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PROS, the revenue and profit realization company, announced that members of its Science and Research team – Ravi Kumar, Ph.D., Ang Li, Ph.D, and Wei Wang, Ph.D. – will deliver presentations based on their research at the 2016 INFORMS Annual Meeting in Nashville, Tenn., at the Music City Center. More than 5,000 leading academics, industry experts, INFORMS members, students and government agency representatives are expected to attend.

During the 2016 INFORMS Annual Meeting in Nashville, Steve Roemerman, CEO of Lone Star Analysis presented, "A Multicriteria, Multiplayer Model: The Protest Casino." Mr. Roemerman described simulation and modeling for public policy in Federal acquisitions. His co-author was Randal Allen. The work presented at INFORMS involved modeling competitive behavior among bidders using game theory methods, econometrics, and policy analysis among other academic fields. 

Bogdan Bischescu, an associate professor of management science at University of Tennessee, is serving as program chair for the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) Annual Meeting November 13–16 in Nashville, Tennessee. Seven faculty members from the Haslam College of Business and Tickle College of Engineering join him on the conference’s organizing committee.

After dedicating a significant number of years and money to earning a university degree, what motivates people to voluntarily work in jobs outside their field? In a study selected for publication in the INFORMS journal Organization Science, study author Briana Sell Stenard, INFORMS member and assistant professor of management and entrepreneurship at the Stetson School of Business and Economics at Mercer University, explored the factors that contribute to this including loss of interest, better pay and working conditions, higher positions, and increased flexibility.

In an upcoming Management Science study, INFORMS member and professor at the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School Ruxian Wang has developed a method to measure the appeal or "cool factor" of commercial products.