operations research

noun

1. the analysis, usually involving mathematical treatment, of a process, problem, or operation to determine its purpose and effectiveness and to gain maximum efficiency.

operations research

noun

1. the analysis of problems in business and industry involving the construction of models and the application of linear programming, critical path analysis, and other quantitative techniques Alsooperational research

Word History and Origins

Origin of operations research¹

An Americanism dating back to 1940–45

Example Sentences

With my background where I have a PhD from Stanford in operations research and machine learning, we actually do use some real actual machine learning in our products.

From MIT Technology Review

We started in 2016 as a small online reading group that was interested in understanding how we can use techniques from theoretical computer science, economics and operations research communities to improve access to opportunity.

From Quanta Magazine