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Call for Speakers – INFORMS 2025 Session on AI-Enabled Decision Intelligence in Business Operations

By Jiaxi Zhu posted 9 days ago

Hi all, We are inviting you to submit your interest to be a speaker for a session at the 2025 INFORMS Annual Meeting (October 26–29 in Atlanta) under the Practice Section. The session will be focused on "AI-Enabled Decision Intelligence in Business Operations" . This session will explore real-world applications of AI, OR, and data-driven systems to enhance decision-making in business settings, including use cases in marketing, sales, customer operations, supply chain, and beyond. Talks can focus on practical implementations, system design, frameworks, lessons learned, or organizational impact. If you’re interested in speaking, please fill out this short ...

Term Limit of INFORMS journal editorial board members

By Christopher Tang posted 03-21-2025

Subject: New Policy on Term Limits for Editorial Board Members Dear INFORMS Members, I hope this message finds you well. I am writing to inform you about a new policy regarding the term limits for members of our editorial board. Matt Walls (Director of Publications) and his team helped compile the data on the tenure of every editorial member in 2024. I have shared this data with our Editors-in-Chief (EICs) and the Publications Committee, and we discussed the need to implement a clear policy to enable new members to rotate in and nurture new areas of research. After extensive discussions at the INFORMS meeting in 2024, we conducted a survey with all EICs ...

[Submission Deadline Extended to April 1st, 2025] The First INFORMS TSL Data-Driven Research Challenge

By Lei Zhao posted 03-13-2025

Participants can submit the paper to the Manuscript Central of Transportation Science and select " The First INFORMS TSL Data-Driven Research Challenge " type and “ Emerging and Cross-functional Topics ” area. The extended submission deadline is April 1st, 2025 (11:59 pm anywhere on Earth) . Background: The INFORMS Transportation Science and Logistics Society (TSL) and Meituan, a platform offering location-based consumer products and services including entertainment, dining, delivery, travel, and more, are partnering to provide researchers and practitioners worldwide with access to Meituan's operational-level food delivery data ...

Addressing Opioid Epidemic Crisis Leveraging AI/OR

By Muhammad Noor E Alam posted 02-19-2025

Addressing Opioid Epidemic Crisis Leveraging AI/OR The opioid crisis in the United States has reached alarming proportions, as evidenced by staggering statistics. In 2023, opioid overdoses claimed the lives of more than 230 people in the U.S. each day. Although this number is beginning to decline, the epidemic persists, with over 70,000 fatal overdoses recorded last year. Beyond these tragic deaths, over 6 million people in the U.S. live with opioid addiction. While medications are available to help treat this condition, many who begin treatment face challenges in staying engaged with their care. This crisis has become a critical issue demanding urgent ...

CFP- IISE Transactions on Healthcare Systems Engineering Special Issue

By Haifeng Wang posted 02-04-2025

We are pleased to announce the special issue on Recent Advances in Artificial Intelligence Innovations in Health Systems Engineering in the journal of IISE Transactions on Healthcare Systems Engineering. By exploring the intersections of AI, data analytics, and systems engineering, this special issue aims to publish high-quality papers that have a strong methodological focus and innovation to address pressing issues in healthcare. Detailed information can be found on the special issue official website: Recent Advances in Artificial Intelligence Innovations in Health Systems Engineering . In brief, we invite contributions exploring AI across diverse ...

Call for Presentations EURO 2025 (Leeds, UK) – Session “Applications of combinatorial optimisation in industry and services”

By Jose Oliveira posted 02-03-2025

EURO 2025 – Session “Applications of combinatorial optimisation in industry and services” Dear colleagues, We warmly invite you to submit your work to present at the " Applications of Combinatorial Optimization in industry and services " invited session at the 34th European Conference on Operational Research (EURO 2025) in Leeds, 22nd - 25th June 2025 ( https://euro2025leeds.uk/ ). Within the invited stream "Combinatorial Optimization", this session focuses on models and algorithms that may contribute to solving real-world problems. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: If you are interested in presenting an abstract (max. 1500 characters), please go directly ...

Artificial Intelligence in business dissertation competition

By Richard metters posted 01-28-2025

Texas A&M is sponsoring an AI dissertation competition. We are offering a $10,000 prize to the best dissertation in each of six academic areas. For full details and to start a submission, visit createdatmays.tamu.edu/ai

Clinical Professor (Open Rank) Positions at The Department of Information Systems in the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University

By Olivia Sheng posted 01-14-2025

Clinical Professor (Open Rank) Department Of Information Systems – W. P. Carey School of Business Arizona State University – West Valley Campus & Tempe Campus, Arizona The Department of Information Systems in the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University invites applications for multiple positions at the open rank of Clinical Professor at the West Valley Campus and Tempe campus locations with appointments beginning in Fall 2025. The faculty position located on the West Valley campus will also be part of the School of Technology, Innovation and Entrepreneurship (TIE) that is currently being built with the goal of establishing ...

INFORMS Analytics Collection - Sustainable Operations

By Nicholas Hall posted 10-01-2024

INFORMS Analytics Collections , the multimedia publication of INFORMS, is delighted to announce the publication of a new collection on the topic of Sustainable Operations. The Editors of this collection are: Gökçe Esenduran (Purdue University), Ruben Lobel (Waymo), and Gilvan Souza (University of Tennessee) This collection contains relevant sources that explore key topics in sustainable operations. Besides journal articles, the collection provides links to academic materials such as case studies or videos. The collection is structured as follows: 1. Introduction – Provides an overview of sustainable operations, discussing the ...

Course on Discrete Choice Modeling

By Layla Martin posted 09-23-2024

Sharing this course held from Janaury 26-30 at EPFL (Lausanne, Switzerland): Accurate predictions of the demand and market shares are critical for a wide variety of businesses and public organizations. Examples of applications include: predicting demand for a new product under alternative pricing strategies; designing a business plan for a new technology; analyzing the impact of a merger on market shares; forecasting the ridership on a new metropolitan transit service; and analyzing competitive scenarios for introducing a new telecommunication service. To accomplish these tasks, discrete choice analysis provides powerful methodological tools. Based on the ...

CODE: Conference on the Digital Economy, Indian School of Business. Jan 1-3 2025, Varanasi

By Ramnath Chellappa posted 09-16-2024

CODE: Conference on the Digital Economy Indian School of Business Jan 1-3, 2025, Varanasi, India SAVE THE DATE CODE is known for its high-quality research program and attracts many top researchers from throughout the world. The workshop nature of the conference allows participants to present cutting-edge research in the areas of information systems, strategy and marketing, economics, operations management and computer sciences. The mission of this conference is to provide a platform for academics to identify and explore opportunities for research related to digitization and the digital economy. This academic year, CODE ...

2 postdoc vacancies at Rotterdam School of Management

By Stef Lemmens posted 08-28-2024

We have a vacancy for 2 postdoctoral researchers as part of a new research project on drug shortages. We are looking for one person with a strong operations research background and one with a strong econometrics background. More information on the research subject and the application procedure can be found here: Two postdoctoral operations research/econometrics (rsm.nl)