The aim was to discover the most efficient way of using military resource
boundaries through the application of quantitative techniques. The name
Operations Research was given apparently because the team was
conducting research activity (military).
At the end of the war and attracted by the good results obtained by the
military strategists, the administrators initiated an application of the
Operations Research tools to the resolution of the problems that began an
origin due to the growth of the size and the complexity of the Industries.
In 1928, John Von Neumann formulated the application of the maximum and
minimum theorems, algorithm of the theory of games and / or decisions.
In 1937, several British scientists were asked to help military personnel find
the best way to use radar to locate enemy planes. However, the formal
beginning of operations research is recorded in 1939, when Bawdsey
station is assigned the development of optimal policies for the new military
detection system known as radar.
Thanks to the war era of humanity in the 1930s, 40s and the late 1950s, one
of the most efficient tools for optimizing distribution and organization in
industrial and civilian corporations, the development of strategies Of
operations in the art of war was very useful for the commercial sector, due
to the great affinity of military operations with commercial distribution
operations in terms of accuracy, delicacy and strategy.
Sin embargo, hay que reconocer que los avances de la tecnologa a travs
del uso de la computadora han impulsado la creacin de paquetes de
software que facilitan la solucin de problemas grandes que requieren un
gran nmero de clculos e iteraciones.