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INFORMS Journal Highlights from September 2017
AUTHOR SPOTLIGHT
SUSAN M. SANCHEZ
“I hope [readers] recognize that ‘thinking big’ in the context of real-world problems can be fascinating. Practitioners should go beyond asking simple questions of their computational models and instead seek insights about broader and deeper questions. Researchers now have many new and exciting avenues for exploration where their work can make a tangible difference.”More by this Author
The New York City Off-Hour Delivery Program: A Business and Community-Friendly Sustainability Program
Improving U.S. Navy Campaign Analyses with Big Data
State-of-the-Art Review: A User’s Guide to the Brave New World of Designing Simulation Experiments
Competitive Market Structures: A Subset Selection Analysis
Member, Miliary Applications Society, Simulation Society, INFORMS Forum on Education (INFORM-ED), Women in OR/MS (WORMS). Fellow, 2017. Winner, Bernard Koopman Prize, Military Applications Society, 2013.
Daniel A. Levinthal
Strategy Science
“Firms’ intellectual property is increasingly viewed as a critical corporate asset, and patent litigation and the contestation of possible changes in patent laws are prominent features of our legal and political environment. Patents, however, are not only the mechanism by which firms may appropriate and claim ownership of their intellectual property. Trade secrets have legal standing as well and are another critical mechanism of appropriating intellectual property — a mechanism that has not received adequate attention in the literature. Png, in his important contribution in Strategy Science, “Theory and Evidence from the Uniform Trade Secrets Act,” helps address that imbalance. While patents provide legal ownership, they also, in contrast to trade secrets, entail public disclosure of a firm’s innovation — disclosure that might help competitors invent around the patented invention. Png examines both in a formal model and empirically the tradeoff firms make between the use of patents and trade secrets. He finds that the enactment of the Uniform Trade Secrets Act led to a substantial decline in the rate of patenting, suggesting that firms are actively trading-off patenting with secrecy. Interestingly, this decline was particularly marked in states that have relatively weak non-compete laws, further illustrating this tradeoff.”
Secrecy and Patents: Theory and Evidence from the Uniform Trade Secrets Act
I. P. L. Png
MEET OUR EDITORS
Visit the INFORMS Center at the 2017 INFORMS Annual Meeting in Houston, Texas, October 22–25 to meet several of our Editors and participate in InfORmational Sessions about their journals, editorial visions, what kinds of papers they are looking for, and more.
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 22
3:30–5:00 pm
Robin Lougee & Saurabh Bansal, Volume Editors, Editor's Cut: Feeding the World through Analytics
Richard McGrath, Volume Editor, Editor's Cut: Wisdom of the Crowd: Crowdsourcing Analytics
Paul Messinger, Volume Editor, Editor's Cut: Transforming Retail through Analytics
Renata Konrad, Volume Editor, Editor's Cut: Ending Human Trafficking with Analytics
Sheldon Jacobson, Volume Editor, Editor's Cut: Elections: Analytics and Beyond
MONDAY, OCTOBER 23
9:00–10:30 am
Gautam Ahuja, Editor-in-Chief, Organization Science
3:30–5:00 pm
J.G. "Jim" Dai, Editor-in-Chief, Mathematics of Operations Research
Michael F. Gorman, Editor-in-Chief, Interfaces
Douglas R. Shier, Series Editor, TutORials in Operations Research
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 24
8:30–10:00 am
Shane Henderson, Editor-in-Chief, Stochastic Systems
Jeroen Belien, Editor-in-Chief, INFORMS Transactions on Education
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Case Article—Tactical Decisions at Vastrapur Car Rental Services
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Case—Tactical Decisions at Vastrapur Car Rental Services
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Focus On Authors
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2017 Management Science Service Awards
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Expanding Impacts of Technology-Assisted Service Systems Through Generalization: Case Study of the Japanese Service Engineering Research Project
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Service Spotlights
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Ralph Gomory Best Industry Studies Paper Award First Runner-up: The Song Remains the Same? Technological Change and Strategic Positioning in the Recorded Music Industry
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Applications of Operations Research in the Air Transport Industry
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Editorial—Big Data, Data Science, and Analytics: The Opportunity and Challenge for IS Research
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Cognition, Technology, and Organizational Limits: Lessons from the Air France 447 Disaster
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Scenario Analysis in Spreadsheets with Excel's Scenario Tool
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Using Mathematics to Solve Some Problems in Industry
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Making Operations Management Fun: Littlefield Technologies
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Embracing, Passing, Revealing, and the Ideal Worker Image: How People Navigate Expected and Experienced Professional Identities
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Looking Across and Looking Beyond the Knowledge Frontier: Intellectual Distance, Novelty, and Resource Allocation in Science
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JOURNAL SPOTLIGHT
Stochastic Systems
Editor-in-Chief: Shane Henderson
“Stochastic Systems is the flagship journal of the INFORMS Applied Probability Society, publishing high-quality papers that substantively contribute to the modeling, analysis, and control of stochastic systems. Relative to application-focused journals, Stochastic Systems publishes papers in which applied probability plays a significant, and not just supporting, role. Relative to other applied probability outlets, Stochastic Systems focuses exclusively on operations research content.
Why should you publish your work in Stochastic Systems?
All papers published in Stochastic Systems are open access. There are no submission fees or page charges. You can submit your papers at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ssy/. Published papers can be found online at http://pubsonline.informs.org/journal/stsy.
Stochastic Systems publishes work of broad interest to the Operations Research community. A partial list includes applications in service operations; healthcare; logistics and transportation; communications networks (including the Internet); computer systems; finance and risk management; manufacturing operations and supply chains; market and mechanism design; revenue management and pricing; the sharing economy; social networks; and cloud computing. Papers that might otherwise go to, e.g., Management Science or Manufacturing & Service Operations Management might be relevant for Stochastic Systems if they include a significant applied-probability component, and the applied probability need not be relegated to an appendix.
Stochastic Systems aims to return reviews to authors within 3 months of submission and to publish articles online within 2 months of acceptance. Starting in 2018, issues will appear quarterly.”