Franz Edelman Laureates: Class of 2002

FIRST PLACE

Team: Continental Airlines
Paper: A New Era for Crew Recovery at Continental Airlines
Laureates: Michael Arguello - CALEB Technologies Corp.
Sandra McCowan - CALEB Technologies Corp.
Gao Song - CALEB Technologies Corp.
Anna White - Continental Airlines
Gang Yu - University of Texas at Austin

FINALISTS

Team: Mars, Incorporated
Paper: Combinational and Quantity-Discount Procurement Auctions Benefit Mars, Incorporated and Its Suppliers
Laureates: Chae An - IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Andrew Davenport - IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Gail Hohner - Mars, Incorporated
Jayant Kalagnanam - IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Ho Soo Lee - IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Ed Ng - Mars, Incorporated
Grant Reid - Mars, Incorporated
John Rich - Mars, Incorporated
Team: PSA Peugeot Citroën
Paper: Improving Car Body Production at PSA Peugeot Citroën
Laureates: Giles Kern - MPSA
Thierry Lemoine - MPSA
Alain Patchong - MPSA
Team: Rhenania
Paper: Optimizing Rhenania's Mail-Order Business Through Dynamic Multilevel Modeling (DMLM)
Laureates: Ralf Elsner - Rhenania Group
Manfred Krafft - Westfalische Wilhelms University
Arnd Huchzermeier - Wissenschaftliche Hochschule für Unternehmensführung (WHU)
Team: Schindler Corporation
Paper: Optimizing Periodic Maintenance Operations for Schindler Elevator Corporation
Laureates: Fred Blakeley - Schindler Elevator Corporation
Burcin Bozkaya - Schindler Elevator Corporation
Buyang Cao - ESRI
Wolfang Hall - ESRI
Joseph Knolmajer - Schindler Elevator Corporation
Team: Syngenta
Paper: Managing the Seed-Corn Supply Chain at Syngenta
Laureates: Philip Jones - University of Iowa
Greg Kegler - Syngenta Seeds, Inc.
Timothy Lowe - University of Iowa
Rodney Traub - North Dakota State University

Interfaces Edelman Award Special Issue

Jan/Feb 2012 issue of Interfaces features the Edelman papers! Read these inspiring examples of major difference-making O.R. projects.

Edelman Award Videos

View the 2012, 2011, and 2010 Edelman Award presentations for outstanding examples of difference-making OR/MS and advanced analytics in practice in the INFORMS Video Learning Center.

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