E-News Blog
We're happy to have you with us! The year 2012 is sure to be a banner year for INFORMS. Membership is up, meetings are busting at the seams, and INFORMS is more closely associated with the burgeoning analytics movement than ever before. See what INFORMS President Terry Harrison has to say about the state of INFORMS.
The New Yorker writer Atul Gawande stunned many Americans in 2009 when he contrasted productivity in two very different healthcare systems. In the current, dedicated issue of Analytics Magazine, several authors look at how analytics can change that equation. Listen to one of them, Atanu Basu of Ayata, in the current podcast of The Science of Better.
The just-posted January/February issue of Analytics is completely dedicated to the role analytics is playing in the future of healthcare. Read about healthcare management engineering, telehealth, and more. Be sure to pass this one around.
Congratulations to Dr. Gregory Prastacos of the Stevens Institute of Technology. The INFORMS member was named dean of the Institute's Howe School of Technology.
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.
IIE Transactions publishes papers on a wide range of topics of interest to those who want to remain current with the state-of-the-art technologies. This refereed journal publishes papers with a strong methodological focus motivated by real problems that impact engineering practice and research. Published monthly, the journal is composed of four focus issues: Design and Manufacturing, Operations Engineering and Analysis, Quality and Reliability Engineering, and Scheduling and Logistics. Visit www.tandfonline.com/uiie for FREE access to the 10 most cited articles in the past three years.
Special Subscription Rate for INFORMS Members!
Indicate to Taylor & Francis Customer Service (email: customerservice@taylorandfrancis.com or call (800) 354-1420, press 4) that you are an INFORMS member, and you will be eligible to receive the reduced print rate of US$78.00. Save $319 off of the regular rate!
INFORMS Publishes Its 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 and easier viewing and improved accessibility on portable and handheld devices. From the full-text XML article and its HTML view, readers can
- Navigate using the article outline, search terms, and in-text citations
- View and resize figures, tables, and images
- Access supplementary content
- Find related keywords and research data
- Directly link to an author's journal history and contact information
Additionally, full-text XML allows INFORMS to integrate MathML into journal articles, giving readers the ability to properly view, copy, and paste math formulas online and to search for math objects - and thus better understand and utilize the equations in the content.
Look for Interfaces in February 2012 as the second INFORMS journal to go full text.
Organization Science - New Issue
Read the 17 new articles publishing in the January/February 2012 issue of Organization Science. Subscribe to INFORMS 2012 PubsOnLine Suite for only $99 and get access to all 12 journals back to volume 1, issue 1.
- "Explaining Employee Engagement with Strategic Change Implementation: A Meaning-Making Approach"
- "Wall Street vs. Main Street: Firm Strategies for Defending Legitimacy and Their Impact on Different Stakeholders"
- "Status Differences in the Cognitive Activation of Social Networks"
- "A Balancing Act: How Organizations Pursue Consistency in Routine Functioning in the Face of Ongoing Change"
Did Your Librarian Renew Your Favorite INFORMS Journals for 2012?
If your institutional subscriptions have not been renewed as of February 1, you will no longer have access to INFORMS journals online. Send a 2012 recommendation to your librarian with INFORMS Grassroots page if your access has been suspended.
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.
Contribute a post to the INFORMS Facebook page. You did it - you pushed us to more than 2,000 likes. See posts on "DARPA's transformative apps program drives military's move toward Android device," "You can audition to give a TED talk," and Paul Rubin's "O.R. and Restaurants."
Today's topic addresses when a two-point conversion is better than an extra point after a touchdown. As you may guess, it is best for a team to go for two when they are down by eight. You can see other scenarios when it is best to go for two, based on the point differential and the remaining number of possessions in the game. Keep reading.
Our friend Vincent Granville of Analyticbridge.com fame posts about starting salaries for analytic graduates. $73,000 to ... Comment here.
