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INFORMS International Beijing 2012
June 24-27, 2012, China National Convention Center, Beijing, China
http://meetings.informs.org/beijing2012

Abstract Submission
Although it is past the submission deadline of March 5, we will continue to accept abstracts as long as space is available. Click here for information on submitting.

INFORMS Conference on Business Analytics & Operations Research 2012
April 15-17, 2012, Hyatt Regency, Huntington Beach, CA
http://meetings.informs.org/Analytics2012

Hotel Reservations - INFORMS Block Sold Out, Hilton Information Coming Soon
The INFORMS block at the group rate of $199 is sold out at the Hyatt Regency. However, there are a limited number of Ocean View rooms available at the Hyatt for $249 per night. In addition, information on rooms at the Hilton is coming soon. Click here for the latest information on hotel room availability.

Early Registration Rates Through March 30
Register now for best rates. Team discounts for the third and additional registrants from the same organization. Click here to register.

Young Researcher Connection: Nomination Deadline Extended to March 12
Nominate a junior faculty member or young industry practitioner for this select program open to researchers who completed a PhD no earlier than 2006. Selected participants receive an almost 60% reduction of the conference registration fee to $375. Candidates will be considered through March 12 or until the program is full, whichever comes first. Click here for more information.

INFORMS Professional Colloquium: Nomination Deadline Extended to March 12
Recommend a practice-oriented master's or PhD student for this intensive, full-day career workshop. The IPC registration fee of $375 covers the colloquium on Sunday, April 15 and full registration for the conference. Candidates will be considered through March 12 or until the program is full, whichever comes first. Click here http://meetings2.informs.org/Analytics2012/profcolloquium.html for more information.

INFORMS Telecommunications Conference - Register Now
March 15-17, Renaissance Boca Raton Hotel, Boca Raton, FL
http://www.informs.org/Community/Conferences/2012-INFORMS-Telecommunications-Conference

INFORMS Military Applications Society Conference
March 27-28, Hyatt Regency Monterey, Monterey, CA
http://www.informs.org/Community/Conferences/INFORMS-MAS-2012-Monterey-Conference-27-28-March-2012

ISMS Marketing Science Conference 2012
Early Registration by March 16
June 7-9, Westin Copley Place, Boston, Massachusetts
www.bu.edu/marketingscience2012

INFORMS Meetings Calendar
Go to http://meetings.informs.org for a complete conference calendar.

Russell Barton and Michael Fu, currently completing their terms at the National Science Foundation, would like you to consider serving at NSF in one of their roles - either as Program Director for the Operations Research program or for the Manufacturing Enterprise Systems/Service Enterprise Systems (SES) programs. Their replacements will take office approximately in August/September. The process will remain open until the positions are filled. Serving at NSF, write Michael and Russell, is fascinating, challenging, and extremely rewarding. The OR/INFORMS community will benefit greatly by worthy candidates being selected for these positions. Download the announcement for SES and O.R..

Take advantage of a free subscription to MIT Sloan Management Review's new monthly e-newsletter The New Intelligent Enterprise, which explores the challenges of the data-driven world.

The Gartner Business Intelligence Summit is a premier business analytics event that provides the must-have insights, frameworks, and best practices for maximizing the business impact of information management and business analytics initiatives. The summit delivers insight on the latest hot topics, such as effective BI strategy, cloud and SaaS options for analytics, big data, dashboard design, and more. INFORMS members can save $300 off of the standard registration rate by using priority code INFORMSBI.

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To download the first free Data Science e-Book (86 pages, 37 contributions), visit here.

Contribute a post to the INFORMS Facebook page. You did it - you pushed us to more than 2,000 likes. See posts on INFORMS journals, O.R. in the news, and Today in Science History.

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 in March 2012.

Management Science - New Issue

Read "Management Insights" for an overview of all 15 new articles published in the February 2012 issue of Management Science.

• "Beyond the Glass Ceiling: Does Gender Matter?"
• "Does the Rolodex Matter? Corporate Elite's Small World and the Effectiveness of Boards of Directors"
• "The Party's Over: The Role of Earnings Guidance in Resolving Sentiment-Driven Overvaluation"

M&SOM - New Issue

Read the 11 new articles in the Winter 2012 issue of Manufacturing & Service Operations Management. Subscribe to INFORMS 2012 PubsOnLine Suite for only $99 and get access to all 13 journals back to volume 1, issue 1.

• "The Impact of Group Purchasing Organizations on Healthcare-Product Supply Chains"
• "An Econometric Analysis of Patient Flows in the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit"
• "The Value of Collaborative Forecasting in Supply Chains"

Marketing Science - New Issue

Read the 11 new papers and commentaries featured in the January/February 2012 issue of Marketing Science. Go to the IPOL Portal to access all new INFORMS journal issues and publications news.

• "Measuring the Impact of Negative Demand Shocks on Car Dealer Networks"
• "Marketing of Vice Goods: A Strategic Analysis of the Package Size Decision"
• "Ad Gist: Ad Communication in a Single Eye Fixation"

Transportation Science - New Issue

Read the 9 new articles published online in the February 2012 issue of Transportation Science. Go to the Publications site for updates on all INFORMS publications.

• "Integrated Airline Crew Pairing and Crew Assignment by Dynamic Constraint Aggregation"
• * "Delay Management with Re-Routing of Passengers"
• * "A Lagrangian Heuristic for Robustness, with an Application to Train Timetabling"

Organization Science - INFORMS First Full-Text HTML Journal

Subscribers of Organization Science now have more flexibility when reading their 2012 journal articles. This new format allows for faster viewing and improved accessibility on portable and handheld devices. From the full-text XML article and its HTML view, readers can better navigate articles; view and resize figures, tables, and images; access supplementary content; and find related research data all more easily.

Look for Interfaces this February as INFORMS adds its second full-text HTML journal.

Are Your Favorite INFORMS Journals Renewed for 2012?

If your institutional subscriptions have not been renewed, you will no longer have access to INFORMS online journals. Send a 2012 recommendation to your librarian by using INFORMS Grassroots page to continue your subscriptions.

Call for Papers: INFORMS Transactions on Education Special Issue Dedicated to the Memory of Paul A. Jensen

Special Issue Editors: David P. Morton and Jonathan F. Bard
This special issue is dedicated to the memory of Paul A. Jensen. He was a member of the operations research and industrial engineering faculty at the University of Texas for over 35 years; it was here that he developed many remarkable tools. This special ITE issue is dedicated to highlighting the uses of such tools in teaching, in developing and analyzing case studies, and in practice. See the call for papers for more information.

Call for Papers: Interfaces Special Issue: "Operations Research in Freight Transportation and Logistics"

Submission deadline: November 15, 2012

Special Issue Editor: Michael F. Gorman
Read the Call for Papers.

Marc Kuo asks, "'What language do you use for prototyping OR?" Vote here.

Theory behind local search methods; O.R. social network users directory; how is O.R. used in today's military; CP and integer programming. OR Exchange is your INFORMS-sponsored site for serious questions and answers about operations research and analytics.

Professionals in the fields of operations research - which uses advanced analytical methods to help make better decisions - and analytics are slowly becoming aware of one another, and after 70 years of crunching numbers for business and government, the synergy is becoming more manifest... Keep reading.