2017 ICS Student Paper Award
Call for Nominations
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 ICS Student Paper Award is sponsored by the Mica Fonden.
Each nominated paper should satisfy the following seven eligibility criteria:
- the entrant must have been a student on or after January 1, 2017;
- the paper must present original research results;
- the research must have been conducted while the entrant was a student;
- the paper must be written by the entrant with only minor outside editorial assistance (one or more advisors may appear as co-authors of a paper, but the student must be the 'first author');
- the entrant can be a (co-)author in at most one paper submitted to the competition;
- the paper must not have won a previous ICS Student Paper Award;
- the entrant must be an ICS member in the year the submission is made. Note that ICS student membership isfreeif you are an INFORMS Student Member.
Application Process:
Nominations should be sent electronically to [email protected] no later than midnight EDT, July 15, 2017. The nomination packet should include the following:
- The nominated paper (30 pages or less, 1 inch margins, double spaced, and 12 point font and in the standard format of INFORMS Journal on Computing) in pdf;
- 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 coauthors of the paper and the entrant attesting that the seven eligibility conditions are met.