The INFORMS Public Sector Operations Research (PSOR) section is sponsoring an award for best paper presented at the INFORMS fall national conference in Nashville, November 13-16, 2016. This award is intended to encourage journal-quality research in all of the disciplines and application areas represented within PSOR, and to build a tradition of scholarly exchange of knowledge at our research meetings beyond attendance at sessions. Participation is open to all INFORMS members, whether students, academics or practitioners. Each submission must be associated with a presentation at the fall national conference. Subject to receiving qualified submissions, one first prize of $250, one second prize of $100 and an honorable mention will be awarded at the PSOR business meeting, to take place at the INFORMS 2016 conference.
The submission process consists of the following:
- A brief letter of intent to submit a paper to the contest. The letter should be less than three pages explaining the relevance of the paper to PSOR’s mission and the paper’s significance to research and/or practice, including an abstract of the paper. If practical impact is claimed for the research, it is advised to also submit another letter from a relevant practitioner who is preferably not a coauthor, mentioning name, title, organizational affiliation and full contact information and attesting to the practical value of the work. Letters of intent are due by August 15, 2016 to the chair of the competition, Professor Muer Yang, at yangmuer@stthomas.edu.
- Full drafts of papers are due by September 15, 2016 to yangmuer@stthomas.edu.
Submission requirements are:
- Full papers (by request of committee) should follow the formatting guidelines of an INFORMS print journal, e.g., formatted to one-inch margins on all sides, a font size of at least 11 point, and at least 1.5 line spacing.
- The paper should be no longer than 32 pages long (including paper text, figures and tables) plus references.
- The paper under consideration for this prize shall not have not been published elsewhere.
Details of this award will be posted on the PSOR website:
https://www.informs.org/Community/PSOR/PSOR-Best-Paper-Award
Any inquiries about this award can be made to:
Muer Yang, Ph.D.
Chair, Best Paper Competition
Assistant Professor
Department of Operations and Supply Chain Management
University of St. Thomas | Opus College of Business
Mail: TMH 443, 1000 LaSalle Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55403
Office: TMH 451E | 651.962.4159 | yangmuer@stthomas.edu
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Marie-Ève Rancourt
Assistant Professor
HEC Montréal
Montreal QC
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