Editorial News

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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 journal site. 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, industrial engineering, and operations management. His Microsoft Excel addins have been employed by hundreds of thousands of users and are freely available at http://www.ormm.net. The breadth and scope of their application is remarkable, with many academic departments adopting them as a foundational tool for their programs. 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.

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.

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.

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

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