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Spreadsheets and OR/MS Models: An End-User Perspective
Finance Faculty Works
  • Linda Leon, Loyola Marymount University
  • Zbigniew Przasnyski, Loyola Marymount University
  • Kala Seal, Loyola Marymount University
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-1996
Abstract

In 1986, Bodily stated that practitioners could use spreadsheets to model management science/operations research (OR/MS) problems. We surveyed OR practitioners to determine the extent of implementation of these OR/MS problems in a spreadsheet environment and found that end users are solving OR/MS problems using spreadsheets across many functional areas of business, though in varying degrees. Some areas show higher use than others and spreadsheet models are being used to implement various OR tools in a pattern very similar to their use in the nonspreadsheet environment.

Original Publication Citation
Leon, Linda, Przasnyski, Zbigniew, Seal, Kala. "Spreadsheets and OR/MS Models: An End-User Perspective." Interfaces 26 (1996): 92-104.
Citation Information
Linda Leon, Zbigniew Przasnyski and Kala Seal. "Spreadsheets and OR/MS Models: An End-User Perspective" (1996)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/kalachand_seal/1/