EURO Award for the Best EJOR Paper
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In 2012 EURO introduced 3 new annual awards for papers published by EJOR: best survey paper; best application paper; and best theory/methodology. Winners for each category will be selected by a jury and an award of €1,000 will be presented at the following EURO-k or relevant Conference selected for a non-EURO-k year. EURO will pay the registration fee for one representative of each paper.
Purpose
The purpose of the prize is to distinguish the best papers published in EJOR. General criteria for the evaluation of the papers are:
- the scientific quality of the paper;
- the originality of the paper;
- the relevance to Operational Research.
Detailed information is given in the guidelines.
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)
Jury of the EURO Award for the Best EJOR Paper 2027
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