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FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS: ABSTRACT SUBMISSION CLOSES ON MONDAY 16 JUNE OR 56 Annual Conference of the Operational Research Society Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, 9 – 11 September 2014 *** OR IN SPORT *** Call for papers for this stream Further details and abstract submission here: http://www.theorsociety.com/or56/ Sport is now arguably a major sector of business and industry. Sport is consumed by billions worldwide; tournaments that were once the purely of interest to the participants themselves are now packaged for light entertainment through the medium of television. Consequently, the management of sport has become a subject of academic study and operational researchers recognise that there are technical questions that arise in sporting contexts that are interesting and unique. In particular, sport provides a rich and fascinating area in which to model decision problems, not least because sporting contests are subject to strict regulations. There are open tactical questions. For example: given the state of a game, what playing strategy should a player or players adopt? How can playing strategy be quantified? Can a competitive advantage be gained through the use of modelling? The design and scheduling of tournaments continues to absorb the attention of optimizers. There are opportunities to work with the sports industry, tackle interesting decision problems in this industry, to publish research applied to sport, and to generate good publicity for OR. The so-called “Duckworth Lewis method”, used for setting revised targets in rain-interrupted one-day cricket matches, is a case in point. Sport itself requires little definition; we just note that the terms sport and the sports industry will be interpreted liberally and contributions to the stream that are broad ranging are invited. Phil Scarf OR in Sport stream organiser Centre for Sports Business Salford Business School You may leave the list at any time by sending the command SIGNOFF allstat to [log in to unmask], leaving the subject line blank.