2012 RAS Problem Solving Competition
2012 RAS Problem Solving Competition
Winners
1. First prize ($2000): Bamboo@Tsinghua
- Chiwei Yan, Luyi Yang Department of Industrial Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
- Mixed-integer Programming Based Approaches for the Movement Planner Problem: Model, Heuristics and Decomposition
2. Second Prize ($1000): MIMIC
- Maurizio Boccia, Università del Sannio, Italy
- Carlo Mannino, SINTEF ICT, Norway
- Igor Vasiliev, Institute for System Dynamics and Control Theory of Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences
- Solving the dispatching problem on multi-track territories by mixed integer linear programming
3. Third prize ($750): BoFraTor
- Frank Fischer, Chemnitz University of Technology, Department of Mathematics, Chemnitz
- Boris Grimm, Torsten Klug, Zuse Institute Berlin, Berlin
- Movement Planner Algorithm Design For Dispatching On Multi-Track Territories
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Finalists
The judging panel has selected these three teams as finalists. These teams will be presenting (and competing) at Informs annual meeting at Phoenix. The teams are (in alphabetical order):
- Bamboo@Tsinghua
- BoFraTor
- MIMIC
Congratulations to these teams! Thanks everyone else for participation. We hope to see you at Phoenix.
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Movement Planner Algorithm Design for Dispatching on Multi-Track Territories
Eligibility Criteria
Click here for eligibility criteria and here for FAQ updated regularly.
Important Dates
June 15 - Last date to register
July 25 - Last date to submit a clarification question
August 15 - Final written problem solution submitted
September 15 - Finalists selected by judging panel
October 14 - Finalist Presentation and winner announced
Registration
Teams of up to 3 members can participate. Every team must register. To register, please send following information to RASProblemSolvingCompetition@gmail.com
Team Name –
For each team member, provide the following:
Member Name, Email, Organization, Position
New to Railroad (Y/N)
New to Operations Research (Y/N)
Brief statement describing what motivated you to participate.
You will receive an email confirming your team’s successful registration and eligibility.
Prizes and Sponsors
First Prize: $2000
Second Prize: $1000
Third Prize: $750
Each team will also receive a certificate.
The first prize winner’s contribution will be considered for publication in Networks. The paper still needs to go through the journal’s normal refereeing procedure; however, the paper will receive an expedited refereeing and publication process. More details about this journal can be found here.
Thanks to our sponsors for support (In alphabetical order):
Questions and Answers
If you have any questions about the competition problem, submit your question to RASProblemSolvingCompetition@gmail.com. In fairness to all participants, RAS will publish a Q&A on website. All participants will receive Q&A document through email as well. If there are any more questions, similar process will be repeated. The questions may be collected and answered once a week. No questions will be entertained after July 25, 2012.
Submissions
E-mail all files described to RASProblemSolvingCompetition@gmail.com specifying your team’s name in the e-mail’s subject. Attach only these files: (i) the report, (ii) the solution files and (iii) a zip file (.zip) containing all supporting files.
Judging Criteria
All participating teams must submit the following by the due date.
1.A report not exceeding 10 pages (including cover page), normal margins, double spacing, font size of 10. The report must include title page describing the team members, their affiliations, clean and concise description of problem formulation, solution method, and implementation details (Software/Hardware) and results.
2.Problem solution. Make sure you provide the solution in the prescribed format.
3.Computer program/model.
The judging panel will select up to three finalists based on the following criteria:
1.Solution Quality
2.Solution Time
3.Quality of report
4.Novelty and elegance of the formulation and solution approach
5.Scalability
The finalists will make a presentation at the Informs Annual Meeting. Aside from the previous factors, the Judging Panel will take into consideration the clarity of the presentation to make a final decision about the first, second and third places for the competition. Finally, being among the finalists and presenting at the Annual Meeting does not guarantee first/second or third place.
2012 Organizing Committee
In alphabetical order:
Alper Uygur (BNSF Railway)
Bruno W. Repetto (Union Pacific Railroad)
Carl VanDyke (Oliver Wyman)
Erick Wikum (IBM)
Homarjun Agrahari (BNSF Railway)
Jagadish Jampani (CSX Transportation)
Juan Morales (BNSF Railway)
Kamalesh Somani (CSX Transportation)
Krishna Jha (Innovative Scheduling Inc.)
Yudi Pranoto (Norfolk Southern Corp.)
Xuesong Zhou (University of Utah)
