Operational Research Society News

New research suggests that artificial intelligence (AI) may help predict 'flashovers’, a nightmare scenario for firefighters in which all combustible material in a room suddenly ignites, due to extremely high local temperatures.

Executive Director of the National Research Foundation of Ukraine (NRFU) Dr Olga Polotska has appealed to the international community to help her country’s scientists, following the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

New research into picking operations shows how operational research can optimise efficiency whilst also making the warehouse workforce as COVID-safe as possible.

The European Commission is considering imposing a temporary ban on facial recognition technologies, according to the draft of a leaked white paper on Artificial Intelligence.