Professional Organizations

AMORE
Algorithmic Methods for Optimizing the Railways in Europe. An EU Research Training Network with participating research groups from Denmark, Germany, Greece, Italy, The Netherlands, and Switzerland.
http://www.inf.uni-konstanz.de/algo/amore

Ant Colony Optimization (ACO)
Studies artificial systems that take inspiration from the behavior of real ant colonies and which are used to solve discrete optimization problems.
http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~mdorigo/ACO/about.html

Decision Sciences Institute
Aids communication between decision science practitioners.
http://www.decisionsciences.org

Deepa & Sanal's Home
Some articles and links on Futures Studies, Systems Thinking and Operations Research.
http://www.sanalnair.org

EURO - Home Page
The Association of European Operational Research Societies
http://www.euro-online.org/

Eurosim
Federation of European Simulation Societies, a forum for regional and national simulation societies to promote the advancement of modelling and simulation in industry, research and development.
http://www.eurosim.info/

IFORS
International Federation Of Operational Research Societies
http://www.ifors.org/

IIE
The Institute of Industrial Engineers.
http://www.iienet.org/

INFORMS- The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences
INFORMS represents professionals in the fields of operations research and the management sciences (OR/MS), and in related fields such as information technology.
http://www.informs.org/

INFORMS Transactions on Education (ITE)
ITE is a refereed electronic journal on management science and operations research (MS/OR) education.
http://ite.informs.org/

International Society of Parametric Analysts (ISPA)
Promotes parametric cost modeling techniques and methodologies and the related fields of risk analysis, econometrics, design-to-cost, technology forecasting, and management.
http://www.ispa-cost.org/

Mathematical Programming Society
An international organization dedicated to the promotion and the maintenance of high professional standards in the subject of mathematical programming. It publishes the journals Mathematical Programming A and B, consisting of technical articles on all aspects of the subject; the MPS/SIAM Series on Optimization, comprising monographs and texts on particular optimization topics; and the newsletter Optima. Every three years the Society sponsors the International Symposium on Mathematical Programming. Every other year it supports the Conference on Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization (IPCO). It awards a number of the most prestigious prizes in the field. The Society also sponsors and supports other meetings and activities in mathematical programming throughout the world.
http://www.mathprog.org/

Metaheuristics Network
To improve the understanding of how metaheuristics work.
http://www.metaheuristics.net/

Military Operations Research Society
A full range of theoreticians, practitioners and users of military analysis.
http://www.mors.org

Optimization Software Guide
A NEOS guide.
http://www-fp.mcs.anl.gov/otc/Guide/SoftwareGuide/

The OR Society
Provides training, conferences, publications and information to those working in Operational Research. Features study groups, regional societies, training, publications, conferences and news.
http://www.theorsociety.com/

RAND Corporation
A nonprofit institution that helps improve policy and decisionmaking through research analysis.
http://www.rand.org/

Stochastic Programming E-Print Series
Requires subscription.
http://dochost.rz.hu-berlin.de/speps/