Dear recipients
Please consider submitting for this SI of Annals of OR on the theme of
"Policy Analytics".
See below or the link at http://rutcor.rutgers.edu/POLICY_ANALYTICS.pdf.
Apologies for cross-posting
With best wishes
Alec
Call for Papers
Annals of Operations Research
Special Volume: Policy Analytics
The Annals of Operations Research seeks submissions for a special volume
on Policy Analytics. The deadline for submission is 31 October 2012.
The background to the special issue is as follows. The last few decades
have seen rapid growth in the capacity of businesses to exploit IT, OR
and statistical modelling to collect and process operational and market
data in order to support decisions. As a result, business analytics has
become a flourishing field for consulting and business education. In
contrast, while government decisions are often supported by traditional
policy analysis, few government departments and agencies have yet
managed to make the systematic use of data, evidence, OR methods and
cutting-edge modeling. In this call, we therefore invite papers which
apply the methods and ideas of "analytics" to problems arising in the
operational management of public services and in policy making.
Submissions could concern policy making or delivery in areas such as
healthcare, social or municipal services, national security and border
protection, the provision of welfare benefits, the collection of
taxation, the protection of the environment or the allocation of natural
resources, the administration of the civil or criminal justice system,
educational provision, economic regulation, industrial and cultural
policy, or any of the other tasks which governments undertake.
This special issue seeks papers presenting both conceptual advances and
innovative applications, recognising that public sector applications
must balance the need for robust and convincing analysis with legitimate
public expectations about transparency and opportunities for
participation. Papers may deal with contributions through different
phases of the policy cycle: from issue identification; policy testing
and analysis; to policy implementation and evaluation.
Contributions from Decision Theory, Social Choice Theory, Measurement
Theory, Welfare Economics, Policy Analysis and related fields are
encouraged. Papers which show how recent IT innovations (in social
networks, distributed and/or cloud computing, machine learning,
knowledge extraction, artificial intelligence, data mining) and
operational research methods (problem structuring, multi-criteria
decision analysis, optimization techniques, evaluation models) have
shaped the broad area of policy analytics are also particularly welcome.
Instructions for authors can be found at:
http://www.springer.com/business/operations+research/journal/10479
Authors should submit a cover letter and a manuscript by 31 October 2012
via the Journal's online submission site. Manuscripts submitted after
the deadline may not be considered for the special volume and may be
transferred to a regular volume.
Please see the Author Instructions on the web site if you have not yet
submitted a paper through Springer's web-based system, Editorial
Manager. Be sure to note in the Manuscript Comment text that your work
is intended for the special volume and to select the article type
"Policy Analytics."
Papers will be subject to a strict review process managed by the Guest
Editors and accepted papers will be published online individually,
before print publication. The refereeing cycle will take place through
2013 and our target print publication date is 2014.
Guest Editors:
Katherine Daniell, Australian National University Alec Morton, London
School of Economics David Rios Insua, Royal Academy of Sciences, Spain
Alec Morton
Lecturer in Operational Research and Departmental Tutor, BSc Management
Sciences Department of Management London School of Economics and
Political Science http://www2.lse.ac.uk/management/people/amorton.aspx
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