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<br /> AWARDS GALORE: INFORMS honors its best and brightest<br /> December 2017<br /> Volume 44 • Number 6<br /> ormstoday.informs.org<br /> Working on the<br /> Dark side of<br /> the moon<br /> INFORMS<br /> member’s<br /> new book offers<br /> first-hand look at secretive<br /> National Security Agency<br /> Also Inside:<br /> Roundtable profile:<br /> O.R. at Kroger<br /> Data visualization:<br /> Present data in a powerful,<br /> credible way<br /> NSF:<br /> Reviewing the peer-review<br /> process<br /> Visibility and awareness<br /> Q&A: Incoming INFORMS President<br /> Nick Hall outlines a bold strategy<br /> WHY CHOOSE AIMMS PRO?<br /> Discover how we can meet the unique needs of your business.<br /> User Friendly<br /> Interactive dashboards in a web browser provide<br /> analytics and decision support organization-wide.<br /> Configurable<br /> Create custom apps - from Network Optimization<br /> to Portfol<a title="ORMS Today - December2017 page 1" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/253209e3?page=1"> AWARDS GALORE: INFORMS honors its best and bright</a> <a title="ORMS Today - December2017 page 2" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/253209e3?page=2"> WHY CHOOSE AIMMS PRO? Discover how </a> <a title="ORMS Today - December2017 page 3" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/253209e3?page=3"> Spreadsheets Your Preferred Medium for doing Opti</a> <a title="ORMS Today - December2017 page 4" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/253209e3?page=4"> Contents December 2017 | Volume 44, No. 6 | o</a> <a title="ORMS Today - December2017 page 5" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/253209e3?page=5"> Welcome to Analytic Solver® Cloud-based Optimiza</a> <a title="ORMS Today - December2017 page 6" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/253209e3?page=6"> December 2017 | Volume 44, No. 6 | ormstoday.</a> <a title="ORMS Today - December2017 page 7" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/253209e3?page=7"> What's Your StORy? Rozhin Doroudi PhD studen</a> <a title="ORMS Today - December2017 page 8" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/253209e3?page=8"> Inside Story Peter Horner, editor peter.hor</a> <a title="ORMS Today - December2017 page 9" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/253209e3?page=9"> Is your solver provider getting in the way of you</a> <a title="ORMS Today - December2017 page 10" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/253209e3?page=10"> President’s Desk Brian Denton INFORMS Presi</a> <a title="ORMS Today - December2017 page 11" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/253209e3?page=11"> I encourage you to seek out “unconscious reviewe</a> <a title="ORMS Today - December2017 page 12" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/253209e3?page=12"> ForumBy Sheldon H. 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