INFORMS' THIRD CASE COMPETITION

FINALISTS & WINNER

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The Third Annual INFORMS Case Competition concluded last fall at the Annual Meeting in San Jose, California. The judges selected the following entries as the finalists for INFORMS Case Competition 2002:

A Case Study of Location, Distribution, and Capacity Expansion Decisions at Anadolu Efes by Murat Koksalan, Middle East Technical University and F. Sibel Salman, Purdue University.

J.S. McMillan Fisheries Ltd: Optimizing Production Planning by Alexander M. Smith, University of British Columbia; David Glenn, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Mehmet A. Begen, University of British Columbia; and Martin Puterman, University of British Columbia.

Cruises Inc. by John F. Kros, East Carolina University; Christopher M. Keller, Indiana University; and Stephanie Leung, Cua-Oh Consulting (Honolulu, HI)

Technology for Transportation Bidding at The Home Depot by Wedad Elmaghraby, Georgia Institute of Technology, and Pinar Keskinocak, Georgia Institute of Technology

The winners of INFORMS Case Competition 2002 were chosen to be:

Murat Koksalan and F. Sibel Salman for their outstanding case entitled A Case Study of Location, Distribution, and Capacity Expansion Decisions at Anadolu Efes.

The winners will receive a $500 cash prize and a plaque for their winning entry. The three runners-up will receive $100 cash prizes and plaques for their distinguished entries.

INFORMS, INFORM-ED, and INFORMS Education Committee thank all those who submitted cases and congratulate each of the finalists. Thanks also to judges Peter Bell, Robert Carraway, Janny Leung, and Norean Radke Sharpe for their time and effort.

Please contact Christopher J. Zappe, Chair of Case Competition Committee, at zappe@bucknell.edu for information on the Fourth Annual Case Competition to be finalized this October in Atlanta, Georgia.