Operations Research
Optimize, Simulate, Understand![Do you have an Uncle Louie? Optimal wedding seat assignments](https://blogs.sas.com/content/operations/files/2014/11/Louie.jpg)
Do you have an Uncle Louie? Yep - we all do! You know what I mean - this guy: When my wife and I were planning to get married, we had all sorts of big decisions to make. Where would our future home be? How many kids would we have?
![SAS-Related Talks at the INFORMS 2014 Annual Meeting](https://blogs.sas.com/content/operations/files/2017/02/AdvancedAnalytics-3.png)
The INFORMS 2014 Annual Meeting will be held In San Francisco from November 9-12; conference hotels are the Hilton San Francisco and the Parc 55 Wyndham. More than 35 SAS staff will participate, and SAS will have three adjacent booths representing SAS/OR (and all of Advanced Analytics), JMP, and the SAS
![Operations Research (and much more) with SAS](https://blogs.sas.com/content/operations/files/2017/01/AdvancedAnalytics-2.png)
Welcome to the blog “Operations Research with SAS: Optimize, Simulate, Understand.” For those of you without an operations research background, a brief explanation: operations research (OR) is the study of the operations of systems, with a focus on making them function more efficiently and more effectively. The overall goal of