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		<title><![CDATA[Hanover institute gives award]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4183/is_20080416/ai_n25164947]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, based in Hanover, has presented a Dutch railroad with a prestigious award for its schedule restructuring that improved on- time performance. Netherlands Railways was awarded the 2008 Franz Edelman Award for Achievement in Operations Research and the Management Sciences. The annual...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[INFORMS-RASIG: student problem-solving at its best]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1215/is_6_208/ai_n27294523]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[In the May issue (p. 24), Railway Age addressed the industry's need to attract and retain new talent. At the academic level, one of the more useful initiatives is the international student paper competition sponsored by INFORMS-RASIG (Institute for Operations Research and Management Science-Rail Applications Special Interest Group). While the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jun 2007 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Pioneer in Operations Research Awarded 2007 Stockholm Prize in Criminology]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alfred Blumstein Honored for Research into How Criminal Activity Changes over the Life of a Criminal; Updated Statistics Show Largest Spike in Violent Crime in Five Years  PITTSBURGH -- Alfred Blumstein, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University and a pioneer in Operations Research, has been awarded the prestigious 2007...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Dec 2006 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Warner Robins Air Logistics Center Wins 2006 Franz Edelman Award for Achievement in Operations Research]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[HANOVER, Md. & MIAMI -- The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMSR) today announced that Warner Robins Air Logistics Center (WR-ALC) has won the 2006 Franz Edelman Award for Achievement in Operations Research (O.R.) for its entry "Streamlining Aircraft Repair and Overhaul at Warner Robins Air Logistics...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 May 2006 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[''Super Bowl'' of Operations Research Coming to Miami: May 1 - May 2; International Executives Converge at Miami's Hotel InterContinental to Learn How to Make Better Business Decisions]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2006_April_28/ai_n16134465]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[HANOVER, Md. -- This weekend top executives from across the country will descend upon Miami, but they won't be going to the beach. Top leaders from companies like Boeing, Amazon.com, Travelocity, UPS, Proctor & Gamble and IBM will be attending the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences' (INFORMSR)...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Apr 2006 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[INFORMS Announces Inductees into Newly Created Edelman Academy; Academy Honors 35 Years of Franz Edelman Award Winners: A Who's Who of Achievement in Operations Research]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2006_April_24/ai_n16132120]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[HANOVER, Md. -- The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMSR) today announced inductees into the Franz Edelman Academy, which recognizes and honors Franz Edelman Award winners from the 35-year history of the international competition. As the founding year for the Academy, INFORMS will induct past Award winners,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Apr 2006 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Dynamic Pricing Strategies With Reference Effects]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[This paper considers the dynamic pricing problem of a monopolist firm in a market with repeated interactions, where demand is sensitive to the firm's pricing history. Consumers have memory and are prone to human decision making biases and cognitive limitations. As the firm manipulates prices, consumers form a reference price...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2006 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[A Conceptual Model for the Creation of Supply Chain Simulation Models]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=164686]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[This paper presents the development of conceptual models that can be used in the creation of certain types of supply chain simulation projects. The supply chain considered is composed of four elements: suppliers, manufacturer, retailers, and the consumer market. The presented ideas can be used in supply chain simulation projects,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2005 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Delegating Pricing Decisions in Competitive Markets With Symmetric and Asymmetric Information]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=242764]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[This paper examines the issue of price delegation versus centralized pricing in the context of a competitive market. Consistent with the past theoretical literature on price delegation, the contracting framework of agency theory is used. The firm designs and offers an optimal contract that will motivate the salesperson to work...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2005 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This paper investigates the problem of planning marketing mix in dynamic competitive markets. The authors extend the Lanchester model by incorporating interaction effects, constructing the marketing-mix algorithm that yields marketing-mix plans with strategic foresight, and developing the continuous-discrete estimation method to calibrate dynamic models of oligopoly using market data. Both...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Mar 2005 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Time-Varying Competition]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=162163]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Researchers typically assume that competitive intensity is invariant when the demand and cost conditions change. With this assumption, an increase in demand or cost will cause prices to increase. It introduces the notion of time-varying competition to the marketing literature by modeling the indirect effects of demand and cost variables...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Feb 2005 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Module-Based Modeling of Flow-Type Multistage Manufacturing Systems Adopting Dual-Card Kanban System]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=126725]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[A systematic procedure of module-based modeling is designed and proposed to develop a simulation of any flow type multistage manufacturing system adopting especially the dual-card Kanban system. First, functional analysis is performed to present kanban flows exactly in the same fashion in a simulation model as they are actually appeared...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Nov 2004 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Portfolio Credit Risk Analysis Involving CDO Tranches]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=126731]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Credit risk analysis for portfolios containing CDO tranches is a challenging task for risk managers. The paper proposes here a basis function approach for CDO tranche valuation and portfolio risk analysis at horizon, based on a multi-step Monte Carlo simulation model. The idea is to approximate the expected value of...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Nov 2004 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[An Importance Sampling Method for Portfolios of Credit Risky Assets]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=126733]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[This paper describes an importance sampling method that provides substantial speed up for computing economic capital, the rare event quantile of the loss distribution that must be held in reserve by a lending institution for solvency. The method, based solely on correlation information, provides accuracy in the tail while maintaining...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Nov 2004 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Fads and Fallacies in Asset Liability Management for Life Insurance]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=126735]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[This paper examines the principles behind contemporary approaches to insurance risk management. Furthermore, the paper considers various methodologies, some successful, that have been or are currently employed to implement those principles. The paper presents the illustration of these with several specific studies that show the identification, using simulation, of close-to-optimal...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Nov 2004 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[An Architecture for Distributed Simulation Games]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[This paper gives a description of architecture for internet mediated simulation games. A Java based implementation of the services which span the architecture resulted in a "ready to use" design of a simulation core and multiple remote user interfaces. The architecture presented in this paper shows the various possibilities for...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Nov 2004 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Role of Process Simulation and Scheduling Tools in the Development and Manufacturing of Biopharmaceuticals]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=126879]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Pharmaceutical manufacturers generally employ either organic synthesis or biotechnology. Each of these technologies has unique challenges, but batch process simulation and scheduling tools can facilitate process development in both. Batch process simulation is distinct from both traditional chemical process simulation and dynamic simulation and is uniquely suited to pharmaceutical processes....]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Nov 2004 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Outpatient Clinic Scheduling - A Simulation Approach]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=126881]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The process by which outpatients are scheduled for a doctor's visit is a crucial determinant of the overall efficiency of the patient flow. The problem at hand consists of determining prioritization triage rules so that adequate patient care is guaranteed, resources provider schedules are utilized efficiently and a service guarantee...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Nov 2004 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Analyzing Incentives and Scheduling in a Major Metropolitan Hospital Operating Room Through Simulation]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=126882]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[This paper discusses the application of simulation to analyze the value proposition and construction of an incentive program in an Operating Room OR environment. The model was further used to evaluate operational changes including scheduling processes within the OR and utilization rates in areas such as Post Anesthesia Care Unit...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Nov 2004 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[A Queuing Network Approximation of Semiconductor Automated Material Handling Systems: How Much Information Do We Really Need?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=126884]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Queuing networks are sometimes used to model material handling in flexible manufacturing systems. The paper explores the use of a closed queuing network model to approximate an intraday automated material handling system AMHS in semiconductor manufacturing. Rather than solving the model analytically, it proposes simulating it. The classification aids modelers...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Nov 2004 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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