Special Issue on "Service Mining:  Market, Technology, and Application"

With the growth of the significant revenue of service industry around the world, service-dominant (SD) logic based service mining is worth investigating to help enterprises to gain and create values with customers. This special issue is to devote to the exploration from four dimensions across different disciplines with regard to the issue of mining “services” under Service Science. . Submission deadline is January 31, 2013, for more information access the Call for Papers.

Rakesh Sarin 

The INFORMS board has approved the appointment of Rakesh Sarin as the next Editor-in-Chief of Decision Analysis. This is his first term for the period of January 1, 2013 – December 31, 2015. He is the Paine Chair in Management at the UCLA Anderson School of Management (Decision, Operations & Technology Management).

Jiangang (Jim) Dai 

The INFORMS board has approved the appointment of Jiangang (Jim) Dai as the next Editor-in-Chief of Mathematics of Operations Research. This is his first term for the period of January 1, 2013 – December 31, 2015. He is Edenfield Professor at the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology.

David L. Woodruff 

The INFORMS board has approved the appointment of David L. Woodruff as the next Editor-in-Chief of INFORMS Journal on Computing. This is his first term for the period of January 1, 2013 – December 31, 2015. He is a professor of management at the Graduate School of Management, University of California, Davis.

Armann Ingolfsson 

The INFORMS board has approved the appointment of Armann Ingolfsson as the next Editor-in-Chief of INFORMS Transactions on Education. This is his first term for the period of January 1, 2013 – December 31, 2015. He is an associate professor of operations management and academic director of the Centre for Excellence in Operations at the University of Alberta School of Business.

Daniel A. Levinthal  

The INFORMS board has approved the reappointment of Daniel A. Levinthal as Editor-in-Chief of Organization Science. This is his second term for the period of January 1, 2013 – December 31, 2015. He is the Reginald H. Jones Professor of Corporate Management at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.

INFORMS is excited to announce that the journal Decision Analysis has received its first impact factor. Decision Analysis has an impact factor of 2.143 in the management category ranking it 38 out of 167 journals. Go to the website for the latest information on Decision Analysis.

As of June 1, 2012, authors are required to submit their manuscripts electronically through Mathematics of Operation Research's ScholarOne Manuscripts. Instructions for accessing this site as well as creating an account and uploading manuscripts are available on the "Instructions to Authors" page on the MOR website.

We look forward to receiving your submissions!

Daniel Levinthal will complete his first three-year term as Organization Science editor in chief at the end of 2012. The president of INFORMS has appointed a committee to conduct a strategic review to understand the state of the journal, to identify new issues, new challenges and new ideas, and to listen to the journal’s customers.Organization Science has evolved to become one of the premier international journals in management and organization theory. All INFORMS members are welcome to send their input to Jesper Sorensen, committee chair, at sorensen@stanford.edu by June 15, 2012. More information can be found here.

Special Issue on "Cloud Computing as a Service"

Cloud computing is a new way of delivering computing services. The flexibility, scalability, and cost-effectiveness of cloud computing provides tremendous business opportunities to customers. This special issue provides a global forum for presenting research results on various aspects of cloud computing as a service. Submission deadline is July 1, 2012, for more information access the Call for Papers.

Special Issue on "Business Analytics"

Organizations today have access to enormous data sets, and sophisticated business analytical tools are needed to harness the tremendous potential of these data to improve day-to-day decision making. To encourage further developments in this rapidly growing area of interdisciplinary research, Management Science will publish a special issue dedicated to business analytics. Submission deadline is September 16, 2012, for more information access the Call for Papers.