October • Volume 34 Number 5 The following table of contents lists articles in the October 2007 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 Q.E.D. Was It Something I Said? Forum Great Unsolved Problems Literature Files ORacle Classifieds OR/MS Today now features Online Employment Classifieds Features Mass Egress and Post-Disaster Responses By Douglas A. Samuelson Homeland Security Institute analyzes the aftermath of catastrophes.   Adventures in O.R. By Jay Shi and Nancy Hang A team of Cisco Systems analysts gets an eye-opening look at INFORMS conference.   Computing New Frontiers in Simulation By James J. Swain Biennial software of discrete-event simulation software tools: new application areas fuel growth.   2007 Simulation Software Survey   DES: Strengths & Weaknesses By Juan Camilo Zapata, Pradeep Suresh and G. V. Reklaitis Study assesses discrete-event simulation software from a simulation optimization perspective.   COIN-OR in 2007   Software Review: Mathematica 6 By ManMohan S. Sodhi 'Major' upgrade to computational system includes many new features and enhanced ease of use. INFORMS News Register Today for WSC 2007 The Best Is Yet To Come — WSC '07 In Memoriam: Lloyd Clarke (1964-2007) Roundtable Winter Retreat Dissertation Award for O.R. in Telecommunications INFORMS Annual Meeting 2007 - Seattle, Guide to Exhibitors Call for Nominations, Editor in Chief: Applied Probability and Operations Research INFORMS Meetings Don't forget the OR/MS Today Online Reader Service page! OR/MS Today Home Page OR/MS Today copyright © 2007 by the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences. All rights reserved. Lionheart Publishing, Inc. 506 Roswell Street, Suite 220, 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 2007 by Lionheart Publishing, Inc. All rights reserved.