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Operations Research and Optimization

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Which of the following best describes the term 'operations research' as mentioned in the text?

A discipline that combines optimization methods and military operations

A term that refers to any purposeful activity

A phrase that requires additional explanations

A concept that emerged during the Second World War (correct)

What is the relationship between 'optimization methods' and 'operations research'?

They are two separate disciplines

They have no relationship

Optimization methods are a subset of operations research (correct)

Operations research is a subset of optimization methods

When did the term 'operations research' start to be used in a broader sense?

In the post-war period (correct)

During the Second World War

Before the Second World War

It has always been used in a broader sense

What does the term 'operations research' initially have a direct relationship to?

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Operations research

is a discipline that consists of two parts: 'Optimization methods' and [blank].'operations research' requires additional explanations. This phrase itself is quite new, it arose during the Second World War (see below for a brief historical sketch) and at first had a direct relationship to [blank].In the post-war period, the boundaries of the concept were significantly expanded, and any purposeful activity began to be understood as an [blank].The term 'operations research' started to be used in a broader sense after the [blank]. Signup and view all the answers

Operations research is an applied mathematical discipline dealing with the issues of quantitative justification of decisions on the management of ______ processes (operations) in complex systems.

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In this definition, three key points are fundamentally important. First, the ______ of research is established: the subject of study is control solutions.

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Such decisions can be, for example, the alignment of forces on the battlefield, the production plan in the company, the course in a card game, the choice of the patient's treatment ______, etc.

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Despite despite the substantial diversity, these examples have something in common, consisting in the fact that the consequences of decisions taken cannot always be accurately determined due to the presence of ______ factors, and it is necessary to act in conditions of significant uncertainty.

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Operations research is an applied mathematical discipline dealing with the issues of quantitative justification of ______ on the management of purposeful processes (operations) in complex systems.

decisions Signup and view all the answers