Developing Countries

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IFORS activities related to developing countries are under the responsibility of the Developing Countries Committee, chaired by Theo Stewart (tjstew@iafrica.com).
IFORS DC Prize
This IFORS initiative aims to encourage and reward the best applications of Operations Research in a developing country.
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IFORS DC Prize

Conference	Prize Chair/Panel	Winner	Title of Paper
XI, 1987, Buenos Aires	Bob Kavanagh (Australia)	Nicolas Majluf (Chile)	The National Assessment of Education in Chile
XII, 1990, Athens	Roberto Galvao(Brazil)	No winner
XIII, 1993, Lisbon	Jonathan Rosenhead(UK) Roberto Galvao (Brazil) A.K. Shahani (UK) RVV Vidal (Denmark) Andres Weintraub (Chile) Nitin Patel (DC Chair-India)	First Place Goutam Dutta (India) Runners Up N.D. Pizzolato (Brazil) A. Tripathy (India)	A Linear Programming Model for Distribution of Eliectrical Energy in a Steel Plant School Location: A Real Application of the P-Median Model Using OR/MS in Third World Countries: Some Cases from India
XIV, 1996, Vancouver	Jonathan Rosenhead (UK) Claudio Bornstein (Brazil) Goutam Dutta (India) Sung Joo Park (Korea) Elise Del Rosario (Philippines- DC Chair) Arabinda Tripathy (India) Andres Weintraub (Chile)	First Place X-S Zhang and J-C Cui (China) Runners Up RK Chaturvedi, K Bhattacharya and J Parikh (India) G Liu, J Xu, C Hi, B Zhou and Q Ren (China)	A Project Evaluation System in the State Economic Information System of China: An Operations Research Practice in the Public Sector Transmission Planning for Indian Power Grid: A Mixed Integer Programming Approach Operational Research and Economic Development: The Optimization of the Ecological, Economic Development for the Upper Reaches of the Yangtze River (Changjiang)
XV, 1999, Beijing	Goutam Dutta (India) Robert Abrams (USA) Elise del Rosario (Philippines, DC Chair) Xiang Sun Zhang (China) Theo Stewart (South Africa) Nelson Maculan (Brazil) Jan Weglarz (Poland)	First Place Xikang Chen, Xiaoming Pan, Cuihong Yang (China) Runners Up JH Van Vuuren, Werner Grundling(South Africa) Qingzhen Zhao(China)	Study of China Grain Output Prediction An Active Decision Support System for Optimality in Open Air Reservoir Release Strategies Application of OR in Agriculture Management in China
XVI, 2002, Edinburgh	Goutam Dutta (India) Robert Abrams (USA) Elise del Rosario (Philippine, DC Chair) Paul Fatti (South Africa) Xiaoming Pan (China) Dominique de Werra (Switzerland)	First Place Rafael Epstein, Lysette Henriquez, Jaime Catalan, Gabriel Y. Weintraub, Cristian Martinez (Chile) Second Place G. Groves, J Le Roux and Jan H Van Vuuren (South Africa)	A Combinational Auction Improves School Meals in Chile Network Service Scheduling and Routing
XVII, 2005, Hawaii	Paul Fatti (South Africa) Subhash Datta (India) Rafael Epstein (Chile) David Smith (UK) Theo Stewart (South Africa) John Vande Vate (USA)	First Place L. Melgarejo, J. Neiva de Figueiredo and C.E. Fries (Brazil) Runners Up M. Osman, H. Zaher and D. El-Iraqi (Egypt) Yindong Shen and J. Xia (China) M. Negreiros Gomez, A.E. Xavier, N. Maculan, A.F. Sampaio Xavier and P. Michelon (Brazil)	A decision support methodology for increasing public investment efficiency in Brazilian agrarian reform Cultural Heritage Management - a goal programming application to Wadilmeluk Integrated bus transit scheduling for Beijing bus group based on regionalized operation mode A framework of computational systems and optimization models for the prevention and combat of dengue

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