BALTIMORE, MD, May 24, 2025 – Most anti-human trafficking efforts focus on breaking up sex sales; however, new research in the INFORMS journal Manufacturing & Service Operations Management is turning its attention to where trafficking truly begins – recruitment. Using machine learning to analyze millions of online ads, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have uncovered patterns that link deceptive job offers to sex trafficking networks. By mapping the connections between recruitment and sales locations, the study reveals a hidden supply chain – one that can now be exposed and interrupted earlier in the trafficking process.
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Communicating “I have some good news and some bad news” is better than combining messages into a single, bleak result when small gains and large losses occur together, according to a study in the current issue of Management Science, the flagship journal of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS®).
The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS®) today announced its 2009 Board of Directors, which took office at the beginning of the year. Don N. Kleinmuntz is the 2009 President of INFORMS.
The application of operations research and analytics to streamlining its millions of product configurations allowed HP to win the 2009 Franz Edelman Award for Achievement in Operations Research and the Management Sciences at a banquet in Phoenix tonight.
The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS®) last night announced the award of the INFORMS Prize to Intel. The ceremony took place at an INFORMS meeting, Applying Science to the Art of Business: the 2009 INFORMS Conference on Operations Research Practice at the Sheraton Phoenix Downtown.
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