Rethinking the Process of Operational Research & Systems Analysis

Invited contributions from distinguished practitioners and methodologists of operational research and applied systems analysis which represent a true state-of-the-art and which provide, perhaps for the first time, a coherent, interlocking, set of ideas which may be considered the foundations of the subject as a science in its own right.

GERARD DE ZEEUW INTRODUCTION Systems analysis is relatively young as
an identified set of activities: only some 20 to 30 years of age. These years have
brought some successes, recognition, and some degree of establishment.