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John K. Walker, Jr. Award
Purpose and Criteria:
Candidates are considered annually for the Walker
Award to recognize the author(s) of the technical article judged to be the best
published in PHALANX, The Bulletin of Military Operations Research,
during the previous calendar year. The Walker Award is an annual award. Persons
considered to be deserving candidates for the Walker Award should be evaluated
by the purpose, criteria for eligibility, and candidate award procedures that
follow.
Purpose of the Award:
 | To establish a memorial to John K. Walker, Jr., a respected
colleague, PHALANX Editor for twelve years and PHALANX
Editor Emeritus for seven years, who by his long-term involvement with the
Military Operations Research Society gave so much of enduring value to the
military operations research community.
| To give evidence of the belief of the Military Operations
Research Society that operations research represents people who apply
scientific method to build quantitative models, manipulate data, evaluate
results and who publish these result in a suitable form in PHALANX,
a forum to the broader community.
| To emphasize that PHALANX, the Bulletin of
Military Operations Research, promotes communication among practitioners of
military operations research that are timely, important, and interesting to
the PHALANX audience. |
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We will identify and recognize members of our profession who
have expanded the application of military operations research techniques,
improved their set of analytical tools, communicated the results of their work
to the broader analytic community by publishing an article in PHALANX.
Criteria for Eligibility:
The following award qualification criteria are
recommended:
- Individuals must have published a technical
article in PHALANX during the previous calendar year whose content
is judged to be timely, interesting and important to the PHALANX
audience.
- Each published article will be judged on the
basis of its ability to communicate to the military operations research
community the ideas of the author(s) clearly, concisely, and unambiguously.
- Current Sponsors, members of the Board of
Directors, members of the PHALANX editorial staff including PHALANX
Department Editors, members of the editorial staff of Military
Operations Research Journal including MOR Associate Editors, and
members of the Publications Committee are not eligible for the Walker Award.
Walker Award Winners:
2006
Modeling
Army Officer Promotions, LTC
David Briggs, Volume
38, Number 4
2005
Modeling Precision Munitions: The Average Isn't Good Enough, Peter A. Davidson, Volume 37 Number 1
2004
An Agent Based Modeling Approach to Quantifying the Value of Battlefield
Information, MAJ
Rob Kewley and LTC Larry Larimer, Volume 36 Number 2
2003
Exploring Combat Models for
Non-Monotonicities and Remedies, Major William
Vinyard and Professor Tom Lucas, Volume 35, Number 1
2002
Bits, Bangs or Bucks?
The Coming Information Crisis,
Professor
Alan R. Washburn, Part I, Volume 34, Number 3
and
Part II, Volume 34, Number 4
2001
Scenario Analysis in US Army Decision Making
Richard R. Laferriere and Stephen M. Robinson, Volume 33, Number 1
2000
System Stability: A Proxy for Graceful Degradation,
James P. Ignizio,
March 1999, Volume 32, Number 1
1999
Information
Superiority and Game Theory: The Value of Information in Four Games,
Jerome Bracken and Richard E. Darilek, Volume 31, Number 4
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