Best Paper Competition
Purpose of the Award
The Services Science Section of INFORMS announces the Best Paper Award to recognize excellence among its members. The awards program brings prestige to the Service Science Section as well as to the recipients honored.
The INFORMS Section on Service Science promotes and disseminates research and applications among professionals interested in theory, methodologies, and applications in Service Science, Engineering and Practice; and provides a forum for the exchange of new ideas in Service Science, Engineering and Practice.
Four finalists for the Best Paper Award will be selected. Winners will be announced at the business meeting of the Service Science Section at the Annual INFORMS Conference 2010 in Austin, TX. All finalists will receive an award certificate. The first-place winner will also receive a plaque. All finalists’ papers will be posted on the Service Science Section web site.
Past Awardees
| 2012 | First Place Joline Uichanco Siddharth Balwani Georgia Perakis Mallik Angalakudati Jorge Calzada Bikram Chatterjee Nicolas Raad |
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| Second Place Constainin Alba | |
| Third Place Oscar A. Herrera-Restrepo Alexandra medina-Borja | |
| 2010 | First Place Murat Kurt, University of Pittsburgh Brian T. Denton, North Carolina State University Andrew J. Schaefer, University of Pittsburgh Nilay D. Shah Steven A. Smith |
| 2009 | First Place Mustafa Akan, Northwestern University Oguzhan Alagoz, University of Wisconsin-Madison Baris Ata, Northwestern University Fatih Safa Erenay, University of Wisconsin-Madison Adnan Said |
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Second Place
Guillaume Roels,
UCLA Anderson School of Management Uday S. Karmarkar, University of California-Los Angeles Scott Carr, University of California-Los Angeles |
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| Third Place Christian Wernz, Virginia Tech Andrew Henry, Virginia Tech | |
| Finalist Jiahan Li Byung Do Chung Changhyun Kwon, University of Buffalo-SUNY Terry L. Friesz, Pennsylvania State University |

