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Remembering Russell Ackoff
 In the 1970s, Russell Ackoff, the former ORSA President, set many an operations researcher's teeth on edge with his frank criticisms of how he believed the profession had gone astray. Ever provocative and thoughtful, he died last week at the age of 90. Read tributes to the former Wharton professor at The Economist and The Ackoff Center and The Huffington Post.
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It's 2010 Membership Renewal Time
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Interested in "Doing Good with Good OR?"
Act now and join the Section on Public Programs, Services & Needs (SPPSN). When renewing your INFORMS membership don't forget to add membership in SPPSN. The section furthers the use of operations research and management science in the following areas:
- Public Policy - improving governmental decision-making at the legislative and strategic levels.
- Public Programs - improving the management of government programs, services and operations.
- Public Safety - improving decision-making in support of homeland security, law enforcement, emergency preparedness, and disaster response.
- Public Service - supporting community development and public service organizations, and encouraging members of the ORMS professions to volunteer their know-how in public service causes.
- Public Needs - Improving logistics and other national and international programs
For more information go to http://ppsn.section.informs.org. |
INFORMS Meetings
INFORMS Practice Conference 2010 - Presentation/Poster Submission Deadline is December 15
April 18-20, Hilton Bonnet Creek, Orlando, FL
Selected presenters save 40% off the lowest regular rate for the INFORMS Practice Conference. Submit your proposal for a talk or poster by December 15, 2009 and become eligible for a discounted registration fee of $495. Click here for all the details.
Winter Simulation Conference 2009 - Register by November 13 for Best Rates
December 13-16, Hilton Austin, Austin, TX
Early registration and hotel cut-off date is November 13. For complete program information and to register, click here http://www.wintersim.org.
ALIO-INFORMS Joint International Meeting 2010 - Submit an Abstract Today
June 6-9, Law School, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
The Law School of the University of Buenos Aires is located inside a park in Recoleta, the City's most elegant district, close to shops, galleries, museums, the National Library and some of the best restaurants in Buenos Aires. The general reception will be held at a popular tango ballroom. Click here to submit your abstract. If you are interested in organizing one or more sessions, please contact the General Chair, Irene Loiseau, irene@dc.uba.ar or any cluster chair.
Meetings Calendar
Go to http://meetings.informs.org for a complete conference calendar. |
O.R. in the News: The Good Soldier
 In August, 2004, Stephen Mount was piloting a Huey gunship in Najaf, Iraq with the U.S. Marines when enemy ground fire ended his combat career forever. Now 35, and still with the Marines, he serves his country as an operations researcher. Read a moving profile of Major Mount by going to the What's New? section of INFORMS Online. |
INFORMS Publications Announcements
Call for Papers: Interfaces Special Issue: Analytics in Sports
 Sports-related business activities constitute a multibillion dollar industry in which difficult decision-making problems exist at the strategic, tactical, and operational levels. Fostered by the increasing availability of data and advances in computational power, the use of quantitative analysis to improve decision-making in sports has enjoyed growing popularity. The editors of this special issue of Interfaces seek to highlight the role of analytics in the sports industry. For more information please go to the Interfaces site.
Call for Papers: Operations Research Special Issue: OR in the Public Interest
 A new special issue of Operations Research is focusing on research to develop sustainable solutions to improving public welfare in one of these four high impact areas: Energy and Environment, Health Care, Security and Stability, or Critical Infrastructure. Operations Research is soliciting papers that define important policy problems, develop novel models, and make concrete policy recommendations. Proposal submissions are due February 28, 2010. For more information please go to the Operations Research site.
Organization Science: Special Issue on Learning from Rare Events: How Organizations Learn (or Fail to Learn) from Unusual Experiences.
 The September-October 2009 issue of Organization Science presents rare and tragic events and reveals how both individuals and their organizations can benefit from active efforts to learn from these events. The articles examine a framework for comparing and analyzing the affects on learning, and reveal what organizations learn "through" rare events that may prevent future tragedies. Authors also explore how learning from a crisis involves not only understanding why they occur, but how to develop organizational designs for preventing reoccurrences. See articles here.
Upcoming Special Issues of All 12 INFORMS Journals
Go to the Special Issues section of the INFORMS Publications page to download a current list of upcoming special and focused issues.
Management Insights - Free Download
In just a few short minutes scan the latest issue and keep up-to-date. Every issue of Management Science includes a set of Management Insight overviews that explain the relevance of each paper to management practice: October 2009. Pubs Suite Online - Still Only $99 in 2010 Upgrade your subscriptions in 2010 to INFORMS Pubs Suite Online and save! For only $99 you will have online access to all 12 INFORMS journals. Pubs Suite is a special members only benefit that delivers online access to all journals back to volume 1, issue 1. |
Are you LinkedIn?
 The INFORMS Group on LinkedIn now has over 2,000 members. If you are a LinkedIn member and would like to join the INFORMS group, go here. Not a LinkedIn member, go to http://www.linkedin.com to join. Click on Groups and search for INFORMS. You can choose to join the overall INFORMS group, 2009 INFORMS Conference on O.R. Practice, 2009 INFORMS Annual Meeting, or CPMS. LinkedIn is a great way to begin and join discussions, post a question or share comments with many colleagues at once, or find connections and jobs. |
INFORMS Data Mining Contest
The Data Mining section of INFORMS organized its second annual data mining contest at the 2009 INFORMS annual meeting in conjunction with the Predictive Modeling Group at IBM Research and Health Care Intelligence. The contestants predicted patient transfers and mortalities based on a historical data set.
The results of the patient transfer prediction portion are
Winning entry:
"Old Dogs with New Tricks"- David J. Slate and Peter W. Frey Runners-up:
- "ID Analytics Team"- Jianjun Xie and Stephen Coggeshall
- "PriceWaterhouseCoopers"- Kevin Hua, Aditya Sane, Lever Wang, Jafar Adibi, Jason Chiu, Stephen Bay, Krishna Kumaraswamy, Carter Shock, David Steier,Balaji Lakshminarayanan
The results of the mortality prediction portion are
Winning entry:
"GVCJAB"- Gordon V. Cormack and Judy A. Brown
Runners-Up:
- "ID Analytics Team"- Jianjun Xie and Stephen Coggeshall Lars Schmidt-Thieme
- "Old Dogs with New Tricks"- David J. Slate and Peter W. Frey
Go to http://www.informsdmcontest2009.org for more details. |
Congratulations to Ralph L. Keeney for winning the 2009 INFORMS President's Award
The award recognizes important contributions to the welfare of society by members of our profession. |
Congratulations to Mark S. Daskin and Michael A. Trick for winning the 2009 George E. Kimball Medal
The medal is awarded for recognition of distinguished service to the Institute and to the profession. |
Annual Meeting Photo Gallery Available Now
 See your friends and colleagues at work and play at the Annual Meeting. |
New and Improved INFORMS Website Coming Soon
The new website is just about here. Watch the multimedia demo of the new site and tell us what you think. |
Order Your Copy of the 2009 TutORials CD and Book
 Nine tutorials presentations, available in easy to search CD-ROM format and in print, provide you with enduring information from the 2009 annual meeting. Specialist authors cover a broad range of state-of-the-art applications and methodologies. Order here. |
Coming Soon: Key Annual Meeting Presentations on Demand
In early December, videos of seven key presentations from the 2009 INFORMS annual meeting will available on demand via the INFORMS website. This is your latest member benefit. Along with five Wagner Prize presentations for excellence in operations research practice, you'll find on demand video of the plenary presentation from Dr. Richard O'Neill on the Smart Grid, and Professor Christopher Tang's keynote talk on Supply Chain Risk Management. |
Practice Members: Apply for 2010 INFORMS Prize
 Do you have the best O.R. department in the world? Applications to be considered for the 2010 INFORMS prize for effective integration of operations research into organizational decision making are due by December 1, 2009. |
Blog On: Maarten Oosten Writes About Academic O.R. Contributions on Corporate Blogs
In a short time blogging and twittering have taken a great flight. The art of effectively using these tools as part of business processes is still taking shape, and there are many opportunities for OR to become a valuable part of this art. Read More. |
INFORMS Podcasts: The Flaw of Averages
What's wrong with averages? Don't get an operations researcher started! But if you want to know, hear veteran Stanford operations researcher Sam Savage make his fascinating case in a podcast interview at www.scienceofbetter.org/podcast. |
INFORMS Poll
Which 2010 approved INFORMS initiative do you believe holds the most long-term promise?
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