William Cooper, 1900–1964

Contributions of Professor William W. Cooper in Operations Research and Management Science

Over a long and remarkably productive career, Professor William W. (Bill) Cooper has made many pioneering contributions to Operations Research and Management Science (OR/MS), with notable forays into the areas of (a) linear and non-linear programming, (b) goal programming, (c) chance-constrained programming, (d) data envelopment analysis, and (e) manpower planning, among others. His legendary p...

A Special Issue on "data Envelopment Analysis: Theories and Applications" in Honor of William W. Cooper

Kumarsen Cooper

Cooper Receives Lilienfeld Prize

and attendant exposure of the seaport town citizens to benzene emanating from petroleum handled through the terminal as one example, Goldstein reviewed a number of risk assessment issues. He noted that the risk assessment agenda has never been set by scientific experts but is always strongly affected by economic, political, and social issues. He also pointed out that there are two often contrad...

The Cooper Tool

Abstract. The cooper tool is a new approach to automation of hexahedral meshing (or a wedge/ hexahedral element mix if desired) for a general subset of geometries. The tool recognizes applicable geometries and decomposes such into logically single axis swept subvolumes (barrels) with barrel caps bounding the decomposed pieces. It then enforces strict compatibility constraints by imprinting, int...