The 2011 PhD Colloquium Best Paper Awards went to:

INFORMS SIM Best MS/OR focused paper: "A Bayesian Approach to Stochastic Root Finding" by Rolf Waeber, Cornell University.

From left to right: Rolf Waeber, Ali Tafazzoli, Pres White

ACM SIGSIM Best CS focused paper: "Utility Resource Planning using Modular Simulation and Optimization" by Juan S. Corredor, University of Miami.

From left to right: Juan Corredor, Ali Tafazzoli

2010 Awards

The best computer science-focused paper went to Adrian Ramirez Nafarrate of the Arizona State University for his paper "Bi-Criteria Analysis of Ambulance Diversion Policies.%quot;

The best OR/MS-focused paper was given to Yongqiang Wang of the University of Maryland for his paper Model-Based Evolutionary Optimization.%quot;

2009 Awards

The best computer science-focused paper went to Claudia Szabo of the National University of Singapore for her paper "A Time-Based Formalism for the Validation of Semantic Composability."

The best OR/MS-focused paper was given to Ming Liu of Northwestern University for his paper "“Estimating Expected Shortfall with Stochastic Kriging."

2008 Awards

The best computer science-focused paper went to Volkan Ustun of Auburn University for his paper "Mental Simulation for Creating Realistic Behavior in Physical Security Systems Simulation."

The best OR/MS-focused paper was given to Ali Tafazoli of North Carolina State University for his paper "Skart: A Skewness- and Autoregression-Adjusted Batch-Means Procedure for Simulation Analysis."

2007 Awards

The best computer science-focused paper was given to Gareth Evans from the University of Queensland, Australia, for his paper "Parallel Cross-Entropy Optimization."

The best OR/MS focused paper was awarded to Kuo-Hao Chang of Purdue University,
for the paper "Stochastic Trust Region Gradient-Free Method (STRONG) -A New RSM-based Algorithm for Simulation Optimization."

2006 Awards

The best computer science-focused paper was given to Geng Deng at University of Wisconsin for his paper "Adaptation of the UOBYQA Algorithm for Noisy Functions."

The best OR/MS-focused paper was given to Georgina Hughes at University of Southampton for her paper "Modeling Tuberculosis In Areas Of High HIV Prevalence Using Discrete Event Simulation."