Call For Papers and Presentations

11th INFORMS Computing Society Conference

Charleston, South Carolina, January 11--13, 2009

Operations Research and Cyberinfrastructure

The INFORMS Computing Society (ICS) solicits papers and presentations for its eleventh conference on the interface of computer science (CS), artificial intelligence (AI), operations research, and management science (OR/MS). The conference organizers invite you to submit theoretical and applied work that highlights the conference theme: Operations Research and Cyberinfrastructure--in particular, high-performance computing and communications; data management, analysis, and visualization; virtual organizations; and learning and workforce development. Areas of interest also include (but are not limited to) design and analysis of algorithms, heuristic search and learning, modeling languages, parallel and distributed computing, simulation, and computational logic. Work that focuses on new or novel applications in the interface of CS, AI, and OR/MS is especially welcome.

Submissions

There are two categories of submissions: (1) papers for the conference volume and (2) papers for presentation.

Important Dates

	Papers for Conference Volume	Abstracts for Presentations
Submission deadline	June 1, 2008	November 1, 2008
Notification of acceptance	August 25, 2008	November 15, 2008
Final papers due	September 8, 2008

Papers for the Conference Volume

A volume of peer-reviewed papers will be published for distribution at the conference. Papers submitted for the conference volume must describe original work that has not been published previously and must not have been submitted for publication elsewhere. Papers for the conference volume are limited to 6,000 words, will be refereed, and should be submitted as a PDF file through the conference submission page. After acceptance for publication, authors will prepare their papers for the conference volume using a style format supplied by the publisher. Papers accepted for the conference volume must be presented at the conference.

Papers for Presentation

A paper may be submitted for presentation only at the conference and will not appear in the conference volume. An abstract of less than 200 words, not containing formulas, references or abbreviations, should be submitted through the conference submission page. names of all authors and affiliations should be provided, with the presenting author listed first. A paper accepted for presentation will have the abstract printed in the conference program.