Operations Research as a Tool and Support for Complex Problem Solving and Process Optimisation - 30 Years of SSI-SOR
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https://doi.org/10.31449/upinf.226Keywords:
activities of OR, history of OR, Slovenian Society Informatika - Section for Operations Research, SSI-SOR, foundation of SSI-SOR, SSI-SOR activities, SOR symposia, SSI-SOR publications, SSI-SOR visionAbstract
In the article, we present the development of the Operations Research (OR) field in general and with a special focus on Slovenia. We provide a historical overview of the field of OR globally and in Slovenia, starting in 1964, with special focus on the establishment of the Slovenian Section for Operations Research (SOR), which is active under the umbrella of the Slovenian Society Informatika (SSI), i.e., SSI-SOR, in 1992/1993. We present the mission of SSI-SOR and its activities in Slovenia, especially in the international context. These include the series of international OR symposia in Slovenia, the first of which took place in autumn of 1993, and SSI-SOR's internationally recognized publications. For this purpose, we analysed the proceedings, monographs, and special journal issues, while the article is concluded with SSI-SOR's proposals and vision for the future.