline at the Beginning of the 21st Century. In: Kall, P., Lüthi, HJ. (eds) Operations Research Proceedings 1998. Operations Research Proceedings 1998, vol 1998. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-58409-1_1

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