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Encyclopedic overview
Operations research, operational research, or simply O.R., is the use of mathematical models, statistics and algorithms to aid in decision-making. It is most often used to analyze complex real-world systems, typically with the goal of improving or optimizing performance. It is one form of applied mathematics.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Category:Operations research” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.