Franz Edelman Award for Achievement in Operations Research and the Management Sciences

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The Franz Edelman Award for Achievement in Operations Research and the Management Sciences recognizes excellence in the execution of operations research on the organizational level.

About

The award is presented annually by the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS).

The international competition pits 5 to 7 teams from industry, government, healthcare, and the non-profit sectors. The competition takes place at the INFORMS spring practice conference and concludes with the announcement of the winner at a gala dinner at the conference. It began in 1971 as the TIMS Prize and was named for Franz Edelman, the operations research director of RCA, shortly after his death in 1982. It carries a cash award of $10,000. Since its inception, nearly $160 billion in benefits have been tabulated among Franz Edelman Award finalist teams. Following the competition, INFORMS publishes papers by the Edelman finalists in the January issue of the INFORMS journal Interfaces.[1]

List of recent winners

Dutch institutions won the Edelman Award three times in the period 2008-2013. Researchers of Tilburg University were involved in the winning teams of 2012 and 2013.

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