60 years of OR in Slovenia: development from a first conference to a vibrant community

Janez Povh; Lidija Zadnik Stirn; Janez Žerovnik

doi:10.1007/s10100-023-00859-z

60 years of OR in Slovenia: development from a first conference to a vibrant community

Cent Eur J Oper Res. 2023 Jun 9:1-10. doi: 10.1007/s10100-023-00859-z. Online ahead of print.

Authors

Janez Povh¹, Lidija Zadnik Stirn², Janez Žerovnik³

Affiliations

¹ Rudolfovo Science and Technology Center Novo Mesto, Novo Mesto, Slovenia.
² Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, Jamnikarjeva 101, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia.
³ Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Ljubljana, Aškerčeva 6, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Abstract

The paper provides a short history of the operations research (OR) in Slovenia. Some major events and achievements are mentioned and briefly discussed. The period starts in the year 1964, with the first symposium on OR in Slovenia. In the following decades, there were several important milestones: (1) the start of master's and Ph.D. studies in OR in 1974, (2) the establishment of SSI-SSOR in 1992 (SSI-SSOR stands for the Slovenian Section for Operational Research within the Slovenian Society of Informatics), and (3) the start of a series of symposia in operations research in 1993. All these activities resulted in an extensive list of publications, projects, and monographs and international connections, proving that OR is still a vibrant field, which facilitates knowledge transfer from pure research to business applications.

Keywords: History of OR; OR research; SOR symposia; SSI-SSOR.