Posted by: | Jeroen Belien |
Date: | 2020-04-22 |
Contact: | [email protected] |
INFORMS is the prominent organization of Analytics professionals and academics, and publisher of multiple highly rated Journals. INFORMS Transactions on Education is the INFORMS journal focused on advancing and disseminating approaches, cases and research that lead to instructional success. ITE’s mission is to become the flagship journal of education science related to the core domains of INFORMS: Management Science (MS), Operations Research (OR), Operations Management (OM) and analytics.
Case-based learning is essential to transitioning analytics from textbooks to the real-world. Though “real-world”, often, cases are fictitious, however, perhaps leaving students with the sense that they are still toy problems and not truly ‘real’. There are a host of real-world applications in the INFORMS Journal on Applied Analytics (IJAA; formerly Interfaces) which demonstrate actual application, but beyond broad conceptualization, are often difficult for students and practitioners to grasp in detail.
There is a real opportunity to improve on both of these initiatives by creating cases that are based directly on IJAA articles. ITE case users can point directly to the real-world application of using exactly these methods to garner real-world benefits by assigning IJAA readings prior to or subsequent to case assignment. IJAA readers can get practice data sets to convert conceptual understanding to hands-on capabilities. Researchers might use case data sets to explore other solution approaches than that presented in IJAA.
Example topics for potential submissions include, but are not limited to:
Authors should review the INFORMS Transactions on Education instructions on preparing a paper at: https://pubsonline.informs.org/page/ited/submission-guidelines
Papers must be submitted online at:
https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ite
The timeline is as follows:
Publication contacts information for the Special Issue Editors:
Michael F. Gorman
University of Dayton
Jeroen Belien
KU Leuven