Heuristic Problem Solving: The Next Advance in Operations Research

Abstract

Address at the banquet of the Twelfth National Meeting of the Operations Research Society of America, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, November 14, 1957. Mr. Simon presented the paper; its content is a joint product of the authors. In this, they rely on the precedent of Genesis 27:22, “The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.”