http://orforum.blog.informs.org Thu, 24 Apr 2008 03:20:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In the March/April issue of Operations Research, ManMohan Sodhi and Christopher Tang look at operations research/management science and discuss how research, teaching, and practice interact in our field. From the abstract: We believe that research, teaching, and practice are becoming increasingly disengaged from one another in the OR/MS ecosystem. ... http://orforum.blog.informs.org/2008/04/23/the-orms-ecosystem-strengths-weaknesses-opportunities-and-threats/ In the May-June, 2007, issue of Operations Research, Professor Richard C. Larson looks at the role that operations research can place in one of the most pressing issues of our time: handling a possible influenza pandemic. In his abstract, he outlines his goals: The focus of this ‘OR framing ... http://orforum.blog.informs.org/2007/06/15/influenza-progression/ In the March - April 2007 issue of Operations Research, Michael Rothkopf of Rutgers University argues that the well-known Vickrey-Clarke-Groves process for auctions is not practical. The abstract reads: In theory, the mathematically elegant Vickrey-Clarke-Groves process offers perfect efficiency with dominant truth-revealing strategies. However, it has many serious practical problems. This ... http://orforum.blog.informs.org/2007/04/17/thirteen-reasons/ The OR Forum is an area of the journal Operations Research, published by the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS). The purpose of the Forum area is spelled out in its mission statement: The OR Forum area invites work that challenges the reader to consider and evaluate ... http://orforum.blog.informs.org/2007/03/11/introduction-to-the-or-forum/