[Info-systems-society] Call for Presentations

[ICS2005]

Below is the Call for Presentations for the 2005 INFORMS Computing Society 
Conference.  Please look it over, and consider submitting.  For more 
information about the Conference, please visit our recently-updated 
website at  http://www.informs.org/Conf/Computing05/ 

Thank you!


FIRST CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS

The Ninth INFORMS Computing Society Conference

THE NEXT WAVE IN COMPUTING, OPTIMIZATION,
AND DECISION TECHNOLOGIES

January 5-7, 2005

Loews Annapolis Hotel

Annapolis, Maryland USA

The INFORMS Computing Society (ICS) solicits presentations for its ninth 
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. Specific areas of interest 
include (but are not limited to) design and analysis of algorithms, 
heuristic search and learning, modeling languages, parallel and 
distributed computing, simulation, computational logic, and visualization. 
Work that focuses on new or novel applications in the interface of CS, AI, 
and OR/MS is especially welcome.

Papers for Presentation
A paper may be submitted only for presentation 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 
as a text file by email to ics2005 at rhsmith.umd.edu. The 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.

Important Dates
Submission deadline             September 17, 2004
Notification of acceptance      October 1, 2004

Conference Highlights
  Plenary address by William Pulleyblank of IBM
  Commitments to participate from over 60 academics and practitioners
  Historic location convenient to Washington, DC and Baltimore, Maryland
  Registration fee includes the conference volume (published by Kluwer), 
breakfasts, breaks, and reception/luncheon 

Additional Information
Consult www.informs.org/Conf/Computing05 for more details.

As conference co-chairs, we hope to hear from you soon and encourage you 
to join us in Annapolis in 2005.


Bruce Golden                            S. Raghavan Edward Wasil
Robert H. Smith School of Business      Robert H. Smith School of Business 
        Kogod School of Business
University of Maryland                  University of Maryland American 
University
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