[DMANET] EURO Excellent in Practice Award - Submission Deadline February 28th 2015

Call - EURO Excellence in Practice Award 2015
Sponsored by IBM Research - Zurich

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-k 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 on 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 2015 EURO-k Conference in Glasgow. 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 chair of the jury during the closing session of
the EURO-k 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;
-an amount of EURO 3,000 shared between the authors.

THE JURY

Luca Gambardella (Switzerland) - chair
Ton G. de Kok (The Netherlands)
Ulrich Dorndorf (Germany)
Marco Laumanns (Switzerland)
Sue Merchant (UK)

SUBMISSION

Please submit the material online on
http://www.euro-online.org/awards/eepa2015/registration.php before February
28, 2015.

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