Towards user-friendly OR: A chinese experience

Journal of the Operational Research Society

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 137-1438

  Zhu, Z ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Developing countries; Methodology; Practice of OR; Process of OR

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SOCIAL ASPECTS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

METHODOLOGY;

OPERATIONS RESEARCH;

EID: 0036477027     PISSN: 01605682     EISSN: 14769360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.jors.2601073     Document Type: Article

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