The AAS Best Paper Award (2025) is given once a year to recognize an outstanding paper in the field of aviation applications. The paper must demonstrate innovative approaches for solving complex problems in aviation and air transportation, with an emphasis on operations research and quantitative methods.
Eligibility Criteria
To be eligible for the competition, the paper must meet the following criteria:
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The main topic must relate to the field of aviation and air transportation.
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The paper must be written in English.
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It must have been published in a refereed journal, or appear in pre-print form online through the publishing agency, between June 1, 2023, and May 31, 2025. For papers that are only available in pre-print form, the online publication date must be easily verifiable.
Submission Guidelines
Topics of Interest
All topics within the field of aviation and air transportation will be considered. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
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Aviation economics, operation concepts, and business models.
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Airline operations.
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Air traffic flow management and airspace management.
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Tactical air traffic control.
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Airport operations.
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Air transportation networks.
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Aircraft trajectory management.
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UAS traffic management.
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On-demand air mobility.
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Electric/hybrid aircraft operations.
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Drone delivery.
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Pilot, flight deck, or onboard decision-making models.
Award Announcement and Prize
The winning paper will be announced at the AAS business meeting to be held during the INFORMS Annual Meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, in 2025. Each author of the winning paper will receive a certificate.
Submission Process
To submit a paper for the 2025 competition, one of the authors must email the following to the Chair of the AAS Best Paper Award Committee, on or before June 15, 2025, 11:59 pm US Eastern Time.
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A copy of the paper.
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A short cover letter (maximum one page) describing the merits of the paper.
Submissions should be sent to fdb@uc.cl with the subject line:
“2025 AAS Best Paper Award Application / Applicant name.”
Review and Disclaimer
All submitted papers will be reviewed and scored by the award committee members. The award committee members are not eligible for this year's award. We will enforce an unbiased review process.
2025 AAS Best Paper Award Committee Chair:
Felipe Delgado
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Santiago, Chile.
2025 AAS Best Paper Award Committee Members:
Alessandro Bombelli
Delft University of Technology
Delft, The Netherlands
Alexander S. Estes
University of Maryland
College Park, MD, USA
Cheng-Lung Wu
University of New South Wales
Sydney, Australia
Xinting Zhu
City University of Hong Kong
Kowloon, Hong Kong
Past Winners
2024
Vertiport Planning for Urban Aerial Mobility: An Adaptive Discretization Approach
Kai Wang (Tsinghua University)
Alexandre Jacquillat (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Vikrant Vaze (Dartmouth College)
2023
Choice-Based Airline Schedule Design and Fleet Assignment: A Decomposition Approach
Chiwei Yan (University of Washington)
Cynthia Barnhart (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Vikrant Vaze (Dartmouth College)
2022
Forecasting Airport Transfer Passenger Flow Using Real-Time Data and Machine Learning
Xiaojia Guo (University of Maryland)
Yael Grushka-Cockayne (University of Virginia)
Bert De Reyck (Singapore Management University)
2021
“A Stochastic Integer Programming Approach to Air Traffic Scheduling and Operations”
Kai Wang (Carnegie Mellon University)
Alexandre Jacquillat (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
2020
“A Large-Scale Neighborhood Search Approach to Airport Slot Allocation”
Nuno Antunes Ribeiro (Singapore University of Technology and Design)
Alexandre Jacquillat (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
António Pais Antunes (University of Coimbra)