ICS Prize

ICS Prize Announcement: Nominations due June 24, 2022 July 14, 2022

The INFORMS Computing Society (ICS) Prize is an annual award for the best English language paper or group of related papers dealing with the Operations Research/Computer Science interface. The award is accompanied by a certificate and a $1,000 honorarium. The award will be presented at the ICS Business Meeting at the 2022 INFORMS Annual Meeting in Indianapolis, October 16-19, 2022. 

The goals of the prize are:
* To promote the development of high-quality work advancing the state of the art in the operations research/computer science interface;
* To publicize and reward the contributions of those authors/researchers who have advanced the state of the art; and
* To increase the visibility of excellent work in the field.

Conditions for eligibility:
* Published in the open literature;
* Pertinent to the interface of operations research and computer science;
* Written in English.

Nomination process:
The nomination package should consist of a cover letter and a copy of each nominated work. The cover letter should provide the title, author's name, place and date of publication as well as a justification for the nomination. If the nominated papers include multiple authors, then all authors will be considered for the prize, unless justification is provided for the exclusion of some authors. Self-nominations are allowed but discouraged. All nominations and inquiries should be sent electronically to the chair of the committee (rfukasawa@uwaterloo.ca) by 11:59 pm EDT, June 24, 2022 July 14, 2022. All submissions will be acknowledged by the committee chair.  

The 2022 ICS Prize Committee members: 

Jonathan Eckstein (Rutgers)

Ricardo Fukasawa (Waterloo, Canada), Chair

Ignacio Grossmann (Carnegie Mellon)

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