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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Dear Colleagues:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Below is the quarterly update of the review time statistics of the original submissions to
<i>IISE Transactions</i>. An explanation of how the statistics are computed can be found
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/tamucs-my.sharepoint.com/:b:/g/personal/yu-ding_tamu_edu/EZiwA3U1sdNHtsYTsK2PAlYBOqbj9lfXvpfW7xyqpAzKlQ?e=zJ1jLb__;!!KwNVnqRv!U61bYE2KxfmxYgjhKDAv4JCKDq_ztMoNAfQVgmKXmJiwfzYcfPE8M0Ryjfzt5qg$">here</a><span style="color:black">.
The next update will be in early July.<o:p></o:p></span></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 |<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>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Office: ETB 4016 | Phone: 979.458.2343 |
<a href="mailto:yuding@tamu.edu"><span style="color:#0563C1">yuding@tamu.edu</span></a> |
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Personal:
<a href="https://aml.engr.tamu.edu/2017/09/01/people-2/"><span style="color:black">https://aml.engr.tamu.edu/2017/09/01/people-2/</span></a></span><span style="font-size:5.0pt;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">Booksites:
<a href="https://aml.engr.tamu.edu/book-dswe"><span style="color:black">https://aml.engr.tamu.edu/book-dswe</span></a>/;
<u><a href="https://aml.engr.tamu.edu/book-dsnia/"><span style="color:#0563C1">https://aml.engr.tamu.edu/book-dsnia/</span></a></u><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:#500000">TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY</span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#500000"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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