1997 Best Publication Award Call for Nominations

The Applied Probability Section of INFORMS invites nominations for its 1997
Best Publication Award. The Award, which recognizes outstanding
contributions to Applied Probability, consists of a plaque and $1000, to be
presented at the INFORMS meeting in San Diego, May 1997.

To be eligible for the Award, the contribution (a book, paper, or set of
papers) must meet the following criteria:

  1. the contribution must be in Applied Probability;
  2. it must have been published (in the case of a set, at least one member
     of the set) in the open literature during the interval 1993-1996;
  3. it must be written in English, or have an accurate English translation
     available.

The contribution will be judged according to

  1. the extent to which it advances the state of the art of Applied
     Probability;
  2. the originality of the theory or methodology, or the degree to which it
     simplifies or unifies the existing theory or methodology;
  3. the new areas of application that it opens; and
  4. the clarity and excellence of the exposition.

Nominations may be made by anyone, including the nominee. A nomination
package consists of

  1. a detailed description of the contribution and its significance, and
  2. a copy of the nominated publication(s).

The nominator should send a separate nomination package by 31 January, 1997
to each of the Award committee members:

Robert B. Cooper, chair

Department of Computer Science & Engineering
Florida Atlantic University
POB 3091, Boca Raton FL 33431-0991
Phone: 407 367-3673
Fax: 407 367-2800
Email: bob@cse.fau.edu

Peter W. Glynn

Department of Operations Research
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 93405-4022
Email: glynn@leland.stanford.edu

George Shanthikumar

The Walter A Hass School of Business
University of California, Berkeley
CA 94720
Phone: 510 642-2571
Fax: 510 642-2826
Email: sjgsha@garnet.berkeley.edu