第一章 运用运筹学模型解决问题

第一节 运筹学的概念

Operations research (Or) is the study of how to form mathematical models of complex engineering and management problems and how to analyze them to gain insight about possible solutions.

第二节 运筹学的构成要素

The three fundamental concerns in forming operations research models are

• (a) the decisions open to decision makers, （做什么决策）
• (b) the constraintslimiting decision choices, and （决策受什么条件制约）
• (c) the objectives making some decisions preferred to others.（决策要达到什么目标）

语言模型只能用于分析，但无法进行定量化描述；所以需要构建数学规划模型来进行定量优化。

Optimization models (also called mathematical programs) represent problem choices as decision variables