OR/MS Today
August 1996 - Volume 23 - Number 4
The following table of contents lists articles in the August 1996 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, Computing, or other
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Table of Contents
Departments
Inside Story
Letters
Cyberspace
-- The first installment of a new column detailing Internet resources
for OR/MS practitioners and educators.
Issues
in Education -- A new column covering INFORMED (INFORMS Forum on
Education) and other issues facing OR/MS educators.
ORacle
Practice Lesson
-- Procter & Gamble improves its supply chain operations with GIS.
Real World -- A compendium of news items of interest to the academic,
engineering, industrial and technology fields.
Information Showcase
Calendar
-- Information about upcoming events involving operations research and/or
management science.
New Books
-- A round-up of new publications of interest to the operations
research/management
science field.
Call for
Papers
-- Details regarding operations research/management science events for which
papers are sought in order to be presented and/or published.
Industry Update -- Business news, products, and software upgrades
and updates are presented here with an angle toward practitioners and academics
in operations research and management science.
Classified -- click
here to find out how to advertise in our next issue's classified section.
Washington Report -- An inside-the-beltway view of the affirmative
action debate during the spring INFORMS Meeting in Washington, D.C.
Features
Affirmative Action
Debatable Decisions
By Peter Horner
Operations researchers cast their analytical eyes on an emotional issue.
Color-Blind
Policies Not Enough
By Jonathan Caulkins
A case in favor of affirmative action.
Building
Equal Opportunity on Firmer Footing
By Arnold Barnett
A case against affirmative action.
View From the
Ivory Tower
By Harold Pollack
Reform affirmative action, but not at the cost of human potential among
the disadvantaged.
Resizing the Federal Government
By David S.C. Chu
What can, should analysis contribute?
Battle of
Wits
By Saul Gass
Knowledge Bowl tests OR/MS veterans.
Computing
Simulation Software Special Section
A Second
Look
By Jerry Banks and Van Norman
Non-traditional uses can yield unexpected benefits.
Object-Oriented Approach
By Jerry A. Levassuer
O-O offers potential savings in modeling effort and upkeep.
Winter Simulation
Conference
By James R. Wilson
An inside look at the premier forum on simulation practice and theory.
Aiding
Insight III
By Dennis Buede
Third survey of decision analysis.
(To go to the Decision Analysis Software Survey, click
here.)
Software Review:
Expert Choice
By Abel A. Fernandez
New version confirms product as an outstanding choice for complex, multicriteria
problems.
INFORMS News
It's Atlanta!
(again)
President's
Desk
Subdivision
Round-up
Doctoral
Colloquium
Board Report
SOLA Lifetime Achievement
Koopman Prize
New Journal
Launch
Manager's Forum
Meetings
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