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Chapter 1 Introduction of OR The Origins of Operations Research Since the advent of the industrial revolution, the world has seen a remarkable growth in the size and complexity of organizations. One problem is a tendency for the many components of an organization to grow into relatively autonomous empires with their own goals and value systems, thereby losing sight of how their activities and objectives mesh with those of the overall organization. A related problem is that as the complexity and specialization in an organization increase, it becomes more and more difficult to allocate the avai