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This new issue of our well regarded open-access industry magazine features an analytical "field of dreams," good model management in the banking industry, challenges with public sector analytics, and marrying marketing and revenue management, Las Vegas-style.
Once they've risen above the glass ceiling, what do women executives and directors value, and how do their values compare to those of other women and male executives? In the current issue of Management Science, Renée B. Adams of the University of South Wales and Patricia Funk of Universitat Pompeu Fabra and Barcelona Graduate School of Economics report on their research. It will surprise you. Hear them discuss it in a podcast at www.scienceofbetter.org/podcast.
Interfaces: INFORMS Next Full-Text HTML Journal
Interfaces joins Organization Science as our two 2012 journals in full-text. Readers now have more flexibility when accessing their 2012 journal articles. From the full-text XML article and its HTML view, readers can more easily navigate articles, view and resize figures, tables, and images, access supplementary content, and find related research data.
Service Science Is Under Construction
The new INFORMS publication site for Service Science is on schedule for its first issue in March. In the meantime the new submission system is up and running. Go to Service Science website to learn more about the journal and its resources and for information on submitting a paper to the journal. The first issue of INFORMS publication of Service Science is scheduled to be released March 23, 2012.
Management Science - Special Issue
Read the 15 new articles in the February 2012 second Special Issue on Behavioral Economics and Finance (Part 2 of 2). Management Insights provides you with a brief overview of all these new articles. Subscribe to INFORMS 2012 PubsOnLine Suite for only $99 and get access to all 13 journals back to volume 1, issue 1.
"Beyond the Glass Ceiling: Does Gender Matter?"
"Does the Rolodex Matter? Corporate Elite's Small World and the Effectiveness of Boards of Directors"
"Market Madness? The Case of Mad Money"
Interfaces - Special Issue
This special issue of Interfaces, 2011 Franz Edelman Award for Achievement in Operations Research and the Management Sciences, is devoted to the finalists of the 40th annual competition.
The January/February 2012 issue includes six feature articles from the finalists as well as Presentation Videos. Read about the competition and the finalists in the Special Issue Introduction. This issue is also the first in full-text XML. This new format allows for faster viewing and improved accessibility on portable and handheld devices.
"A Strategic Empty Container Logistics Optimization in a Major Shipping Company"
"System Dynamics Transforms Fluor Project and Change Management"
"Branch Reconfiguration Practice Through Operations Research in Industrial and Commercial Bank of China"
"Retail Price Optimization at InterContinental Hotels Group"
"MISO Unlocks Billions in Savings Through the Application of Operations Research for Energy and Ancillary Services Markets"
"Tax Collections Optimization for New York State"
Mathematics of Operations Research - New Issue
Read the 11 new articles published online in the February 2012 issue of Mathematics of Operations Research. Go to the Publications site for updates on all INFORMS publications.
"Random Walks on Polytopes and an Affine Interior Point Method for Linear Programming"
"Queues with Many Servers and Impatient Customers"
"Optimal Symmetric Rendezvous Search on Three Locations"
"Strategy for Quickest Second Meeting of Two Agents in Two Locations"
INFORMS Journal on Computing - New Issue
Read the 13 new papers featured in the Winter 2012 issue of INFORMS Journal on Computing. Go to the IPOL Portal to access all new INFORMS journal issues and publications news.
"Exact Solution of Graph Coloring Problems via Constraint Programming and Column Generation"
"Shilling Attack Detection - A New Approach for a Trustworthy Recommender System"
"A Time Bucket Formulation for the Traveling Salesman Problem with Time Windows"
Did Your Institution Renew Your Favorite Journals for 2012?
If your institution's subscriptions have not been renewed, you will no longer have access to INFORMS online journals. Send a 2012 recommendation to your librarian using INFORMS Grassroots webpage to continue your online or print subscriptions.
The competition for the 2012 INFORMS Impact Prize is now open. The Impact Prize is given to individuals or groups of scholars who had a broad impact on our field, either theoretically or in practice. The Impact Prize committee is accepting nominations in a two-phase submission process. For the first phase, applicants are asked to submit a brief (500-800 words) nomination identifying the potential recipient(s) along with a brief summary of their contribution and its impact. The deadline is April 30. For information, visit here.
The Anna Valicek Award recognizes original and innovative student research in the application of O.R. to airline and/or airline-related business problems. This annual award is sponsored by AGIFORS (the Airline Group of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies) and honors the late Anna Valicek. The deadline for submission is May 31, 2012. Applicants must be registered graduate students pursuing either a master's or doctoral degree. For more information and submission guidelines, refer to http://www.agifors.org/award.
The grant program is open to anyone from any discipline, from student to tenured professor, and from any organization - colleges and universities, government laboratories, research institutions, nonprofit organizations and for-profit companies. For more information, visit here.
Student paper abstracts for this year's INFORMS FSS Best Student Research Paper Award are due by May 15, 2012, and the complete papers are due by July 1, 2012. For details, see http://www.informs.org/Community/FSS. The FSS Prizes continue to attract excellent papers.
The prize winners in the 2011 Annual Meeting in Charlotte were
First Place:
Mehmet Saglam (Columbia University)
Second Place (tie):
Konstantin Kalinchenko (University of Florida)
Haowen Zhong (Columbia University)
For more information contact Chair Aparna Gupta, INFORMS Financial Services Section http://www.informs.org/Community/FSS, at guptaa@rpi.edu.
The Rocky Mountain Chapter will meet on Thursday, March 8, at 5:30 p.m. at the Business School at the University of Colorado Denver. Dr. James Benneyan of Northeastern University and the Center for Health Operations Transformation (CHOT) will speak on operations research and systems engineering in healthcare. For details, please contact tracy.byrnes@informs.org.
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