中国运筹学发展研究报告.pdfVIP

2012 9 16 3 Sep., 2012 Operations Research Transactions Vol.16 No.3  20   Æ   Æ O22 Æ 90-XX, 91-XX Research report on the development of operations research in China The Operations Research Society of China Abstract Operations Research (OR) is an interdisciplinary subject emerged in the 1930s. It mainly studies how to make optimal or satisfactory solutions through mathe- matical and computational theories and methods for social and engineering systems. In order to promote the research and application of OR in China, we invite a dozen of ex- perts in OR and related areas to complete this report making reference to the review of OR development by many top experts in representative areas in OR. In this report, we first summarize the features and methodology of OR and make a brief review on the development of OR with analysis on successful experiences in OR study. Then, we survey the status of some main directions of this discipline along with some its typical open problems. In the end of the survey we prospect for the trend of OR in the future. We hope that this report could motivate readers to reflect upon what is the essence of OR and how OR has grown up and will develop in next decades, and in such a way advance OR development in China. Keywords Operations research, mathematical modeling, optimization, algorithms C