Online resources - Operational Research (OR) for Developing Countries

- responsibility, creativity, optimization (by IFORS)

The aim of the IFORS (International Federation of Operational Research Societies) Developing Countries Online Resources page is to offer the OR worker all publicly-available materials on the topic of OR for Development. It also aims to provide a venue for people who are working in the area to share their completed or in-process work, learn from others, and stimulate comments and discussions on the work. Regarding IFORS Developing Countries OR resources website, its regular updates - and your possible submission of "free" (not copyright protected) material, you might occasionally visit

http://ifors.org/developing_countries/index.php?title=Main_Page

With this open resources page we aim to make research and application results better accessible to the many friends in the Developing Countries (DCs). We would be glad about interest.

Contributions from art and science, communication and education sectors are warmly welcome by our community which has very little access to emerging documents on arts and sciences, research, design and development. Particularly, the disciplines and areas MRI and Physics could serve the DCs very well.

The International Federation of Operational Research Societies (IFORS; http://ifors.org/) is an almost 60-year old organization which is currently composed of 51 national societies. Regional Groups of IFORS are: ALIO (The Latin American Ibero Association on Operations Research), APORS (The Association of Asian-Pacific Operational Research Societies), EURO (The Association of European Operational Research Societies), NORAM (The Association of North American Operations Research Societies). IFORS conferences are taking place every three years. On successfully celebrated IFORS 2021, Seoul, South Korea, August 22-27, 2021, please refer to http://www.ifors2020.kr/.

Thank you very much for your attention.

With kind regards,
best wishes,
Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber

PS: Feedback is welcome via    

gerhard.weber AT put.poznan.pl

My source: AI-SGES list

Occam's razor (i)

"2. The virus of encyclopedism in definitions should be
recognized and resisted. There is a role and a place for
illustrative detail, but that role and place is not in a
definition. Social science is content to tolerate excep-
tions to its theories—it is satisfied with explanations
covering most cases, not each and every one. In the
definition of strategic concepts, more detail inevitably
promotes less clarity and therefore less understanding.
William of Occam should be regarded as the patron
saint of wordsmithing for strategic conceptualization.

3. Ideas matter: Concepts for theory have practical
consequences. The way in which we behave strategi-
cally is not dictated strictly by the way in which we
conceptualize its challenges and intellectually order
our possible responses, but our concepts educate our
perception and interpretation of events, and they find
expression in the doctrine that shapes our behavior.52
Of course, strategic behavior should be adaptable to
unanticipated events, but frequently it is not. Strategic
and military culture can and does change, but at any
one time it is going to help mold action now in ways
organized doctrinally in the light shed by authorita-
tive strategy concepts." (p.46).

 
Gray, C. S. (2012). CATEGORICAL CONFUSION?: THE STRATEGIC IMPLICATIONS OF RECOGNIZING CHALLENGES EITHER AS IRREGULAR OR TRADITIONAL. Strategic Studies Institute, US Army War College. http://www.jstor.org/stable/resrep11257

IFORS Developing Countries Online Resources

New documents joined - further ones are welcome

IFORS Developing Countries Online Resources 

The aim of the IFORS Developing Countries Online Resources page is to offer the OR worker all publicly-available materials on the topic of OR for Development. It also aims to provide a venue for people who are working in the area to share their completed or in-process work, learn from others, and stimulate comments and discussions on the work. Regarding IFORS Developing Countries OR resources website, its regular updates - and your possible submission of "free" (not copyright protected) material, you might occasionally visit

http://ifors.org/developing_countries/index.php?title=Main_Page

With this open resources page we aim to make research and application results better accessible to the many friends in the Developing Countries. We would be glad about interest. Contributions from the science, communication and education sectors are warmly welcome by our community which has very little access to emerging documents on arts and science, research and technology. "Operational Research" (OR) is the discipline of applying advanced analytical methods to help make better decisions. By using techniques such as problem structuring methods and mathematical modelling to analyze complex situations, Operational Research gives executives the power to make more effective decisions and build more productive systems. 

The International Federation of Operational Research Societies (IFORS; http://ifors.org/) is an almost 60-year old organization which is currently composed of 51 national societies. 

Regional Groups of IFORS are: ALIO (The Latin American Ibero Association on Operations Research), APORS (The Association of Asian-Pacific Operational Research Societies), EURO (The Association of European Operational Research Societies), NORAM (The Association of North American Operations Research Societies). 

IFORS conferences are taking place every three years. On IFORS 2021, Seoul, South Korea, August 22-27, 2021, please refer to http://www.ifors2020.kr/

Thank you very much for your attention. 

With kind regards, best wishes,

Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber 

PS: Feedback is welcome via gerhard.weber AT put.poznan.pl

My source:

www.jiscmail.ac.uk/AI-SGES 

 

Borges & Forés: The Role of the Online Learners and the Four Competentional Clusters (Khan & Ally, Eds. 2015)

individual

|

INTERPERSONAL : SCIENCES

humanistic --------------------------------------- mechanistic

SOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL
|

group

Metacognitive	Operational
Relational	Academic

Since receiving the e-learning handbooks edited by Khan and Ally (2015) in April there have been several challenges; studies, sickness in the family and full-time work. I'm up to chapter 13 of Volume 1 and I have learned a great deal thus far. The first volume is already serving as an excellent primer on e-learning for someone in full-time clinical work, studying by distance learning and with teaching and mentoring experience.

The above table is derived from chapter 13 by Federico Borges and Anna Forés.

I have superimposed Borges' four competentional clusters onto Hodges' model. There is also a figure (13.1) that seeks to show that:

• there is no hierarchy among the competences,
• competences are all interrelated,
• more than one competence can occur at the same time,
• competences are manifested when needed and as needed (p.199).

This can also be related to the 4P's

purpose	process
practise	policy

Borges, F. and Forés, A. (2015) The Role of the Online Learner, Chap. 13 In Badrul H. Khan, Mohamed Ally (Eds) International Handbook of E-Learning. Volume 1, Oxford: Routledge. pp. 197-206.