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Dear Colleagues,
The Junior Faculty Interest Group (JFIG) Forum of INFORMS invites submissions to the 2018 JFIG Paper Competition. JFIG was created in 2001 to promote the career development of tenure-track faculty in INFORMS. The goals of the paper competition are to encourage research among junior faculty and to increase the visibility of research conducted by junior faculty within the fields of operations research and management science.
The JFIG Award Committee will judge the submissions and select up to six finalists. The papers submitted for the competition will be evaluated based on the importance of the topic, appropriateness of the research approach, and the significance of research contribution. All submissions should be made electronically (as PDF files) at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jfig2018. For more information on the guidelines please refer to https://easychair.org/cfp/JFIG2018. The submission deadline for the 2018 JFIG Paper Competition is July 1, 2018, at midnight (Pacific Daylight Time).
For questions regarding submissions, please contact jfig.informs@gmail.com.
Chairs of the review committee:
Fatma Kilinc-<g class="gr_ gr_26 gr-alert gr_spell gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim ContextualSpelling ins-del multiReplace" id="26" data-gr-id="26">Karzan</g>
Tepper School of Business
Carnegie Mellon University
Oleg Prokopyev
Department of Industrial Engineering
University of Pittsburgh
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Gokce Palak
Assistant Professor of Operations Management
Shenandoah University
Winchester VA
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