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Call for Papers: 2018 Data Mining Best Paper Competition

  • 1.  Call for Papers: 2018 Data Mining Best Paper Competition

    Posted 04-05-2018 01:37

    Call for Papers INFORMS 2018 Data Mining Best Paper Awards

    The Data Mining (DM) Section of INFORMS announces the Data Mining Best Paper Awards to recognize excellence among its members, particularly its student members.

    - Two awards will be given for applied and/or methodological papers. At least one of these (possibly both) will be awarded to a student.

    - Two awards will be given for theoretical papers with/without a methodological component. At least one of these (possibly both) will be awarded to a student.

    In order to submit a paper by a student,

    1. The presenting student author must be a student on or after January 1, 2018.
    2. The research must have been conducted while the presenting author was a student.
    3. The paper must be written by the student author(s) with minor assistance from advisors. The student needs to provide signed agreements from all co-authors to prove that the effort of the student comprises at least 50% of the work presented in the paper. Without the signed agreements, the paper does not qualify to compete in the student track.
    4. The presenting student author must be a member of the Data Mining Section.
    5. The student author must be available to present the work at a session at the 2018 INFORMS Annual Meeting.
    6. Papers will not be published as part of the competition. Student papers can be in any stage with regard to publication (unpublished, submitted, published, etc.). 

    In order to submit a paper by a non-student,

    1. The presenting author must be a member of the Data Mining Section.
    2. The presenter must be available to present the work at a session at the 2018 INFORMS Annual Meeting.
    3. No version of the paper can be published or accepted at the time of submission. This is for unpublished work only.

     

    Papers must be submitted with a maximum of 15 printed pages (not including appendix and bibliography) with <g class="gr_ gr_45 gr-alert gr_spell gr_inline_cards gr_disable_anim_appear ContextualSpelling multiReplace" id="45" data-gr-id="45">1 inch</g> margins, single column, single-spaced, 12 point font, and Times New Roman.

    Candidates who meet the above criteria and wish to submit their paper for consideration can submit their papers to the competition chairs, Dr. Tong Wang via email (tong-wang@uiowa.edu) or Dr. Ramin Moghaddass (ramin@miami.edu)  by July 15, 2018. The subject of the email should be "2018 DM Best Paper Award Submission – candidate type - track". For example, if you are a student and are submitting an applied paper, the subject should be "2018 DM Best Paper Award Submission – student - applied".  Late submissions will not be accepted.

    All awardees will make presentations at the INFORMS 2018 Annual Meeting in Phoenix Arizona (November 4-7, 2018). The winners will be announced at the INFORMS DM Business Meeting and all winners will receive an award certificate



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    Tong Wang
    Assistant Professor
    University of Iowa
    Iowa City IA
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