June 1997 • Volume 24 • Number 3

Franz Edelman Call for Nominations

INFORMS and CPMS, the Practice Section of INFORMS, are pleased to announce the 27th International Competition for the Franz Edelman Award for Achievement in Operations Research and the Management Sciences.

Entries will be expected to report on a completed, practical application, and must describe results that had significant, verifiable, and preferably quantifiable impact on the performance of the client organization.

Any work completed in recent years is eligible, unless it has already been described by a Franz Edelman Award finalist. Previous publication of the work does not disqualify it. Anyone is eligible for the competition except members of the judging panel.

The prize is awarded for implemented work, not for a submitted paper or for the presentation describing the work. The client organization that used the winning work receives a prize citation; the authors of the winning work receive the cash award.

Following is a list of deadlines:

Oct. 31: Deadline to submit summaries (one or two double spaced 8.5 x 11 pages). Include the name, address, phone number and affiliation of each author.
Dec. 19: All other written materials submitted are due .
Feb. 23, 1998: Full written papers in a prescribed format will be due from each finalist, along with a publication release from the client organization, a public relations press kit, and the name of the client organization management representative who would accept the prize citation.
April 26, 1998: Each finalist will give an oral presentation of their work in the special competition session (which will be videotaped) at the Montreal Meeting

The judges will determine the winner or winners after the presentations, and the results will be announced at the INFORMS Montreal Meeting.

The summaries, papers, press kits, and presentations must be in English.

Transmittal of cash award is contingent on the finalists delivering to INFORMS/CPMS, in a specified form, a paper that meets normal publication standards, and (for First Prize) contingent on presentation of the work at the at the INFORMS Fall 1998 Meeting.

Send your summary to: 1998 INFORMS/CPMS Prize Competition, Stephen Strauss, AT&;T Laboratories E-mail: [email protected]