December 2005 • Volume 32 Number 6 The following table of contents lists articles in the December 2005 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 Was It Something I Said Issues in Education Cyberspace In Memoriam: Alvin W. Drake Honors & Accolades News & Notes Call for Papers ORacle Classifieds OR/MS Today now features Online Employment Classifieds Features Q&A: A Passion for Publications By Peter Horner Mark Daskin made his mark on the journal side of INFORMS, but now, as the next president of the Institute, he has a wide spectrum of issues on his plate.   Essay: The Art and Science of 'Better' By John L. Nazareth Borrowing a metaphor from medicine, it may be advantageous to characterize O.R. as the profession that seeks to maintain, improve or restore the "wellness" of an organized complex of operations.   Case Study: FleetManager Milks Efficiency out of Dairy Company By Chuda Basnet and Les Foulds Vehicle scheduling decision support system dramatically improves milk tanker deployment in New Zealand.   Computing Software Survey: 'Gaming' Reality By James J. Swain Biennial survey of discrete-event simulation software tools.   2005 Simulation Software Survey   Software Review: Maple 10 and the Global Optimization Toolbox By Ignacio Castillo Integrated technical computing system for advanced nonlinear systems modeling and optimization. INFORMS News Air Products Earns INFORMS Prize INFORMS Election Results 2007 INFORMS Nominations Aumann's Work in Game Theory Leads to von Neumann Prize Talluri, van Ryzin Win Lanchester Prize Fisher to Deliver Morse Lecture Day, Shah Share Top Dantzig Dissertation Honors Wein Writes the Right Way Bell Takes Prize for Teaching OR/MS Practice Kimball Medalist Hoffman Urges All to 'Get Involved' Nicholson Student Paper Competition Pierskalla Receives President's Award INFORMS Meetings Don't forget the OR/MS Today Online Reader Service page! OR/MS Today Home Page OR/MS Today copyright © 2005 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 2005 by Lionheart Publishing, Inc. All rights reserved.