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Unit 1: Introduction to Operations Research

6. What is Operations Research? What areas of Operations Research have made a significant Notes
impact on decision-making process? Why is it important to keep an open mind in utilizing
Operations Research techniques?
7. Comment on the following statements:
(i) Operations Research is the art of winning war without actually fighting it.

(ii) Operations Research is the art of finding bad answers where worse answers exist.
8. State the different types of models in Operations Research.
9. “Operations Research replaces management by personality”. Discuss.

10. What are the situations where Operations Research techniques will be applicable?
11. ‘Quantitative techniques complement the experience and judgement of an executive in
decision making. They do not and cannot replace it’. Discuss.
12. ‘Operations Research is more than a quantitative analysis of the problem’. Comment.

13. ‘Operations Research advocates a system approach and is concerned with optimization. It
provides a quantitative analysis for decision-making’. Comment.
14. Give the description of the following basic types of models:

(i) Iconic
(ii) Analogue
(iii) Mathematical

Answers: Self Assessment

1. (a) 2. (a)
3. (c) 4. Capital Budgeting
5. Production systems 6. Operation Researchers
7. True 8. False

9. True 10. Mathematical
11. Functional 12. Symbolic

1.10 Further Readings

Books J.K. Sharma, Operations Research, Theory and Applications, MacMillan India Ltd.
Kanti Swarup, P.K Gupta & Manmohan, Operations Research, Sultan Chand
Publications, New Delhi.
Michael W. Carter, Camille C. Price, Operations Research: A Practical Introduction,
CRC Press, 2001.

Paul A. Jensen, Jonathan F. Bard, Operations Research Models and Methods, John
Wiley and Sons, 2003.

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