Franz Edelman Laureates: Class of 2005

FIRST PLACE

Team: General Motors Corporation
Paper: General Motors Increases Its Production Throughput
Laureates: Jeffrey Alden - General Motors
Lawrence Burns - General Motors
Theodore Costy - General Motors
Richard Hutton - General Motors
Craig Jackson - General Motors
David Kim - Oregon State University
Kevin Kohls - Soar Technology Inc.
Jonathan Owen - General Motors
Mark Turnquist - General Motors
David Vander Veen - General Motors

FINALISTS

Team: Nanzan Educational Complex
Paper: An OR/MS Approach to Managing Nanzan Gakuen (Nanzan Educational Complex)
Laureates: Toshiharu Hasegawa - Nanzan University
Katsushige Sawaki - Nanzan University
Atsuo Suzuki - Nanzan University
Team: Olympic Games
Paper: PLATO Helps Athens Win Gold: Olympic Games Knowledge Modeling
Laureates: D.A. Beis - Olympic Organizing Committee
P. Loucopoulos - University of Manchester
Y. Pyrgiotis - Olympic Organizing Committee
K.G. Zografos - Athens University of Economics and Business
Team: Procter & Gamble Co.
Paper: Changing the Game in Strategic Sourcing at Procter & Gamble: Expressive Competition Enabled by Optimization
Laureates: Rick Hughes - Procter & Gamble,
Jim Jacobs - Procter & Gamble,
Dennis Begg - Procter & Gamble,
Tuomas Sandholm - CombineNet, Inc.
David Levine - CombineNet, Inc.
Michael Concordia - CombineNet, Inc.
Team: Swift & Company
Paper: A Scheduling and Capable-to-Promise Application for Swift & Company
Laureates: Ann Bixby - Aspen Technology, Inc.
Brian Downs - River Logic
Mike Self - Swift & Company

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.

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