[IISE Faculty List] 17th AIMMS-MOPTA Optimization Modeling Competition

[Akwum Onwunta]

The Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISE) at Lehigh
University is thrilled to announce the opening of the 17th AIMMS-MOPTA
Optimization Modeling Competition. The competition results from a
collaboration between AIMMS and the organizers of the MOPTA 2025
conference, which will take place in Ponta Delgada, Azores, Portugal, from
June 17 - 20, 2025.

The solution submission deadline is March 15, 2025, 23:59 Eastern Time.
Information on registration, submission, eligibility, and competition
format are posted on the competition website at
coral.ise.lehigh.edu/mopta2025/competition. Below, we provide an overview.

This year's challenge: The goal of the competition this year is to analyze
a Transavia Aircrew Scheduling problem. The problem description is posted
on the competition website.

Registration: Teams must register for the competition as soon as they start
working on the problem.

Eligibility: Teams of at most three students can participate and should
list a faculty advisor. The team leader must be a graduate student, though
the other team members can be advanced undergraduate students. Each team
member must be registered as a full-time student at a recognized
educational institution during the Spring term of the 2024-2025 Academic
Year. Teams from all over the world can participate, as long as at least
one team member can come to the conference, should the team make it to the
final round. The official language of the competition is English.

Prizes: The top three teams will be invited to present (in person) to a
panel of judges at the MOPTA 2025 conference, including representatives
from both the conference organizing committee and AIMMS. Each finalist team
will receive free registration for the conference for up to two team
members. The prizes will be awarded as follows:

Place                      Used AIMMS Software
 Did not use AIMMS Software
1st                                     $1200
                               $600
2nd                                    $600
                              $300
3rd                                     $300
                               $150

For more details about the competition, visit
coral.ise.lehigh.edu/mopta2025/competition.

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Akwum  Onwunta,
Lehigh University.
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