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.

2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012

ICORES 2024

Best Paper Award

Integrating Reliability and Sustainability: A Multi-Objective Framework for Opportunistic Maintenance in Closed-Loop Supply Chain
Abdelhamid Boujarif, David W. Coit, Oualid Jouini, Zhiguo Zeng and Robert Heidsieck

Honorable Mention:
Multi-Server Queue, with Heterogeneous Service Valuations Induced by Travel Costs
Itzhak Moshkovitz, Irit Nowik and Yair Shaki

Best Student Paper Award

Heuristic Methods for the Antenna-Constrained Beam Layout Optimization on Multibeam Broadcasting Mission
Camille Lescuyer, Christian Artigues, Jean-Thomas Camino and Cédric Pralet

Best Poster Award

Economic Sustainability in Last-Mile Drone Delivery Problem with Fulfillment Centers: A Mathematical Formulation
Maria Elena Bruni, Sara Khodaparasti and Guido Perboli

ICORES 2023

Best Paper Award

A Simulation Tool for Exploring Ammunition Stockpile Dynamics
Jean-Denis Caron, Robert Mark Bryce and Chad Young

Best Student Paper Award

Automatic Placer for Analog Circuits Using Integer Linear Programming Warm Started by Graph Drawing
Josef Grus, Zdeněk Hanzálek, Dalibor Barri and Patrik Vacula

Best Poster Award

Opportunistic Maintenance of Multi-Component Systems Under Structure and Economic Dependencies: A Healthcare System Case Study
Abdelhamid Boujarif, David W. Coit, Oualid Jouini, Zhiguo Zeng and Robert Heidsieck

ICORES 2022

Best Paper Award

On Finding k Earliest Arrival Time Journeys in Public Transit Networks
Ali Al-Zoobi, David Coudert, Arthur Finkelstein and Jean-Charles Régin

Incremental Scheduling of the Time-triggered Traffic on TTEthernet Network
Zdeněk Hanzálek and Jan Dvořák

Best Student Paper Award

Bi-objective Risk-averse Facility Location using a Subset-based Representation of the Conditional Value-at-Risk
Najmesadat Nazemi, Sophie N. Parragh and Walter J. Gutjahr

Best Poster Award

Online Heuristic Approach for Efficient Allocation of Limited COVID-19 Testing Kits
Muhammad S. T. Alfas and Shaurya Shriyam

ICORES 2021

Best Paper Award

Identifying Geographical Areas using Machine Learning for Enrolling Women in the Canadian Armed Forces
Ryuichi Ueno, Peter Boyd and Dragos Calitoiu

Best Student Paper Award

Mixed-Integer Constrained Grey-Box Optimization based on Dynamic Surrogate Models and Approximated Interval Analysis
Mohamad Omar Nachawati and Alexander Brodsky

Best Poster Award

Business Intelligence and Innovation: An European Digital Innovation Hub to Increase System Interaction and Value Co-creation within and among Service Systems
Florian Maurer

ICORES 2020

Best Paper Award

Delay Predictors in Multi-skill Call Centers: An Empirical Comparison with Real Data
Mamadou Thiongane, Wyean Chan and Pierre L’Ecuyer

Best Student Paper Award

On Idle Energy Consumption Minimization in Production: Industrial Example and Mathematical Model
Ondřej Benedikt, Přemysl Šůcha and Zdeněk Hanzálek

Best Poster Award

Linear Model Adjustment and Approximate Approach for Creating Minimal Overhead Wires Network for Vehicle Schedules
Dobroslav Grygar and Michal Kohni

ICORES 2019

Best Paper Award

Stochastic Dynamic Pricing with Strategic Customers and Reference Price Effects
Rainer Schlosser

Using Phase-type Models to Monitor and Predict Process Target Compliance
Sally I. McClean, David A. Stanford, Lalit Garg and Naveed Khan

Best Student Paper Award

Makespan Minimization with Sequence-dependent Non-overlapping Setups
Marek Vlk, Antonin Novak and Zdenek Hanzalek

Best Poster Award

The Risk-averse Profitable Tour Problem
Maria Elena Bruni, Lorenzo Brusco, Giuseppe Ielpa and Patrizia Beraldi

ICORES 2018

Best Paper Award

Dynamic Pricing Strategies in a Finite Horizon Duopoly with Partial Information
Rainer Schlosser and Keven Richly

Best Student Paper Award

A Heuristic for a Rich and Real Two-dimensional Woodboard Cutting Problem
Claudio Arbib, Fabrizio Marinelli, Andrea Pizzuti and Roberto Rosetti

Best Poster Award

Dynamic Linear Assignment for Pairing Two Parts in Production - A Case Study in Aeronautics Industry
Clémence Bisot

A Two-stage Stochastic Programming Model for the Resource Constrained Project Scheduling Problem under Uncertainty
Maria Elena Bruni, Luigi Di Puglia Pugliese, Patrizia Beraldi and Francesca Guerriero

ICORES 2017

Best Paper Award

Optimizing Spare Battery Allocation in an Electric Vehicle Battery Swapping System
Michael Dreyfuss and Yahel Giat

Best Student Paper Award

On the Impact of using Mixed Integer Programming Techniques on Real-world Offshore Wind Parks
Martina Fischetti and David Pisinger

Best Poster Award

Variable Neighbourhood Search Solving Sub-problems of a Lagrangian Flexible Scheduling Problem
Alexander Hämmerle and Georg Weichhart

ICORES 2016

Best Paper Award

Risk Driven Analysis of Maintenance for a Large-scale Drainage System
Yujie Chen, Fiona Polack, Peter Cowling, Philip Mourdjis and Stephen Remde

A Complementarity Problem Formulation for Chance-constraine Games
Vikas Vikram Singh, Oualid Jouini and Abdel Lisser

Best Student Paper Award

Delineation of Rectangular Management Zones Under Uncertainty Conditions
Jose L. Saez and Victor M. Albornoz

Best PhD Project Award

Preference Dissagrigation Model of ELECTRE TRI-NC and Its Application on Identifying Prefered Climates for Tourism
Parisa Madhooshiarzanagh

ICORES 2015

Best Paper Award

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

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

Best Student Paper Award

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Best Student Paper Award

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

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

ICORES 2012

Best Paper Award

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

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

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

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