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COMMUNITY CHOICE
This section includes editors-in-chief and society/fora chair picks for most impactful INFORMS content.
A Multiple-Objective Decision Analysis of Stakeholder Values to Identify Watershed Improvement Needs
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Was Angelina Jolie Right? Optimizing Cancer Prevention Strategies Among BRCA Mutation Carriers
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Scatter Search and Local NLP Solvers: A Multistart Framework for Global Optimization
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Implementing Sponsored Search in Web Search Engines: Computational Evaluation of Alternative Mechanisms
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“Who Are You?…I Really Wanna Know”: Product Meaning and Competitive Positioning in the Nascent Synthesizer Industry
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Use of Decision Analysis in the Army Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) 2005 Military Value Analysis
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An Adaptive Sampling Algorithm for Solving Markov Decision Processes
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Twenty Years in the Making: The Evolution of the Journal of Manufacturing & Service Operations Management
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A Linear Programming Model for the Single Destination System Optimum Dynamic Traffic Assignment Problem
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Non-INFORMS Publications
Emergency response to a smallpox attack: The case for mass vaccination
Edward H. Kaplan, David L. Craft, and Lawrence M. Wein
PNAS
Published Online: August 6, 2002
Edward H. Kaplan, David L. Craft, and Lawrence M. Wein
PNAS
Published Online: August 6, 2002
This paper builds on the basic idea of value-focused thinking by introducing the idea of "value gaps," which can be loosely translated as "opportunities for improvement." This has been extremely useful in subsequent work (and perhaps underrecognized relative to its importance!). Read more.
This paper was influential in a completely different way. By building on public interest in Angelina Jolie's decision to have a prophylactic double mastectomy to prevent breast cancer, the authors were able to demonstrate how decision analysis can be useful in thinking about high-stakes personal decisions. Read more.
Winner of the IJOC Test of Time Award. This paper has attracted a large number of citations and continues to be highly cited many years following publication. As well as influencing academic researchers, the paper has influenced the practice of global optimization, and many applications have been successfully attacked using OptQuest. Read more.
Winner of the IJOC Test of Time Award. This highly-cited paper continues to be an important reference for the community of researchers studying the rapidly growing sector of the advertising market and is an example of the reach of O.R. techniques into the new economy. Read more.
Chosen by the editor-in-chief as a top paper from Strategy Science.
This paper published in an early volume of Decision Analysis and was the 2006 Koopman Prize winner. The paper reports analysis that greatly influenced Department of Defense decisions during the 2005 BRAC process, as documented by a special award granted to the authors by the Secretary of the Army.
This paper introduces a classic, large-scale mathematical programming model for optimizing intercontinental airlift operations. (The model, labeled NRMO, may or may not have been incorporated into daily routing decisions made by the current operations team at Air Mobility Command circa 2002.)
The Chaining strategy discussed in this paper has influenced the way process flexibility is applied in a variety of industries.
This paper opens up a range of new research directions in hospital modeling. It is a beautiful data exploration and is highly innovative in that making the data public was no mean feat, and the explorations are highly illuminating! It has inspired much follow-on work. Read more.
This paper studies the benefits that accrue when one can pool one’s resources, especially in regard to patient wait times. This paper quantifies that benefit and is important beyond healthcare, but essentially anywhere that one might consider pooling resources. Read more.
The method in this paper was (among many other things) the inspiration for the famous AlphaGo implementation from DeepMind (now part of Google) that was the first computer program to beat professional Go players.
The method here won awards from the Italian train company, FS-Ferrovie dello Stato, and then formed the bases of the Netherlands railway system that won the 2008 Edelman competition.
MSOM's 20th anniversary special issue is pivotal because it captures the past and the future, and the entire issue is open acces. This special issue really pushes for new frontiers from supply chain to healthcare, online platforms to industry 4.0, sustainability to gender equality. Read more.
This paper addressed a fundamental aspect of dynamic traffic network analysis, i.e., how to properly model traffic dynamics in a network, and opened the door for the application of the cell transmission model in the analytical dynamic traffic assignment literature, which has received extensive attention from the O.R. community.
INFORMS Journal on Applied Analytics seeks to educate on analytical methods, and stochastic programming is an essential, but little known skill.
Healthcare is a sector that has more recently opened itself up to analytical methods – not only helping to keep individuals healthy, but in maintaining healthcare costs and improving patient flow and wait time.
Supply chain management is essential in a distributed world economy, and recoverability is essential to supply chain performance, making this article an essential read.
The Kaplan et al. paper, published in the esteemed Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, was the 2002 Koopman Prize winner. The paper’s topic remains quite pertinent to today’s COVID challenges, and the first author, Ed Kaplan, is an active, lifetime contributor to INFORMS. Read more.