Previous Awards

The papers receiving these awards were selected from a set of outstanding papers, based on the quantitative and qualitative classifications as well as comments provided by the program committee reviewers, their final classification as full paper and their oral presentation at the conference.

2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012

ICORES 2015

Best Paper Award

Area: Applications

The Truck Scheduling Problem at Crossdocking Terminals - Exclusive versus Mixed Mode
L. Berghman, C. Briand, R. Leus and P. Lopez

Area: Methodologies and Technologies

Schedule Two-machine Flow-shop with Controllable Processing Times Using Tabu-search
Kailiang Xu and Gang Zheng

Best Student Paper Award

Area: Applications

Mixed Integer Programming with Decomposition to Solve a Workforce Scheduling and Routing Problem
Wasakorn Laesanklang, Dario Landa-Silva and J. Arturo Castillo Salazar

Area: Methodologies and Technologies

Selection-based Approach to Cooperative Interval Games
Jan Bok and Milan Hladík

Best PhD Project Award

Ensuring Blood is Available When it is Needed Most
Nigel M. Clay, John Hearne, Babak Abbasi and Andrew Eberhard

The Air Distribution Network Design Problem - A Complex Non-linear Combinatorial Optimization Problem
Sandy Jorens, Annelies De Corte, Kenneth Sörensen and Gunther Steenackers

ICORES 2014

Best Paper Award

Area: Applications

New Multi-product Valid Inequalities for a Discrete Lot-sizing Problem
Céline Gicquel and Michel Minoux

Area: Methodologies and Technologies

A Multi-Agent Min-Cost Flow problem with Controllable Capacities - Complexity of Finding a Maximum-flow Nash Equilibrium
Nadia Chaabane Fakhfakh, Cyril Briand and Marie-José Huguet

Best Student Paper Award

Area: Applications

General Lower Bounds for the Total Completion Time in a Flowshop Scheduling Problem - MaxPlus Approach
Nhat-Vinh Vo, Pauline Fouillet and Christophe Lenté

Area: Methodologies and Technologies

Managing Price Risk for an Oil and Gas Company
António Quintino, João Carlos Lourenço and Margarida Catalão-Lopes

Best PhD Project Award

Sourcing Decisions for Goods with Potentially Imperfect Quality under the Presence of Supply Disruption
Laura Wagner and Mustafa Çagri Gürbüz

ICORES 2013

Best Paper Award

Area: Applications

The Pareto Frontier for Vehicle Fleet Purchases - Cost versus Sustainability
Daniel Reich, Sandra L. Winkler and Erica Klampfl

Area: Methodologies and Technologies

Cyclic-type Polling Models with Preparation Times
N. Perel, J. L. Dorsman and M. Vlasiou

Best Student Paper Award

Area: Applications

A Maintenance-optimal Swapping Policy - For a Fleet of Electric or Hybrid-electric Vehicles
Ahmad Almuhtady, Seungchul Lee, Edwin Romeijn and Jun Ni

Area: Methodologies and Technologies

A Distributionally Robust Formulation for Stochastic Quadratic Bi-level Programming
Pablo Adasme, Abdel Lisser and Chen Wang

ICORES 2012

Best Paper Award

Area: Applications

GENERALIZED DISAGGREGATION ALGORITHM FOR THE VEHICLE ROUTING PROBLEM WITH TIME WINDOWS AND MULTIPLE ROUTES
Rita Macedo, Saïd Hanafi, François Clautiaux, Cláudio Alves and J. M. Valério de Carvalho

Area: Methodologies and Technologies

IMPACT OF BLOCKING WHEN CUSTOMERS OF DIFFERENT CLASSES ARE ACCOMMODATED IN ONE COMMON QUEUE
Herwig Bruneel, Willem Mélange, Bart Steyaert, Dieter Claeys and Joris Walraevens

Best Student Paper Award

Area: Applications

STOCHASTIC SHORTEST PATH PROBLEM WITH UNCERTAIN DELAYS
Jianqiang Cheng, Stefanie Kosuch and Abdel Lisser

Area: Methodologies and Technologies

CONTINUOUS-TIME REVENUE MANAGEMENT IN CARPARKS
A. Papayiannis, P. Johnson, D. Yumashev, S. Howell, N. Proudlove and P. Duck