The origins of Operations Research are Management Science are firmly embedded in the public sector. A confluence of events following World War II resulted in a dramatic and enduring change in the way decisions were made in public organizations. Operations Research was invented and applied mainly by civilian scientis in support of the war effort. From its inception, Operations Research sought to use scientific methods to get the most out of available resources. Immediately following the war, many of these scientists were retained by the military departments to apply newly developed quantitative methods to aid defense decisions. The forerunners of the RAND Corporation, the Institute for Defense Analyses, the Center for Naval Analyses, and the MITRE Corporation were formed during this period.
The 1990's brought a surge of activity in Analyses to Support Public Sector Decision Making. Cost and Operational Effectiveness Analysis is now institutionalized as an integral part of the defense acquisition process. Cost-effectiveness analysis is used to support wide ranging public decisions, spanning health care policy, public sector reengineering activities, analysis of regulatory costs and benefits, and others. In the 1990s we have seen a rejuvenation of analytical support for decision making.
In some sense, the Washington INFORMS meeting represents a homecoming, a celebration of our public sector origins and productive history. In another sense it represents our future. Never before has there been such demand for Operations Research as government resources become more constrained. The intent of the meeting is to stimulate an exchange of ideas among researchers and practicioners, an exchange that will contribute to the continued evolutionary growth of our discipline.
It is INFORMS policy not to accept more than one contributed paper from the same lead author. All correspondence will be with the lead author. For further information on contributed papers, contact Michael Fu. Overhead projectors are provided for presentations. Arrangements for other special equipment must be made ahead of time and at your expense. For such arrangements, contact Ruth Anderson.
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TOPIC AREAS
Please list in the abstract submission form on the back of this call for papers
the keywords or topic areas most closely related to your paper. If other keywords are more appropriate, please insert them on the submission form.
01 Accounting
02 Agile Manufacturing
03 Acquisition Analysis
04 Applied Probability
05 Artificial Intelligence
06 Business Case Analysis
07 Business Process Engineering
08 C^3I
09 CALS
10 Combat Modeling
11 Combinatorics
12 Computer Integrated Manufacturing
13 Cost Analysis
14 Cost-Benefit Analysis
15 Data Envelopment Analysis
16 Cost-Effectiveness Analysis
17 Decision Analysis
18 Decision Support Systems
19 Dynamic Programming
20 Economics
21 Electronic Commerce
22 Engineering Management
23 Enterprise Intergration
24 Environment/Natural Resources
25 Expert Systems
26 Facilities Planning
27 Flexible Manufacturing Systems
28 Finance
29 Forecasting/Time Series Analysis
30 Group Decision/Negotiations
31 Health Applications
32 Information Systems
33 Integer Programming
34 Intelligent Manufacturing Systems
35 Linear Programming
36 Logistics
37 Marketing Science
38 Military Operations Research
39 Multiple Criteria Decision Making
40 Networks and Graphs
41 Nonlinear Programming
42 Operations Management
43 Organization Theory
44 Performance Budgeting
45 Planning
46 Policy Analysis
47 Process Modeling
48 Product Data Exchange
49 Productivity Analysis
50 Project Management
51 Public Sector Applications
52 Quality Management
53 Queueing
54 Reinventing Government
55 Reliability
56 Resource Allocation
57 Risk Analysis
58 Scheduling
59 Search and Detection
60 Software Engineering Economics
61 Simulation
62 Statistics
63 Stochastic Processes
64 Systems Dynamics
65 Systems Analysis
66 Telecommunications
67 Transportation
68 Virtual Manufacturing