{"id":1053,"date":"2013-04-04T03:31:29","date_gmt":"2013-04-04T03:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/graham-kendall.com\/blog\/?p=1053"},"modified":"2020-09-22T01:58:30","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T01:58:30","slug":"what-is-operations-research-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/graham-kendall.com\/blog\/what-is-operations-research-2\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Operations Research?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1052\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1052\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/graham-kendall.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Radar-Sun-Dogs1.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1052\" alt=\"Radar Sun Dogs\" src=\"https:\/\/graham-kendall.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Radar-Sun-Dogs1-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/graham-kendall.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Radar-Sun-Dogs1-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/graham-kendall.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Radar-Sun-Dogs1-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/graham-kendall.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Radar-Sun-Dogs1.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1052\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Radar Sun Dogs<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>[<em><a title=\"Link to UNMC R&amp;KT Blog Post\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.nottingham.ac.uk\/malaysiaknowledgetransfer\/2013\/03\/25\/what-is-operations-research\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Go<\/a> direct to Uni of Nottingham post<\/em>]<\/p>\n<p>As well as this blog, I also contribute to a <a title=\"Link to UNMC R&amp;KT blog\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.nottingham.ac.uk\/malaysiaknowledgetransfer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">blog<\/a> at <a title=\"Link to University of Nottingham, Malaysia Campus\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nottingham.edu.my\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The University of Nottingham, Malaysia Campus<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the posts I write for the University of Nottingham blog might also be of interest to a wider audience, so I decided to post a link to selective posts on this blog.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>The terms Operations Research (American term) and Operational Research (European term) are used interchangeably. The discipline is also referred to as&#8230;.. [<a title=\"Link to UNMC R&amp;KT Blog Post\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.nottingham.ac.uk\/malaysiaknowledgetransfer\/2013\/03\/25\/what-is-operations-research\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">read more<\/a>]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>If you want to see all of the posts I have linked to on this blog, I have listed them under the category <a title=\"Link to &quot;UNMC R&amp;KT&quot; category\" href=\"https:\/\/graham-kendall.com\/blog\/category\/unmc-rkt\/\"><em>UNMC R&amp;KT<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Go direct to Uni of Nottingham post] As well as this blog, I also contribute to a blog at The University of Nottingham, Malaysia Campus. Some of the posts I write for the University of Nottingham blog might also be of interest to a wider audience, so I decided to post a link to selective [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive","category-unmc-rkt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/graham-kendall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/graham-kendall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/graham-kendall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graham-kendall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graham-kendall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1053"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/graham-kendall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1630,"href":"https:\/\/graham-kendall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053\/revisions\/1630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/graham-kendall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graham-kendall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graham-kendall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}