Integrated Software-Its Implications for Operational Research

This paper considers the integrated (i.e. multi-application) packages that now available on micros and their implication for O.R. It is suggested that O.R. technique packages should be linked into the integrated packages to make use of the facilities available and to take advantage of user familiarity. This would help make such packages cheaper and easier to use-perhaps by non-O.R. specialists-and open up the use of techniques on much smaller-scale problems.