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Informs Computing Society (ICS) Student Paper Award 2019

  • 1.  Informs Computing Society (ICS) Student Paper Award 2019

    Posted 04-11-2019 09:09
    The INFORMS Computing Society (ICS) invites nominations for its 2019 Student Paper Award. The ICS Student Paper Award is given annually to the best paper at the interface of computing and operations research by a student author, as judged by the award selection committee. The award is accompanied by a plaque and a $500 honorarium. The winner will be invited to briefly present his/her paper in an ICS-sponsored session and the award will be presented at the ICS Business Meeting at the 2019 INFORMS Annual Meeting in Seattle. The winner is expected to make his/her own travel arrangements to the INFORMS meeting. The winner will also receive free registration to the next ICS Conference. The ICS Student Paper Award is sponsored by the Mica Fonden.

    The deadline for nominations for the 2019 ICS Student Paper Award is midnight EDT, July 1, 2019.

    Each nominated paper should satisfy the following seven eligibility criteria:

    - the entrant must have been a student on or after January 1, 2019;
    - the paper must present original research;
    - the research must have been conducted while the entrant was a student;
    - the paper must be written by the entrant with only minor outside editorial assistance (e.g., one or more advisors may appear as co-authors of a paper, but the student must be the "first author");
    - the entrant can be a (co-)author in at most one paper submitted to the competition;
    - the paper must not have won a previous ICS Student Paper Award;
    - the entrant must be an ICS member by the nomination deadline (July 1, 2019). Note that ICS student membership is free if the student is an INFORMS member. If the entrant is not an ICS member by this deadline, then his/her nomination will be discarded.

    Application Process

    Nominations should be sent electronically to icsstudentpaper@mail.informs.org (please also cc: frank.e.curtis@lehigh.edu) no later than midnight EDT, July 1, 2019. The nomination packet should include the following:

    - the nominated paper (30 pages or less, 1 inch margins, double spaced, and 12 point font and in the standard format of INFORMS Journal on Computing) in pdf;
    - an email address and phone number where the entrant can be contacted in the event they are selected as a finalist;
    - letter(s) (in pdf format) signed by all co-authors of the paper and the entrant attesting that the seven eligibility conditions are met.

    The 2019 ICS Student Paper Award Selection Committee members are:

    Sergiy Butenko (Texas A&M University, Industrial and Systems Engineering)
    Frank E. Curtis, Chair (Lehigh University, Industrial and Systems Engineering), and
    Georgina Hall (INSEAD, Decision Sciences)

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    Frank E. Curtis
    Associate Professor
    Lehigh University
    Bethlehem PA
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