The COVID-19 pandemic forces instructors worldwide to adopt courses for online and/or blended learning. This virtual special issue includes twelve articles showcasing excellent examples and best practices of online teaching of courses in Operations Research (OR), Management Science (MS), Analytics, and related fields.

The INFORMS Case Competition is designed to encourage the creation, dissemination, and use of new, unpublished cases in operations research and the management sciences. All submissions and supporting documentation are due by July 31, 2020 . All cases will be reviewed by a panel of judges familiar with the case method. To learn more about the competition, please click here .

Call for Papers

Special Issue of INFORMS Transactions on Education: Integrating Artificial Intelligence in ORMS/A Education

Submission Deadline:

April 30, 2020

Methodologies from management science (MS), operations research (OR), and analytics play a central role in artificial intelligence (AI), and many applications within the field of operations management (OM) use AI-based techniques. This special issue focuses on teaching AI concepts within MS/OR/OM and analytics courses.

Example topics for potential submissions include, but are not limited to:

Teaching modules that highlight and integrate AI methodology for solving OR/OM/analytics problems, and/or highlight and integrate OR/OM/analytics methodology within AI;

Successful classroom collaborations between computer scientists and operations researchers to bridge the two disciplines;

Survey on teaching AI through case studies or classroom games;

A case study or classroom game on using AI for a particular application (e.g., inventory management, network design, supplier selection, delivery planning and scheduling, etc.);

Use of AI techniques for improving (the organization of) teaching (e.g., use of neural networks or machine learning techniques to find hidden patterns in student performance data); and

Study on the importance of including AI in business programs.

Click here to read more about the Special Issue of INFORMS Transactions on Education.