Interfaces

Learn how to overcome the difficulties and issues encountered in applying operations research and management science to real-life situations. Interfaces, a bimonthly journal of INFORMS, is dedicated to improving the practical application of OR/MS to decisions and policies in today's organizations and industries. Each article provides details of the completed application, along with the results and impact on the organization. Interfaces is essential reading for analysts, engineers, project managers, consultants, students, researchers, and educators!

The mission of Interfaces is to publish manuscripts focusing on the practice of operations research and management science and the impact this practice has on organizations throughout the world. The most appropriate papers are descriptions of the practice and implementation of OR/MS in commerce, industry, government, or education. The journal publishes papers in all areas of OR/MS including operations management, information systems, finance, marketing, education, quality, and strategy. Comments on published material and on how Interfaces can better serve its readers are solicited.

Frequency: Bimonthly
ISSN: 0092-2102 (Print), 1526-551X (Online)

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Sports Analytics Podcast

Moneyball may be the new, high-profile look at math modeling in sports, but that's not half the picture. The March/April 2012 issue of Interfaces was devoted to a range of O.R. sports research, and the May/June 2012 issue of Interfaces to sports scheduling. Listen to coeditors Michael Fry of the University of Cincinnati and Jeffrey Ohlmann of the University of Iowa talk about measuring driving and putting excellence in golf, improving baseball player drafts, why goalies rule, in "More than Moneyball."

Good OR Podcasts

How can operations research provide vast humanitarian benefits?  Listen to Pinar Keskinocak and Julie Swann discuss good OR in "The Humane Face of Analytics" and "Haiti: Humanitarian Logistics." Keskinocak and Swann, along with Ozlem Ergun (all at Georgia Institute of Technology) have edited a special issue, "Humanitarian Applications: Doing Good with Good OR" which appears in the May/June 2011 issue of Interfaces.

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