The Pennsylvania Adoption Exchange (PAE) helps case workers representing children in state custody by recommending prospective families for adoption. We describe PAE's operational challenges using case worker surveys and a regression analysis of data on child outcomes over multiple years. Using...

Three years ago the Community OR initiative was launched by the OR Society with the aim of providing OR for non-traditional groups such as community and voluntary organizations. There is now a Community OR Unit, a Centre at Hull University and a network for interested members. This paper...

What is the role of academia in society as a whole? Is the sole role of schools and universities to provide training for the jobs marketplace, or should academia help in the work of society's ongoing adaptation and self-recognition? This article uses Stafford Beer's Viable System Model to argue...