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A New IFORS Journal Is Born! Volume 16 | Number 1 | March 2021 | ISSN 2223-4373 International Federation of Operational Research Societies NEWS From the President What’s Inside 1 From the President A New IFORS journal is Born! Grazia Speranza Grazia Speranza <[email protected]> 2 From the Editor-in-Chief The International Transactions in Operational Sunity Shrestha Hada Research (ITOR) has been the flagship journal of IFORS since its launch in 1994. The journal has 2 OR Impact served the IFORS community for a number of years Transforming Food Production and with publishing the proceedings of conferences and Supply with OR/Analytics the biographies of key figures in the OR field, who now belong to the IFORS Hall of Fame (https://www. 6 OR and Development ifors.org/ifors-hall-of-fame/)The scientific editorial Disaster Mitigation: Leveraging world substantially evolved over time, furthermore Community Involvement to Improve the ITOR mission expanded and began to publish Water Access in sub-Saharan Africa high-quality scientific papers, capable of attracting citations. The initial goal for ITOR was to be indexed 9 Tutorial and then to increase the value of the key indicator of Integer Programming formulations the success of a journal, its impact factor. Thanks to the for the Vertex Coloring Problem commitment of the Editor-in-Chief, Celso Ribeiro, and the editorial board of the journal, year after year, ITOR has improved its impact factor (current 12 IFORS Award 2020 for OR in impact factor: 2.987 ) and has become one of the leading journals for the OR community. Development a) Optimal Investment Strategies In addition to a well-established flagship journal, a global society such as IFORS has to Minimize Flood Impact on Road the responsibility to introduce new ventures. We asked ourselves: What should be the Infrastructure Systems in Vietnam, mission of a new IFORS journal? What will make it different from the other OR journals, GCRF-OSIRIS in particular, from those related to scientific societies? IFORS gathers the global OR community. Therefore, we focused on a journal with a theme of global interest. This is b) JalTantra: Impacting the Practice of how the new IFORS journal on Sustainability Analytics and Modeling (SAM) was born. Rural Water Network Design in India 14 NORAM Webinar Sustainability is a word that is often associated with climate change, but has in fact a much O.R. in North America: broader meaning. In 1983 the United Nations General Assembly realized that there was a Sustainability and O.R. deterioration trend of the human environment and of the natural resources that needed to be reversed. The so-called Brundtland Commission was established with the mission to 18 IFORS Journal unite countries to pursue sustainable development. The Commission was chaired by Gro Sustainability Analytics and Harlem Brundtland, a former Prime Minister of Norway, chosen for her strong background Modeling (SAM) in the sciences and public health. The Brundtland Commission released in 1987 a report titled ‘Our Common Future’, where the expression sustainable development was defined 20 Conferences as development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability Conferences, webinars and summer of future generations to meet their own needs. The three main pillars of sustainable school reports development are: economic growth, environmental protection, and social equality. While most people agree that each of these three pillars contribute to the overall idea of 68 Book Review sustainability, unequal levels of initiatives are observed for the three pillars in countries' Even Convexity and Optimization policies worldwide. While an overwhelming number of countries put economic growth Handling Strict Inequalities on the forefront of sustainable development, the other two pillars have been suffering. 71 Francisco Sagasti With the launching of the journal Sustainability Analytics and Modeling, IFORS aims The President of Peru at attracting the interest of our community to the topic of sustainable development in the broadest sense. Papers published in SAM will contribute through mathematical 72 Editorial Box modeling, optimization, data analysis, and other analytical approaches to the battle for a sustainable development of our planet. P. 1 • IFORS NEWS March 2021 Editorial Sunity Shrestha Hada <[email protected]> The March issue includes all the permanent sections articles Convexity and Optimization and some more interesting news revolving around OR Handling Strict Inequalities’ community. This issue starts with the editorial from the reviewed by Gerhard-Wilhelm president of IFORS Grazia Speranza who shares information Weber, Joanna Małecka and about the new IFORS Journal Sustainability Analytics and Dominik Czerkawski . Modeling (SAM). This issue covers the news about the IFORS- ITOR-Wiley best paper awards. The extended abstracts of There have been many webinars IFORS Award 2020 are being presented in the newsletter from being organized around the September issue. Two papers in each issue among six finalists world during the COVID-19 are published. This issue presents last two finalist papers from period. In this issue Gerhard- Vietnam and India. Wilhelm Weber has a collection of 25 conferences reports. The Tutorial section presents an article on ‘Integer Programming formulations for the Vertex Coloring Problem’. And finally, the news on Francisco Sagasti, the President of The OR Impact section comes up with an article on Peru, is covered by Paul Randall. Mr. Sagasti is an OR personality ‘Transforming Food Production and Supply with OR/Analytics’. and him being the president of Peru is really a great pride for The OR Development section covers the paper from Africa on OR community. ‘Disaster Mitigation: Leveraging Community Involvement to Improve Water Access in sub-Saharan Africa’. There are still the presences of Corona in various places in the globe due to which we are having hybrid conferences (mix of The 4th IFORS global webinar organized by NORAM has been physical and virtual meetings). Let’s hope the situation will reported by Karla Hoffman. The 5th IFORS global webinar will be improve soon and the world will come together with no social held in late March 2021 by AFROS, the African OR community. distancing. The book review section includes an edited book ‘Even OR Impact Section Editors: Sue Merchant <[email protected]>; John Ranyard <[email protected]> Transforming Food Production and Supply with Daniel Jimenez, Julian Ramirez (Alliance Bioversity – CIAT), Andrea Gardeazabal, Centro OR/Analytics Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maíz y Trigo (CIMMYT), Robin Lougee (National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine) <[email protected]> OVERVIEW The world food supply is insufficient to feed millions of people and the current COVID-19 pandemic is making matters worse by disrupting food supply chains, crippling economies and eroding consumer purchasing power. Paradoxically, this is happening at a time of enormous global food surpluses [1]. The growing use of data collected the developing world. Then we describe in detail a recent via sensors, drones, satellites, mobile phones and other award-winning project in Mexico. novel technologies, enables farms and farmers to produce more for less – less fertilizer, less water and less land. The ORGANISATIONS’ CONTRIBUTIONS revolution is happening in both developed and developing The annual INFORMS Edelman competition awards a countries, but there’s a big gap between the two worlds. prize for the best implemented OR application from many submissions. In 2015 the prize was awarded to Syngenta In this article the contributions of several organisations for “Good Growth through Advanced Analytics”, which is which focus on these problems are first described, together enabling the creation of an efficient and effective soybean with some of the rapidly increasing research studies and breeding strategy. Key to the new strategy is the combination applications from the OR/Analytics community. These of advanced analytics and plant-breeding knowledge involve the use of agricultural data bases and modern to find opportunities to increase crop productivity and analytics and OR techniques to transform the efficiency optimize plant-breeding processes, which was estimated to of food production and supply globally, but particularly in save more than $287 million between 2012 and 2016 [2]. P. 2 • IFORS NEWS March 2021 Following this achievement, the INFORMS’ Analytics Society and Syngenta sponsored an annual competition, the Syngenta Crop Challenge in Analytics, in 2016, which aims to stimulate the use of OR and Analytics to improve agricultural practice [3]. As world population increases and arable land decreases, it becomes vital to improve the productivity of the agricultural land available. Companies like Syngenta strive to provide varieties of their crops to meet this need. In 2018 a team, including joint authors of this article, Daniel Jimenez and Julian Ramirez, from The International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) in Colombia won the Syngenta Crop Challenge [4]. The INFORMS Analytics Society also promotes an annual Innovative Applications in Analytics Award (IAAA), which in 2020 was won by an agriculture project based in Mexico, which is the main focus of this article(See MAIN PROJECT below). In addition, the INFORMS Daniel H. Wagner Prize for Excellence in the Practice of Advanced Analytics and Fig 1. A farmer in Mexico uses the AgroTutor application in the Operations
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