December | Volume 37 | Number 6

The following table of contents lists articles in the December 2010 print edition of OR/MS Today. You may follow any of the linked titles to read those items in their entirety. For quick navigation you may jump directly to any of the following sections:

Classifieds

• OR/MS Today now features Online Employment Classifieds

Features

Complexity, terror and Murphy’s Law

By Patricia M. McCormick, Greg McNeill, Doug Hendrix and Tom McCormick
The role of federated simulations in conducting hazard risk analysis for homeland security.
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Putting major energy decisions through its ‘PACEs’

By Rajeev Jain, Atanu Basu and Eric Levine
Energy, economy and the environment: A framework for a better tomorrow through predictive analytics.
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‘We want to be the face of analytics’

By Peter Horner
Q&A with INFORMS President-Elect Rina Schneur as she readies for the changes, challenges and opportunities ahead.
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Computing

When close is better than optimal

By Douglas A. Samuelson
Combining simulation and stochastic optimization for better risk management.
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INFORMS News [OPEN ACCESS ARTICLES]

• Austin Meeting Sets Record
• President’s Award
• Kimball Medal
• Impact Prize
• von Neumann Theory Prize
• Dantzig Award
• Expository Writing Award
• Teaching of OR/MS Practice Prize
• ‘Doing Good’ Student Competition
• Undergraduate Operations Research Prize
• Nicholson Student Paper Competition
• Fellows Class of 2010
• Young Students Listen and Learn
• New Books
• Meetings