作者：Haley, KB
摘要：This paper identifies a number of events and circumstances, which contributed in Great Britain during the period 1938-1963 to the development and adoption of OR outside the military and defence concerns. I show how the OR club formed a focus for industrial activity and the development of the subject. The early growth in education and training provision will also be traced to indicate its influence on the direction of OR and its acceptance as an academic discipline.
作者：Hogan, WW
作者单位：Harvard University
摘要：Energy policy modeling owes a great debt to the disciplines of operations research. Valuable modeling tools were available when the energy crisis struck unexpectedly. In turn, the immediate response to problem-driven policy modeling produced methodological challenges and innovations that have application outside the domain of energy. The early days of the explosive growth of energy modeling for policy studies provide illustrations of the interaction of problem identification, model formulation...
作者：Holt, CC
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin
作者：Hughes, CWP
作者单位：United States Department of Defense; United States Navy; Naval Postgraduate School
摘要：This paper emphasizes OR'S utility to the U.S. Navy, as seen by its customers. Like many naval officers who subspecialized in operations research, the author was both producer and consumer of analysis toward improving fleet operations, Pentagon planning, and training effectiveness. Many of OR's unnoticed heroes are officers and Navy civilians who, then and now, could put operations analysis to best practical use. The paper reaches three conclusions, which (briefly) are: (1) The U.S. Navy could...
作者：Kleinrock, L
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Los Angeles
作者：Kuhn, HW
作者单位：Princeton University
