DAS Practice Award Application Process
2012 DAS Practice Award Application Process
The Practice Award is given annually to the best decision analysis application, as judged by a panel of Society members. The Decision Analysis Society invites member submissions for the 2012 Decision Analysis Practice Award offered by the one-thousand-member-strong INFORMS Decision Analysis Society.
The submissions should use the attached format and be submitted by 31 May 2012. The summary should be about two pages long. Once you submit your work,
(1) The Practice Award committee will evaluate all submissions in the summer and name three finalists.
(2) At the 2012 INFORMS meeting on October 14-17, 2012, Phoenix Convention Center, Phoenix, AZ, there will be a special DAS sponsored Practice Award session in which the three finalists present their results to the award committee and interested attendees at the conference.
(3) The Practice Award committee will then determine the winner of the practice prize using six criteria: importance of the problem, impact on the client's decision making, benefits to the client organization, use of decision analysis tools, quality of the analysis, and originality.
The prize is $750, a plaque from the Decision Analysis Society and publicity (consistent with your proprietary restrictions.) Submissions based on previously published work are also eligible for the prize.
DAS invites you to submit your best decision analysis work to the competition. Submitters are responsible for obtaining any company or agency clearances necessary to allow presentation of the work. Aspects of the application or results may be disguised as necessary to preserve confidentiality, provided that the material that is disclosed is sufficient to allow evaluation of the work. We encourage co-authored submissions where appropriate.
For more information on the prize and a list of past winners, see
For more information on the conference at which the practice competition will be conducted, see
http://meetings2.informs.org/phoenix2012/
Historically meetings are attended by about 5000 academics and practitioners.
Please send submissions and any questions to Greg Parnell, the chair of the 2012 Decision Analysis Practice Award Committee, at greg.parnell@gmail.com.
2012 DAS Practice Award Nomination
2012 Committee Chair:
Greg Parnell
e-mail: greg.parnell@gmail.com