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<body bgcolor="#ffffff" link="cc0000" vlink="cc0000" text="#000000" topmargin="0" leftmargin="0" marginwidth=0 marginheight=0>  <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=480><tr valign=top> <td width=10><img src="cleardot.gif" width=1 height=1 hspace=4 border=0></td> <td width=470><font face="verdana, arial, helvetica" size="1"> <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=470><tr valign=top> <td width=140><font face="verdana, arial, helvetica" size="1"> <center><a href="currenttoc.html" target="_top"> <IMG SRC="art/orms-6-05-cov-a.jpg" WIDTH="131" HEIGHT="171" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" BORDER="0" ALT="Cover of the June 2005 issue of Operations Research / Management Science Today"></a><br> <img src="cleardot.gif" width=1 height=1 vspace=1 border=0><br> <font size="-2"><a href="currenttoc.html" target="_top">Current Issue:<br> June 2005</a></font></center></td> <td width=10> </td> <td width=320><font face="verdana, arial, helvetica" size="1"> <i><b>OR/MS Today</b></i> is the magazine for members of <a href="http://www.informs.org/" target="_new">the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences</a> (INFORMS). The bi-monthly publication provides a comprehensive look at operations research and management science through stories, feature articles, case studies, software reviews and surveys authored by recognized leaders in the field. Operations research and management science are interdisciplinary sciences aimed at solving operational and societal problems arising in all areas of industry, business and government.<br> <img src="cleardot.gif" width=1 height=1 vspace=4 border=0><br> <b>UPDATE 6/13/05</b> More <a href="classifieds/ORMS-classifieds.html" target="_top">employment opportunity advertisements</a> have been added.<BR> <img src="cleardot.gif" width=1 height=1 vspace=3 border=0><br> <b>UPDATE 6/12/05:</b> In the <A HREF="orms-6-05/tocfr.html" TARGET="_top">June issue</A> we say "good-bye" to a great leader of the ORMS community, George Bernard Dantzig.</font></td></tr> </table> <img src="cleardot.gif" width=1 height=1 vspace=3 border=0><br> <b><font size="3">Featured in the <a href="orms-6-05/tocfr.html" target="_top">June 2005 Issue</a>:</font></b><br> <ul> <li> With the passing of the "father of linear programming" this May, <I>ORMS Today</I> pays tribute to <A HREF="orms-6-05/fr-dantzig.html" TARGET="_top">George Dantzig</A>.<br> <img src="cleardot.gif" width=1 height=1 vspace=2 border=0><br> <li> Also featured is the eighth edition of the <I>ORMS Today</I> <A HREF="surveys/LP/LP-survey.html" TARGET="_top">Survey of Linear Programming Software</A>.<br> <img src="cleardot.gif" width=1 height=1 vspace=2 border=0><br> <li> Learn how Hewlett-Packard's operations research team solved problems <A HREF="orms-6-05/frcomplexity.html" TARGET="_top">Managing Product Line Complexity</A>.<br> <img src="cleardot.gif" width=1 height=1 vspace=2 border=0><br> <li> Management Science helps Merrill Lynch Bank USA free up $4 billion in <A HREF="orms-6-05/frrisk.html" TARGET="_top">liquidity</A>.<br> <img src="cleardot.gif" width=1 height=1 vspace=2 border=0><br> </ul> <img src="cleardot.gif" width=1 height=1 vspace=4 border=0><br> <font face="verdana, arial, helvetica" size="2">Don't forget the <i><b>OR/MS Today</b></i> <a href="readerservice.html" target="_top">Online Reader Service page</a>!</font><br> <img src="cleardot.gif" width=1 height=1 vspace=6 border=0><br> <b>OR/MS Today Subscriptions:</b><br> In cooperation with <a href="http://www.ifors.org" target="_new">IFORS</a> (the International Federation of Operations Research Societies) we are pleased to offer greatly reduced subscription rates to individual members of IFORS membership societies. <a href="http://www.lionhrtpub.com/forms/iforssubs.html" target="_top">Click here to subscribe</a>. <br> <img src="cleardot.gif" width=1 height=1 vspace=8 border=0><br>  <a href="http://www.lionhrtpub.com/books/globaloptimization.html" target="_top"><img src="../banners/global.gif" width="468" height="60" hspace="0" vspace="0" border="0" alt="Global Optimization in Nonlinear Systems"></a><br>  <img src="../cleardot.gif" width=1 height=1 vspace=8 border=0><br> <img src="../barblue.gif" width=468 height=1 border=0 alt=" "><br> <b><i>OR/MS Today</i></b> copyright © 2005 by <a href="http://www.informs.org/" target="_new">the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences</a>. 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