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Information systems and database design in OR/MS

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There are many close relations between information systems, database structures, and operations research (OR). The models and algorithmic procedures of OR will more and more become integrated parts of information systems. The task of OR may continually shift towards the comprehensive design of information systems, database structures included.

ARCHITECTURE OF COMPREHENSIVE INFORMATION SYSTEMS

Traditional data processing was based on collections of individual programs, separated from one another, each with its own individual data organization. Similarly, the characteristic OR packages were stand-alone solutions for singular types of problems, be it mathematical programming, network analysis, and simulation or even more specialized packages for the “knapsack problem,” “traveling salesman problem,” “set covering problem,” etc.

Future information systems, in contrast, will have a comprehensivearchitecture. The vast majority of data will be stored and maintained centrally, that is, on a...

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  1. Universität Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany

    Heiner Müller-Merbach

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  1. Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, College Part, Maryland, USA

    Saul I. Gass

  2. School of Information Technology & Engineering, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA

    Carl M. Harris

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Müller-Merbach, H. (2001). Information systems and database design in OR/MS. In: Gass, S.I., Harris, C.M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Operations Research and Management Science. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-0611-X_458

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