IFORS Prize for OR in Development
| Conference | Prize Chair/Panel | Winner | Title of Paper |
| 2023, XXIII, Santiago, Chile |
Mario Guajardo (Norway/Chile) – Chair Roman Slowinski (Poland) Margaretha Gansterer (Austria) Tava Olsen (New Zealand) Elise del Rosario (Philippines) Guiying Yan (China) Juan Villegas (Colombia) Maristela Oliveira dos Santos (Brazil) James Cochran (USA) Monia Rekik (Canada)) Dave Evans (South Africa/USA) |
First Place: Kuo-Hao Chang, Tzu-Yi Hsiung, Ying-Zheng Wu, Robert Cuckler, Tzu-Yin Chang, Siao-Syun Ke | Safer Homeland: Developing Evacuation Simulation and Humanitarian Relief Logistics Models for Effective Disaster Preparation and Response in Taiwan |
| Runner Up: Rodrigo Castro, Daniel Feierstein, Ernesto Kofman, Rafael Grimson, Ezequiel Pecker-Marcosig, Guillermo Durán, Daniela Parada, Andrés Farall, Jemina García, Soledad Gonzalez, Nicolás Kreplak | Data Science and Simulation Tools Developed at Public Universities for Supporting Argentina’s COVID-19 Response Decision-Making | ||
| 2020, XXII, Seoul, Korea |
Mario Guajardo (Norway) – Chair
Guillermo Duran (Argentina) Song-Hee Kim (USA) Youn Sung Kim (Korea) Janny Leung (Hong Kong) Sue Merchant (UK) Annette Van Der Merwe (South Africa) Mikael Rönnqvist (Canada) Maristela Oliveira dos Santos (Brazil) Roman Slowinski (Poland) |
First Place: Nikhil Hooda, Om Damani, Ashutosh Mahajan | JalTantra: Impacting the practice of rural water network design in India |
| Runner Up: Jose Correa, Rafael Epstein, Juan Escobar, Ignacio Rios, Bastian Bahamondes, Carlos Bonet, Natalie Epstein, Nicolas Aramayo, Martin Castillo, Andres Cristi, Boris Epstein, Felipe Subiabre | School choice in Chile | ||
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Mikael Rönnqvist (Canada) – Chair |
First Place: Sepideh Abolghasem, Felipe Solano, Claudia D. Bedoya, Lina P. Navas, Ana Paola Ríos, Edwin A. Pinzón, Andrés L. Medaglia, Olga L. Sarmientoc |
A Robust DEA-Centric Location Based Decision Support System for Expanding Recreovia Hubs in Bogota |
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Runner Up: Guo Tian-de, Han Cong-ying, Zhao Tong, A Yong, Bai Chao-chao, Tang Si-qi, Wu Min |
Optimization Models and Algorithms For Fingerprint Recognition |
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| 2014 XX Barcelona | Andres Weintraub (Chile) – Chair
Subhash Datta (India) Guillermo Duran (Argentina) Ke Liu (China) Sue Merchant ( UK) Tatsuo Oyama (Japan) Mikael Rönnqvist ( Quebec) Elise del Rosario (Philippines) Jan van Vuuren (South Africa) Leroy White (UK) |
First Place: Luiz Augusto Canito Gallego de Andrade, Claudio Barbieri da Cunha |
Optimizing Ambulance Moveable Station Location and Vehicle Repositioning to Reduce Response Times for the City of São Paulo |
| Runner Up: Zheng Yu-jun, Ling Hai-Feng, Xu Xin-Li, and Chen Sheng Yong |
Emergency Engineering Rescue Scheduling and its Application in Disaster Relief Operations in China |
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| 2011, XIX,Melbourne | Subhash Datta (India) Jan Van Vuuren (South Africa) Celso Carneiro Riberio (Brazil) Arjan Shahani (UK) Elise del Rosario (Phillipines) Theodor Stewart (South Africa) Hugo Scolnik (Argentina-DC Chair) Leroy White (UK) |
First Place: Joao Neiva de Figueiredo and Miguel Angel Marca Barrientos (Bolivia) |
A Decision Support Methodology for |
| Runner Up: Angel Luis Udias, David Rios Insua, Javier Cano and Hocine Fellag (Algeria) | Cost Efficient Equitable Water Distributionin Algeria: A Bi-Criteria Fair Division ProblemWith Network Constraints |
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| 2008, XVIII, Sandton | Paul Fatti (South Africa)
Irene Loiseau (Argentina) Joao Neiva de Figueiredo (Brazil) Theo Stewart (South Africa – DC Chair) Arabinda Tripathy (India) Leroy White (UK) |
First Place: Haouari M., Aissaoui N., Berrima K., Sherali H.D. and Mansour F.Z. (Tunisia) |
Integrated aircraft fleeting and routing at TunisAir. |
| Runner Up: Raad D., Sinske A. and Van Vuuren J. (South Africa) | Robust multi-objective optimization for water distribution system design using a meta-meta-heuristic. |
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| 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) |
A decision support methodology for increasing public investment efficiency in Brazilian agrarian reform |
| Runners Up: M. Osman, H. Zaher and D. El-Iraqi (Egypt) |
Cultural Heritage Management – A goal programming application to Wadilmeluk |
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| Yindong Shen and J. Xia (China) | Integrated bus transit scheduling for Beijing bus group based on regionalized operation mode |
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| M. Negreiros Gomez, A.E. Xavier, N. Maculan, A.F. Sampaio Xavier and P. Michelon (Brazil) |
A framework of computational systems and optimization models for the prevention and combat of dengue |
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| 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) |
A Combinational Auction Improves School Meals in Chile Network Service Scheduling and Routing |
| Second Place: G. Groves, J Le Roux and Jan H Van Vuuren (South Africa) |
Network Service Scheduling & Routing |
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| 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) |
Study of China Grain Output Prediction |
| Runners Up: JH Van Vuuren, Werner Grundling (South Africa) |
An Active Decision Support System for Optimality in Open Air Reservoir Release Strategies |
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| Qingzhen Zhao (China) | Application of OR in Agriculture Management in China |
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| 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) | A Project Evaluation System in the State Economic InformationSystem of China: An Operations Research Practice in the Public Sector |
| Runners Up: RK Chaturvedi, K Bhattacharya and J Parikh (India) | Transmission Planning for Indian Power Grid: A Mixed Integer Programming Approach |
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| G Liu, J Xu, C Hi, B Zhou and Q Ren (China) |
Operational Research and Economic Development: The Optimization of the Ecological,Economic Development for the Upper Reaches of the Yangtze River (Changjiang) |
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| 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) | A Linear Programming Model for Distribution of Eliectrical Energy in a Steel Plant |
| Runners Up: N.D. Pizzolato (Brazil) |
School Location: A Real Application of the P-Median Model |
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| A. Tripathy (India) | Using OR/MS in Third World Countries: Some Cases from India |
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| XII, 1990, Athens | Roberto Galvao(Brazil) | No winner | |
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XI, 1987, Buenos Aires |
Bob Kavanagh (Australia) | Nicolas Majluf (Chile) | The National Assessment of Education in Chile |