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The nature and role of OR together with its future or lack of one have been a perennial source of debate. See for example references 1 to 5. One strand in this debate has been a series of papers from Tobin, Butfield, Teather and Rapley at BA on the particular style of practical OR that has been developed at British Airways.6 7 8
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Cooper, T. (1985). OR and Decision Support Systems — The BA Experience. In: Ohse, D., Esprester, A.C., Küpper, HU., Stähly, P., Steckhan, H. (eds) DGOR. Operations Research Proceedings, vol 1984. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-70457-4_72
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