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<p>operations research arrives at optimal or near-optimal solutions to <a href="page.php?w=decision-making">decision-making</a> problems. Because of its emphasis on practical applications, operations research has overlapped with many other disciplines, notably <a href="page.php?w=industrial_engineering">industrial engineering</a>. Operations research is often concerned with determining the extreme values of some real-world objective: the <a href="page.php?w=Maxima_and_minima">maximum</a> (of profit, performance, or yield) or minimum (of loss, risk,</p><p>
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