An analytics maturity model can help organizations in business and government do an honest self-assessment that reveals how well they are using the new techniques of analytics to improve performance and get the best insights from data and Big Data. INFORMS is the largest professional, nonprofit a...

2013 INFORMS Annual Meeting Minneapolis Analytics Section Sponsored Session Presented by Les Servi, The MITRE CorporationIn this presentation, Servi discusses his development of a real time algorithm which identifies times of emotional discontinuity as reflected in social media. The talk formula...

2013 INFORMS Annual MeetingPlenaries and Keynotes - Presented by Pavel Kabat, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) and Wageningen University, Netherlands - Narrowly focused, single-disciplinary science alone cannot adequately underpin policies and solutions to resolve maj...

2013 INFORMS Annual Meeting Minneapolis Plenaries and Keynotes IFORS Distinguished LecturePresented by Pascal Van Hentenryck, University of Melbourne and National ICT Australia - The frequency and intensity of natural disasters has significantly increased over the past decades, and this trend is...

2013 INFORMS Annual Meeting Minneapolis Plenaries and Keynotes Omega Rho Distinguished Lecture Presented by Lawrence M. Wein, Stanford UniversityLawrence M. Wein describes several recent projects in the public sector, including screening and treatment for childhood obesity, allocating blood for...

2013 INFORMS Annual Meeting MinneapolisPlenaries and Keynotes - Presented by Dimitris Bertsimas, Operations Research Center, MITIn this talk Bertsimas presents an analytics approach to personalized diabetes management and the design of clinical trials for cancer. In the first part of the talk,...

Imposing Domain Expertise on Algorithmic Learning to Construct Highly Predictive and Palatable Scorecards 2013 INFORMS Annual Meeting Minneapolis Innovative Applications in Analytics Award Semi-Finalists Presented by Gerald Fahner, FICOCredit scoring systems must be easy to explain and conform t...

2013 INFORMS Annual Meeting Minneapolis Analytics Section Sponsored Session Presented by Ana Nagurney, UMass AmherstIn this presentation, Nagurney describes the multidisciplinary research conducted as part of an Advanced Cyber Security Center grant on Cyber Security Risk Analysis and Investment...

2013 INFORMS Annual Meeting Minneapolis Analytics Section Sponsored Session Presented by Alla Kammerdiner, New Mexico State University In this presentation, Kammerdiner proposes methodology for monitoring security of cyber-physical systems (CPS) and illustrates it numerically.CPS emergence in po...

2013 INFORMS Annual Meeting Minneapolis Plenaries and KeynotesPresented by Guillermo Gallego, Columbia University - In this talk, Gallego discusses efforts by companies like Hewlett Packard to use big data to understand customer's buying and product substitution patterns under competition. He al...