EURO Award for the Best EJOR Paper 2026

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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)