INFORMS Publications Announcements

Service Science - First INFORMS Issue
The first INFORMS produced issue of Service Science is now online. The March 2012 Service Science issue is accessible on INFORMS PubsOnLine, as well as all archived issues from 2009 to 2011. The INFORMS new manuscript submission system is also up and running, and a new Call for Papers is now available. Go to the Service Science website for information on the journal, its resources, manuscript submission, and subscriptions.

• "Launching Service Science"
• "Consumer Responses to Legal Music Download Services that Compete with Illegal Alternatives"
• "Value Transformation in the Mobile Service Ecosystem: A Study of App Store Emergence and Growth"

Management Science - New Issue
Read the 12 new articles in the April 2012 issue of Management Science. "Management Insights" provides you with a brief overview of all the new papers.

• "Bias in White: A Longitudinal Natural Experiment Measuring Changes in Discrimination"
• "Now IT's Personal: Offshoring and the Shifting Skill Composition of the U.S. Information Technology Workforce"
• "How Does the Variance of Product Ratings Matter?"

Interfaces - Special Issue on Analytics in Sports, Part I: General Sports Applications
Go to the eight new articles in the March/April 2012 special issue of Interfaces. Read the "Introduction to the Special Issue on Analytics in Sports, Part I: General Sports Applications" for a brief overview.

• "Identifying the 'Players' in Sports Analytics Research"
• "A Major League Baseball Team Uses Operations Research to Improve Draft Preparation"
• "Assessing Golfer Performance on the PGA TOUR"

Organization Science - Special Issue
Access the 13 new articles in the March/April 2012 special issue of Organization Science. Subscribe to the 2012 INFORMS PubsOnLine Suite for only $99 for access to all 13 journals back to volume 1, issue 1.

• "Bringing Status to the Table-Attaining, Maintaining, and Experiencing Status in Organizations and Markets"
• "Status Conflict in Groups"
• "The Genesis and Dynamics of Organizational Networks"
• "The Rise and Fall of Small Worlds: Exploring the Dynamics of Social Structure"

Marketing Science - New Issue
The March/April 2012 issue of Marketing Science includes Preyas Desai's editorial "People of Marketing Science." Access the IPOL Portal information on all the current INFORMS journal content and publications news.

• "Does Chatter Really Matter? Dynamics of User-Generated Content and Stock Performance"
• "The Strategic Impact of References in Business Markets"
• "Hide and Seek: Costly Consumer Privacy in a Market with Repeat Purchases"

Operations Research - New Issue
Read "From the Editor" for an overview of the January/February 2012 issue of Operations Research. Go to the Publications site for updates on all INFORMS publications.

• "Design and Operations of Gas Transmission Networks"
• "Sequential Importance Sampling and Resampling for Dynamic Portfolio Credit Risk"
• "Price of Correlations in Stochastic Optimization"

Service Science - Call for Papers
Special Issue on "Cloud Computing as a Service"
Cloud computing is a new way of delivering computing services. The flexibility, scalability, and cost effectiveness of cloud computing provides tremendous business opportunities to customers. This special issue of Service Science will provide a global forum for presenting research results on various aspects of cloud computing as a service. The submission deadline is July 1, 2012. For more information, access the Call for Papers.

Management Science - Call for Papers
Special Issue on "Business Analytics"
Organizations today have access to enormous data sets, and sophisticated business analytical tools are needed to harness the tremendous potential of these data to improve day-to-day decision making. To encourage further developments in this rapidly growing area of interdisciplinary research, Management Science will publish a special issue dedicated to business analytics. The submission deadline is September 16, 2012, for more information, access the Call for Papers.