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2012 - Call for abstracts

Dear Members,

As cluster chair this year, I am inviting you to contribute to RAS track at INFORMS 2012 Annual Meeting in Phoenix, AZ.

In addition to the traditional sessions of Student Rail Research Competition and Problem Solving Competition, this year we have nine topics lined up as below. Please contact me and I will connect you to session chairs if you would like to present in any of the sessions, or become a panel member for the round table sessions. If you are not sure which session should you join, or have ideas beyond the listed topics, please let me know as well and I will try my best to accommodate.

List of Topics:Intermodal (Round table),PTC,Shared Corridors and Joint Facilities,Unit Train Scheduling,Use Business Analytics to Improve RR Operations,Capacity Management,Data Mining and Statistical Analysis,State-of-the-art Implementation of OR Applications (TBD), andIntermodal Applications (TBD) The deadline for abstract submission is May 15. For more information on INFORMS 2012 Annual Meeting and abstract submission instructions, please visit http://meetings2.informs.org/phoenix2012/papers.html. The theme of this year’s meeting is INFORMATICS RISING, it will be nice if you can be mindful of the theme when you think of the topics to present! Thanks and I look forward to working with you for a year of fruitful sessions.

Aihong Wen | Manager of Operations Research | CSX | aihong_wen@csx.com | 904.359.4975

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Jagadish Jampani (Jagadish_Jampani@CSX.com) RAS Chair 2013

Krishna Jha (krishna@innovativescheduling.com) RAS Vice-Chair 2013

Sandra D. Eksioglu (sde47@ise.msstate.edu) Chair 2013 RAS Problem Solving Competition

Juan Morales (Juan.Morales@BNSF.com) Chair 2013 Student Paper Award

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