Paper Competition -- Application Process

The conditions for eligibility are:

• Each qualifying entrant must have been an Assistant Professor in a tenure-track position at a university on or after January 1 of the year of the award. The entrant must have been awarded his or her PhD not more than six years prior to January 1 of the year of the award, and must not have tenure, i.e., hold an appointment without limitation of time. For faculty members at institutions that do not follow the standard U.S. tenure system, the entrant must have been awarded his or her PhD not more than six years prior to January 1 of the year of the award.
• The paper may be co-authored with students, other qualifying entrants, or people from industry, but not with senior faculty. If the industry co-author(s) has a Ph.D. degree, he/she must have graduated within six years of the year of the award. In case of multiple qualifying entrants as co-authors, the paper may be submitted jointly. Only the qualifying entrant(s) will be eligible to a prize.
• The lead author of the paper must be a junior faculty or junior faculty's grad student.
• The lead or the secondary author with a junior faculty status must be a JFIG member.
• Each entrant may submit no more than one paper, even if multiple papers have different co-authors. Each entrant can appear as an author/co-author on at most one paper in the competition.
• The submitted paper must present original research results obtained and written by the entrant(s). It may be a working paper or in the publication process (e.g., submitted, accepted, etc.).
• The research must have been completed while the entrant(s) was in a tenure track position at a university.
• The paper must not have won another prize (first or second) in a previous competition or been a finalist in a previous JFIG paper competition.
• The entrant must not have been awarded first or second place in previous year's competition.

Application Process: A complete entry includes

• A cover document containing:
  • The entrant and all co-authors' name, current affiliation, email addresses and phone numbers. This information must not appear on the main document.
  • The title of the submitted paper.
  • A statement that all eligibility requirements have been met, signed by all JFIG entrants.
• A main document containing:
  • Separate title page with an abstract.
  • The paper (12 point font, 1.5 spaced, one inch margins, 30 pages or less including tables and figures but excluding references). No appendices are allowed. Authors' names and other identifying information should not be included in the main document. Length and format guidelines will be strictly enforced.

All submissions should be made electronically (PDF files). The submission deadline for the 2012 JFIG Paper Competition is June 15, 2012, at midnight (Pacific Daylight Time).

Submissions should be made by emailing entry materials to the chair of the prize committee:

2012 Committee Chair:

Jeffrey T. Linderoth
Professor
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Department of Computer Sciences
e-mail: linderoth@wisc.edu

For questions regarding submissions, please contact:

Esra Buyuktahtakun
Assistant Professor
Wichita State University
Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
E-mail: esra.b@wichita.edu