CALL FOR NOMINATIONS: 21st Annual COIN-OR Cup Competition

The COIN-OR Cup recognizes and celebrates the best contributions to open-source operations research software development and use associated with the COIN-OR software collection. To remind you, COIN-OR stands for “COmputational INfrastructure for Operations Research”. It is the definitive collection of free, open-source operations research software that lets you concentrate on your research instead of re-implementing software. See https://www.coin-or.org. Get on board!

GUIDELINES FOR COIN-OR CUP SUBMISSIONS:

A submission or nomination must contain:

1. A synopsis of an effective use of COIN-OR or valuable contribution to COIN-OR (or both!), including an explanation of its significance. Maximum 3 pages (pdf format).
2. Copies of relevant papers or documents (pdf format). We especially encourage nominations describing an effective use of COIN-OR that the community may not know about.
3. A submission to this Google form: Nominations for the 2025 COIN-OR Cup Competition

Self-nominations are welcome and encouraged.

Submission deadline: Tuesday, September 30th 2025, 11:59pm ET.

Please e-mail your submissions to coin-cup-2025@coin-or.org in a single zipped archive, containing a description of your submission and copies of all relevant papers/documents in pdf format.

Committee members: Daniel Bienstock, Haihao Lu (chair), Jinwen Yang.

The winner will be announced and celebrated during the INFORMS annual meeting.  Details for the announcement and celebration will be revealed when available.