@conference{39341, author = {Elena Messina and Stephen Balakirsky and Rajmohan Madhavan}, title = {The Role of Competitions in Advancing Intelligent Systems: A Practitioner's Perspective}, year = {2010}, month = {2010-05-05}, publisher = {Proceedings of the Performance Metrics for Intelligent Systems (PerMIS) 2009, Gaithersburg, MD}, url = {https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=905392}, language = {en}, }