INFORMS Releases

• Being Popular on Dating Apps May Hinder Your Chances at Finding Your Perfect Match (INFORMS journal Marketing Science)
• New Research Says Online Ratings Are a Better Predictor of Restaurant Failures Than Traditional Metrics (INFORMS journal Marketing Science)
• New Model Identifies Where to Put Bikes Lanes Resulting in a Drastic Reduction in Cycling Fatalities (INFORMS journal Manufacturing & Service Operations Management)
• Online Stores and Brick-and-Mortars Can Co-exist: How a Partnership Can Help Both Businesses Flourish (INFORMS journal Manufacturing & Service Operations Management)

BALTIMORE, MD, March 3, 2022 – New research in the INFORMS journal Information Systems Research finds self-regulating is critical to reducing crime linked to Airbnb commercial listings.

CATONSVILLE, MD, February 8, 2022 – Surprisingly, a new study has found that if you’re perceived as more popular on a mobile dating app, there is a higher chance that other users will avoid connecting with you. This is one of the major findings of a study that sought to examine the effect of a dating app user’s popularity rating on their demand on the online dating platform.

BALTIMORE, MD, February 16, 2022 – Three INFORMS members have been elected to the National Academy of Engineering. Richard O'Neill is a distinguished senior fellow at the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy, Martin Reiman is a professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research at Columbia University and Nikolaos Sahinidis is the Gary C. Butler Family Chair and professor in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. They join more than 100 new members recently elected. 

BALTIMORE, MD, February 14, 2022 – Music streaming services were an unlikely area hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic. New research in the INFORMS journal Marketing Science finds the drop in peoples’ mobility during the pandemic significantly reduced the consumption of audio music streaming. Instead, people turned more to video platforms.