Awards

1. The first-place will receive HK$4000.
2. The second-place will receive HK$2000.
3. Each honorable mention will receive HK$500.

Eligibility Requirements and Author Guidelines

1. Competition participants should be students. The paper should be led and presented by the student during the conference. Each participant is required to register the conference and submit only one entry for competition. Failure to register the conference may lose the eligibility of the competition.


2. Paper topic must fit the conference's theme: Beyond All Limits: The Future of POM Research. Example of interest areas can be found at here. The submitted paper should be written in English, and the presentation should be conducted in English as well.


3. To participate in the competition, please submit an electronic form (in MS-Word or PDF format, and should not exceed 32 pages) with paper/presentation title, author names, and the corresponding author's phone/fax number and e-mail the submission with subject “Best student paper competition” to [email protected] on or before October 31, 2021 . The format of the paper should follow that of the manuscripts submitted for consideration by Production and Operations and Management (available at https://www.poms.org/journal/author_instructions/).


4. Submissions for student paper competition will be considered for conference presentation automatically (and hence please do not submit the same paper for conference presentation).

Award Selection Criteria

Each paper/presentation will be evaluated based on two criteria:

1. Academic significance (originality, depth, completeness and work's potential impact on future research).
2. Engineering or business relevance (importance of the problem and its impact on engineering or business practice).