October 2004 • Volume 31 Number 6 The following table of contents lists articles in the October 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 Issues in Education Cyberspace Was It Something I Said? Forum Letters to the Editor ORacle Classifieds OR/MS Today now features Online Employment Classifieds Features Modeling Emergency Response By Richard C. Larson Decisions involving deployment of people, equipment and supplies serve as ideal setting for operations research to create better emergency response plans.   Historical Perspective on Selling O.R. By William Thomas First postwar practitioners grappled with a familiar issue: how to integrate O.R. personnel into an organization.   'COIN' of the O.R. Realm By Robin Lougee-Heimer, Matthew Saltzman and Ted Ralphs Computational Infrastructure for Operations Research incorporates and finds a new home at INFORMS Online.   Computing Aiding Insight VII By Daniel Maxwell Seventh in a series of DA software surveys aims to help users find the right tool for the job at hand.   2004 Decision Analysis Software Survey   Software Review: TK Solver 5.0 By Jeff Bracht Time-tested mathematical modeling software boasts many new features. INFORMS News Spring Conference Preview O.R. in SpORts Winter Simulation Conference Plenary/Keynote Presentations People News from the Roundtable Exhibitors' Guide Meetings Omega Rho Nominations "Science of Better" Road Show 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.