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We seek a high performing Consultant to work in our Optimisation and Decision Support Practice which delivers consulting and implementation services to our customers globally. van Rest (MSS.335/VR).Open Position: Optimisation & Decision Support Consultant at Tieto Norway (Oslo) Tomlinson (MSS.335/TOM) and the Papers of Dr Edward D. Brian Haley relating to Operational Research Quarterly (MSS.335/SO/H) the Papers of Rolphe C. The Centre holds the following other collections relating to the history, development and practice of operational research and to pioneers and practitioners in this field (collectively known as the Operational Research Archive): British European Airways: Operational Research Branch (MSS.335/AI/1) British Overseas Airways Corporation: Operational Research Branch (MSS.335/AI/2) British Steel Operational Research papers and Memoranda (MSS.335/BS) the Papers of Professor Stephen Cook (MSS.335/CK) the Community Operational Research Unit (MSS.335/COR) the East Midlands Operational Research Group (MSS.335/EMORG) Papers of the Fellowship for Operational Research (MSS.335/FOR) papers for British Gas Operational Research (MSS.335/GA) British Gas North West Operational Research Reports (MSS.335/GA/NW) GKN Operational Research Reports (MSS.335/GKN) Fellowship for Operational Research (MSS.335/FOR) International Federation of Operational Research Societies (MSS.335/IFORS) Interviews with Operational Research Pioneers and Related Papers (MSS.335/INT) the Institute for Operational Research (MSS.335/IOR) the Local Government Operational Research Unit (MSS.335/LG) Miscellaneous and Fragmentary Operational Research Papers (MSS.335/MIS) Operational Analysis Branch, NATO (MSS.335/OAB) Draft Obituaries of Operational Research Practitioners (MSS.335/OBIT) the Papers of Jack Plymen (MSS.335/PLY) the Papers of Professor K.
OPERATIONAL RESEARCH SOCIETIES ARCHIVE
The archive is open for research, with the exception of unpublished material that is less than 20 years old. This collection has been weeded for duplicates. Ackoff, A Manager's Guide to Operational Research (London, 1963) Appraisal In 1973, the Society moved its headquarters to Birmingham. The Society continued to publish Operational Research Quarterly,which in 1978 assumed the title 'Journal of the Operational Research Society' and comprised twelve annual issues. The ORS had representation on the TIHR Council. The ORS was a scientific body which did not engage in project work, unlike the Institute for Operational Research (IOR) which was established in 1962 within the framework of the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations (TIHR). The Society established its own offices in London in 1959, and was incorporated on 30 June 1960. The Club was succeeded in 1954 by the Operational Research Society. The Operational Research Club was founded in April 1948 and its main activities were to hold scientific meetings and, from 1950, produce a quarterly journal. The archive contains the minutes of the Operational Research Club and Society, 1953-1979 its annual accounts and reports, 1958-1976 subscription books, 1961-1974 correspondence files relating to various aspects of the Society and its administration, 1957-1987 a range of publications produced by the Society, 1950-1995, and others in the same field, 1961-1994 volumes of press-cuttings, 1961-1974 and photographs of Society members and events, 1997-2000.