Special Issue on "Service Mining:  Market, Technology, and Application"

With the growth of the significant revenue of service industry around the world, service-dominant (SD) logic based service mining is worth investigating to help enterprises to gain and create values with customers. This special issue is to devote to the exploration from four dimensions across different disciplines with regard to the issue of mining “services” under Service Science. . Submission deadline is January 31, 2013, for more information access the Call for Papers.

Rakesh Sarin 

The INFORMS board has approved the appointment of Rakesh Sarin as the next Editor-in-Chief of Decision Analysis. This is his first term for the period of January 1, 2013 – December 31, 2015. He is the Paine Chair in Management at the UCLA Anderson School of Management (Decision, Operations & Technology Management).

Jiangang (Jim) Dai 

The INFORMS board has approved the appointment of Jiangang (Jim) Dai as the next Editor-in-Chief of Mathematics of Operations Research. This is his first term for the period of January 1, 2013 – December 31, 2015. He is Edenfield Professor at the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology.

David L. Woodruff 

The INFORMS board has approved the appointment of David L. Woodruff as the next Editor-in-Chief of INFORMS Journal on Computing. This is his first term for the period of January 1, 2013 – December 31, 2015. He is a professor of management at the Graduate School of Management, University of California, Davis.

Armann Ingolfsson 

The INFORMS board has approved the appointment of Armann Ingolfsson as the next Editor-in-Chief of INFORMS Transactions on Education. This is his first term for the period of January 1, 2013 – December 31, 2015. He is an associate professor of operations management and academic director of the Centre for Excellence in Operations at the University of Alberta School of Business.

Daniel A. Levinthal  

The INFORMS board has approved the reappointment of Daniel A. Levinthal as Editor-in-Chief of Organization Science. This is his second term for the period of January 1, 2013 – December 31, 2015. He is the Reginald H. Jones Professor of Corporate Management at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.

INFORMS is excited to announce that the journal Decision Analysis has received its first impact factor. Decision Analysis has an impact factor of 2.143 in the management category ranking it 38 out of 167 journals. Go to the website for the latest information on Decision Analysis.

As of June 1, 2012, authors are required to submit their manuscripts electronically through Mathematics of Operation Research's ScholarOne Manuscripts. Instructions for accessing this site as well as creating an account and uploading manuscripts are available on the "Instructions to Authors" page on the MOR website.

We look forward to receiving your submissions!

Daniel Levinthal will complete his first three-year term as Organization Science editor in chief at the end of 2012. The president of INFORMS has appointed a committee to conduct a strategic review to understand the state of the journal, to identify new issues, new challenges and new ideas, and to listen to the journal’s customers.Organization Science has evolved to become one of the premier international journals in management and organization theory. All INFORMS members are welcome to send their input to Jesper Sorensen, committee chair, at sorensen@stanford.edu by June 15, 2012. More information can be found here.

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 provides a global forum for presenting research results on various aspects of cloud computing as a service. Submission deadline is July 1, 2012, for more information access the 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. Submission deadline is September 16, 2012, for more information access the Call for Papers.

Service Science, acquired by INFORMS, is now accessible on PubsOnLine. Look for the first INFORMS issue on March 23. Read the open-access issues form 2009-2011 here.

Special Issue dedicated to Memory of Paul A. Jensen

Paul A. Jensen was a member of the operations research and industrial engineering faculty at The University of Texas for over 35 years. During that time, he devoted much of his attention to developing computer-based tools to ease the learning curve for those wishing to solve problems arising in operations research. His Microsoft Excel addins have been employed by hundreds of thousands of users and are freely available at http://www.ormm.net. This special ITE issue is dedicated to highlighting uses of such tools in teaching, in developing and analyzing case studies, and in practice. Additional information can be found on the journal’s home page (http://ite.pubs.informs.org). Submission deadline is August 1, 2012.

Special Issue on "Operations Research in Freight Transportation and Logistics"

This special issue, edited by Michael F. Gorman, University of Dayton, will publish studies focusing on the application of operations research techniques on freight transportation and logistics. Interfaces is soliciting papers that fall into one of these categories: an application with a verification letter from the organization using the results; a novel literature review of operations research related to freight transportation and logistics; a novel tutorial emphasizing the practical implementation of transportation and logistics systems. Submission deadline is November 15, 2012, for more information download the Call for Papers.

Stefanos Zenios

The INFORMS board has approved the appointment of Stefanos Zenios as the next Editor-in-Chief of Operations Research. This is his first term for the period of January 1, 2012 – December 31, 2014. He is a Charles A. Holloway Professor of Operations, Information, and Technology and Professor of Health Care Management at Stanford University.

Gerard Cachon

Gerard Cachon has been reappointed as Editor-in-Chief of the INFORMS journal Management Science. His second terms is for the period of January 1, 2012 – December 31, 2014.

Stephen C. Graves

Stephen C. Graves has been as Editor-in-Chief of the INFORMS journal Manufacturing & Service Operations Management (M&SOM). His second terms is for the period of January 1, 2012 – December 31, 2014

Michel Gendreau

Michel Gendreau has been reappointed as Editor-in-Chief of the INFORMS journal Transportation Science. His second terms is for the period of January 1, 2012 – December 31, 2014.

Special Issue on "Operations Research in Mining"

This special issue, co-edited by Andres Weintraub, University of Chile and Alexandra Newman, Colorado School of Mines, will publish studies covering the importance of making mining operations more efficient through operations research. Interfaces is soliciting papers at the strategic, tactical, and operational levels concerning decisions about when and how to perform extraction. Submission deadline is October 15, 2011, for more information download the Call for Papers. CLOSED

The INFORMS journal Marketing Science has just launched its Facebook page: www.facebook.com/marketingscience and Twitter page: @marketngscience. Connect with us.

Srinivas Bollapragada

The INFORMS board approved the appointment of Srinivas Bollapragada as the Editor-in-Chief of Interfaces as of January 1, 2011. Srinivas is a principal scientist of operations research at the General Electric Global Research Center, Albany, NY, the winner of the 2008 INFORMS Prize. He has developed over 15 optimization based decision support systems that are currently in use across GE and has been a finalist for various INFORMS awards (Nicholson Prize, Edelman Award, Wagner Award – four times) and has served in several INFORMS committees.

J. Cole Smith

Has been appointed as the new Editor-in-Chief of TutORials in Operations Research. He is currently a Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Florida.

Ritu Agarwal

Ritu Agarwal of the University of Maryland was appointed as Editor-in-Chief of Information Systems Research as of January 1, 2011. Professor Agarwal is currently the Dean’s Chair of Information Systems at the Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, College Park. Ritu is also the founder and Director of the Center for Health Information and Decision Systems at the Smith School.

Preyas Desai

The INFORMS board approved the appointment of Preyas Desai as the Editor-in-Chief of Marketing Science as of January 1, 2011. Professor Desai is currently the Spencer R. Hassell Professor of Business Administration, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University.

Kevin Geraghty

Kevin Geraghty, Vice President of Reporting and Analytics for 360i, is the Editor-in-Chief of INFORMS Online as of January 1, 2011. Kevin is an expert in revenue-focused analytics and his work has been pivotal in promoting broad acceptance of innovative uses for advanced analytics in business. He is founder of the INFORMS Revenue Management section, past President of the Atlanta INFORMS Chapter and has served as a mentor for the Georgia 100 program.

Special Issue on "Games and Decisions in Reliability and Risk"

The objective of the special issue is to introduce a new theme, the use of game theory and decision theory in reliability analysis and risk analysis. Papers must tackle a problem in risk or reliability using the tools of decision theory or game theory (or both). Submission deadline: April 25, 2011, read the Call for Papers. CLOSED

Special Issue on "Student Projects with Industry"

Recently many academic programs have begun to include Student Projects with Industry (SPIs) as part of their curriculum. This ITE special issue focuses on best practices for creating successful SPIs, with the goal of allowing readers to benefit from colleagues’ experiences, insights, and lessons learned. Submission deadline: June 1, 2011, read the Call for Papers. CLOSED

Special Issue on "The Environment"

This special issue provides an opportunity to publish work on little or unstudied topics at the intersection of operations management and other disciplines such as environmental policy, science, or engineering. The issue is looking for articles with substantial implications for policy, practice, and future research both inside and outside the OM community. Submission deadline: April 1, 2011, download the Call for Papers. CLOSED

Special Issue on "Applications of Healthcare Operations Management"

The goal of this special issue is to highlight contributions on operations management methodologies for the healthcare sector. Submission deadline: March 28, 2011. Download the Call for Papers. CLOSED

The second and final term of Paul Gray as series editor of the INFORMS publication TutORials in Operations Research expires at the end of 2011. The President of INFORMS has appointed a committee to conduct a full search for the next series editor. Nominations deadline: May 31, 2011. CLOSED