Ingeniería de Organización, Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros, University of Seville, C/ Camino de los Descubrimientos s/n, 41092 Sevilla (Spain)

Correspondence: Pablo Cortés, E-mail: pca@esi.us.es

Abstract

Nowadays operational research (OR) claims to be known as the science of better by the scientific community and by the industry. OR provides a set of techniques and tools for thinking, analysing and solving, which leads to taking decisions in a structured and focused way towards efficiency and optimality. Due to these aspects, the advance of telecommunications research has been strongly linked to operations research since its birth. With this paper we want to acknowledge the serious research carried out in telecommunications from operations research and to encourage an ongoing telecommunications research from an OR perspective and linked to real practice.