February 1997 € Volume 24 € Number 1

Lanchester Prize Call for Nominations

The INFORMS Board is now accepting nominations for the Lanchester Prize -- an annual award given for the best published contribution in operations research in the English language.

The 1996 prize (to be awarded in 1997) includes $5,000 and a commemorative medallion.Books and papers for the 1996 prize will be screened by a committee appointed by the INFORMS Board. To be eligible for consideration, the book or paper must be nominated to the committee.Among the requirements, a book, paper or group of books must:

• be on an operations research subject;
• have been published in 1996, or two years prior to 1996, or, in the case of a group, at least one member of a group must have been published in 1996, or the two years prior to 1996;
• be written in the English language and had to have appeared in the open literature.

Books or papers may be case histories, reports of research representing news results, or primarily exposition. For a nominated set (group of either articles or books) published over more than one year, it is expected that each element in the set is part of one continuous effort, such as a multi-year project or a continuously written, multi-volume book.

The committee will use the following criteria in making judgments:

• extent to which the contribution advances the state of the art of operations research;
• originality of the ideas or methods;
• new areas of application it opens up;
• degree to which existing theory or method is unified or simplified;
• clarity and excellence of the exposition;
• the degree to which the contribution provides value for applications, or enables improved practice.

Send nominations to: Dr. Charles J. McCallum Jr., Operations Research Director, A T & T Labs, 101 Crawfords Corner Road, P. O. ; E-mail: [email protected]