Interfaces: An International Journal of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences will release the issue on April 30, 2001. The special issue will be available free online at http://pubsonline.informs.org/
A companion site is currently available at http://www2.informs.org/ebiz/interfaces
The issue includes studies by researchers at UCLA; Carnegie Mellon University; Georgia Institute of Technology; Northwestern University; Scient; SAS Institute; and Sabre, Inc.
The articles cover:
- Internet-Enabled Supply Chains and Electronic Marketplaces
- E-Commerce and Operations Research in Airline Planning, Marketing, and Distribution
- Applying Quantitative Marketing Techniques to the Internet
- Operations Research in E-Business
- Optimization as an Internet Resource
- Decision Support with Web-Enabled Software
The special issue's editors are Prof. Arthur M. Geoffrion, James A. Collins Professor of Management, John E. Anderson Graduate School of Management, UCLA; and Ramayya Krishnan, William W. and Ruth F. Cooper Professor of Management Science and Information Systems, Heinz School of Public Policy and Management, Carnegie Mellon University.
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