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DAS-SDP Practice Award 2017

There is still time to enter the 2017 Decision Analysis Society/Society of Decision Professionals Practice Award Competition.

Are you a decision analysis practitioner who has done some outstanding decision analysis?  Has it made a significant difference in a critical decision?  Would you like to be recognized for your contribution?  If so, please consider submitting a presentation to the 2017 INFORMS meeting and competing for the 2017 Decision Analysis Practice Award. This year the meeting will be held in Houston, TX on October 22-25.

How to enter the Competition?
There are two ways to enter the competition. You can directly submit your abstract to the chair at ghamm@thinkbrg.com or you can submit to INFORMS at https://meetings2.informs.org/wordpress/houston2017/program/.

Our panel of judges will review all decision analysis practice abstracts that are submitted to the fall meeting and invite authors to apply for the DAS/SDP Practice Award. The top three Award submittals will be invited to present at a session of the INFORMS conference.  All three finalists will be recognized at the Awards ceremony.  For this award, decision analysis is broadly defined based on the definition used for publication in the INFORMS journal Decision Analysis (https://pubsonline.informs.org/journal/deca#).  The deadline for submitting abstracts is May 15.

The presentations will be judged by considering:  1) the quality of the decision analysis techniques, 2) the impact the analysis had on the decision-making, 3) the benefit to the client organization and 4) the importance of the problem. 

The DAS/SDP Practice Award is co-sponsored jointly by the Decision Analysis Society and by the Society of Decision Professionals. The prize is $750, a plaque from the Decision Analysis Society and publicity (consistent with your proprietary restrictions.)  The winning presentation will be showcased on a Society of Decision Professionals webinar and featured at the 2018 annual meeting of the DAAG 2018 Conference (Decision Analysis Affinity Group - SDP’s annual conference).  Submissions based on previously published or presented work are also eligible for the prize.  

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  https://www.informs.org/Recognize-Excellence/Community-Prizes-and-Awards/Decision-Analysis-Society/DAS-Practice-Award . The winners of the 2016 award were Jack Kloeber, Joseph Byrum, Tracy Doubler, Greg Doonan, Craig Davis, Peiran Zhao and Emilia Silebi for their presentation tittled "A Bayesian Method for Selecting Elite Varieties of Soybean" (INFORMS website will soon be updated).

If you have any questions please contact Greg Hamm, the Chair of the 2017 Decision Analysis Practice Award Committee.

Greg Hamm
Chair - 2017 Decision Analysis Practice Award Committee
ghamm@thinkbrg.com



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