IJAA@50

INFORMS Journal on Applied Analytics Turned 50 in 2020

We commemorate this achievement with links to some key articles from its history (originally as THE BULLETIN, as Interfaces for many years, and now as IJAA):

• Editor's Statement at the Commencement of IJAA's 50th Year


• IJAA 50th Anniversary Commemorative Issue


• Peter Norden's Introduction to the First Issue (temporarily named THE BULLETIN)


• A History of Management Science at Imperial College (1955-1989): A personal note


• The Founding of TIMS


• Most Cited Article for the Past Five Decades

Editor's Statement at the Commencement of IJAA's 50th Year

Editor's Statement
Michael F. Gorman, EIC (2017-2022)
Volume 50, Issue 1, January–February 2020

IJAA 50th Anniversary Commemorative Issue

INFORMS Journal on Applied Analytics: Interfaces/IJAA 50th Anniversary Special Issue
Guest Editors: Jeffrey M. Alden, Srinivas Bollapragada, Jeffrey D. Camm, Nickolas K. Freeman, Michael F. Gorman, Terry P. Harrison, Burcu B. Keskin, Gary L. Lilien, Carson McCullough, Frederic H. Murphy, and Lakshminarayana Nittala
Volume 50, Issue 6, November–December 2020

Peter Norden's Introduction to the First Issue (temporarily named THE BULLETIN)

A Message from the President
Peter V. Norden
Volume 1, Issue 1, November 1970

A History of Management Science at Imperial College (1955-1989): A personal note

Operational Research/Management Science (OR/MS or ORMS) started at Imperial College as part of the Production Engineering Section within the Mechanical Engineering Department in 1955. In 1971, the Section was reconstituted as the Department of Management Science (DMS), which continued to thrive under that name until 1987, when it became part of the Management School. This note records the background that led to the establishment of the OR/MS programme in 1955 and traces the many developments that took place until 1989, including the rapid growth of the MSc course and the extensive research programme. It further records the close collaboration of DMS with industry and the role it played in setting up the first OR group at a major bank in the UK in 1967 and in launching the new international journal Omega in 1972. Difficulties in funding and the aftermath of absorption of OR/MS within the Management School are briefly described. Read more.

The Founding of TIMS

As the first (1953-1954) president of TIMS, I can describe some of the events leading up to the founding of that organization as follows. I was first approached on the need for such a society by Mel Salveson at the 1951 summer meeting of the Econometric Society held at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Because the Operations Research Society of America was then being organized I questioned the need (or wisdom) of undertaking such a venture. Salveson had in mind, however, a different version of a "management science" which was to be modeled more on the lines of "science-type" activities such as discovering and formulating "laws of behavior," etc. I don't recall further details of our discussion, but, in any event, nothing further was done at that time. Read more.

Most Cited Article for the Past Five Decades

2010s

A Review of Operations Research in Mine Planning
Alexandra M. Newman, Enrique Rubio, Rodrigo Caro, Andrés Weintraub, Kelly Eurek
Interfaces
Volume 40, Issue 3, May-June 2010

2000s

Thirty Years of Conjoint Analysis: Reflections and Prospects
Paul E. Green, Abba M. Krieger, Yoram Wind
Interfaces
Volume 31, Number 3, May-June 2001

1990s

Tabu Search: A Tutorial
Fred Glover
Interfaces
Volume 20, Number 4, Jul-Aug 1990

1980s

The Analytic Hierarchy Process – A Survey of the Method and its Applications
Fatemeh Zahedi
Interfaces
Volume 16, Number 4, Jul-Aug 1986

1970s

Organization Design: An Information Processing View
Jay R. Galbraith
Interfaces
Volume 4, Number 3, May 1974