[DMANET] INFORMS Computing Society (ICS) Student Paper Award

The INFORMS Computing Society (ICS) invites nominations for its 2022 Student Paper Award. The ICS Student Paper Award is given annually to the best paper at the interface of computing and operations research by a student author, as judged by the award selection committee. The award is accompanied by a plaque and a $500 honorarium. The award will be presented at the ICS Business Meeting at the 2022 INFORMS Annual Meeting in Indianapolis, October 16-19, 2022. If attending in person, the winner is expected to make his/her own travel arrangements to the INFORMS meeting. The winner will also receive free registration to the next ICS Conference.

The deadline for nominations for the 2022 ICS Student Paper Award is 11:59 pm EDT, June 24, 2022.

Each nominated paper should satisfy the seven eligibility criteria that can be found here:

https://connect.informs.org/computing/awards/ics-student-paper-award

Application Process:
Nominations and inquiries should be sent electronically to the chair of the committee at emc@tamu.edu<mailto:emc@tamu.edu> no later than 11:59 pm EDT, June 24, 2022. The nomination packet should include the following:

- the nominated paper (30 pages or less in 1.5-spaced standard format of INFORMS Journal on Computing) in pdf; specifically, the 30-page limit is for the pdf containing the entire paper (including manuscript, references, and appendices), furthermore as per the journal guidelines one should use in the latex preamble the command "\OneAndAHalfSpacedXII", which enforces the 1.5 spacing and the 12-point font;

- an email address and phone number where the entrant can be contacted in the event they are selected as a finalist;

- letter(s) (in pdf format) signed by all co-authors of the paper and the entrant attesting that the seven eligibility conditions are met.

The 2022 ICS Student Paper Award Committee members:

Manish Bansal (Virginia Tech)

Susan Hunter (Purdue)

Erick Moreno-Centeno (Texas A&M), Chair

Alain Zemkoho (Southampton, UK)

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