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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Dear Colleagues:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">IISE Transactions</span></i><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> will publish seven perspective articles in the January 2023 issue. These articles are now online available.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The authors of these articles conducted webinars in the past few months, sharing their experience, insights, and ideas. The publisher makes the seven articles
<b>Free Access</b>, effective now and for the next 12 months. The attached PDF file contains the links to the articles as well as to the recordings of the respective webinars.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">I would deeply appreciate if you also share the articles/webinars with your Ph.D. students, or with the Ph.D. students overall in your department. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Yu Ding</span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> | Mike & Sugar Barnes Professor |</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Editor in Chief, IISE Transactions |<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Associate Director for Research Engagement | Texas A&M Institute of Data Science |<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Professor | Wm Michael Barnes ’64 Dept of Industrial & Systems Engineering | Electrical & Computer Engineering |<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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