Key Words

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Subject Classification Scheme for the OR/MS Index

accidents
adaptive processes
advertising
agriculture
allocation: resources
analytic hierarchy process
ant systems
architecture
artificial intelligence
banking
behavior
bidding
biology
calculus of variations
combinatorial analysis
combinatorial optimization
commerce
communication (in general)
communications (as a business)
community OR
computational analysis
computational analysis: parallel computers
computational analysis: personal computers
computational analysis: supercomputers
computers
computers: calculation
computers: data structure
computers: information
construction
control
control processes
cost benefit analysis
cutting stock
cybernetics
data envelopment analysis
data mining
decision
decision support
decision theory
decision theory: multiple criteria
decision: applications
decision: rules
decision: studies
defense
demand
design
developing countries
differential equations
distribution
ecology
e-commerce
economics
education (as an application area)
education in OR
energy
engineering
environment
equipment
experiment
expert systems
facilities
finance
financial
food
forecasting methods
forecasting: applications
forestry
fuzzy sets
game theory
gaming
genetic algorithms
geography
government
gradient methods
graphs
growth
health services
heuristics
history of OR
information
information theory
innovation
inspection
internet
inventory
inventory: order policies
inventory: storage
investment
knowledge management
lagrange multipliers
law + law enforcement
learning
libraries
local search
location
maintenance
management
manpower planning
manufacturing industries
marketing (as a process)
marketing (as an industry)
Markov processes
materials
matrices
measurement
medicine
meteorology
military
mineral industries
networks
networks: flow
networks: path
networks: scheduling
neural networks
numerical analysis
optimization
OR in a region/country
organization
performance
personnel
petroleum
philosophy of OR
planning
politics
practice of OR
probability
production
production: FMS
production: JIT
production: MRP
programming: assignment
programming: branch and bound
programming: constraints
programming: convex
programming: critical path
programming: dynamic
programming: fractional
programming: geometric
programming: goal
programming: integer
programming: linear
programming: Markov decision
programming: mathematical
programming: multiple criteria
programming: network
programming: nonlinear
programming: parametric
programming: probabilistic
programming: quadratic
programming: transportation
programming: traveling salesman
project management
public service
quality
queues: applications
queues: theory
recreation
relationships of OR with other disciplines
reliability
repair
replacement
research
retailing
risk
scheduling
science
search
service
sets
simulated annealing
simulation
simulation: analysis
simulation: applications
simulation: languages
simulation: programs
social
soft systems
space
sports
spreadsheets
statistics: decision
statistics: distributions
statistics: empirical
statistics: experiment
statistics: general
statistics: inference
statistics: multivariate
statistics: regression
statistics: sampling
stochastic processes
storage
supply
systems
tabu search
testing
textbooks: general
time series
timetabling
tourism
transportation: air
transportation: general
transportation: rail
transportation: road
transportation: water
urban affairs
values
vehicle routing and scheduling
water
work
world affairs
yield management

Note: Last update provided November 2006