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INFORMS International Beijing 2012
June 24-27, 2012, China National Convention Center, Beijing, China
http://meetings.informs.org/beijing2012
We look forward to seeing you in Beijing! Click here for all you need to know about registration, ground transportation and more.
INFORMS Annual Meeting 2012 Phoenix
October 14-17, 2012, Phoenix Convention Center, Phoenix, Arizona
http://meetings.informs.org/phoenix2012
Interactive/Focused Topic Poster Sessions - August 1 Submission Deadline
Although the deadline for contributed abstracts has passed, you can still submit an abstract for the Interactive Sessions. In addition, you can submit to focus area poster 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.
Data Mining-Health Informatics Workshop 2012 - July 15 Abstract Deadline
The 7th DM-HI Workshop will take place October 13 preceding the INFORMS Annual Meeting. Click here to submit an abstract.
INFORMS Revenue Management & Pricing Section Conference, June 29-30
European School of Management and Technology (ESMT), Berlin, Germany
http://www.esmt.org/info/informs
INFORMS Meetings Calendar
Go to http://meetings.informs.org for a complete conference calendar.
Deadline for Nominations: June 30, 2012
The final term of James J. Cochran as editor-in-chief of INFORMS Transactions on Education (ITE) will end on December 31, 2012. Based on recommendations from the INFORMS Publications Committee, the President of INFORMS has appointed a committee to conduct a full search for a new editor-in-chief. The committee intends to propose a candidate for approval by INFORMS no later than July 15, 2012.
All members of INFORMS are invited to participate in this process. The committee seeks your opinion and comments on (1) the current state of the journal, (2) recommendations for change, if any, and (3) candidates for editor-in-chief.
For information, visit here. Submit comments, nominations, and applications by June 30, 2012, to the chair of the ITE Editorial Search Committee, Charles R. Sox, at csox@cba.ua.edu.
Moving to a pay per click system in online advertising, especially if that means pay per sale, was meant to reduce the cost of ads and make the whole system more efficient. Then why does the system actually lower revenue and profits? In his June, 2012 study in Management Science, Chrysanthos Dellarocas explains the phenomenon of double marginalization - and how he would fix it. Listen at www.scienceofbetter.org/podcast.
The INFORMS Board, Administration, and membership extend condolences to the family of John Kettelle, a long-time member of ORSA/TIMS/INFORMS, WORMSC/WINFORMS, and MORS, who passed away Thursday, May 31.
Early in his career, John Kettelle partnered with Daniel H. Wagner to perform innovative analyses of military operations research problems. Later he founded Ketron, which grew to some 300 people by the mid-1990s and became a major resource and contributor to OR/MS. Among Mr. Kettelle's more noteworthy contributions were improvements in search theory and the invention of its counterpart, hide theory, in anti-submarine warfare; the MPS III solver for linear and integer programming; interesting approaches to deciding when industries, especially in the transportation arena, could do better via integration of activities and facilities; and the theory and software necessary for the use of computerized third parties to mediate negotiations.
His many friends and colleagues remember him as well for his lively intellect, his quick sense of humor, his wealth of amusing and informative anecdotes, his breadth of interests and experience, and his generosity and mentoring to beneficiaries too numerous to identify.
Access to Nielsen consumer panel data from the Kilts-Nielsen Data Center can support your research agendas in the areas of marketing, economics, public policy, and more. These data are provided through a new arrangement with Nielsen and the Kilts Center for Marketing at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. All tenure-track faculty and Ph.D. students from accredited U.S. colleges and universities can apply for data access.
The first available dataset, Consumer Panel Data, includes information on product purchases made by a panel of 40,000-60,000 households across all retail outlets, in all U.S. markets, and all Nielsen-tracked categories (including food, nonfood grocery items, health and beauty aids, and select general merchandise).
The Kilts-Nielsen Data Center is now accepting proposals online. Read the press release.
Mathematics of Operation Research (MOR) Now Using ScholarOne Manuscripts for Online Submissions
As of June 1, 2012, authors are required to submit their manuscripts electronically through Mathematics of Operation Research's ScholarOne Manuscripts. Instructions for accessing this site as well as creating an account and uploading manuscripts are available on the "Instructions to Authors" page on the MOR website.
We look forward to receiving your submissions!
Marketing Science - Special Issue
Access the 8 new articles in the May/June 2012 Marketing Science special issue on Emergence and Impact of User-Generated Content. Subscribe to INFORMS PubsOnLine Suite for only $99 and access all 13 journals back to volume 1, issue 1.
- "Introduction to the Special Issue on the Emergence and Impact of User-Generated Content"
- "Online Product Opinions: Incidence, Evaluation, and Evolution"
- "Sequential and Temporal Dynamics of Online Opinion"
- "Mine Your Own Business: Market-Structure Surveillance Through Text Mining"
INFORMS Transactions on Education - New Issue
Read the May 2012 issue of INFORMS Transactions on Education (ITE).
- "Recommendations for an Undergraduate Curriculum at the Interface of Operations Research and Computer Science"
- "Identifying Addressable Impediments to Student Learning in an Introductory Statistics Course"
- "Let's Put the Seasonality and Trend in Decomposition"
Access the IPOL Portal information on all the current INFORMS journal content and publications news.
Organization Science Editorial Review
Organization Science has evolved to become one of the premier international journals in management and organization theory. The President of INFORMS has appointed a committee to conduct a strategic review to understand the state of the journal, to identify new issues, new challenges and new ideas, and to listen to the journal's customers. All INFORMS members are welcome to send their input to Jesper Sorensen, committee chair, at sorensen@stanford.edu. More information can be found here.
Service Science - Call for Papers
Special Issue on "Cloud Computing as a Service"
A special issue of Service Science will provide a global forum for presenting research results on various aspects of cloud computing as a service. Submission deadline is July 1, 2012, for more information access the Call for Papers.
Management Science - Call for Papers
Special Issue on "Business Analytics"
To encourage further developments in this rapidly growing area of interdisciplinary research, Management Science will publish a special issue dedicated to business analytics. 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"
O.R. can play a critical role in designing, operating, and improving freight transportation and logistics systems. Accordingly, Interfaces is planning a special issue focusing on the application of O.R. techniques on freight transportation and logistics. Submission deadline is November 15, 2012; for more information access the Call for Papers.
INFORMS Grassroots
Easily send a 2012 recommendation to your librarian using the INFORMS Grassroots web page. The updated Grassroots website now provides your librarian's contact information.
The Fellow Award recognizes members who have made significant contributions to the advancement of operations research and the management sciences. The contributions of a nominee will be evaluated in each of the following five categories and contributions must be outstanding in at least one category: research, practice, management, education, and service. INFORMS will name its tenth set of Fellows at the 2012 INFORMS Annual Meeting in Phoenix, in October. The nomination deadline is June 30, 2012.
Remember - a maximum of four reference letters, including the letter from the nominator, may be submitted.
To access the forms needed and to read the complete Nomination Procedure guidelines visit here.
The INFORMS Section on Public Programs, Services and Needs (SPPSN) is sponsoring an award for best paper presented at the INFORMS Annual Meeting in Phoenix, October 14 - 17, 2012. This award is intended to encourage journal-quality research in all of the disciplines and application areas represented within SPPSN, and to build a tradition of scholarly exchange of knowledge at our research meetings beyond attendance at sessions. Participation is open to all INFORMS members, whether students, academics, or practitioners. Each submission must be associated with a presentation at the Annual Meeting. Subject to receiving qualified submissions, one first prize of $250, one second prize of $100, and an honorable mention will be awarded at the SPPSN business meeting, to take place at the 2012 INFORMS Annual Meeting.
A nomination letter, not to exceed two pages, explaining the relevance of the paper to SPPSN's mission and the paper's significance to research and/or practice, as well as a paper abstract (not to exceed 250 words), are due by July 6, 2012. All inquiries about this award should be made to Michael P. Johnson, michael.johnson@umb.edu, or Julie L. Swann, julie.swann@isye.gatech.edu. For more information, go here.
INFORMS serves as an association partner for this gathering of analytics professionals. Register here. Predictive Analytics World is part of Data Driven Business Week.
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