报告题目：Overview of Best Practices for Engaging with INFORMS Journal on Computing

报告人：Auburn University (USA) 

报告时间：2025年04月23日 上午10:00 –12:00

报告地点：腾讯会议 416-492-384  密码:0423

邀请人：人工智能系 黄敏教授

报告内容摘要：

This talk will discuss the journal INFORMS Journal on Computing – its scope and mission, and its history. Also covered will be the current state of the journal, especially technical areas. Then, best practices for engaging with the journal as author, reviewer, and even editor, will be presented.  Finally, emerging research directions that would be good fits for the journal will be put forward.

报告人简介：

ALICE E. SMITH is the Joe W. Forehand, Jr. Distinguished Professor of the Industrial and Systems Engineering Department at Auburn University.  Her research focus is analysis, modeling, and optimization of complex systems with emphasis on computation inspired by natural systems integrated with traditional operations research and statistical approaches.She holds one U.S. patent and several international patents and has authored publications which have garnered over 18,000 citations, an H Index of 52, and an i10 Index of 134 (Google Scholar).  Dr. Smith has been a principal investigator on over $12 million of sponsored research with funding by Department of Homeland Security, NASA, U.S. Department of Defense, Missile Defense Agency, National Security Agency, NIST, U.S. Department of Transportation, Frontier Technologies Inc., Lockheed Martin, Adtranz (now Bombardier Transportation), the Ben Franklin Technology Center of Western Pennsylvania, and U.S. National Science Foundation, from which she has been awarded 18 distinct grants including a CAREER grant and an ADVANCE Leadership grant.  Dr. Smith is a member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), a Life Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), a Fellow of the Institute for Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS), a Fellow of the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE), a senior member of the Society of Women Engineers, a member of Tau Beta Pi, and a Registered Professional Engineer.  She currently serves as Editor in Chief of INFORMS Journal on Computing and as Area Editor of Computers & Operations Research.