Operations research in neuroscience

Forum Neuroscience and operations research : a two - way street

In 1986, my brother Hubert, a professor of philosophy, and I wrote the book "Mind over Machine: The Power of Human Intuition and Expertise in the Era of the Computer" [Dreyfus and Dreyfus 1986] in which we argued that the brain produces skillful coping behavior in familiar types of situations by using involved intuition rather than by detached thinking. By "thinking" we meant the kind of reason...

Operations research in BASF's supply chain operations

In this article we highlight the application of Operations Research (OR) at BASF in the area of supply chain management (SCM) through the use of selected examples with annual cost savings ranging between several hundred thousand and several million e. We address special characteristics of the process industry that have to be dealt with and identify future research needs. The examples cover stra...

Operations Research Transforms Baosteel's Operations

Forthcoming in Operations Research

Methods for selecting a research and development (R&D) project portfolio have attracted considerable interest among practitioners and academics. This notwithstanding, the industrial uptake of these methods has remained limited, partly due to the difficulties of capturing relevant concerns in R&D portfolio management. Motivated by these difficulties, we develop Contingent Portfolio Programming (...

Motivating operations in appetite research.

Appetite research frequently employs principles derived from behaviour analysis. However, it has yet to utilise the more recent theoretical advances in this field. This paper describes the concept of the motivating operation (MO)--a behaviour analytic formulation of motivation. An MO is an environmental event that (a) establishes or abolishes the reinforcing or punishing effect of another event...