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The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences(INFORMS) is an international scientific society with over 10,000 membersdedicated to applying scientific methods to improve decision making,management, and operations. Operations research (O.R.) is the disciplineof applying advanced analytical methods to help make better decisions.

Members of INFORMS work in business, government, and academia andrepresent fields as diverse as aviation, health care, law enforcement, themilitary, finance, marketing, and telecommunications.

INFORMS serves the scientific and professional needs of O.R. analysts,consultants, scientists, students, educators, and managers, as well as theirinstitutions, by publishing a variety of journals that describe the latestresearch in O.R.

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In 2004 INFORMS introduced its newest peer-reviewed journal, Decision Analysis,dedicated to advancing the theory, application, and teaching of all aspects ofdecision analysis.

The primary focus of the journal is to develop and study operational decision-makingmethods. The journal bridges theory and practice, facilitating communication and theexchange of knowledge among decision analysts in academia, business, industry, andgovernment.

The Decision Analysis audience includes all those interested in practical aspects ofdecision analysis and decision theory. Because decision theory and decision analysisare highly interdisciplinary, the audience includes specialists in decision theory, psy-chology, economics, statistics, forecasting, artificial intelligence, decision support sys-tems, and operations research and management science.

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Information Systems Research (ISR) is a leading international journal of theory,research, and intellectual development focused on information systems inorganizations, institutions, the economy, and society. It is dedicated to furtheringknowledge in the application of information technologies to human organizationsand their management and, more broadly, to improved economic and social welfare.

Contributors to ISR come from a wide variety of fields, including social sciences,engineering, computer science, library and information sciences, humanities,education, law and public policy, and management.

The journal serves the interests of the information systems research community,providing an effective forum for the timely dissemination of research. ISR appearson the tenure and promotion lists of most academic departments. Publishing in thejournal is considered to be evidence of high-quality scholarship in the informationsystems community and affiliation with its editorial board is highly sought.

The journal also serves the interests of the practitioner community, an importantstakeholder for the journal by addressing prominent and topical issues that arerelevant to executives in practice.

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TTuuttOORRiiaallss—the INFORMS Tutorials in OperationsResearch series—is a collection of tutorials designed forstudents, faculty, and practitioners that provide in-depthinstruction in significant specialties in O.R. The tutorials inthis series were presented at INFORMS annual meetings.

These books are designed to cover current trends inapplications, methodologies, and theories of O.R., andcontains contributions from some of the preeminentleaders in the field.

Recently published tutorials touch on the railroad, supplychain, and revenue management fields; methodologicaland computational advances for large-scale and discreteoptimization problems; network interdiction; novel dis-coveries in the fields of human decision-making modelsand decision analysis; and improving the way that O.R. istaught at the graduate level.

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INFORMS Journal on Computing publishes a collection of papers on the broadintersection of O.R. and computing.

In addition to research papers, the journal publishes special papers in a variety offorms, including feature articles on timely topics, comprehensive surveys of specificsubject areas, and reviews that collect and integrate recent streams of research.

Areas of interest include computational probability and analysis, design and analysisof algorithms, heuristic search and learning, high-performance computation, knowl-edge and data management, logic, optimization, and constraint programming,modeling methods and analysis, simulation, and telecommunications and electroniccommerce.

The audience for the INFORMS Journal on Computing includes academics whoteach computer science and O.R. and those in the practice world who benefit fromthe additional insights that O.R. offers to computer scientists.

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Interfaces is dedicated to improving the practical application of O.R. to decisionsand policies in today's organizations and industries. The journal strives to encouragethe exchange of information between O.R. managers and professionals and to informthe academic community about the practice of O.R. in diverse areas such as com-merce, industry, government, and education.

Interfaces is the exclusive outlet for the award-winning finalist papers from twoprominent best cases competitions, the Franz Edelman Award for Achievement inOperations Research and the Daniel H. Wagner Prize for Excellence in OperationsResearch. Recent winners include UPS (UPS Optimizes Its Air Network), HP(Accelerating the Profitability of Hewlett Packard's Supply Chain), and Peugeot(Improving Car Body Productivity at PSA Peugeot Citroën).

Each article in the journal provides details of a completed application, along withthe results and documented impact on the organization. Organizations representedin Interfaces studies include Fortune 1000 companies, small businesses, the military,government agencies, and nonprofits associations.

The audience for Interfaces includes analysts, engineers, project managers,consultants, students, researchers, and educators.

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TTooppiiccss iinn OOppeerraattiioonnss RReesseeaarrcchh is the INFORMS series ofresearch monographs for O.R. professionals. Begun by thesociety's Military Applications Section in the 1980s, its pri-mary focus is strategy, planning, logistics, and topics relat-ed to the armed services.

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Management Science is one of the association's flagship publications. Appearingmonthly, Management Science is a scholarly journal that publishes scientific researchinto the problems, interests, and concerns of managers.

The scope includes research that addresses management issues using tools fromtraditional fields, such as O.R., mathematics, statistics, industrial engineering,psychology, sociology, and political science, as well as cross-functional, multi-disciplinary research that reflects the diversity of the management science profes-sions. Areas of study include accounting, business strategy, decision analysis, finance,information systems, marketing, optimization and modeling, operations and supplychain management, organizational performance, strategy, and design, public sectorapplications, stochastic models and simulation, and technological innovation andproduct development.

The journal also strives to stimulate research in emerging domains created by eco-nomic globalization, public policy shifts, technological improvements, and trends inmanagement practice. Its audience includes academics at business and engineeringschools and managers open to the application of quantitative methods in business.

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Manufacturing & Service Operations Management (M&SOM) is the premierjournal of the operations management research community.

The journal publishes a wide range of research related to the production andoperations management of goods and services, including design, control, andimprovement of production and service systems, operational decision makingand planning, supply chain coordination, operations strategy and economics,technology management, productivity and quality management, productdevelopment, cross-functional coordination, and practice-based research.

The M&SOM audience includes the broad community of academic andindustry researchers and practitioners who work at the interface of researchand implementation.

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Transportation Science is the foremost journal in the field of transportation analysis.The journal features comprehensive, timely articles and surveys that cover all modesof transportation, present and prospective, and researches planning and design issuesand the related economic, operational, and social concerns.

Topics covered include economic analysis of transportation systems; strategic, tactical,and operational transportation planning; and transportation systems design.

Transportation Science is especially international in scope, with editors from nationsaround the globe. The audience includes academics teaching quantitative approach-es to transportation and practitioners who work on problems in supply chain manage-ment, logistics, aviation, railroads, highway traffic, public transportation, and militarytransport.

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INFORMS Transactions on Education is a peer-reviewed electronic journalon education in management science and operations research. The missionof INFORMS Transactions on Education is to advance O.R. education at alllevels worldwide.

The journal publishes high-quality articles in a variety of areas related to theteaching of O.R. cases, spreadsheet applications, and the impacts of newtechnologies and new methods of assessment on O.R. education, as well asreview and opinion articles and resource reviews. The electronic format of thejournal allows innovations in content and reader involvement not possible in aprint journal, such as immediate electronic access to data sets, software, Javaapplications, interactive graphics, multimedia applications, hypertext links, andfull-text searching.

The INFORMS Transactions on Education audience includes professorsof operations research and management science at engineering andbusiness schools.

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Marketing Science, at the upper echelon of business and marketing journals,addresses current questions in marketing and introduces cutting-edge researchas well as new insights and approaches to current marketing-related problems.Research is supported by detailed results prepared through rigorous scientificmethodology and reviewed by prestigious scholars in the field of marketing science.

Articles feature mathematical modeling, game theory, multivariate analyses, econo-metric techniques, psychometric approaches, and choice models. Studies reportsignificant findings and methodological advances related to many marketing topics,such as pricing and advertising analysis and decision making, new product develop-ment, product-line management, forecasting, competitive strategy, services market-ing, targetability, segmentation, strategic marketing decisions, consumer choicemodeling, and salesforce management.

Other subjects include models of consumer perceptions, purchasing behavior,electronic commerce, market research, and interactions between manufacturersand retailers.

The audience for Marketing Science includes academics in business schools andmarketing professionals who use sophisticated analysis to do market research.

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Mathematics of Operations Research publishes excellent foundational studieswith significant mathematical content and relevance to O.R.

The journal includes articles concerned with mathematical and computationalfoundations in the areas of continuous, discrete, and stochastic optimization,mathematical programming, dynamic programming, stochastic processes,stochastic models, simulation methodology, control and adaptation, networks,game theory, and decision theory.

Research articles also include innovative and mathematical theories of inventory,manufacturing, and distribution; organization, finance, and marketing; routing,queuing, and scheduling; data and storage management; location, reliability,search, measurement, and service, artificial intelligence and machine learning.

The audience for Mathematics of Operations Research includes academics atengineering schools, mathematics departments, and research centers.

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Operations Research, along with Management Science, is an INFORMS flagshipjournal serving the broad O.R. community, including practitioners, researchers,educators, and students. Operations Research strives to publish results that aretruly insightful with substantial scientific contributions that will stand the test oftime. Each issue offers a balance of well-written studies that span the wide arrayof creative activity in O.R.

Areas of concentration include computing and decision technology, decisionanalysis, the environment, energy, and natural resources, financial engineering,manufacturing, service, and supply chain operations, military, optimization, policymodeling and public sector O.R., simulation, stochastic models, telecommunica-tions and networking, and transportation.

Research articles concern the definition of new problem domains for the field;innovative conceptualizations and mathematical formulations of problems;development of new methodologies to attack known and new problems; creativeapplications of O.R. methods to interesting application areas; and importanthistorical surveys and overviews of the O.R. profession and intellectual heritage.

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Organization Science is widely recognized as one of the top journals in the fieldsof strategy, management, and organization theory. The journal publishes ground-breaking research about organizations, including their processes, structures, tech-nologies, identities, capabilities, forms, and performance, representing researchfrom different disciplines, such as organizational behavior and theory, strategicmanagement, psychology and sociology, economics and political science,information systems and technology management, communication, andcognitive science.

The journal finds its audience in business schools and among those who consult andadvise regarding the behavior of businesses and governmental organizations.

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