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Making Large-Scale Models Manageable: Modeling from an Operations Management Perspective

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  • Frederic H. Murphy

    (Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)

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While building complex models is an important part of operations research practice, OR workers have focused too often on modeling's technical aspects instead of making the models manageable, that is, designing them around the ways people will operate them. The issues raised for complex models are different from those most widely discussed for decision support systems because the focus is on models that require a staff to maintain and operate them and on how the staff functions. Operations management provides the tools for thinking about the operations of large complex models; this paper examines some of these tools and shows how they relate to the design and operation of large complex models.

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  • Frederic H. Murphy, 1993. "Making Large-Scale Models Manageable: Modeling from an Operations Management Perspective," Operations Research, INFORMS, vol. 41(2), pages 241-252, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:inm:oropre:v:41:y:1993:i:2:p:241-252
    DOI: 10.1287/opre.41.2.241
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    1. William Chung & J. D. Fuller & Y. June Wu, 2006. "A New Decomposition Method for Multiregional Economic Equilibrium Models," Operations Research, INFORMS, vol. 54(4), pages 643-655, August.
    2. Melinda Hobbs & Michael Mellish & Frederic H. Murphy & Richard Newcombe & Reginald Sanders & Peter Whitman, 2001. "Rebuilding the Coal Model in the Energy Information Administration's National Energy Modeling System," Interfaces, INFORMS, vol. 31(5), pages 24-42, October.
    3. J. Fuller & William Chung, 2005. "Dantzig—Wolfe Decomposition of Variational Inequalities," Computational Economics, Springer;Society for Computational Economics, vol. 25(4), pages 303-326, June.
    4. W. Chung & J. Fuller & Y. Wu, 2003. "A New Demand-Supply Decomposition Method for a Class of Economic Equilibrium Models," Computational Economics, Springer;Society for Computational Economics, vol. 21(3), pages 231-243, June.
    5. Steven A. Gabriel & Andy S. Kydes & Peter Whitman, 2001. "The National Energy Modeling System: A Large-Scale Energy-Economic Equilibrium Model," Operations Research, INFORMS, vol. 49(1), pages 14-25, February.

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