OPIM Professor Robert Day Receives INFORMS Computing Society Prize
Storrs, CT (8/16/2008) - The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) recently announced operations and information management professor Robert Day – along with co-author S. Raghavan (University of Maryland) – as winner of the 2008 INFORMS Computing Society (ICS) Prize. Their paper entitled "Fair Payments for Efficient Allocations in Public Sector Combinatorial Auctions" was published in Management Science (Volume 53, 9, September 2007) and also won the UConn School of Business Best Paper Award 2007. The algorithm described by Day and Raghavan in the paper has been used to auction spectrum licenses in the UK. There are plans that it will be used to auction airport landing slots by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) in the near future.
The ICS Prize is an annual award for the best English language paper or group of related papers dealing with the Operations Research/Computer Science interface. The award is accompanied by a certificate and a $1,000 honorarium.
Day received a BA, cum laude, from Vanderbilt University and a Ph.D. in applied mathematics and scientific computation from the University of Maryland. His research interests include optimization and auction theory, hospital management operations research, grid computing, matching and allocation problems, network optimization, game theory and operations research.
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