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Come Celebrate Some History at the Annual Meeting

  • 1.  Come Celebrate Some History at the Annual Meeting

    Posted 11-07-2020 11:53
    INFORMS Session SA34 at 1:15 on Sunday 11/8/20 will be a celebration of 50 years of the Networks journal. The five talks in this session serve to trace network modeling and analysis from its origins to current and future applications. Join us to hear these outstanding presentations:

    Anna Nagurney, "Networks in Economics and Finance in Networks and Beyond: A Half Century Retrospective"

    Pascal Van Henetenryck, "Large-Scale Zone-Based Evacuation Planning: Models, Algorithms, and Evaluation"

    Thomas Sharkey, "In Search of Network Resilience: An Optimization-Based View" 

    Edward Wasil, "On the Road to Better Routes: Five Decades of Published Research on the Vehicle Routing Problem" 

    Richard Wong, "Telecommunications Network Design: Technology Impacts and Future Directions"

    The first two issues of Networks in 2021 will feature articles by these and other distinguished contributors, marking the 50 years since the founding of the journal in 1971 by Ivan Frisch.


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    Douglas Shier
    Bruce Golden
    Editors-in-Chief, Networks
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