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Technical Section on Telecommunications and Network Analytics</b>
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<div class="x_ContentPasted1 ContentPasted0" data-ogsc="" style="margin:0px">The INFORMS Technical Section on Telecommunications and Network Analytics (TNA) announces the Best Paper Award for an outstanding paper applying OR techniques in telecommunications
and network analytics. The paper must present innovative OR approaches to complex problems in all topics related to the field of telecommunications and network analytics including, but not being limited to: telecommunications modeling, policy, and technology,
network economics, network design, algorithms, and optimization, sensor networks, wireless and broadband networks, vehicle and mobile computing, semantic networks, network survivability and reliability, information security and privacy, quality of service,
internet and multimedia, data mining applications in networks.</div>
<div class="x_ContentPasted1 ContentPasted0" data-ogsc="" style="margin:0px">The paper must have been published (or accepted) in a refereed journal in 2022 or 2023 and written in English. Four finalist papers will be recognized in a special session at INFORMS
2023 Annual Meeting. The best paper award will be presented during the Section Business Meeting.</div>
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<div class="x_ContentPasted1 ContentPasted0" data-ogsc="" style="margin:0px">To be eligible for TNA Best Paper Award 2022/2023:</div>
<div class="x_ContentPasted1 ContentPasted0" data-ogsc="" style="margin:0px">- At least one of the paper's authors must be a member of the Telecommunications and Network Analytics (TNA) Section. (Please renew your section membership if it expired)</div>
<div class="x_ContentPasted1 ContentPasted0" data-ogsc="" style="margin:0px">- One of the authors should be able to present the paper in the best paper award session in INFORMS 2023.</div>
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<div class="x_ContentPasted1 ContentPasted0" data-ogsc="" style="margin:0px">Each submitting author may only submit one paper. <span data-ogsc="" data-ogsb="rgb(255, 255, 255)" style="margin: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="ContentPasted0">Please
email the paper (pdf) and a letter (maximum two pages) describing the merits of the paper to the Best Paper Award Committee by June 1, 2023. </span><span data-ogsc="" data-ogsb="rgb(255, 255, 255)" style="margin: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="ContentPasted0">Please
use the following address for submissions: email:<span class="ContentPasted0"> </span></span><b data-ogsc="" data-ogsb="rgb(255, 255, 255)" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="ContentPasted0">ahill29@calpoly.edu</b><span data-ogsc="" data-ogsb="rgb(255, 255, 255)" style="margin: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="ContentPasted0">.
Subject Line: Best Paper Award Committee - Telecommunications and Network Analytics Section.</span></div>
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<div class="x_ContentPasted1 ContentPasted0" data-ogsc="" style="margin:0px">The members of the Best Paper Award Committee are:</div>
<div class="x_ContentPasted1 ContentPasted0" data-ogsc="" style="margin:0px">Alessandro Hill (Chair), California Polytechnic State University, USA</div>
<div class="x_ContentPasted1 ContentPasted0" data-ogsc="" style="margin:0px">Carlos Eduardo de Andrade, AT&T Labs, Inc., USA</div>
<div class="x_ContentPasted1 ContentPasted0" data-ogsc="" style="margin:0px">Albena Dimitrova Mihovska, Aarhus University, Denmark</div>
Dilek Gunnec, Ozyegin University, Turkey<br class="ContentPasted0">
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