Scientific Prize Rules
The scientific prize is open to any team that have been qualified for the semi-finale phase of the ROADEF/EURO Challenge 2020.
The committee is composed by :
- Christian Artigues, LAAS-CNRS, France (president)
- Boris Detienne, Université de Bordeaux, France
- Murat Firat, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
- Ahmed Kheiri, Lancaster University Management School, United Kingdom
- Siao-Leu Phouratsamay, Grenoble INP, France
The method must be described in a paper (about 8-12 pages), which should contain all the elements necessary to assess the quality and the originality of the proposed method.
The deadline for submitting the paper and the related, eventually updated/new code, is November 01, 2021. The code should be able to produce good feasible solutions within reasonable running time. The submitted code will be executed on a specific platform to be detailed later.
The main criteria that will be used for evaluating the proposed methods are the following :
- originality of the proposed method.
- proof (theoretically and/or experimentally) of the quality of the produced results (lower bounds and/or upper bounds or their gaps with respect to the best known results) ;
- interesting features, such as but not limited to, new and/or good dual bounds ;
- decomposition methods developed in order to solve subproblems to optimality or to a very good lower bound ;
The weight on the criteria will be refined by the committee.
The scientific prize will be delivered at the closing session of the conference ROADEF 2022.