2006 JFIG Paper Competition

Call for Papers

The Junior Faculty Interest Group (JFIG) Forum invites submissions to the JFIG paper competition. JFIG was created in 2001 to promote the career development of tenure-track faculty in INFORMS. The goals of the paper competition are to encourage research among junior faculty and to increase the visibility of research conducted by junior faculty within the fields of operations research and management science.

The entries will be judged and up to six finalists will be selected by the award committee. The papers submitted for the competition will be evaluated based on the importance of the topic, appropriateness of the research approach, and the significance of research contribution. Up to four awards (first and second place awards and up to two awards for Honorable Mention) may be given upon recommendation of the award committee. For the 2006 competition, first place carries a cash award of $500, second place $300, and each honorable mention $100. Winners will be announced at the INFORMS fall meeting, where all finalists will present their research at a JFIG sponsored session.

Conditions for Eligibility

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 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 coauthors, the paper may be submitted jointly. Only the qualifying entrant(s) will be eligible to win a prize.
Each JFIG member may submit no more than one paper, even if multiple papers have different co-authors.
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 an Assistant Professor.
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 the previous year’s competition.

Application Process

A complete entry includes

A cover document with
1. The entrant's name, current affiliation, email address and phone number. This information must not appear anywhere else.
2. The title of the paper submission.
3. A statement that all eligibility requirements have been met and signed by all JFIG entrants.
A main document containing:
1. Separate title page with an abstract.
2. The paper (12 point font, 1.5 spaced, one inch margins, 30 pages or less including tables figures but excluding references). Length and format guidelines will be strictly enforced.

All submissions should be made electronically (PDF files). The submission deadline for the 2006 JFIG Paper Competition is June 5, 2006 at midnight (Eastern Standard Time).

For questions and submissions, please contact

Dr. ALAN SCHELLER-WOLF, Committee Chair
Tepper School of Business,
Carnegie Mellon University
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