INFORMS Open Forum

Call for Papers/Session Chairs

INFORMS Annual Meeting, Oct 22-25, 2017 Houston, TX

http://meetings2.informs.org/wordpress/houston2017/

Track: Public Sector OR

The Section of Public Sector OR (PSOR) is the INFORMS subdivision dedicated to "doing good with good OR." The section furthers the use of OR/MS in many areas, including public policy, public programs, public safety, public service, and public needs. As the co-chairs of the PSOR track, we would like to invite you to organize and chair one or more sponsored sessions for the track. We listed the session topics/titles from last year below for your reference. We welcome ideas of similar or additional themes.

·         Emergency response, recovery and resilience

·        Applied humanitarian operations management

·        Proactive planning against weather events

·        analytics research in humanitarian service delivery

·        public policy for energy and the environment

·        decision-making models for public health systems

·        Public sector OR problems with geographic considerations

·        New models in criminology

·        Recent developments in humanitarian logistics

·        Community-based operations research

·        Resilience management concepts for infrastructure and service systems

·        Pro Bono analytics

·        Humanitarian & disaster relief logistics

·        Routing models for public safety

·        Lifting up populations

·        Transportation issues in smart cities

·        Matchings and assignments with societal impact

·        Urban transportation and logistics in public sector OR

·        Modeling complex systems in education

·        Models of influence and optimal response

·        Evaluating health systems of public interest

·        Network Repair and Resiliency for Service Restoration

·        New advances in Operating Room (OR) Scheduling

·        Disaster Relief Supply Chains and Operations

·        Planning for Humanitarian Operations

·        Resource Allocation Problems in Nonprofit Settings

Cluster CO-CHAIRS:

• Shengfan Zhang, University of Arkansas, shengfan@uark.edu
• Nan Kong, Purdue University, nkong@purdue.edu

IMPORTANT DATES

• May 2: Deadline for session chairs to enter presenters
• May 15: Deadline for submitting abstract
• Conference: October 22-25, 2017                            

Please see http://meetings2.informs.org/wordpress/houston2017/program/  for detailed information on the submission.

Nan Kong, PhD

Associate Professor

Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering

Purdue University