Operational research from Taylorism to Terabytes: A research agenda for the analytics age

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 241, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 583-595

  Mortenson, Michael J ^a   Doherty, Neil F ^a   Robinson, Stewart ^a  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Analytics; Big data; Data visualization; History of computing; History of OR

Indexed keywords

BIG DATA; COMPETITION; ECOSYSTEMS;

ANALYTICS; BUSINESS-USERS; HISTORY OF COMPUTING; HISTORY OF OR; INTERDISCIPLINARY COLLABORATIONS; OPERATIONAL RESEARCH; POTENTIAL VALUES; RESEARCH AGENDA;

DATA VISUALIZATION;

EID: 84916611999     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2014.08.029     Document Type: Review

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