E-News Blog

There are two ways to get from the airport to the Convention Center and downtown hotels: bus or taxi. Complete information is here. The bus, Charlotte Area Transit System (CATS), runs every 20 minutes from the airport to Charlotte Center City - cost is $1.75 each way. A taxi costs approximately $25.00 for one or two people.

Computer projectors will be available in every technical session room. Please note that you must bring your own laptop (or plan to share with another presenter) and AC power adaptor. Technical assistance will be available for any AV problems.

November 13-16, Charlotte Convention Center, Westin, Hilton
http://meetings.informs.org/charlotte2011

What do neurology and the science of the human brain teach about our ability to make quick forecasts, on both the human and the computer/organizational level? Hear former USA Today reporter Kevin Maney, co-author with Vivek Ranadivé of The Two-Second Advantage: How We Succeed by Anticipating the Future - Just Enough, in this week's Science of Better podcast.

The Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE) is sponsoring a "Modeling and Simulation" track at the 2012 Industrial and Systems Engineering Research Conference (ISERC), which will take place May 19-23, 2012, in Orlando, Florida. The deadline for abstract submissions is November 11, 2011. For more information, visit http://www.xcdsystem.com/iie/.

INFORMS member Srinivas Bollapragada of GE Research will host a webinar with his colleague Paul Houpt on their work on "Movement Planner and Trip Optimizer" products, as part of the GE Global Research Software Sciences webinar series. The webinar will take place on Tuesday, October 11 at 3pm EDT. All are welcome to attend the webinar to learn how railroads use these products to efficiently move freight trains. Go here to register.

INFORMS Transactions on Education - Special Issue

Read the recently published open-access articles from the September 2011 INFORMS Transactions on Education special issue on "Teaching Soft O.R., Problem Structuring Methods, and Multimethodology." You can also sign up for ITE eAlerts to be notified upon publication of upcoming issues.

• "Introduction to the Special Issue: Teaching Soft O.R., Problem Structuring Methods, and Multimethodology"
• "Teaching Operational Research and Strategy at Warwick Business School"
• "Getting `Messy' with Problems: The Challenges of Teaching `Soft' OR"
• "Case Article-Teaching Soft Systems Methodology and a Blueprint for a Module"

Operations Research - New Issue

Read all the new articles published in the July/August 2011 Operations Research issue. "In This Issue" provides a brief overview of all 16 articles. Go to the Publications site for information on all INFORMS publications.

• "A Complementarity Framework for Forward Contracting Under Uncertainty"
• "Managing a Noncooperative Supply Chain with Limited Capacity"
• "Dynamic Pricing of Limited Inventories When Customers Negotiate"

Organization Science - Special Issue

Read the new articles published online in the September/October 2011 special issue of Organization Science on "New Perspectives in Organization Science." Go to the IPOL Portal to access your subscriptions.

• "Organizational Learning: From Experience to Knowledge"
• "Identity in Organizations: Exploring Cross-Level Dynamics"
• "Power, Status, and Learning in Organizations"

Information Systems Research - Special Issue

See the 17 newly published articles from the September 2011 special issue of Information Systems Research on "The Role of Information Systems in Healthcare." You can also subscribe to the INFORMS Pubs Suite for only $99 and get access to all 12 journals back to volume 1, issue 1.

• "Editorial Overview-The Role of Information Systems in Healthcare: Current Research and Future Trends"
• "The Impact of Automation of Systems on Medical Errors: Evidence from Field Research"
• "The Digitization of Healthcare: Boundary Risks, Emotion, and Consumer Willingness to Disclose Personal Health Information"

INFORMS PubsOnLine Upgrade

The new INFORMS PubsOnLine platform allows you to more easily search, find, read, and share articles from INFORMS publications. Now you can quickly cite, set up alerts, and find similar journal articles, and you can easily forward content using Twitter, LinkedIn, or Google+. Go to INFORMS PubsOnLine to access all 12 INFORMS journals.

Interfaces Call for Papers - Special Issue: Operations Research in Mining

Submission deadline: October 15, 2011
Interfaces is soliciting papers for this special issue at the strategic, tactical, and operational levels concerned with the extraction and processing of minerals. Special Issue Editors: Andres Weintraub and Alexandra Newman. Read more.

INFORMS Journal on Computing Book Reviews - Now Online

The new INFORMS Journal on Computing Book Review section covers books on subjects at the interface between operations research and computer science. If you want to suggest a book or wish to be a reviewer, go here. Books on theory, applications, computer systems, and generally any subject covered by JOC are welcome. Read the Fall 2011 Book Reviews.

Don't Let Your Library Eliminate Your INFORMS Journal 2012 Subscriptions!

Direct your librarian or administrator to the new INFORMS 2012 institutional subscription rates posted on the INFORMS Librarian Portal. Alternatively, in seconds send a recommendation to your Librarian using INFORMS Grassroots page.

See "O.R. at Work: Deciding on Lean or Green" by John Poppelaars and other hot stories on the INFORMS Facebook page. Now you can also share a post. To see these posts, click on the link "Everyone (Most Recent)" at the top of the page. The default view remains INFORMS posts.

O.R. social network users directory, MIP models, formulating ILPs, applying to quantitative business school departments, and more. Get the answers you need from your peers.

Jennifer Leong writes about the bonanza of real-time data found in the torrential flow of Twitter feeds. (Taken from a recent Wall Street Journal article.)