Operations Research (OR) which is also known as Management Science (MS) can
be considered as the science of making decisions. Generally during making
decisions, we are not supposed to have unlimited resources. And future more
we might be required to optimize certain objectives. All the resource limitation
can formulate an optunity set. Within this optunity set we need to make our
best choice to achieve the possible optimal solution. This kind of OR problem
might can be fitted into linear, non linear programming, Dynamic Programming
or other heuristics method. Another type of OR problem is called game theory,
but I am not quit familiar with it. Anyway what I am interest in is how to apply
these methods into actual landscape forest planning scenario to get the optimal
time and spatial arrangement of large-scale forest. The research of my group
is part of the real regular national forest planning in US. Hopefully in the future, I can can have a chance to use my experiences in China