INFORMS Publications Announcements

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.