Subjects

The major subdisciplines in modern operational research, as identified by the journal Operations Research, are:

  • Computing and information technologies
  • Financial engineering
  • Manufacturing, service sciences, and supply chain management
  • Marketing Engineering
  • Policy modeling and public sector work
  • Revenue management
  • Simulation
  • Stochastic models
  • Transportation

Related fields

Some of the fields that have considerable overlap with Operations Research and Management Science include:

  • Business Analytics
  • Data mining
  • Decision analysis
  • Engineering
  • Financial engineering
  • Forecasting
  • Game theory
  • Graph theory
  • Industrial engineering
  • Logistics
  • Mathematical modeling
  • Mathematical optimization
  • Probability and statistics
  • Project management
  • Policy analysis
  • Simulation
  • Social network/Transportation forecasting models
  • Stochastic processes
  • Supply chain management

References:
[1] “About Operations Research”. INFORMS.org. Retrieved 7 January 2012.
[2] “operations research (industrial engineering) History – Britannica Online Encyclopedia”. Britannica.com. Retrieved13 November 2011.