INFORMS ISS Design Science Award - Past Winners
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2012 Winner
Awardees: Wolfgang Ketter, Erasmus University, John Collins, Maria Gini, Alok Gupta, and Paul Schrater, University of Minnesota
Project Title: Design of Automated Agents Capable of Recognizing and Forecasting the Economic Environment
Comments from judges:
"This work is outstanding. The authors have combined design science principles and economic theory to design and evaluate specific artifacts but also to develop “design theory” for software agents. The evaluation is well-conceived and convincing".
Supporting documentation
"Real-Time Tactical and Strategic Sales Management for Intelligent Agents Guided by Economic Regimes",
Information Systems Research, December 2012 vol. 23 no. 4 1263-1283, http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/isre.1110.0415
"Detecting and forecasting economic regimes in multi-agent automated exchanges", Decision Support Systems, 47 (2009) 307–318, www.elsevi e r.com/locate/dss
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| Wolfgang Ketter | John Collins | Maria Gini | Alok Gupta | Paul Schrater |
2011 Winner
Awardees: Gediminas Adamovicius, Shawn P. Curley, Alok Gupta (University of Minnesota), and Pallab Sanyal (George Mason University)
Project Title: CoCoA: Continuous Combinatorial Auction
2010 Winner
Awardees: Douglas S. Derrick and Jay F. Nunamaker, Jr. (MIS Department, University of Arizona)
Project Title: Avatar-based Kiosk for Automated Interviewing and Deception Detection
2009 Winners (two projects awarded)
Awardees: Manish Agrawal and Kaushal Chari (Department of Information Systems & Decision Sciences, University of South Florida) and Johan Perols (School of Business Administration, University of San Diego)
Project Title: Information Market-Based Decision Fusion
Awardees: Brian Dalessandro, Shawndra Hill, Sofus Macskassy, Foster Provost, and Xiaohan Zhang (Information Systems Group, Stern School of Business, New York University) Chris Volinsky (AT&T Research), Rod Hook and Alan Murray (Coriolis Ventures)
Project Title: Social Network-based Marketing Systems
2008 Winners (two projects awarded)
Awardees: Martin Bichler, Thomas Setzer and Benjamin Speitkamp (Department of Informatics, Internet-based Information Systems, TU Munchen)
Project Title: vPlan
Awardee: Hsinchun Chen (Department of Management Information Systems, University of Arizona)
Project Title: CopLink
All awardees insitutions noted are at time of nomination submission.
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