December 2004 • Volume 31 Number 6 The following table of contents lists articles in the December 2004 print edition of OR/MS Today. You may follow any of the linked titles to read those items in their entirety. For quick navigation you may jump directly to any of the following sections: Departments Features INFORMS News Departments Inside Story President's Desk INFORMS Online Cyberspace Issues in Education Was It Something I Said? ORacle Forum Letters to the Editor Real World New Books Call for Papers Industry News Last Word Classifieds OR/MS Today now features Online Employment Classifieds Features New Model for Military Operations By Grace Y. Lin, Robert E. Luby Jr. and Ko-Yang Wang Technological advances present opportunity for military to shift from command-and-control operations to sense-and-respond network-centric operations in order to meet present-day challenges.   Retail Labor Scheduling By Vinh Quan Store managers face a classic O.R. problem: Ensuring optimal staffing to accommodate anticipated sales volumes and customer traffic, while meeting a laundry list of constraints and without blowing the budget.   The Science of Better Synergy By Peter Horner An interview with President-Elect Richard Larson, who looks to integrate his plan to bolster INFORMS membership through non-Ph.D.s with ongoing marketing efforts on behalf of "the world's greatest profession."   Computing Forecasting: Predicting Your Needs By Jack Yurkiewicz Fifth biennial look at forecasting software indicates "steady-state" of market segmented into several categories.   2004 Forecasting Software Survey   Software Review: Mathematica 5.1 By ManMohan S. Sodhi Additional features make software well-suited for operations research professionals. INFORMS News Procter & Gamble Earns INFORMS Prize INFORMS Salutes 32 'Fellows' Wallace Wins President's Award for Societal Contributions INFORMS Awards PEOPLE In Memoriam: Robert E. Kalaba 2005 Election Results New INFORMS International Meetings INFORMS Meetings Financial Statements Don't forget the OR/MS Today Online Reader Service page! OR/MS Today Home Page OR/MS Today copyright © 2004 by the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences. All rights reserved. Lionheart Publishing, Inc. 506 Roswell Street, Suite220, Marietta, GA 30060, USA Phone: 770-431-0867 | Fax: 770-432-6969 E-mail: lpi@lionhrtpub.com URL: http://www.lionhrtpub.com Web Site © Copyright 2004 by Lionheart Publishing, Inc. All rights reserved.