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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">We are soliciting entries for the
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">INFORMS ISS DESIGN SCIENCE AWARD</span><span style="color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:#1F497D">Detailed information of the INFORMS ISS Design Science Award is found at
<a href="http://www.rsm.nl/informsaward">www.rsm.nl/informsaward</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:#1F497D">The purpose of the INFORMS ISS Design Science award is to promote and recognize research efforts centered on the design and realization of innovative information technology (IT) artifacts.</span><span style="color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;color:#1F497D">ð</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;color:#1F497D"> <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Submission
deadline</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">for INFORMS ISS Design Science
Award 2014 is on 1. October 2014.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:#1F497D">The Award amount is US$1000 per year. The award is open to university or graduate professional program faculty and students across any discipline, department or school within a university that is engaged in designing, building and
evaluating IT artifacts for research and experimental purposes. Please check out the requirements for nominations before submitting online.</span><span style="color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="color:#1F497D">Award Announcement, Presentation and Publicity</span></b><span style="color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:#1F497D">The award will be publicly presented in December at the Workshop on Information Technology & Systems (WITS), held in conjunction with the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS).</span><span style="color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:#1F497D">A write up on the annual award winner will appear in the INFORMS ISS Newsletter. Also, a list of annual award winners and a description of the award winning work will be maintained on the web site of the INFORMS Information Systems
Society<<a href="http://infosys.society.informs.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1155CC">http://infosys.society.informs.org/</span></a>> and at Erasmus University<<a href="http://www.rsm.nl/informsaward">www.rsm.nl/informsaward</a>>.</span><span style="color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:#1F497D">INFORMS ISS Design Science Award in 2014 is sponsored by:</span><span style="color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;color:#1F497D">ð</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;color:#1F497D"> <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">The journal
Business & Information Systems Engineering <<a href="http://bise-journal.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1155CC">bise-journal.com</span></a>></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;color:#1F497D">ð</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;color:#1F497D"> <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">The Erasmus
Research Institute of Management <</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222"> </span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><a href="http://www.erim.eur.nl/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1155CC">http://www.erim.eur.nl/</span></a>><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;color:#1F497D">ð</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> INFORMS Information Systems Society<<a href="http://infosys.society.informs.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1155CC">http://infosys.society.informs.org/</span></a>><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Best wishes,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Wolf Ketter (Chair)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Martin Bichler<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Alok Gupta<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Olivia Sheng<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:#1F497D">Balaji Padmanabhan</span><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Prof. Dr. Wolf Ketter<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Professor of Next Generation Information Systems<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Director, Erasmus Centre for Future Energy Business (<a href="http://www.rsm.nl/energy">www.rsm.nl/energy</a>)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Director, Learning Agents Research Group at Erasmus (LARGE –
<a href="http://www.large.rsm.nl/">www.large.rsm.nl</a>)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Twitter: @wolfketter <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Ingrid Waaijer, Secretary <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">+31(0)10-408 2032<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:iwaaijer@rsm.nl">iwaaijer@rsm.nl</a> <o:p></o:p></p>
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