The OR Society
Founded over 50 years ago, The OR Society is the world's
oldest-established learned society catering to the Operational Research
(OR) profession, and one of the largest in the world, with 3000 members
in 53 countries.
The Society's principal activities are:
Fostering higher standards in OR by providing the world's most
extensive training programme in OR.
Enabling members of the profession to keep up to date by
publishing journals of international repute to disseminate the latest
developments in OR, and by organising national, international and
specialist conferences in the subject.
Enabling members to find the information they need in their work
by making available to members in searchable form the International
Abstracts in OR, which catalogues papers from every reputable OR journal
world wide. The Society also maintains a library which is housed at
Imperial College, London.
Enabling members to share their work through FreeXchange, which
enables conference presentations, case studies, lecture notes and many
other types of document to be quickly uploaded to the web. Sharing of
work, knowledge and expertise is further fostered by the Society's study
groups and regional societies, which organise regular meetings open to
all.
Demonstrating to the wider community the benefits, in terms of
greater efficiency, improved service or otherwise, that OR can bring to
society, by means of publications such as Issue Explorer and a
downloadable multimedia presentation package designed for use in
schools. The Society also maintains a website which communicates the
benefits of undertaking OR which can be found at www.scienceofbetter.co.uk
Sponsoring educational activities such as summer schools for
researchers and research projects on, for example, investigating the
potential contribution of OR to environmental planning, the use of OR by
community groups such as housing associations, and the factors making
for successful OR.
Preserving, developing and managing the historical record of the
subject by establishing and supporting the world's only official OR
archive and sponsoring the world's first official history of OR.
The Independent Consultants Network is one of the Society's
special interest groups. For more information on The OR Society, visit www.theorsociety.com;
for more details on Operational Research visit us at www.scienceofbetter.co.uk.
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