Ph.D. Student Research Abstract Competition

The NAACSOS conference sponsors an award for the best Ph.D. research
abstract submitted. Eligible abstracts must meet the following criteria:

• Be authored by a Ph.D. student (sole author or main author).
• Follow all conference guidelines for abstract submission.
• Check the box on the online abstract submission form indicating to
  request consideration in the competition.

Submitted abstracts (which are really extended abstracts 2-4 pages in length) will be judged by a committee and the winner announced at the NAACSOS conference. The winning abstract will be published in the Journal of Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory. The winning graduate student will serve on the awards committee for the 2004 conference.

2003 Ph.D. Research Abstract Award Committee:
Rob Nehmer <rnehmer@campbell.berry.edu>
Kari Chopra <kchopra@aptima.com>
Matthew Dombroski <mdombros@andrew.cmu.edu>
James Emery <je9@duke.edu>

Past winning abstracts:

2002

• James Emery, Duke University, Designing Firm Integrating Processes from the Knowledge-based View
• Matthew J. Dombroski & Kathleen M. Carley, Carnegie Mellon University,NETEST: Estimating a Terrorist Network's Structure

  Committee: Anjali Sastry, Rich Burton, Max Tsvetovat, Monique Lambert

2001

• Maksim Tsvetovat & Kathleen M. Carley, Carnegie Mellon University, Emergent Specializaitons in a Commodity Market: A Multi-Agent Model
• Monique H. Lambert, John Kunz, Raymond E. Levitt, Stanford University, Hierarchies and Transactive Memory Systems: Crafting a Model of Flexible Exception Handling

  Committee: Anjali Sastry, Rich Burton, Fritz van Merode, Marcelo Cataldo

2000

• Marcelo Cataldo, Kathleen M. Carley & Linda Argote, Carnegie Mellon University, The Effect of Personnel Selection Schemes on Knowledge Transfer

  Committee: Anjali Sastry, Rich Burton, Fritz van Merode