TST Best Paper Award

2023 First Place

Winning material: Network Migration Problem: A Hybrid Logic-based Benders Decomposition Approach

Purpose of the Award

The INFORMS Technical Section on Telecommunications and Network Analytics Best Paper Award will be given to an outstanding paper applying OR techniques in the context of telecommunications. The paper must have been published in a refereed journal and written in English.  The paper must present innovative OR approaches to complex problems in all topics related to the field of telecommunications including, but not being limited to: telecommunications modeling, policy, and technology, network economics, network design, algorithms, and optimization, sensor networks, wireless and broadband networks, vehicle and mobile computing, semantic networks, network survivability and reliability, information security and privacy, quality of service, internet and multimedia, data mining applications in telecommunications networks. The best paper award will be judged at the biennial Telecommunications and Network Analytics Conference and presented during the annual business meeting.

TST Best Paper Award Application Process

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Past Awardees

2023 First Place
Maryam Daryalal, University of Toronto Hamed Pouya, Ciena Canada, Inc. Marc-Antoine De Santis, Ciena Canada, Inc.
2023 Second Place
Raka Jovanovic, Hamad bin Khalifa University Antonio P. Sanfilippo, Hamad bin Khalifa University Stefan Voß, University of Hamburg
2023 Third Place
S. Raghavan, University of Maryland, Robert H Smith School of Business Rui Zhang, University of Colorado - Boulder
2022 Winner(s)
Zhengyuan Zhou, New York University Panayotis Mertikopoulos, CNRS Aris L. Moustakas, University of Athens Nicholas Bambos, Stanford University Peter Glynn
2022 Finalist
S. Raghavan, University of Maryland, Robert H Smith School of Business Rui Zhang, University of Colorado - Boulder
Jin Xu, Texas A&M University I-Hong Hou, Texas A&M University Natarajan Gautam, Texas A&M University
Alessandro Hill, California Polytechnic State University Roberto Baldacci Stefan Voß, University of Hamburg
2016 Winner(s)
Si Chen Ivana Ljubić S. Raghavan, University of Maryland, Robert H Smith School of Business