[AISWorld] INFORMS ISS 2014 Nunamaker-Chen Dissertation Award - Call for Submission

[Ravi Bapna]

Call for Submission

The INFORMS Information Systems Society (ISS) invites submissions for the
2014 Nunamaker-Chen Dissertation Award (NCDA). The NCDA is named in honor
of two University of Arizona professors, Jay
Nunamaker<http://mis.eller.arizona.edu/faculty/jnunamaker.asp>
 and Hsinchun Chen <http://mis.eller.arizona.edu/faculty/hchen.asp>, who
have made significant contributions to the field of Information Systems
over the past several decades. The NCDA has been created to recognize and
reward outstanding dissertation research by scholars in the field of
Information Systems.  The winner of the 2014 Nunamaker-Chen Dissertation
Award will receive a US$1000 prize.


Questions about the competition can be addressed to the ISS Vice Chair,
Professor Ramnath Chellappa (Emory University of Minnesota,
ramnath.chellappa at emory.edu) or to the general NCDA email address:
ncda2014 at easychair.org.

Eligibility

To be eligible for the 2014 competition, dissertations must be in the field
of information systems and must have been completed in the period from June
1, 2013 to May 31, 2014. Candidates must have successfully defended their
dissertations and should have received the final approval and all required
sign-offs on their dissertation documents by May 31, 2014. Dissertations
that do not meet these criteria will not be considered eligible for the
award.
Submission Instructions

All applications materials must be received *no later than 5:00 PM US EDT
on July 30, 2014*. Any documents received after that date, and submissions
without all of the appropriate documentation, will not be reviewed. INFORMS
ISS encourages submissions from any country; however, all submitted
materials must be in English.


Materials should be submitted to the Nunamaker-Chen Dissertation Award
EasyChair website at:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ncda201<https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ncda2013>
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The following three documents are *required.*  Each of these files must be
in either the PDF or MS Word (.doc, or .docx) format, and all three files
must be submitted as a single ZIP file on the NCDA EasyChair
website.  Submissions that do not meet these requirements will not be
reviewed.

1.       An extended abstract of the dissertation that highlights the
significance of the problem, the methodological approach, and the key
results and their potential applications.  The extended abstract should be
no more than 10 pages (1” margins, single-spaced, 12 point normal font, not
including references, tables, or figures).

2.       A copy of the entrant’s current curriculum vitae.

3.       A letter of recommendation from the entrant's dissertation advisor
that describes the significance of the research and comments on the
originality of the work.

*Optional*: If there are working papers or publications based on the
dissertation, these can be cited in the extended abstract, and submitted as
additional materials.  All additional files should be in PDF or MS Word
format and should be included in the same ZIP file that contains the three
required documents.


Please note that in addition to uploading your zip file on the EasyChair
submission page, you will be required to provide contact information (in
fields for Author 1), the title of the dissertation, a short abstract, and
keywords.
Reviewing Process and Winner Announcement

A panel of judges composed of senior faculty members from top IS academic
departments will review the submissions. Dissertations will be evaluated
based on the following criteria: creativity and novelty, scope and
magnitude of contribution to IS research, relevance to practice, technical
quality, and richness of methodological approach.


Finalists will be notified by September 15, 2014 and the winner will be
announced during the INFORMS Conference on Information Systems and
Technology (CIST) in San Francisco, November 8-9, 2014.
-- 
Ravi Bapna
Board of Overseers Professor of Information and Decision Sciences
Carlson School of Management
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN 55455
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