{"id":1864,"date":"2014-08-06T15:47:51","date_gmt":"2014-08-06T19:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/?p=1864"},"modified":"2014-08-06T15:47:51","modified_gmt":"2014-08-06T19:47:51","slug":"the-baa-readth-of-operations-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/2014\/08\/06\/the-baa-readth-of-operations-research\/","title":{"rendered":"The Baa-readth of Operations Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fac-mtrick02.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMG_20140806_150251.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1866\" src=\"https:\/\/fac-mtrick02.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMG_20140806_150251.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_20140806_150251\" width=\"106\" height=\"142\" \/><\/a>At the recent<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ifors.org\"> International Federation of Operational Research Society (IFORS) <\/a>meeting in Barcelona (a fabulous conference, by the way), I had the honor of being nominated as President of that &#8220;society of societies&#8221;. \u00a0If elected, my term will start January 1, 2016, so I get a bit of a head start in planning.<\/p>\n<p>I was looking through one of the IFORS publications,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.palgrave-journals.com\/iaor\/index.html\"><em>International Ab<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1867\" src=\"https:\/\/fac-mtrick02.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMG_20140806_150201.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_20140806_150201\" width=\"240\" height=\"320\" \/>stracts in Operations Research<\/em><\/a>. \u00a0I am sure I will write about this more, since I think this is a very nice publication looking for its purpose in the age of Google. \u00a0This journal publishes the abstracts of any paper in operations research, including papers published in non-OR journals. \u00a0In doing so, it can be more useful than Google, since there is no need to either limit keywords (&#8220;Sports AND Operations Research&#8221;) or sift through tons of irrelevant links.<\/p>\n<p>I was scanning through the subject categories of the recent issue of <em>IAOR<\/em>\u00a0to find papers published in &#8220;sports&#8221;. \u00a0I saw something really quite impressive. \u00a0Can you see what caught my eye?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fac-mtrick02.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/sheep.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1868\" src=\"https:\/\/fac-mtrick02.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/sheep.jpg\" alt=\"sheep\" width=\"120\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a>Sheep! \u00a0There are five papers about operations research and sheep. \u00a0They come from different journals, so there was not a &#8220;Special Issue on Sheep and Operations Research&#8221;. \u00a0I love being part of a field where, in a single two month period, there can be five different papers on the application of that field to sheep. \u00a0 There are also two on &#8220;cattle&#8221; and two on &#8220;pigs&#8221;. \u00a0 \u00a0And 10 on &#8220;crop yield&#8221;!<\/p>\n<p>With only one &#8220;sports&#8221; paper, perhaps I have backed myself into an unfashionable sub-area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the recent International Federation of Operational Research Society (IFORS) meeting in Barcelona (a fabulous conference, by the way), I had the honor of being nominated as President of that &#8220;society of societies&#8221;. \u00a0If elected, my term will start January 1, 2016, so I get a bit of a head start in planning. I was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/2014\/08\/06\/the-baa-readth-of-operations-research\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Baa-readth of Operations Research&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-applications","category-ifors"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}