๐ 2025 IMAMAN Awards โ Celebrating Excellence in Research and Service
We are delighted to announce the 2025 award winners of the IMA Journal of Management Mathematics (IMAMAN).
๐ฅ Best Paper Award 2025
Congratulations to Robert Boute (KU Leuven), Bram De Moor (TU Eindhoven), and Nathalie Vanvuchelen (OMP) on winning this year's Best Paper Award for their outstanding article:
๐ "Use of Continuous Action Representations to Scale Deep Reinforcement Learning for Inventory Control"
Published in the IMA Journal of Management Mathematics (Oxford Academic) - free to read in volume 36 (1).
This excellent contribution advances the interface between deep reinforcement learning and inventory control, offering scalable methodological innovations with strong practical relevance for operations and supply chain management.
The authors will receive a certificate and a prize of ยฃ1,000 in recognition of their achievement.
๐ฅ Best Reviewer Award 2025
(The John Boylan Award)
We are equally proud to announce that the 2025 Best Reviewer Award - named in memory of our dear friend and colleague John Boylan - goes to Burak Gokgur (Sabanci University)
Burak is recognised for his exceptionally constructive and rigorous review of the paper "Optimal Dual Pre-Sale Strategies for Fresh Product E-Commerce Platforms under Strategic Consumer Behavior." Although the manuscript was ultimately rejected, his thoughtful and detailed feedback exemplified the highest standards of academic service and provided immense value to the authors.
The Best Reviewer Award carries a prize of ยฃ500, in recognition of outstanding contribution to the peer-review process.
At IMAMAN, we celebrate excellence not only in published research but also in the invisible yet essential work that sustains academic quality - rigorous, constructive peer review.
Please join us in congratulating all our 2025 award recipients on their well-deserved recognition! ๐
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Aris Syntetos FIMA
Professor, DSV Chair
Cardiff University
Cardiff UK
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