The Role of Operations Research in Systems Analysis

1980 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 49-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacob Sacolick
Keyword(s):  
Operations Research ◽  
Systems Analysis

scholarly journals Operating without operations: how is technology changing the role of the firm?

2018 ◽  
Vol 29 (5) ◽  
pp. 809-833 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christoph Breidbach ◽  
Sunmee Choi ◽  
Benjamin Ellway ◽  
Byron W. Keating ◽  
Katerina Kormusheva ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Operations Research ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Service Operations ◽  
Science Literature ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Past ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
The Future ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyze the history and future of service operations, with the goal to identify key theoretical and technological advances, as well as fundamental themes that can help to imagine the future of service operations in 2050. Design/methodology/approach A review of the service operations literature was undertaken to inform a discussion regarding the role that technology will play in the future of service operations. Findings The future of service operations is framed in terms of three key themes – complexity, orchestration, and elasticity. The paper makes three contributions to the service science literature by: reviewing key themes underpinning extant service operations research to frame future trajectories of service operations research; elaborating a vision of service operations in 2050 based on history and technology; and outlining a research agenda for future service operations. Practical implications The case of service automation is used to provide an illustration of how the three themes converge to define future service operations, and in particular, to show how technology is recasting the role of the firm. Originality/value Service operations in the next 30 years will be very different from what it was in the past 30 years. This paper differs from other review papers by identifying three key themes that will characterize and instill new insights into the future of service operations research.

scholarly journals Humean laws and explanation

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 373-385
Author(s):  
Barry Loewer
Keyword(s):  
Systems Analysis ◽  
David Lewis ◽  
Scientific Explanations ◽  
Primary Focus

My primary focus in this paper is on an objection to Humean account of laws and specifically to David Lewis’ “best systems analysis” (BSA). The objection is that the laws according to the BSA (which I call L-laws) fail to account for the ability of laws to explain. In contrast governing laws (which I will call G-laws) are alleged to account for the role of laws in scientific explanations by virtue of their governing role. If governing is required for laws to be explanatory then Humean accounts like Lewis’ are dead in the water since explanation is central to the role of laws in the sciences. However, I will argue that there are effective rebuttals to arguments that Humean laws don’t explain and that actually it is governing accounts that have difficulty with explanation.

Systems analysis of breath-to-breath ventilatory variations in man: Role of CO2 feedback

1992 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 247-248
Author(s):  
Mohammad Modarreszadeh ◽  
Eugene N. Bruce
Keyword(s):  
Systems Analysis

Bibliographic Analysis of Operations Research Citation in the Environmental Domain

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 67-79
Author(s):  
Peter Keenan
Keyword(s):  
Data Envelopment Analysis ◽  
Operations Research ◽  
Web Of Science ◽  
Research Management ◽  
Data Envelopment ◽  
Bibliographic Analysis ◽  
Analysis Techniques ◽  
Modelling Techniques ◽  
The Web

This article uses bibliographic analysis techniques to examine the papers in the Web of Science database that have citation links to key operations research/management science (OR/MS) journals. The research identified the journals and papers in the environmental domains which cite these OR/MS journals and identify the key journals, papers, and themes. This research shows that environmental disciplines are becoming more important relative to the business and engineering domains that predominated in the previous years. However, much of the citation of OR/MS journals is for techniques like data envelopment analysis (DEA) which are used to conduct research rather than directly model environmental problems. Of the modelling techniques used to address problems in the environmental domains, MCDM methods are the most often cited, reflecting the importance of MCDM with the decision support systems (DSS) field. There are also significant numbers of applications relating to logistics and energy which cite OR/MS papers. Further research is needed to clarify the role of OR/MS techniques in the environmental sector, a domain outside the traditional areas of OR/MS application.

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