The Forestry Special Interest Group of the Canadian Operational Research Society (CORS) was founded in 2012 with the purpose of advancing the development of the following research areas in Canada:
This award recognizes outstanding scientific contributions on the theory, methodology and/or practice of OR in forestry by an undergraduate, a graduate student or a postdoctoral. The competition is for the best student paper submitted, published or accepted for publication in a peer-reviewed journal in the two years before the year of the competition. The award was named in honor of Professor Martell for his outstanding contributions to the development and application of OR in forestry in Canada and beyond as well as for his many contributions to the COR Society. (FSIG bylaw articles 8a, 8b, and 8c)
The Forestry SIG of the Canadian Operational Research Society is pleased to announce the 11th edition of the David Martell Student Paper Prize. This prestigious award recognizes outstanding scientific contributions in the theory, methodology, and/or practice of Operational Research (OR) in the forestry industry by students and postdoctoral fellows.
Eligibility Criteria:
The competition is open to papers submitted, published, or accepted for publication in a peer-reviewed journal within the two years preceding the competition year. Applicants must have been undergraduate students, graduate students, or postdoctoral fellows at a Canadian university, or Canadians studying abroad, at the time the paper was written.
Each paper can be submitted only once to this competition.
Finalists must be prepared to present their work in a special session at the annual conference.
Important Dates:
Paper Submission Deadline: March 14, 2025
Announcement of Finalists: April 11, 2025
Presentation at CORS Annual Conference: June 9–11, 2025 (Exact date to be announced)
2021
Marzieh Ghiyasinasab, Université Laval - CIRRELT/FORAC: Production planning and project scheduling for engineer-to-order systems- case study for engineered wood production.
2018
Maha Ben Ali, Université Laval - CIRRELT/FORAC: Configuration and evaluation of an integrated demand management process using a space-filling design and Kriging metamodeling.
2017
Gregory Paradis, University of British Columbia: A Bilevel Model Formulation for the Distributed Wood Supply Planning Problem.
2016
Rezvan Rafiei, CIRRELT: Dynamic safety stock in co-production demand-driven wood remanufacturing mills: A case study.
Tasseda Boukherroub, CIRRELT: A framework for sustainable forest resource allocation: A Canadian case study.
2015
Claudia Cambero, University of British Columbia: Strategic optimization of forest residues to bioenergy and biofuel supply chain.
2014
Gregory Paradis, Université Laval: On the risk of systematic drift under incoherent hierarchical forest management planning.
Current period:
2025 Mazyar Zahedi-Seresht, University Canada West
Past periods:
Dear FSIG members,
This year at the CORS Annual Conference, there are three sessions under the Forestry cluster and one session for the David Martell Student Paper Prize. Below are the details of the sessions:
1. Operations Research Applications in Wildfire Management: https://lnkd.in/gG7W7Kaw
2. Modeling and Solution Approaches for Planning in Forestry: https://lnkd.in/g9nzh8Wu
3. David Martell Student Paper Prize in Forestry: https://lnkd.in/gZU-hRVw
4. Modeling for Decision Support in Forestry: https://lnkd.in/gD9usF5e
Best regards,
Krishna Teja Malladi
CORS2023 Forestry cluster co-chair.
Dear FSIG members,
The 63rd annual conference of the Canadian Operational Research Society (CORS/SCRO) joint with INFORMS International will take place in Vancouver, June 5-8, 2022 and it is chaired by David Martell and Foroogh Abasian.
We are seeking abstracts on forestry topics that include but, but are not limited to:
We invite those of you that wish to submit abstracts for presentations to do so before February 14, 2022, on https://meetings.informs.org/wordpress/2022international/submit/
CORS/INFORMS 2022: 63th Annual Canadian Operational Research Society Conference, Vancouver, Biritsh Columbia, June 5-8, 2022
CORS 2021: 62th Annual Canadian Operational Research Society Conference, Virtual format, June 7-10, 2021
CORS 2019: 61th Annual Canadian Operational Research Society Conference, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, May 27-29, 2019
CORS 2018: 60th Annual Canadian Operational Research Society Conference, Halifax, Nova Scotia, June 4-6, 2018
SSAFR 2017: Symposium on Systems Analysis in Forest Resources, August 27-30, 2017, Clearwater Resort Suquamish, Washington (near Seattle), USA
CORS encourages members with common interest in an area within or related to operational research to form a CORS Special Interest Group (SIG). A SIG provides a mechanism to promote CORS, the SIG area and the SIG members, as well as the opportunity for CORS members with common interests to interact and network. CORS will act as a facilitator to help achieve these goals.
A CORS SIG can be formed if a letter addressed to the CORS president, signed by at least 25 CORS members, is submitted to CORS Council detailing:
And committing to:
Minutes of 2022 FSIG Annual Meeting
Minutes of 2021 FSIG Annual Meeting
Minutes of 2019 FSIG Annual Meeting
Minutes of 2018 FSIG Annual Meeting
Minutes of 2017 FSIG Annual Meeting
Minutes of 2016 FSIG Annual Meeting
Minutes of 2015 FSIG Annual Meeting
Minutes of 2014 FSIG Annual Meeting
Minutes of 2013 FSIG Annual Meeting
Slides of Presentation at 2022 FSIG Annual Meeting
Slides of Presentation at 2021 FSIG Annual Meeting
Slides of Presentation at 2019 FSIG Annual Meeting
Slides of Presentation at 2018 FSIG Annual Meeting
Slides of Presentation at 2017 FSIG Annual Meeting
Slides of Presentation at 2016 FSIG Annual Meeting
Slides of Presentation at 2015 FSIG Annual Meeting
If you are a CORS member and you are interested in joining the group, please fill out the "Join a Special Interest Group" section of this form.
If you are not a CORS member, you need to renew your CORS membership (see the application and renewal forms) and select the groups you're interested in.
