Call for Papers and Presentations

The 14th INFORMS Computing Society Conference will take place January 11-13, 2015, at the Omni Richmond Hotel in Richmond, Virginia, USA.   

The INFORMS Computing Society (ICS) is soliciting papers and presentations for its fourteenth conference. ICS is focused on contributions at the interface of computer science, artificial intelligence, operations research, and management science. The conference organizers invite submissions discussing novel theoretical and applied research consistent with the ICS focus. We especially encourage submissions targeting this year's conference theme: Operations Research and Computing: Algorithms and Software for Analytics.

Topics of Interest Include:

• Computational Optimization and Solvers

• Constraint Programming and Hybrid Optimization

• Computational Probability and Analysis

• Data Mining

• Simulation

• Modeling Systems and Languages

• Heuristic Search

• Open Source Software

• Computational Stochastic Optimization

• Integer Programming 

• Network Applications

• Mixed Integer Nonlinear Programming

Presentation and Student Poster Session Abstract Submissions

An abstract of no more than 200 words should be submitted through the submission page at

  https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ics2015

Names and affiliations of all authors should be provided, with the presenting author listed first.  The presenting author for a submission to the student poster session must be a student member of the INFORMS Computing Society. The deadline for submission of presentation and student poster session abstracts is October 20, 2014.

NSF Student Poster Session Travel Awards

Thanks to the support of the National Science Foundation, support for registration and hotel is available for students who present posters at the conference. Students who wish to apply for travel support must submit an abstract to the ICS 2015 Student Poster Session Abstracts track on EasyChair by October 20, 2014, and indicate they wish to be considered for funding.  Students from underrepresented groups are especially encouraged to apply.  Space for posters may be limited, and the abstract will be used to decide which posters are accepted, so it is important that the abstract provide a good description of the research to be presented. 

Options for Publication

In conjunction with the conference, the authors of a limited number of full-length journal articles will be invited to submit their papers for review for the INFORMS Journal on Computing and associated with the conference.  These papers should be submitted first through the EasyChair link above with the presentation abstract.  The deadline for submission of papers for INFORMS Journal on Computing is May 19, 2014.

An open access proceedings volume will be published with INFORMS as well.  The volume will be published online as well as in print, and authors will retain the copyright.  The deadline for submissions is September 1, 2014 now September 15, 2014.  Authors are required to use the ICS 2015 LaTeX style files.  Proceedings papers may not be more than 15 pages including references.