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Back MatterSource: Operations Research, Vol. 20, No. 4 (Jul. - Aug., 1972), pp. 920-viiiPublished by: INFORMSStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/169448 .
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A announcement SCHEDULE OF FUTURE SOCIETY MEETINGS
No. Dates Location Chairman
42 November 8-10, Atlantic City ROBERT M. STARK
1972 University of Delaware Newark, Del. 19711
43 May 9-11, 1973 Milwaukee JAMES M. BANTON
Rex Chain Belt, Inc. 16455 W. Bluemound Brookfield, Wisc. 53005
44 Nov. 12-14, 1973 San Diego JOSEPH V. RAVENIS, II General Dynamics Corp. Research & Advanced Tech. P.O. Box 127 MS 7-15 San Diego, Calif. 92112
45 April 22-24, 1974 Boston ARNOLDO HAX
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Sloan School of Management E53-309
50 Memorial Drive Cambridge, Mass. 02139
46 Oct. 16-18, 1974 San Juan, ARMANDO RIESCO P.R. Dept. of Indus. Engr.
Univ. of Puerto Rico Mayaguez, P. R.
47 Spring 1975 Chicago WILLIAM PIERSKALLA
D)ept. of Indus. Engr. Northwestern University Evanston, Ill. 60201
48 Fall 1975 Las Vegas PAUL H. RANDOLPH
Mathematics Department New Mexico State Univ. Las Cruces, N.M. 88001
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OPERATIONS RESEARCH
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1. M. BELLMORE AND G. L. NEMHAUSER, "The Traveling Salesman Problem: A Survey," Opns. Res. 16, 538-558 (1968).
2. PHILIP M. MORSE AND GEORGE E. KIMBALL, Methods of Operations Research, The Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1951.
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OPERATIONS RESEARCH
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OPERA TIONS RESEARCH publishes papers of interest to significant groups of operations research workers; they may be contributions to the methods
of operations research, case histories, review articles, or discussions of such subjects as the history, policy, practice, future, or arenas of application of operations re- search. Their content must be substantial, rather than trivial, and they should detail methods, as well as report results. Worthy contributions of less substantial content, and short notes, appear as Technical Notes or Letters to the Editor.
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1. Does this paper make a new and substantial contribution to the literature of operations research? If so, what is this contribution? Will it be of interest to a significant group of OR workers, either now or in the future?
2. Is it an original contribution to the methods of operations research? Or is it a case history, a review, or a discussion of a subject such as the history, policy, practice, future, or an arena of application of operations research? Is its charac- ter clear from title, abstract, and text?
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1972-1973 Operations Research Society of America
OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY
President: LESLIE C. EDIE, The Port of New York Authority, 111 Eighth Avenue, New York, NY 10011
Vice President: ROBERT M. OLIVER, Operations Research Center, 3115 Etcheverry Hall, University of Cali- fornia, Berkeley, CA 94720
Secretary: JACK R. BORSTING, Department of Operations Research & Administrative Sciences, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA 93940
Treasurer: DAVID M. BOODMAN Arthur D. Little, Inc. Acorn Park, Cambridge, MA 02140
COUNCIL OF THE SOCIETY 1970-73 Past President: THOMAS E. CAYWOOD, Caywood-
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1971-74 Past President: W. EDWARD CUSHEN, Technical
Analysis Division, National Bureau of Standards, Washington, DC 20234
1972-75 Past President: ROBERT E. MACHOL, Graduate School
of Management, Northwestern Uni- versity, 339 East Chicago Avenue, Chicago, IL 60611
1970-73 CLINTON J. ANCKER, JR., Department of
Industrial & Systems Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90007
JOHN D. C. LITTLE, Operations Research Center, 24-215, Mass. Inst. of Tech- nology, Cambridge, MA 02139
1971-74 GEORGE L. NEMHAUSER, Department of
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