[DMANET] EURO Excellence in Practice Award 2013 - Deadline Extended to February 28th 2013.

This is an invitation for Authors to submit a paper for the above award.

PURPOSE
The purposes of the competition are to:
recognise outstanding accomplishments in the practice of Operational Research,
attract more application-oriented papers to EURO Conferences,
promote the practice of Operational Research in general.

GUIDELINES
All interested authors are invited to submit a detailed description of
an application of Operational Research which has original features,
whether in methodology, application or implementation. This may be in
the form of a paper written for publication (although not necessarily
published at the time of submission), a client report, or other
appropriate documentation. The documentation must describe the work in
a way which illustrates how it meets the criteria outlined below. The
age limit for published papers is four years. The work must not have
been submitted concurrently to another competition. The application is
open to Operational Research specialists from any part of the world.

EVALUATION CRITERIA
The criteria for the evaluation of the papers are:

scientific quality,
relevance to Operational Research,
originality in methodology, implementations and/ or field of application,
a real impact to practice,
appreciation by the organisation involved with the application.

Letters of appreciation are important.

THE PROCESS
The jury selects a short-list of finalists who will present their work
in a special session of the EURO Conference 2013 in Rome. There is no
registration fee for one author of each of the finalist presentations.
The winner will be determined by the jury at the end of the special
session and will be announced by the chairman of the jury during the
closing session of the EURO Conference.

THE PRIZE
The prize for the winners is a distinct honour, and in material terms
consists of:

a certificate of excellence in OR practice for each author of the
paper and for the concerned organization,
an amount of 3.000 EUR for the authors.

THE JURY
Chair
Prof. Gautier Stauffer, ENSIMAG, France
OTHER MEMBERS
Prof. Nadia Brauner, UJF - UFR IMAG, France
Prof. dr. A. (Ton) G. de Kok, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Netherlands
Prof. Luca Maria Gambardella, IDSIA Lugano, Switzerland
Dr. Marco Laumanns, IBM Research - Zurich, Switzerland
Prof. Dr. Joerg Rambau, Universitaet Bayreuth, Germany

SUBMISSION
Please submit the material online on
http://transp-or.epfl.ch/eepa2013/registration.php before February 28,
2013.

--
Dr Sarah Fores
Manager of EURO
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