Huge thanks to the 2026 EABEP jury for their hard work in reviewing the eligible papers for the 2026 EABEP awards. Thanks also to Elsevier, who sponsor these awards.
https://www.euro-online.org/web/pages/1777/eabep-winners-2026
The winners of the EURO Awards for the Best EJOR Paper 2026 are:
Innovative Applications of OR: Mete Şeref Ahunbay, Martin Bichler, Teodora Dobos, and Johannes Knörr Solving large-scale electricity market pricing problems in polynomial time.
Website Access: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2024.05.020
Review: Stéphane Dauzère-Pérès, Junwen Ding, Liji Shen, and Karim Tamssaouet The flexible job shop scheduling problem: A review.
Website Access: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2023.05.017
Theory and Methodology: Jakob Kallestad, Ramin Hasibi, Ahmad Hemmati, and Kenneth Sörensen A general deep reinforcement learning hyperheuristic framework for solving combinatorial optimization problems.
Website Access: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2023.01.017
The EABEP 2026 jury consisted of Valentin Bertsch (chair), Tibor Illés, Iris Vis, Steffen Rebennack [EJOR rep] and Francesca Guerriero.
The awards were announced at a special session of the IFORS 2026 conference in Vienna (Austria)