Friday, May 5, 2017

[DMANET] Call for Nominations: 2017 ICS Prize

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 that will take place during
the INFORMS Annual Meeting in Houston from October 22-15, 2017.

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. Self-nominations are allowed but
discouraged. All nominations should be submitted electronically to

icsprize@mail.informs.org

by midnight EDT, July 15, 2016. All submissions will be acknowledged
by the committee chair.


ICS Prize Awards Committee

Jon Lee, University of Michigan
Jeff Linderoth, University of Wisconsin-Madison (chair)
Jean-Paul Watson, Sandia National Lab

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Jeff Linderoth, Professor and Department Chair
Dept. of Industrial and Systems Engineering
University of Wisconsin-Madison
O: 608-890-1931
http://www.engr.wisc.edu/ie/faculty/linderoth_jeffrey.html


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