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Organization Science - New Issue
Access the 16 new articles in the July/August 2012 issue of Organization Science. Subscribe to the 2012 INFORMS PubsOnLine Suite for only $99 for access to all 13 journals back to volume 1, issue 1.
• "How Do Product Users Influence Corporate Invention?"
• "The Effect of Going Public on Innovative Productivity and Exploratory Search"
• "The Liability of Leading: Battling Aspiration and Survival Goals in the Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions"
Interfaces - New Issue
Read the 7 new articles in the July/August 2012 issue of Interfaces. Please access the IPOL Portal information for all the current INFORMS journal content and publications news.
• "Improving Airline Revenues with Variable Opaque Products: "Blind Booking" at Germanwings"
• "On the Development of a Soccer Player Performance Rating System for the English Premier League"
• "A Large US Retailer Selects Transportation Carriers Under Diesel Price Uncertainty"
Management Science - Call for Papers for Special Issue on "Business Analytics"
Submission deadline is September 16, 2012. For more information, access the call for papers.
Interfaces - Call for Papers for Special Issue on "Operations Research in Freight Transportation and Logistics"
Submission deadline is November 15, 2012. For more information, access the call for papers.
INFORMS Transactions on Education - Call for Papers for Special Issue on "Teaching Service Science"
Special Issue Editors: Kevin Ross and Mark M. Davis
Submission deadline is December 1, 2012. For more information, access the call for papers.
Transportation Science - Call for Papers for Special Issue on "Transportation Science on Freight Transportation and Logistics"
Special Issue Editor: Teodor Gabriel Crainic
Submission deadline is September 28, 2012. For more information, access the call for papers.
The Seventeenth Annual Cincinnati/Dayton INFORMS Picnic will take place on Sunday, August 5, 2012 from 3:00pm until 8:00pm. George and Anne Polak will host it at their home. If you plan to join, e-mail George.
Join the Southeastern Chapter (SEINFORMS) for their annual conference in Myrtle Beach, SC! The meeting will be held October 4-5 at the Myrtle Beach Hilton Resort. Academic and practitioner papers are peer-reviewed and presented in tracks representing business, economics, and the allied fields. SEINFORMS publishes the full proceedings. The conference also offers many opportunities for networking, including a golf tournament, evening reception, and luncheon. For details, visit here.
The New Jersey Chapter of INFORMS is pleased to announce the Fourth Annual New Jersey Student Contest to recognize outstanding work in operations research by a full-time student who is either a New Jersey resident or enrolled in a New Jersey college or university. The NJ Chapter holds this contest for the purpose of helping a student attend the INFORMS Annual Meeting. To enter, please submit an extended abstract (three-page maximum) to David Hunt at david.hunt@oliverwyman.com by August 17, 2012. Up to 5 finalists will be invited to present their work at a NJ Chapter meeting in September. First place will be awarded based on the presentation. A paper is not required. Further details and rules are posted on the NJ Chapter web page.
The Minority Issues Forum (MIF) is pleased to announce their first annual student poster competition, to be held at the 2012 INFORMS Annual Meeting in Phoenix. The competition is open to students who are MIF members. 1st place will receive an honorarium of $250. Abstracts are due August 13. Electronic copies of the poster are due September 3. The poster session and judging will take place on Sunday, October 14 in Phoenix. Posters will be presented at the MIF reception that evening.
Please email tracy.byrnes@informs.org for the complete Call for Posters, including details on how to submit.
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Sriram Mahalingam invites everyone to talk about the application of operations research in software engineering. Conversation is underway. Weigh in here.
Translate AMPL code to GAMS, which statistics theory and chart types does an OR researcher need to understand and apply? Olympic optimization problems with SpaceFuncs, and more. See answers and discussion on OR Exchange, your meeting place for questions and answers about operations research and analytics.
A team of INFORMS volunteers met recently to vet, re-write (and in some cases accept) over 200 questions provided by another team of INFORMS volunteers that will comprise the industry's first analytics certification. Analytics certification will be offered for the first time at the 2013 INFORMS Conference on Business Analytics and Operations Research, April 7-9 in San Antonio, Texas. We are carefully crossing all the t's and dotting all the i's. This certification is sure to set the standard for rigor in the analytics field.
Thank you goes to Carrie Beam, Venu Gopalakrishna Remani, Fang Liu, Heping Liu, Freeman Marvin, Scott Nestler, Subhashish Samaddar, Steve Sashihara, Durai Sundaramoorthi, Bo Zhang, Jen Leong, and Arnie Greenland for their efforts in promoting this accreditation.
