{"id":5,"date":"2009-06-17T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-17T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/graham-kendall.com\/blog\/?p=5"},"modified":"2020-09-22T02:02:28","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T02:02:28","slug":"operational-or-operations-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/graham-kendall.com\/blog\/operational-or-operations-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Operational or Operations Research?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some of my research is carried out in the area of <i>Operations Research<\/i>. This term is actually the American version. The English version is Operational Research and (although being biased), I believe that this is the correct version, bearing in mind that Operational Research was founded in England (around the time of the Second World War).<\/p>\n<p>You will find the distinction between these two terms no more apparent than in the naming of academic journals. The oldest OR journal in the world is called <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Journal of the Operational Research Society<\/span> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.palgrave-journals.com\/jors\">JORS<\/a>). Another journal is called <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">European Journal of Operational Research<\/span> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.elsevier.com\/wps\/find\/journaldescription.cws_home\/505543\/description#description\">EJOR<\/a>) .<br \/>The journals published in America have titles such as <a style=\"font-style: italic;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.informs.org\/site\/OperationsResearch\/\">Operations Research<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of my research is carried out in the area of Operations Research. This term is actually the American version. The English version is Operational Research and (although being biased), I believe that this is the correct version, bearing in mind that Operational Research was founded in England (around the time of the Second World [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive","category-operations-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/graham-kendall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5","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=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/graham-kendall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1724,"href":"https:\/\/graham-kendall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions\/1724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/graham-kendall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graham-kendall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graham-kendall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}