AAS encourages the development and dissemination of applications and research in areas relating to aviation, including but not limited to airline planning and operations, air traffic control, airport planning, aviation financial, economic and policy analysis, aviation forecasting, and aviation human factors.

INFORMS College on Artificial Intelligence (CAI) brings together researchers and practitioners interested in the theories, applications, and methodologies of artificial intelligence. Please feel free to correspond with our officers if you want to organize or participate in CAI-sponsored activities.

The Market Design community studies auctions, matching, and other mechanisms for efficient resource allocation, bridging operations research, microeconomics, and real-world applications like energy, procurement, and digital markets.

Research into behavioral dynamics in operations management.

The eBusiness section promotes research, teaching, and networking among academics and practitioners, in eBusiness technology, theory, measurement, and applications.

The INFORMS Section on Energy, Natural Resources, and the Environment (ENRE) is organized to promote the development and application of operations research/management science methods to problems in energy, natural resources, and the environment. ENRE members strive to help people and organizations make better decisions on energy and environmental policy, investments in energy technologies, the design and operations of energy supply and use systems, energy infrastructure reliability and resilience, electricity market design, sustainable supply chains, natural resource management, and more.

The INFORMS Finance Section is a dynamic community of academics, practitioners, and students focused on advancing operations research and analytics in finance and fintech. We facilitate networking, knowledge sharing, and professional development through events like conferences, webinars, and workshops.

GDN emerges from evolving, unifying approaches to group decision and negotiation processes. These processes are complex and self-organizing involving multiplayer, multicriteria, ill-structured, evolving, dynamic problems.

SOLA's mission is to promote the development of analytical methods, techniques and tools in the tradition of OR/MS as applied to the study of facility location. “Facility location” is defined as the choice of location(s) for entities at which services are provided in order to optimize measures of efficiency and possibly equity and effectiveness, subject to resource constraints and institutional considerations.

The Section on Multiple Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) is related to research and applications of MCDM among academics and other professionals.

The Section has an interdisciplinary and broad focus on different methodologies, including multiple objective optimization, discrete choice problems, decision-making process, problem structuring methods and behavioral on MCDM.

The College on Organization Science brings together scholars and practitioners interested in organizational behavior, organization theory, and strategic management. Its goal is to further the theoretical understanding of organizations, and help put theory into practice.

The Practice Section of INFORMS serves the entire community of full-time and part-time practitioners. Thus, while it concentrates on practical applications, The Practice Section has wide interests that range over the full scope of OR/MS methods and fields of application. The Practice Section administers three INFORMS level awards: Daniel H. Wagner Prize for Excellence in the Practice of Advanced Analytics and Operations Research, Franz Edelman Award, and UPS George D. Smith Prize.

PSOR is dedicated to, in the words of the INFORMS slogan, “doing good with good OR.”

The section furthers the use of OR/MS in the following areas: Public Policy, Public Programs, Public Safety, Public Service, and Public Needs 

The QSR Section connects global experts in quality, statistics, and reliability to advance research, innovation, and practical solutions across industries through collaboration, knowledge sharing, and professional development.

The Railway Applications Section (RAS) offers a dynamic and interdisciplinary platform for engagement and impact. It fosters innovation by promoting cutting-edge research and facilitating real-world railway applications.

The purpose of the section is to advance the development and application of operations research methods, techniques and tools as they apply to the field of revenue management; to promote the development and application of revenue management in new industries; to encourage the exchange of information among practitioners, users, and researchers in the area of revenue management; and to promote high professional standards in the application of revenue management.

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Our section promotes cutting-edge research and real-world applications in service sciences, which cut across business strategy, operations research, information systems, marketing analytics, management science, e-commerce, industrial engineering, and cognitive science. The section is committed to advancing research, fostering global collaboration, and recognizing excellence in service-related disciplines.

The Social Media Section attempts to capture the breadth of inclusion of INFORMS’ mission as it pertains to social media analysis.

The mission of the Section on OR in Sports (SpORts) is to promote and disseminate research and applications among professionals interested in theory, methodologies, and applications of OR/MS to sports problems.

The Strategy Science Section fosters a diverse community dedicated to rigorous and relevant research addressing fundamental questions in business strategy.