# CALL FOR NOMINATIONS: 14th annual "COIN-OR Cup" competition

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I hope it’s appropriate to post this here. Please feel free to forward this announcement.

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS: 14th annual “COIN-OR Cup” competition  
sponsored by the COIN-OR Foundation.

The COIN-OR Cup recognizes and celebrates the best contributions  
to open source operations research software development and use  
associated with the COIN-OR software collection. To remind you,  
COIN-OR stands for “COmputational INfrastructure for OPerations  
Research”. It is the definitive collection of free open source  
operations research software that lets you concentrate on  
your research instead of re-implementing software. See  
[https://www.coin-or.org/](https://www.coin-or.org/). Get on board!

GUIDELINES FOR COIN-OR CUP SUBMISSIONS:

A submission or nomination must contain:

1. A synopsis of an effective use of COIN-OR or  
valuable contribution to COIN-OR (or both!),  
including an explanation of its significance.  
Maximum 3 pages (pdf format).
2. Copies of relevant papers or documents (pdf format).

We especially encourage nominations describing effective use  
of COIN-OR that the community may not know about.  
Self-nominations are welcome.

Submission deadline: Friday, October 5, 2018.

Please e-mail your submissions to [coin-cup@coin-or.org](mailto:coin-cup@coin-or.org) in a single  
zipped archive, containing a description of your submission and  
copies of all relevant papers/documents in pdf format.

The winner must accept the prize in person at the 2018 INFORMS  
Annual Meeting so we can all celebrate appropriately (see below).

CELEBRATION:

The 2018 COIN-OR Cup will be awarded at a celebration on Monday  
November 5 during the INFORMS Annual meeting in Phoenix, AZ.  
All entrants, supporters, and other interested parties are welcome  
to join the celebration and regale, rile, and roast the prize  
winners. Details of the event will be announced later.

The winning entry will be announced at this celebration event,  
and posted on the COIN-OR website [https://www.coin-or.org/](https://www.coin-or.org/)

2018 COIN-OR CUP COMMITTEE:

John Chinneck (Chair), Carleton University, Ottawa  
Dominique Orban, Ecole Polytechnique, Montreal  
Bill Hart, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque