Community Prizes and Awards

One way to increase underrepresented minorities within the OR/MS profession is to highlight the up and coming professionals of tomorrow. Since 2004, MIF has sponsored the travel of underrepresented minority doctoral students close to finishing and showcased their research through a poster session given in conjunction with the MIF’s welcoming reception at the INFORMS Annual Meeting.

Recognize the work being done by New Jersey students, and for the New Jersey Chapter of INFORMS to help sponsor attendance for a student at the Annual INFORMS meeting

Awards four prizes annually at the INFORMS annual meeting. The award winners will be invited to give a presentation in a special session sponsored by the Optimization Society during the INFORMS Annual Meeting (the winners will be responsible for their own travel expenses to the meeting). Award winners are also asked to contribute an article about their award-winning work to the annual Optimization Society newsletter.

Encourage journal-quality research in all of the disciplines and application areas represented within PSOR, and to build a tradition of scholarly exchange of knowledge at our research meetings beyond attendance at sessions.

The Best Student Paper Competition has generated significant interests in QSR community. Most of the papers in the competition were eventually published in top-tier journals in our field.

Promote the interaction and exchange of ideas among railroad operations research personnel, consultants and members of academia and to explore the potential for increasing railroad productivity through the application of O.R. techniques.

Advance the development and application of O.R. methods, techniques and tools as they apply to the field of revenue management; to promote the development and application of revenue management in new industries; to encourage the exchange of information among practitioners, users, and researchers in the area of revenue management.

Identify current and potential problems and contributions to their solutions; to lead in the development, dissemination, and implementation of knowledge, basic and applied research and technologies in the area of finance.

SOLA presents three awards to recognize outstanding individuals within the location analysis community.

Promote and disseminate research and applications among professionals interested in theory, methodologies, and applications in Service Science, which cuts across the fields of services business strategy and modeling, service operations research and management, information systems, marketing science and analytics, management science, e-commerce and e-business, industrial engineering, and social and cognitive science.

Development and dissemination of knowledge in the area of simulation.

Academic significance (originality, depth, and completeness of the work and its potential impact on future research); and Engineering or business relevance (importance of the problem and its impact on engineering or business practice).

Encourage discussion and interaction among individuals having an interest in technology management research such as R&D management, technology and organizational change, strategy, resources, product development, and entrepreneurship.

Innovative network planning, operation and management. From a methodological perspective, research reported by the membership uses a variety of optimization, simulation, and stochastic models.

The Practice Section of INFORMS serves the entire community of full-time and part-time practitioners. Thus, while it concentrates on practical applications, The Practice Section has wide interests that range over the full scope of OR/MS methods and fields of application. The Practice Section administers three INFORMS level awards: Daniel H. Wagner Prize for Excellence in the Practice of Advanced Analytics and Operations Research, Franz Edelman Award, and UPS George D. Smith Prize.

Sustained, specialized focus on Air Transportation, Freight Transportation and Logistics, Urban Transportation Planning and Modeling, Facility Logistics, and Intelligent Transportation Systems, including current and potential problems and contributions to their solution, and supports efforts to extend, unify, and integrate related branches of knowledge and practice.

The focus of the Student Excellence Award competition is the advancement of O.R. methodologies to solve real-world problems. Applicants must demonstrate original research that can be applied to a real-world problem in areas to include energy, health care, information technology, national security, production and distribution, service industries, transportation and logistics.

Encourage discussion and interaction among individuals having interest in the issues facing women and their relationship to the profession of operations research and the management sciences.