INFORMS is pleased to announce its Fourth Annual Peer-Reviewed Case Competition. This competition is jointly sponsored by INFORMS Education Committee, INFORMS Case and Teaching Materials Initiative, and INFORM-ED. It is designed to encourage the creation, dissemination and use of new, unpublished cases in operations research and the management sciences. All submissions and supporting documentation are due by August 15. All cases will be blind-reviewed in August and September of 2003 by a panel of judges familiar with the case method.

Up to four finalists will be selected and notified by the judging committee by the end of September 2003. Finalists will give 30-minute presentations of their entries at a special open session of the 2003 INFORMS Annual Meeting in Atlanta. The panel of judges will select the winning entry from these finalists based on these presentations. The winner will be announced at the INFORM-ED Business meeting at the 2003 INFORMS Conference. Finalists must present their cases at the Fall 2003 INFORMS Meeting to be eligible to win.

The case studies must be no more than 10, single-spaced pages (3,000 words max.) in length; shorter cases are acceptable. All submitted cases must be previously unpublished. Cases should be essentially new in their entirety. If the case contains material drafted originally by individuals or groups other than the author(s) submitting the case, then the intellectual history and ownership of these portions should be made absolutely clear. Contestants are responsible for assuring that this guideline is strictly met.

Prizes include $500 and plaque to the best case and $100 and plaques for up to three runners-up

For more information, visit www.informs.org/Edu/edu.html or contact Christopher J. Zappe at 570-577-3495 or zappe@bucknell.edu.

Results of the Third Annual INFORMS Case Competition


Murat Koksalan of Middle East Technical University and F. Sibel Salman of Purdue University won the Third Annual INFORMS Case Competition held fall in San Jose, Calif., for their outstanding case entitled "A Case Study of Location, Distribution and Capacity Expansion Decisions at Anadolu Efes." The winners received a $500 cash prize and a plaque.

Finalists included: "J.S. McMillan Fisheries Ltd: Optimizing Production Planning" by Alexander M. Smith, Mehmet A. Begen and Martin Puterman of the University of British Columbia and David Glenn of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; "Cruises Inc." by John F. Kros of East Carolina University, Christopher M. Keller of Indiana University and Stephanie Leung of Cua-Oh Consulting in Honolulu; and "Technology for Transportation Bidding at The Home Depot" by Wedad Elmaghraby and Pinar Keskinocak of the Georgia Institute of Technology.

The judges included Peter Bell, Robert Carraway, Janny Leung and Norean Radke Sharpe.






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