Best Paper Competition -- Application Process
Awards (sponsored by IBM)
- The first-place winner will receive $200 and a plaque.
- The second-place winner will receive $150
- The third-place winner will receive $100.
- All finalists will receive an award certificate.
Award selection Criteria
The evaluation process will be conducted in two steps:
- Four finalists will be chosen by the Awards Committee (see below) based on a single research paper submitted for the competition. Each paper will be evaluated against two criteria:
- Academic significance (originality, depth, completeness and work’s potential impact on future research).
- Engineering or business relevance (importance of the problem and its impact on engineering or business practice).
- The winner will be chosen by the Awards committee based on the quality of the paper.
Subject Areas
Topic areas include but are not limited to the following:
- Service Theory
- The Principles of Service Science
- Cognition Science in Service Service
- Innovations
- The Dynamics of Service-oriented System
- Quality, Measures, and Benchmarking
- Service Operations and Productivity
- Workforce Management
- Service Lifecycle Management
- Service Engineering and Systems
- Software as a Service (SaaS)
- System Complexity, Scalability, Sustainability, and Adaptability
- Service Infrastructure and Cyber-infrastructure
- Service Value Networks
- Service Computing
- Self-service Systems
- Web 2.0, BPM/BPI, and SOA 2.0 in support of Service Innovations
- Service Education
- Service dominant logic
Eligibility Requirements and Author Guidelines
- Award nominees must be a member of the Service Science Section.
- Paper topic must fit Service Science subject areas.
- Finalists will not be announced until other INFORMS sessions are already organized. Thus, submitted papers MAY be simultaneously submitted to sessions at the INFORMS conference.
- Service Science Section does NOT own copyrights of the paper. However, the paper must be available to the Service Science Section to be posted on its web site.
- Submitted Paper Format: The paper should be no more than 10 pages, single-spaced, in 10 point Times Roman or Times New Roman typeface. Margins should be 1 inch or more. Papers should begin with a 50 word abstract. The submitted paper must follow this format or will be returned without review. A file (MS Word or pdf) should be sent by email to the Service Science Award Committee Chair by the due date. Papers received after the due date will not be reviewed for competition.
- Members of the awards committee and officers/council members of the Service Science Section are ineligible to participate in the competition.
- IBM employees are eligible to participate in the competition.
Awards Committee:
The Awards Committee consists of the current Service Science Section Officers.
2010 Committee Chair:
Sheneeta W. White
2010 Committee Chair:
University of St. Thomas
Opus College of Business
1000 LaSalle Ave (TMH 441)
Minneapolis, MN 55403-2005
Tel: (651) 962-4039
Email: whit6237@stthomas.edu
Deadline:
Deadline for paper submission is Monday June 12, 2010.