OMOR Research Seminar
Research Cluster - Operations Management & Operations Research (OMOR)
SCOPE AND PURPOSE
ESSEC Business School performs quality research in the area of operations management and operations research. The purpose of the cluster “Operations Management and Operations Research (OMOR)” is to augment the visibility of research activities in these areas within ESSEC and outside, in the scientific community as well as in the business community, and to promote joint research activities between cluster members and with outside researchers.
Operations management concerns the creation, production, and delivery of products and services. The concept comprises areas such as :
Supply chain management & logistics
Energy markets and operations
Manufacturing and quality management
New product development and technology management
Project management
Purchasing and procurement management
Service system design
Operations research concerns the application of quantitative methods to solve operations problems. In particular, the cluster performs research on the development of new methods and on the application of methods in the following areas (among others):
Combinatorial optimization
Discrete-event simulation
Dynamic control
Dynamic programming, including Markov decision processes
Game theory and dynamic games
Optimization and linear programming
Stochastic modelling, e.g., stochastic processes and Markov chains
Risk analysis