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INFORMS Journal Highlights from May 2017
AUTHOR SPOTLIGHT
ROBERT SALTZMAN
“[A]n interdisciplinary team of healthcare and O.R. professionals can learn a great deal from one another, and then propose and test specific, sensible ways to improve patient flow. Things that are readily apparent to one group of professionals may not be so to the other. In general, an interdisciplinary approach is a great way to tackle complex problems in many different fields.”More by this Author
The Impact of a Discharge Holding Area on the Throughput of a Pediatric Unit
Schedule-Based Group Assignment Using Constraint Programming
Planning for an Aging Fleet of Shuttle Vehicles with Simulation
A Consulting Firm Uses Constraint Programming to Plan Personnel-Review Meetings
A Call Center Uses Simulation to Drive Strategic Change
Member, Health Applications Society
Teck Hua Ho
Management Science
“One of the reasons postulated for gender gaps in the workplace is the way men and women approach competitiveness. Saccardo et al. test this hypothesis using a ball-tossing challenge. They take a novel approach that allows participants to decide, before taking the challenge, how to distribute 100 reward points between a tournament and piece-rate option, with the tournament allocation used as the measure of competitiveness. Results show that men generally chose competitiveness (the tournament allocation) more than women, especially at higher levels of competitiveness, whereas women were almost totally absent. The literature suggests that women can be as competitive as men if the rewards are sufficiently large, so it is important to design incentives to attract more women to be competitive in salary negotiations and for high-level work roles.”
On the Size of the Gender Difference in Competitiveness
Silvia Saccardo, Aniela Pietrasz, Uri Gneezy
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JOURNAL SPOTLIGHT
INFORMS Journal on Computing
Editor-in-Chief: David L. Woodruff
Impact Factor: 1.173
5-year Impact Factor: 1.692
Impact Factor: 1.173
5-year Impact Factor: 1.692
“INFORMS Journal on Computing (IJOC) addresses the interface of operations research and computer science. IJOC seeks surveys and original research articles on theories, methods, and experiments expanding the envelope of computational OR in ways that can be built upon by subsequent researchers or used by practitioners. For this reason, the research must be reproducible.
Just as data availability impacts the role of IJOC in the research community, for papers whose primary contribution is computational, software availability can be equally imperative. Therefore, in keeping with its mission to support reproducibility, IJOC has instituted a new software policy through which it is generally expected that relevant source code will be published as an online supplement to applicable journal articles. For papers whose primary contribution is computation experiments, the editors may require, as a condition of final acceptance, that the software be released to the research community with instructions and data suitable for a researcher to be able to reproduce results given in the paper.
Like the data policy, this new software policy will not apply to every paper, and there will be numerous exceptions for good reasons. Follow the links above for additional information, including frequently asked questions about these policies.”