Community-Based Operations Research Decision Modeling for Local Impact and Diverse Populations

While many in academia and business had explored (and sometimes exploited) what would eventually come to be known as operations research for decades before World War II, the interdisciplinary mathematical science has its formal origins firmly rooted in the war.

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