October 1998 • Volume 25 Number 5 The following table of contents lists articles in the October 1998 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 Letters Forum Issues in Education Cyberspace INFORMS Online (IOL) ...Something I said? Practice Lesson Real World Calendar New Books Call for Papers Industry Update Oracle Classifieds OR/MS Today now features Online Classifieds Features Airline Alliance Revenue Management By Andrew Boyd Global alliances within the airline industry add complexity to the yield management problem.   China Makes OR History By Xiang-Sun Zhang and Kan Cheng A look at the history of operations research in China as it prepares to host IFORS '99.   Telecommunications Management By Ramesh Sharda, Cathy Shuffield and Rick Wilson Unique program ushers in new generation of interdisciplinary graduate study.   How to 'Excel' in Teaching MS By Erhan Erkut Summer workshop participants sharpen their spreadsheet skills and slay a few sacred cows.   Promoting the Practice of OR/MS — Part II By Alan H. Gepfert What's really new in the constantly evolving field of OR/MS? The second installment in the series.   Computing Software Review: SIMUL8 By Raymond L. Major A visual approach to modeling, simulation and analysis.   INFORMS News Q&A with Mark Doherty President's Desk von Neumann Prize Call Prize Call: Applied Probability People Teaching Colloquium WINFORMS Symposium MOR Call for Editor Seattle Exhibitors' Guide Meetings Call for Officer Nominations OR/MS Today Home Page OR/MS Today copyright © 1998 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: 770-432-696 E-mail: lpi@lionhrtpub.com Web Site © Copyright 1998 by Lionheart Publishing, Inc. All rights reserved.