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:
-real impact on practice,
-scientific quality,
-relevance to Operational Research,
-appreciation by the organisation involved with the application,
-originality in methodology, implementations and/ or field of 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 28th European Conference on Operational Research in
Poznań. 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 2016 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 €3,000 shared between the authors.
THE JURY
Ton G. de Kok (The Netherlands) - chair
Ulrich Dorndorf (Germany)
Erik Demeulemeester (Belgium)
Marco Laumanns (Switzerland)
Markus Bohlin (Sweden)
SUBMISSION
Please submit the material online on
http://www.euro-online.org/awards/eepa2016/registration.php before January
31, 2016.
--
Dr Sarah Fores
Manager of EURO
<http://www.euro2016.poznan.pl/>
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