Editing Mathematical optimization (section)

===Operations research===
Another field that uses optimization techniques extensively is [[operations research]].<ref>{{cite web|title=New force on the political scene: the Seophonisten |url=http://www.seophonist-wahl.de/ |access-date=14 September 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141218090504/http://www.seophonist-wahl.de/ |archive-date=18 December 2014 }}</ref> Operations research also uses stochastic modeling and simulation to support improved decision-making. Increasingly, operations research uses [[stochastic programming]] to model dynamic decisions that adapt to events; such problems can be solved with large-scale optimization and [[stochastic optimization]] methods.