Issue: 2013/Vol.23/No.2, Pages 5-9
EDITORIAL - SYSTEMS AND OPERATIONAL RESEARCH FOR MODELLING AND DECISION MAKING – A PERSPECTIVE FROM BOS CONFERENCES
Jan W. Owsiński
Cite as: J. W. Owsiński. Editorial - Systems and operational research for modelling and decision making – a perspective from BOS conferences. Operations Research and Decisions 2013: 23(2), 5-9. DOI 10.5277/ord130201
Abstract
This is the first of a pair of editions devoted to articles presented at the BOS 2012 conference which was held in September 2012 in Warsaw, at Palais Staszic, the traditional seat of learned societies located in the capital of Poland, built exactly for this purpose at the beginning of the 19th century. The BOS conferences, devoted – hence the Polish acronym – to operations and systems research at large, have now more than two decades of history, having started in the late 1980s. These meetings nowadays constitute one of the major forums of the Polish community of specialists in the domain of systems and operations research, usually gathering about 100 participants from academia, R&D, administration, as well as business circles. Although it could hardly be said that BOS conferences encompass the whole of this community, they are definitely highly representative of what is going on in terms of the problems addressed, methods applied and results obtained.
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