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INFORMS Annual Meeting 2012 Phoenix
October 14-17, 2012, Phoenix Convention Center, Phoenix, Arizona
http://meetings.informs.org/phoenix2012
Register Today - Take Advantage of Early Rates
Register by September 10 for the early INFORMS member rate of $415 and student member rate of $155. Click here to register today.
Interactive and Focused Topic Poster Sessions - August 1 Submission Deadline
Submit an abstract for the Interactive Sessions or the special Focus Area Sessions sponsored by the Computing Society; Data Mining Section; Energy, Natural Resources & the Environment Section; Health Applications Society; Military Applications Society; CPMS: The Practice Section; Quality, Statistics, and Reliability Section; Simulation Society; and Transportation Science & Logistics Society. Click here for more information.
Pre-Conference FREE Vendor Workshops
Saturday, October 13, 9am-5:30pm
Plan to come to Phoenix early and take advantage of these workshops. Choose from three time groups. Expand you r knowledge of software from AIMMS, American Optimal Decisions, AnyLogic, FICO, Frontline, GAMS, Gurobi Optimization, IBM, Imagine That, LINDO, Lumina Decision Systems, Maximal, McGraw Hill, Palisade, Salford, SAS, SAS-JMP, SAS Global Academic, Spry, and Tableau. Click here for details. You must register for the meeting to sign up for the workshops. If you have already registered, call 800-446-3676, ext. 591, to add workshops.
Data Mining and Health Informatics Workshop 2012 - Abstract Deadline Extended to July 29
The workshop will take place October 13, preceding the INFORMS Annual Meeting. Click here to submit an abstract.
INFORMS 2012 Combined Colloquia - Nominations Due by July 30
The colloquia will be held on October 12-13, preceding the INFORMS Annual Meeting, and will feature the Teaching Effectiveness Colloquium, the Future Academician Colloquium, and the Future Practitioner Colloquium. Consideration for participation is by nomination only. Click here for complete information, including eligibility and registration fees.
INFORMS Meetings Calendar
Go to http://meetings.informs.org for a complete conference calendar.
Does your goal for joining INFORMS match your peers? Watch this space in the coming weeks for this and other top-line information from the 2012 member survey. Tabulations will soon be posted on IOL. Watch for the write-up in August OR/MS Today.
Keep up with state of the art in a specific area: 32%
Be informed about a variety of subjects: 24%
Maintain my professional identity: 20%
Meet people with similar interests: 13%
Gain visibility throughout the profession: 8%
Other: 3%
Please don't doubt that INFORMS is becoming the place to be for analytics. The Analytics Section's call for submissions for the second annual Innovation in Analytics Award netted 33 submissions from companies big and small. Who will join last year's winner, Booz Allen Hamilton?
Operations research is a very analytics-intensive profession. Has that always been known in the industry?
Not really. People looking for analytics resources don't necessarily associate that with operations research. We, the society, decided to take a more aggressive stance in saying that we do, in fact, do what people are looking for. Read more.
Moneyball may be the new, high-profile look at math modeling in sports, but that's not half the picture. The previous issue of Interfaces was devoted to a range of O.R. sports research, and the current issue of Interfaces is devoted to sports scheduling. Listen to coeditors Michael Fry of the University of Cincinnati and Jeffrey Ohlmann of the University of Iowa talk about measuring driving and putting excellence in golf, improving baseball player drafts, why goalies rule, and more in the current installment of www.scienceofbetter.org/podcast.
Decision Analysis - First ISI Impact Factor
INFORMS is excited to announce that the journal Decision Analysis has received its first impact factor. Decision Analysis has an impact factor of 2.143 in the management category, ranking it 38 out of 167 journals. Go to the website for the latest information on Decision Analysis.
Service Science - Special Section in New Issue
The June 2012 issue of Service Science includes a special section on "Service Research Integration and Future Directions-The Naples Forum on Service." In addition to the editorial column, there are four papers in this section:
- "Perspective Shifts in Marketing: Toward a Paradigm Change?"
- "Fuzzy Modeling of Service System Engagements"
- "Three Frameworks for Service Research: Exploring Multilevel Governance in Nested, Networked Systems"
- "Structure and Dynamics of a 'T-Shaped' Knowledge: From Individuals to Cooperating Communities of Practice"
Information Systems Research - New Issue
Access the 17 new articles in the June 2012 issue of Information Systems Research:
"Are New IT-Enabled Investment Opportunities Diminishing for Firms?"
"Blog, Blogger, and the Firm: Can Negative Employee Posts Lead to Positive Outcomes?"
"Reputation and Uncertainty in Online Markets: An Experimental Study"
"Managing Data Quality Risk in Accounting Information Systems"
Service Science - Call for Papers Special Issue on "Cloud Computing as a Service"
Special Issue Editors: Yingdong Lu and Cathy H. Xia
Submission deadline is extended to: August 1, 2012. For more information, access the Call for Papers.
Management Science - Call for PapersSpecial Issue on "Business Analytics"
Special Issue Editors: Dimitris Bertsimas, Eric Bradlow, Noah Gans, and Alok Gupta
Submission deadline is September 16, 2012. For more information, access the Call for Papers.
Interfaces - Call for Papers Special Issue on "Operations Research in Freight Transportation and Logistics"
Special Issue Editor: Michael F. Gorman
Submission deadline is November 15, 2012. For more information, access the Call for Papers.
The INFORMS Subdivisions Council is pleased to welcome the newest student chapter, at Lamar University in Beaumont, TX. Lamar is one of the fastest growing universities in Texas and is a member of the Texas State University System. The student chapter was approved by the Council in June. It will be led by President Majed Al-Bokhari (majedalbokhari@gmail.com) and his team of officers, all graduate students in industrial engineering. Professor Alberto Marquez (alberto_marquez@hotmail.com) will act as faculty advisor to the chapter. The group is planning events for the fall semester and welcomes new members!
To join online, visit here, and contact one of the officers for more information on upcoming events.
The INFORMS Job Placement Service has received the following new entries. Members always receive free access to all JPS listings!
Lancaster Laboratories, a nationally recognized laboratory, is searching for a nonlinear optimization/scheduling post doc to support their professional scientific staffing group in Richmond, VA.
The Operational Evaluation Division (OED) of the Institute for Defense Analyses has an immediate junior-level career opening for a research associate who would support OED researchers.
The ASA's accreditation program continues to grow, with more than 160 accredited ASA members. Accreditation testifies that there is a body of knowledge known as Statistics, that accredited practitioners of Statistics must be well versed in that knowledge at an advanced level, and must have applied it competently and ethically through practice for several years. And as rapidly as the theory and practice of Statistics evolves, so must professional statisticians continually stay abreast of new developments in their areas of expertise. Already a PStat®? Start enjoying new benefits from the ASA now. Explore ASA's accreditation process online and consider becoming a PStat® today!
The Health Applications Society of INFORMS sponsors an annual competition for the Pierskalla Award, which recognizes research excellence in the field of healthcare management science. The award includes a $500 honorarium for the best paper presented in a Health Applications Society sponsored session at the annual INFORMS conference. The award is named after Dr. Bill Pierskalla to recognize his contribution and dedication to improving health services delivery through operations research. For more information, visit the website.
