Each year, the Winter Simulation Conference program committee may elect to award Best Paper awards to outstanding papers in the theoretical and applied fields.

2011 Winners

Theoretical Paper

Discrete Optimization via Approximate Annealing Adaptive Search with Stochastic Averaging, Jiaqiao Hu and Chen Wang, State University of New York, Stony Brook.

Applied Paper

An Application of Discrete-Event Simulation to an Outpatient Healthcare Clinic with Batch Arrivals, Michael Findlay and Hank Grant, The University of Oklahoma.

2009 Winners

Theoretical Paper

A Numerical Method for Financial Decision Problems under Stochastic Volatility, Enlu Zhou, Kun Lin, Michael C. Fu, and Steven I. Marcus, University of Maryland, College Park.

Applied Paper

An Agent-Based Simulation Model for the Market Diffusion of a Second Generation Biofuel, Elmar Kiesling, Markus Guenther, Christian Stummer, and Lea M. Wakolbinger, Department of Business Administration, University of Vienna.