Cover of the December 2004 issue of Operations Research / Management Science Today
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

  • 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


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    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

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    Global Optimization in Nonlinear Systems






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