OeGOR was created in 1978 with the aim of promoting the development of Operations Research and Mathematical Programming in Austria, both from a methodological point as well as an applied research point of views.
The recognition of the role and the professional qualification of the operation researchers and the promotion of relationships between operations researchers, inside and outside Austria are strategic goals of OeGOR.
On a proposal of the members, OeGOR allows for the creation of Arbeitskreise based on either geographical or methodological and application affinity.
The headquarters of OeGOR are currently located at the Operations Research and Control Systems (ORCOS) group, which is part of the Institute of Statistics and Mathematical Methods in Economics at the Technical University of Vienna.
The current Editor-in-Chief of CEJOR is the former OeGOR president Ulrike Leopold-Wildburger.