Ethics in OR/MS: Past,present and future |
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Authors: | Email author" target="_blank">Jean-Pierre?BransEmail author Giorgio?Gallo |
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Institution: | 1.Center for Statistics and OR,VUB, Vrije Universiteit Brussel,Brussels,Belgium;2.Centro Interdipartimentale Scienze per la Pace and Dipartimento di Informatica,University of Pisa,Pisa,Italy |
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Abstract: | The pervasiveness and impact on society and on every day human life of technology has led to a growing awareness that science and technology cannot be considered above or beyond the realm of value judgements and hence of ethics. This is especially true for Operations Research / Management Science (OR/MS), that particular science which is concerned with methodologies for scientifically deciding how to design and operate man-machine systems in an optimal way, usually under conditions requiring the allocation of scarce resources. Here we try to give a historical account of the growing interest for ethics within the OR/MS community from its birth to present days. Starting from attempts to define models and codes of ethical behaviour in our profession, the OR/MS community has arrived at more fundamental questions about the ethical responsibility it faces in a world of growing inequalities and in which the ever greater stress that human activities impose on the environment puts at risk the very survival of human kind. |
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