Operational research in war and peace : the British experience from the 1930s to 1970 /

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This is the first of two projected volumes on the history of operational research (OR) in Britain commissioned by the UK Operational Research Society. Based upon a vast array of published and unpublished sources, the book provides an original account of the discipline's pre-war and wartime orig...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kirby, M. W.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : River Edge, NJ : Imperial College Press ; Distributed by World Scientific, ©2003.
Temas:
Operations research > Great Britain.
Military art and science > Great Britain.
Research, Industrial > Great Britain.
Recherche opérationnelle > Grande-Bretagne.
Art et science militaires > Grande-Bretagne.
HISTORY > Military > Strategy.
Military art and science.
Operations research.
Research, Industrial.
Pesquisa operacional.
Great Britain.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • List of Tables
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgements
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 The Origins of Operational Research: Military and Other Antecedents to 1937
  • 3 The Beginnings of Operational Research: British Air Strategy, 1920-1940
  • 4 The Wartime Diffusion of Operational Research, 1940-1945
  • 5 Operational Research in Bomber Command, 1941-1945
  • 6 The Postwar Labour Government and Operational Research, 1945-51
  • 7 Operational Research in Iron and Steel
  • 8 Operational Research in Coalmining
  • 9 The Diffusion of Operational Research After 1960: The Corporate Sector
  • 10 Operational Research in the Public Sector
  • 11 The Institutional Development of Operational Research
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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