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Technical Session Papers
You can still submit an abstract for the 2002 Annual Meeting.  A preliminary meeting program will be available on INFORMS Online (mid-summer) and will be updated regularly as new abstracts are received. This provides the flexibility of a longer time frame in which to accept papers and enables you to present your most up-to-date research the moment it’s finished. All attendees will receive a printed copy of the final INFORMS San Jose 2002 program at the meeting.   

Topic Areas                                  Top
11 Analytic Hierarchy Process
12 Applied Probability
13 Artificial Intelligence
14 Auctions/Competitive Bidding
15 Biotechnology/Bioinformatics
16 Business Applications
17 Business Process Reengineering
18 Cellular Manufacturing
19 Combinatorics
20 Computer Science/Applications
21 Cost/Performance Analysis
22 Data Envelopment Analysis
23 Decision Analysis
24 Decision Support Systems
25 Dynamic Programming/Control
26 E-Business
27 E-Commerce
28 Economics
29 Education
30 Environmental/Natural Resources
31 Expert Systems/Neural Networks
32 Facilities Planning & Design
33 Finance - Risk Management
34 Finance - Theory & Empirics
35 Flexible Manufacturing Systems
36 Forecasting
37 Global Manufacturing
38 Globalization
39 Group Decisions & Negotiation
40 Health Applications
41 Heuristic Programming
42 Industry Applications
43 Information Systems
44 Innovation/Entrepreneurship
45 Integer Programming
46 Intelligent Manufacturing
47 Intelligent Systems
48 Internet Applications
49 Inventory Management
50 Linear Programming
51 Logistics
52 Management of Technology
53 Manufacturing
54 Marketing
55 Military Applications
56 Modeling Systems & Languages
57 Multicriteria Decision Making
58 Networks & Graphs
59 New Product Development
60 Nonlinear Programming
61 Object-oriented Approaches
62 Operations Management
63 Optimization Techniques
64 Organization Theory
65 Planning
66 Probability
67 Production & Scheduling
68 Productivity & Competitiveness
69 Project Management
70 Public Programs/Processes
71 Quality Management
72 Reliability
73 Research & Development
74 Resource Allocation
75 Resource Allocation-Computer & Mfg. Systems
76 Revenue Management
77Risk Analysis
78 Scheduling
79 Semiconductor Industry
80 Service Industry
81 Simulation
82 Sports & Entertainment
83 Statistics/Quality Control
84 Stochastic Processes
85 Strategic Planning
86 Supply Chain Management
87 Telecommunications
88 Transportation 

Date & Time of Your Presentation
Once the preliminary program has been scheduled and posted online (mid-summer) you will receive an email directing you to the online program for the date and time of your presentation, registration, AV requests and other speaker information.  

Questions?

Call 800-343-0062/401-722-2595, meetings@informs.org

CALL FOR POSTERS
You are cordially invited to submit a POSTER for the OR in Practice Poster Session at the INFORMS Annual Meeting. Initiated by the INFORMS Academic/Practitioner Interface Committee (APIC), the poster session aims to showcase the applications of OR/MS in different industries and to stimulate discussion between OR/MS practitioners and academics. This will be a great opportunity to showcase your successes in solving complex real-world problems in OR/MS. 

The poster session will be a multi-day event held in an area near the INFORMS registration desk. We ask the poster authors to be present in the poster session area on Monday, Nov. 18, from 4:00-5:30pm, so that meeting attendees have the opportunity to see your work and discuss it with you. 

OR/MS professionals who would like to share their applied OR/MS work are invited to submit posters. The deadline for abstract and description submission is Sept. 27, 2002. The poster committee will then select approximately 24 posters for display during the conference. Authors of the selected entries will be notified by e-mail by Oct. 4, 2002. 

We look forward to your poster submissions.  If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Kenneth E. Murphy, murphyk@fiu.edu  

Guidelines for Poster Submission

Abstract and Poster Description Guidelines-Due by Sept. 27, 2002

Include a title free of acronyms and mathematical notations. The abstract should be limited to 50 words (file name abstract.doc, MS Word) and accompanied by a one-page description of the poster. Provide a list of the contributors, their affiliations, addresses, e-mails and links to their personal web home pages where applicable. Ensure that the abstract does not contain confidential information. Session organizers will not take any legal responsibility for the contents provided. Send abstract and poster description to Kenneth E. Murphy, murphyk@fiu.edu, phone 305-348-4212, by Sept. 27, 2002.  

Poster Guidelines-Poster due by Oct. 21, 2002
Each exhibit will consist of one poster comprised of three panels: main body (title/overview) panel, left and right panels. A finished panel will measure approximately 28" tall by 22" wide, and each completed three-panel poster will measure approximately 28" tall by 66" wide. INFORMS will produce the final poster at no cost to the authors. 

Provide exactly 13 pages of presentation material:

Ø      One page for the center main body panel, the file name must be mainposter.ppt in MS PowerPoint format.

Ø      Indicate the name(s) of the author(s) who will attend the INFORMS San Jose (all attendees must register and pay the meeting fee)

Ø      Presentation material for the left and right panels (6 pages for each panel), with the file name sideposter.ppt, MS PowerPoint format.

Ø      Maintain a good contrast between background and foreground text

Ø      Avoid acronyms and extensive mathematical notation as much as possible. 

Ø      Poster should not contain any confidential material. Session organizers will not take any legal responsibility for the contents provided. 

The main body panel material will constitute the center panel of the poster display. The panel should be in single-page “portrait” orientation that has concise text and graphical representation of the entire work. This page must include the poster title at the top, full names of all contributors at the bottom, their affiliation, addresses and an email and/or web link. This page should also include one or more of the following: a short description of the problem, the poster abstract, objectives of the work, the methodology utilized, conclusions, relevant diagrams, graphs and charts in order to present an overview for the application. This single page will be blown up to approximately 28” tall by 22” wide for the main body panel. 

The layout of each of the 12 pages, 6 each for the left and right panels, should be in “landscape" orientation.  It is recommended that the font size for the individual pages be at least 32, as the 12 pages will be displayed at approximately the standard page size (8.5” x 11”). The poster will be produced on one large piece of corrugated plastic that can be folded in thirds for easy transport. Following the conference, posters will be the property of the authors. 

Send final poster files to Kenneth E. Murphy, murphyk@fiu.edu, phone 305-348-4212, by Oct. 21, 2002.  

OR in Practice Poster Session Committee

Kenneth E. Murphy, Chair, Florida International University, murphyk@fiu.edu

R. Jean Ruth, General Motors Research and Development Center

Markus Ettl, IBM Research

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