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EURO Excellence in Practice Award 2010
EEPA 2010
This is an invitation for Authors to submit a paper for the above award.
PURPOSE
The purposes of the competition are to:
- recognise outstanding accomplishments in the practice of Operational Research,
- attract more application-oriented papers to EURO Conferences,
- promote the practice of Operational Research in general.
GUIDELINES
All interested authors are invited to submit a detailed
description of an application of Operational Research which has
original features, whether in methodology, application or
implementation. This may be in the form of a paper written for
publication (although not necessarily published at the time of
submission), a client report, or other appropriate
documentation. The documentation must describe the work in a way
which illustrates how it meets the criteria outlined below. The
age limit for published papers is four years. The work must not
have been submitted concurrently to another competition. The
application is open to Operational Research specialists from any
part of the world.
EVALUATION CRITERIA
The criteria for the evaluation of the papers are:
- scientific quality,
- relevance to Operational Research,
- originality in methodology, implementations and/ or field of application,
- a real impact to practice,
- appreciation by the organisation involved with the application.
Letters of appreciation are important.
THE PROCESS
The jury selects a short-list of finalists who will present their
work in a special session of the EURO Conference 2010 in Lisbon. There
is no registration fee for one author of each of the finalist
presentations. The winner will be determined by the jury at the end of
the special session and will be announced by the chairman of the jury
during the closing session of the EURO Conference.
THE PRIZE
The prize for the winners is a distinct honour, and in material terms consists of:
- a certificate of excellence in OR practice for each author of
the paper and for the concerned organization,
- an amount of 3.000 EUR for the authors.
THE JURY
Chair
OTHER MEMBERS
SUBMISSION
Please send the material of your submission to the chair of the
jury by email. Due to a number of requests, the original deadline of
January 31, 2010 for the submission of applications has been postponed
to FEBRUARY 15, 2010.
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