Are you already making plans to attend this year's MORS Emerging Techniques Forum (ETF) in December? The topics brought up and discussed during the annual MORS Emerging Techniques Forum (ETF) continue to gain traction. Here Dr. Les Servi (an ETF Keynote Presenter) continues to discuss the issues of modeling, supporting decision makers, and the natural tendency and balance between modeling reality vs. abstraction.
http://annanagurney.blogspot.com/2018/03/fabulous-talk-by-informs-fellow-dr-les.html. Dr. Servi's article, "The Last Word: A Modeling Model", on page 54 in the March 2017 edition of Phalanx, provides an excellent example of the intriguing topics presented at the ETF and follow-through that resonates within our community. MORS members can find this Phalanx edition on-line after logging into your MORS portal.
http://www.mors.org/Publications/Phalanx.
Why not pencil in the next MORS Emerging Techniques Forum (December 4 - 5, 2018) as one of your "must go to" events this year? I'll see you there! Norm Reitter, Immediate Past President, pastpresident@mors.org.