2022 Best Paper Award Competition

The College of Humanitarian Operations and Crisis Management (HOCM) is pleased to announce the results of the 2022 Best Paper Award Competition. This year, the competition continues with impressive high-quality submissions and topics. For this reason, we want to thank the authors for their valuable contributions and referees for reviewing and determining the finalists and winners.

The three finalists (honorable mention) papers for this year's competition (in order of abstract numbers) were as follows:

Title: Donations for Disaster Response: Competition on Earmarking and Fundraising Effort vs. Joint Fundraising
Authors: Arian Aflaki, Alfonso J. Pedraza-Martinez

Title: Curbing the Usage of Conflict Minerals: A Supply Network Perspective
Authors: Han Zhang, Goker Aydin, H. Sebastian Heese

Title: Avoiding Fields on Fire: Information Dissemination Policies for Environmentally Safe Crop-Residue Management
Authors: Mehdi H. Farahani, Milind Dawande, Ganesh Janakiraman, Shouqiang Wang

Title: Treatment Planning of Victims with Heterogeneous Time-sensitivities in Mass Casualty Incidents
Authors: Yunting Shi, Nan Liu, Guohua Wan

The runner-up of the competition this year:

Title: Reinforcing Schooling Access for the Syrian Refugee Children in Turkey
Authors: Sebnem Manolya Demir, Feyza G. Sahinyazan, Bahar Yetis Kara, Elfe Buluc

Finally, the winning paper in this year's HOCM Best Paper competition is:

Title: A Queueing-Theoretic Framework for Evaluating Transmission Risks in Service Facilities During a Pandemic
Authors: Authors: Kang Kang, Sherwin Doroudi, Mohammad Delasay, Alexander Wickeham