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2012 INFORMS Annual Meeting Speaker's Bookstore (Booth #58)
The 2012 INFORMS Booth will be displaying select OR, MS, and analytics-related books authored by INFORMS speakers. The bookstore is an added benefit for both the speaker and attendee delivering increased exposure and accessibility to important content via the INFORMS booth located in the conference exhibition area. If you are a 2012 Annual Meeting speaker and have a recently published book or want to recommend one, please contact INFORMS.

Interfaces - Call for Papers
Special Issue on "Operations Research in Freight Transportation and Logistics"
Transportation and Logistics have a growing importance in a global economy. As parts and products travel longer distances over more modes of transport, supply chains become more fragile, complex, and costly to manage. As transportation and logistics costs rise in importance, inventory, handling, lot size, and mode choice decisions have a larger effect on corporate profitability. From a public welfare perspective, secure and sustainable world freight transport system concerns must be balanced with efficient transportation and logistics networks. Access the Call for Papers to learn more. Submission deadline: November 15, 2012.

Transportation Science - New Issue
Access the nine new articles in the August 2012 issue of Transportation Science. Subscribe to INFORMS PubsOnLine Suite for only $99 and gain access to all 13 journals back to volume 1, issue 1.

• "Truck Driver Scheduling in the United States"
• "Exact Routing in Large Road Networks Using Contraction Hierarchies"
• "The Pallet-Packing Vehicle Routing Problem"

Mathematics of Operations Research - New Issue
Read the eight new articles in the August 2012 issue of Mathematics of Operations Research. Access the IPOL Portal for information on all INFORMS current journal content and publications news.

• "Optimal Decision Rules for Product Recalls"
• "On the Existence of Pure Nash Equilibria in Weighted Congestion Games"
• "Model Predictive Control for Dynamic Resource Allocation"

Marketing Science - New Issue
Go to the nine new articles in the July/August 2012 issue of Marketing Science. Go to the Publications site for updates on all INFORMS publications.

• "Consumer Learning of New Binary Attribute Importance Accounting for Priors, Bias, and Order Effects"
• "Intraconnectivity and Interconnectivity: When Value Creation May Reduce Profits"
• "Social Sharing of Information Goods: Implications for Pricing and Profits"

Management Science - New Issue
Read the 10 new articles in the August 2012 issue of Management Science. "Management Insights" provides you with a brief overview of all the new papers.

• "A Market-Based Measure of Credit Portfolio Quality and Banks' Performance During the Subprime Crisis"
• "Working When No One Is Watching: Motivation, Test Scores, and Economic Success"
• "Money-Back Guarantees: Helping the Low-Quality Retailer"

Don't Let Your Library Eliminate Your 2013 INFORMS Journal Subscriptions!
Direct your librarian or administrator to INFORMS new 2013 institutional subscription rates posted on INFORMS Librarian Portal.

Did You Know?
With your enhanced INFORMS PubsOnLine subscription you can: Use Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+, and Twitter to forward an article or abstract, set up citation alerts, find similar articles, e-mail articles to your colleagues, quickly search on keywords in an abstract, link to Google Scholar, and more.

Last month, IBM announced internship opportunities with the IBM Watson Solutions Development and Delivery team for Summer 2013. If selected, the candidate will have a unique opportunity to work on a new breed of probabilistic applications based on IBM Watson, which is being applied to tackle some of humanity's most difficult challenges. For information, visit here. 

A candidate nominated for the 2013 award must satisfy the following criteria: Member of the INFORMS Computing Society (ICS) for five years; major contributor to ICS and its objectives; and not a previous recipient of this award.

A nomination must make the case that the candidate achieved multiple results that benefited ICS or its predecessor organizations, CSTS and CS SIG. Service alone is not enough; there must be achievements that have expanded or enhanced ICS activities.

Each nomination must be accompanied by (1) a letter that presents a case based on the nominee's service and (2) by three ICS member endorsements. No ICS member may endorse more than one nominee for the same year.

Send nominations to bgolden@rhsmith.umd.edu.The nominations are due on September 21, 2012. The selection-committee members are Bruce Golden (chair), Richard Barr, and John Chinneck. For specific information, please see the society's awards page.

Sheldon Jacobson (University of Illinois) will be the new National Science Foundation (NSF) Program Director for Operations Research, effective September 24, and Edwin Romeijn (University of Michigan) will be the new NSF Program Director for Manufacturing Enterprise Systems and Service Enterprise Systems, effective September 10. Michael Fu and Russell Barton completed their terms at the NSF as Program Directors this August.

INFORMS will exhibit at Predictive Analytics World - Government, September 17 and 18 in Washington DC and Predictive Analytics World - Boston, September 30 - October 4. INFORMS members may register for either or both at a 15% discount. Use code INFB1215 to register for PAW-Government or PAW-Boston. Special bonus in Boston - INFORMS president-elect Anne Robinson is keynote speaker!

Anna Brown, editor of SAS's The Knowledge Exchange, took her camera and asked innocent bystanders in San Francisco how they would define analytics. The answers are enlightening.

Click here to RSVP for the Annual Meeting, and connect with friends and colleagues that are also attending.

 
While you are there, join the INFORMS Annual Meeting Group to connect with other conference participants and discuss key topics.  
 

New tool for the traveling salesman problem, getting into large-scale OR/optimization, open source/free MIP solver, OR social network users directory. See answers and discussion on OR Exchange, your meeting place for questions and answers about O.R. and analytics.

The August issue of OR/MS Today is the special 'Innovative Education' issue. Click here to peruse O.R.'s Teachable Moment.

Are you a Ph.D. student or a young, untenured faculty member? The Minority Issues Forum (MIF) and the Junior Faculty Interest Group (JFIG) invite you to attend the CAREER Proposal Writing Panel at the Phoenix Annual Meeting. This event is part of the Doctoral Colloquium and will be held from 3:45 to 5:00 p.m. on Saturday, October 13. Panelists include Professors Robert Hampshire of Carnegie-Mellon University, Michael Fu of University of Maryland, Sila Cetinkaya of Texas A&M University, and Lawrence Seiford of University of Michigan. If you are interested, please contact Dr. Mark Lewis at mel47@cornell.edu.