Heuristic Problem Solving: The Next Advance in Operations Research

1958/02/01 by Herbert A. Simon, Allen Newell · 3 citations
Decision Sciences · #Complex Systems and Decision Making

paper · doi:10.1287/opre.6.1.1

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Abstract

Address at the banquet of the Twelfth National Meeting of the Operations Research Society of America, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, November 14, 1957. Mr. Simon presented the paper; its content is a joint product of the authors. In this, they rely on the precedent of Genesis 27:22, “The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.”

Citations

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