Franz Edelman Laureates: Class of 2002

FIRST PLACE

Team: Continental Airlines
Paper: A New Era for Crew Recovery at Continental Airlines
Laureates: Gang Yu, University of Texas at Austin
Michael Argüello, CALEB Technologies Corporation
Gao Song, CALEB Technologies Corporation
Sandra M. McCowan, CALEB Technologies Corporation
Anna White, Continental Airlines

FINALISTS

Team: Mars, Incorporated
Paper: Combinational and Quantity-Discount Procurement Auctions Benefit Mars, Incorporated and Its Suppliers
Laureates: Gail Hohner, Mars, Incorporated
John Rich, Mars, Incorporated
Ed Ng, Mars, Incorporated
Grant Reid, Mars, Incorporated
Andrew J. Davenport, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Jayant R. Kalagnanam, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Ho Soo Lee, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Chae An, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Team: PSA Peugeot Citroën
Paper: Improving Car Body Production at PSA Peugeot Citroën
Laureates: Alain Patchong, PSA Peugeot Citroën
Thierry Lemoine, PSA Peugeot Citroën
Gilles Kern, PSA Peugeot Citroën
Team: Rhenania
Paper: Optimizing Rhenania's Mail-Order Business Through Dynamic Multilevel Modeling (DMLM)
Laureates: Ralf Elsner, Rhenania Group
Manfred Krafft, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
Arnd Huchzermeier, Wissenschaftliche Hochschule für Unternehmensführung (WHU)
Team: Schindler Corporation
Paper: Optimizing Periodic Maintenance Operations for Schindler Elevator Corporation
Laureates: Fred Blakeley, Schindler Elevator Corporation, Inc.
Burçin Bozkaya, ESRI
Buyang Cao, ESRI
Wolfang Hall, ESRI
Joseph Knolmajer, Schindler Elevator Corporation, Inc.
Team: Syngenta
Paper: Managing the Seed-Corn Supply Chain at Syngenta
Laureates: Philip C. Jones, University of Iowa
Greg Kegler, Syngenta Seeds, Inc.
Timothy J. Lowe, University of Iowa
Rodney D. Traub, North Dakota State University