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    Advancing wireless communication: FCC awarded the 2018 INFORMS Edelman Award, the leading award in analytics and operations research

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    BNSF Railway presented with the 2018 INFORMS Prize for Operations Research

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Forest Harvest Scheduling with Endogenous Road Costs
Interfaces
Forest Harvest Scheduling with Endogenous Road Costs
Service Design for Value Networks: Enabling Value Cocreation Interactions in Healthcare
Service Science
Service Design for Value Networks: Enabling Value Cocreation Interactions in Healthcare
Robust Efficiency in Urban Public Transportation: Minimizing Delay Propagation in Cost-Efficient Bus and Driver Schedules
Transportation Science
Robust Efficiency in Urban Public Transportation: Minimizing Delay Propagation in Cost-Efficient Bus and Driver Schedules
INFORMS Journal on Computing
Computing Minimum k-Connected m-Fold Dominating Set in General Graphs
Operations Research
New Lower Bound and Exact Method for the Continuous Berth Allocation Problem

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  • OR, analytics make government more efficient
    April 5, 2018

    OR, analytics make government more efficient

    Starts and Stripes
  • BNSF earns INFORMS award for analytics, operational research efforts
    April 25, 2018

    BNSF earns INFORMS award for analytics, operational research efforts

    Progressive Railroading
  • Optimizing investments: Student teams compete to create equity portfolios with analytics and operations research
    April 17, 2018

    Optimizing investments: Student teams compete to create equity portfolios with analytics and operations research

  • Advancing wireless communication: FCC awarded the 2018 INFORMS Edelman Award, the leading award in analytics and operations research
    April 16, 2018

    Advancing wireless communication: FCC awarded the 2018 INFORMS Edelman Award, the leading award in analytics and operations research

  • BNSF Railway presented with the 2018 INFORMS Prize for Operations Research
    April 16, 2018

    BNSF Railway presented with the 2018 INFORMS Prize for Operations Research

  • The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, awarded UPS George D. Smith Prize
    April 16, 2018

    The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, awarded UPS George D. Smith Prize

  • 2018 INFORMS Analytics Conference
    April 12, 2018

    2018 INFORMS Analytics Conference

    Baltimore Business Journal
  • Half mobile apps are clones
    April 12, 2018

    Half mobile apps are clones

    Tehran Telegram

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