Student Paper Award
Submission Deadline: June 15, 2008
The Student Paper Competition Award is given annually to the best decision analysis paper by a student author, as judged by a panel of the Decision Analysis Society of INFORMS. The award is accompanied by a plaque and a $500 honorarium. The winner will also be invited to briefly present his or her paper at the Fall INFORMS meeting in Washington, DC, October 12-15, 2008.
A student author is eligible for this competition if he or she did not receive a Ph.D. or terminal Master’s prior to May 1, 2007. All students doing work in or related to decision analysis (e.g., decision theory and methods, experimental studies, and applications) are encouraged to submit a paper. The work must be predominately that of the student. Although faculty members or other mentors can be co-authors if appropriate, preference will be given to sole-authored work. Authors are encouraged to nominate their own work.
If you are a faculty member who is supervising students, please inform them of this opportunity. If your students are not currently members of DAS, you might also encourage them to join. If you are a student reading this, please encourage your classmates to submit a paper and to join the society. DAS is a congenial organization of over 1000 members (of which close to half are students). Joining DAS provides a good start toward developing a professional identity. However, students do not need to be DAS members to be eligible for the competition.
The paper should be 30 pages or less (double spaced and 12 point font) and in the standard format of Decision Analysis, Management Science or Operations Research. To be considered for the 2008 competition, please send an electronic version of your paper (either MS Word file or PDF format) to Bob Clemen at clemen@duke.edu.
If you have further questions, please contact Bob Clemen by email or phone at (919) 660-8005, or e-mail Ali Abbas at aliabbas@uiuc.edu.
Bob Clemen
Fuqua School of Business
Duke University, Box 90120
Durham, NC 27708-0120
Voice: +1 919-660-8005
e-mail: clemen@duke.edu
Ali E. Abbas
Department of Industrial and Enterprise Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
117 Transportation Building, MC-238
104 South Mathews Ave
Urbana, IL 61801
Voice: +1 650-274-3337
e-mail: aliabbas@uiuc.edu