Part I · 14 chapters
Approaches
Begin with the analytical tools: data, decisions, models, optimization, forecasting, and the evidence needed to test them.
Browse this partAn edited collection · Second edition, 2024
Handbook ofMilitary & Defense
Operations Research
Edited by Natalie M. Scala
and James P. Howard, II
The methods are only part of the work. Explore the approaches, applications, and professional experience brought together by the handbook’s chapter authors.
THE COLLECTION
Inside the collection
Three ways into the work.
20 chapters 46 chapter authors
Part II · 4 chapters
Applications
Follow the methods into particular settings, from cybersecurity values and information requirements to readiness and weather.
Browse this partPart III · 2 chapters
Soft Skills and Perspectives
Return to the people doing the work: getting a model used and learning from the experience of planning a test.
Browse this partA question worth starting with
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Why Won’t They
Use Our Model?
A model’s place in an organization deserves attention alongside its mathematics. Start with this contribution, then follow the authors and related reading through the collection.
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Bring a question to the book.
An edited volume need not be read from cover to cover. These companion notes suggest a few routes through the chapter topics, with questions to carry into the reading and small exercises to bring back from it. They are starting points for your own work, not substitutes for the authors’ contributions.
- 01
Data · Forecasting · Validation
From data to a defensible model
- 02
Decisions · Uncertainty · Model use
Structuring a decision under uncertainty
- 03
Planning · Assessment · Testing
Connecting plans, tests, and practice
An authored collection
Start with the people.
Find a contributor’s chapters in either edition. Bylines stay attached to the work, and the earlier edition remains a separate record.
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