Introducing the FICO Best paper Award, a new award in operations research, mathematical optimization, and related fields. Read on to find out more details on eligibility and how to enter.
With 2021 coming to an end, The FICO Xpress Optimization team is ringing in the new year with some exciting news for this community. We will establish a FICO Best Paper Award, a new scientific award in Operations Research, Mathematical Optimization, and related fields, with the qualification period for the first edition starting soon.
But first things first – what does this award honor, and how can you participate?
TheXpress Best Paper Awardacknowledges outstanding papers in Operations Research, Mathematical Optimization, and related fields. The winning paper must contain significant research contributions for which the usage ofFICO Xpress Optimizationproducts played a major role.
These could be innovative mathematical models and solution techniques for practically relevant optimization problems, implemented via Insight, Mosel, or Python. They could be the engineering of new application-specific algorithms that solve optimization subproblems via the Xpress APIs. Or it could be a paper on new mathematical optimization methods based on an Xpress callback implementation or all other imaginable Operations Research, Management Science, Mathematical Programming research where Xpress Optimization products played a significant role. Business problems, combinatorial optimization puzzles, linear programming, mixed-integer programming, nonlinear optimization models, everything is welcome.
Every paper that fulfills these conditions and will have been published in the years 2021 or 2022 (online first or physical publication, both are eligible) in a peer-reviewed journal or a refereed conference proceedings volume (e.g., IPCO or CPAIOR) will qualify.
The award committee has just been formed and will consist of the following members:
and myself, who will also function as a chair of the committee.
The award is sweetened with a monetary prize, and the only other obligation next to submitting the paper for nomination is that the winner will be asked to write a blog entry for the FICO Xpress Optimization blog. But hey, that’s fun, I can tell you from first-handexperience! All other details can be found here, and feel free to send me an e-mail when you have any questions. For completeness, I should add that the only legally binding information is the terms and conditions on the linked page.
I am very excited and look forward to what submissions we will receive in a year from now! Will one of your next papers be among them?
Other relevant FICO Optimization Community content on this topic:
Find more information on entering the contest and terms&conditions here.
With 2021 coming to an end, The FICO Xpress Optimization team is ringing in the new year with some exciting news for this community. We will establish a FICO Best Paper Award, a new scientific award in Operations Research, Mathematical Optimization, and related fields, with the qualification period for the first edition starting soon.
But first things first – what does this award honor, and how can you participate?
TheXpress Best Paper Awardacknowledges outstanding papers in Operations Research, Mathematical Optimization, and related fields. The winning paper must contain significant research contributions for which the usage ofFICO Xpress Optimizationproducts played a major role.
These could be innovative mathematical models and solution techniques for practically relevant optimization problems, implemented via Insight, Mosel, or Python. They could be the engineering of new application-specific algorithms that solve optimization subproblems via the Xpress APIs. Or it could be a paper on new mathematical optimization methods based on an Xpress callback implementation or all other imaginable Operations Research, Management Science, Mathematical Programming research where Xpress Optimization products played a significant role. Business problems, combinatorial optimization puzzles, linear programming, mixed-integer programming, nonlinear optimization models, everything is welcome.
Every paper that fulfills these conditions and will have been published in the years 2021 or 2022 (online first or physical publication, both are eligible) in a peer-reviewed journal or a refereed conference proceedings volume (e.g., IPCO or CPAIOR) will qualify.
Figure 1: Research project idea: Compute an optimal triangulation of your aspired award? Maybe…or maybe not.
The award committee has just been formed and will consist of the following members:
- Thorsten Koch, professor for Software and Algorithms for Discrete Optimization at TU Berlin and chair of the department “Digital Data and Information for Society, Science, and Culture” at Zuse Institute Berlin
- Jeff Linderoth, Harvey D. Spangler professor and Discovery Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Gonzalo Muñoz, assistant professor at the Universidad de O’Higgins and former IVADO Post-doctoral Fellow at Polytechnique Montréal
- Domenico Salvagnin, associate professor at the Università di Padova and scientific consultant for FICO Xpress
and myself, who will also function as a chair of the committee.
Figure 2: The Award Committee
The award is sweetened with a monetary prize, and the only other obligation next to submitting the paper for nomination is that the winner will be asked to write a blog entry for the FICO Xpress Optimization blog. But hey, that’s fun, I can tell you from first-handexperience! All other details can be found here, and feel free to send me an e-mail when you have any questions. For completeness, I should add that the only legally binding information is the terms and conditions on the linked page.
I am very excited and look forward to what submissions we will receive in a year from now! Will one of your next papers be among them?
Other relevant FICO Optimization Community content on this topic:
- Switch to FICO Xpress Optimization today!
- FICO Xpress Solver Basic Usage Documentation
- FICO Mosel Tutorial Video Series
Figure 2: You in January 2023?
Find more information on entering the contest and terms&conditions here.
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