Operations research also referred to as Management Science is a scientific approach to decision making by creating a mathematical model describing a system and optimizing the desired outcome by optimizing the model.
A wide range of applications is different industries. It can be applied in Airline, Logistics, Manufacturing industries as well as any service organization.
Range of problems that can be modeled:
Scheduling scenarios
Assignments scenarios
Facility location
Health services
Hydraulic and piping Engineering (flow management)
Game Theory
Computer Network Engineering (packets routing, timing and analysis)
Telecom and Data Communication (packets routing, timing and analysis)