Journées de l'optimisation 2007 Optimizations days

Management Science is the science for managing and almost always involves decision-making. This analytical approach is known by several different names: Operations Research (OR), Operational Research (a UK-ism), Decision Sciences (DS), Systems Science, Mathematical Modeling, Industrial Engineering, Critical Systems Strategic Thinking, Success Science (SS), and Systems Analysis and Design (SAD). In its early days, the idea of utilizing knowledge from a variety of disciplines was a central tenet and the interdisciplinary teams included mathematicians, statistician, psychologists, economists, sociologists, etc. However, over the years the interdisciplinary teams were broken up and OR/MS/DS/SS tended to come from applied mathematical and statistical backgrounds; locking it into a hard, technical shell. In recent years, however, this situation is changing with the arrival of "soft" methodologies and critical systems strategic thinking. This paper describes in brief the recent development that has taken place worldwide in Management Sciences.

This study considers the construction of a multicriteria model to assist in the early diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease. Alzheimer’s disease is considered the most frequent of the dementias and the early diagnosis extremely important and it can provide better life conditions to patients and their families.