<br />
REMEMBRANCES OF RUSS ACKOFF: Tribute to a true O.R. pioneer<br />
December 2009<br />
Volume 36 • Number 6<br />
WarGames<br />
Know thy enemy: How strategic games<br />
aid decision-making on the battlefield<br />
and in the boardroom<br />
ALSO INSIDE:<br />
• DIETING: A weighty O.R. problem<br />
• PLAGIARISM: New policy for journals<br />
• Q&A: INFORMS Prez-elect Susan Albin<br />
• AWARDS: Honors for best, brightest<br />
Experience how AIMMS<br />
facilitates interactive<br />
optimization modeling<br />
Create and modify<br />
large models in a clear<br />
Perform what-if scenarios or use and concise way<br />
the Math Program Inspector to<br />
visualize the matrix and drill down<br />
to individual constraints & variables<br />
OBDC<br />
OLE DB<br /<a title="ORMS Today page 1" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e1c82a9?page=1"> REMEMBRANCES OF RUSS ACKOFF: Tribute to a true O.</a>
<a title="ORMS Today page 2" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e1c82a9?page=2"> Experience how AIMMS facilitates interactive</a>
<a title="ORMS Today page 3" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e1c82a9?page=3"> What'sGreat/ (about the new What'sBest/10) The mo</a>
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<a title="ORMS Today page 6" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e1c82a9?page=6"> I NSIDE S TORY The Amazing Russ Ackoff </a>
<a title="ORMS Today page 7" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e1c82a9?page=7"> THE BEST WAY TO TEACH AND LEARN SIMULATION RISK </a>
<a title="ORMS Today page 8" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e1c82a9?page=8"> P RESIDENT’ S D ESK INFORMS President </a>
<a title="ORMS Today page 9" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e1c82a9?page=9"> Are you Paying Too Much for Optimization? Save on</a>
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<a title="ORMS Today page 12" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e1c82a9?page=12"> INFORMS ONLINE A Core-and-Content Strategy f</a>
<a title="ORMS Today page 13" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e1c82a9?page=13"> Meet the New Leader in Optimization Software. Gur</a>
<a title="ORMS Today page 14" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e1c82a9?page=14"> T HE P UZZLOR Fish Finder B Y J OHN </a>
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<a title="ORMS Today page 16" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e1c82a9?page=16"> J OURNAL H IGHLIGHTS Highlights from INFORM</a>
<a title="ORMS Today page 17" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e1c82a9?page=17"> The authors of this study on brick-and- mor</a>
<a title="ORMS Today page 18" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e1c82a9?page=18"> WAS IT SOMETHING I SAID The Power of Diver</a>
<a title="ORMS Today page 19" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e1c82a9?page=19"> You're there. You're here, you're there, determi</a>
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<a title="ORMS Today page 21" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e1c82a9?page=21"> Plambeck and Wang published conclu- sions fr</a>
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<a title="ORMS Today page 23" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e1c82a9?page=23"> plinary coping with social organizations to OR/</a>
<a title="ORMS Today page 24" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e1c82a9?page=24"> Russ Ackoff, continued from p.21 “Introv</a>
<a title="ORMS Today page 25" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e1c82a9?page=25"> REFERENCES 1. Aykin, T. 2000, “A Comparative Eval</a>
<a title="ORMS Today page 26" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e1c82a9?page=26"> ROUNDTABLE PROFILE BY JEFF WINTERS AND DOUG MOH</a>
<a title="ORMS Today page 27" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e1c82a9?page=27"> the RoundtableAll About INFORMS has two types of</a>
<a title="ORMS Today page 28" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e1c82a9?page=28"> ROUNDTABLE PROFILES by these third-party carri</a>
<a title="ORMS Today page 29" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e1c82a9?page=29"> Solve the Unsolvable. “We’ve been very success</a>
<a title="ORMS Today page 30" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e1c82a9?page=30"> STRATEGIC GAMES </a>
<a title="ORMS Today page 31" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e1c82a9?page=31"> W hen asked for </a>
<a title="ORMS Today page 32" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e1c82a9?page=32"> Ill- </a>
<a title="ORMS Today page 33" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e1c82a9?page=33"> Conversations for a Smarter Planet A mandate fo</a>
<a title="ORMS Today page 34" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e1c82a9?page=34"> STRATEGIC GAMES Image source: Wikipedia </a>
<a title="ORMS Today page 35" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e1c82a9?page=35"> A promising, somewhat more quantitative me</a>
<a title="ORMS Today page 36" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e1c82a9?page=36"> Dieting as an O.R. Problem How to minimize misery</a>
<a title="ORMS Today page 37" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e1c82a9?page=37"> It is important to point </a>
<a title="ORMS Today page 38" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e1c82a9?page=38"> THE WHEN DIET </a>
<a title="ORMS Today page 39" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e1c82a9?page=39"> KNITRO 6.0 Offers New Features for Mixed-Integer </a>
<a title="ORMS Today page 40" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e1c82a9?page=40"> Publications Policy Guidelines for Plagiarism S</a>
<a title="ORMS Today page 41" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e1c82a9?page=41"> theft of words and ideas from someone else. In th</a>
<a title="ORMS Today page 42" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e1c82a9?page=42"> Publications Policy The most contentious iss</a>
<a title="ORMS Today page 43" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e1c82a9?page=43"> Volunteers make INFORMS great! Where do you fit i</a>
<a title="ORMS Today page 44" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e1c82a9?page=44"> Q&A PROGRESS THROUGH PARTICIPATION INFORMS PRESI</a>
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<a title="ORMS Today page 46" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e1c82a9?page=46"> Q&A your own students – on whatever committee yo</a>
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<a title="ORMS Today page 48" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e1c82a9?page=48"> Q&A MIT faculty has voted to make all their jour</a>
<a title="ORMS Today page 49" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e1c82a9?page=49"> applause are the management of the endowment </a>
<a title="ORMS Today page 50" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e1c82a9?page=50"> Q&A What does INFORMS do really well and what ar</a>
<a title="ORMS Today page 51" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e1c82a9?page=51"> 2010 INFORMS Annual Meeting November 7-10, 2010 </a>
<a title="ORMS Today page 52" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e1c82a9?page=52"> 2010 INFORMS CONFERENCE ON O.R. PRACTICE </a>
<a title="ORMS Today page 53" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e1c82a9?page=53"> INSIDE 52 PRESIDENT’S AWARD 52 TEACHING AWARD 53 </a>
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<a title="ORMS Today page 63" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e1c82a9?page=63"> Notes </a>
<a title="ORMS Today page 64" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e1c82a9?page=64"> SOFTWAREREVIEW Mathematica 7 Presentation f</a>
<a title="ORMS Today page 65" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e1c82a9?page=65"> Figure 1: Number of downloads for a sample of vid</a>
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<a title="ORMS Today page 71" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e1c82a9?page=71"> C LASSIFIED A DVERTISING JAMES J. SOLBERG HEAD, S</a>
<a title="ORMS Today page 72" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e1c82a9?page=72"> C LASSIFIED A DVERTISING </a>
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<a title="ORMS Today page 74" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e1c82a9?page=74"> ORACLE Russ Ackoff’s Parable B Y D OU</a>
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