Beluga™ Competition: Winners Announced

We are excited to announce the winners of the Beluga™ Competition, organized by the TUPLES Consortium!

The Beluga™ Competition challenged the global scheduling and planning community with a complex, real-world problem derived from Airbus aircraft operations. Participants were asked to design innovative and effective solutions to optimize one of the most intricate planning environments.

After careful evaluation by our internal committee, we are proud to recognize the winning candidates whose solutions stood out for their excellence, originality, and technical strength. We also wish to highlight a special recognition awarded to a participant whose effort and approach were particularly appreciated.

Here they are:

Winning entries from team led by Bernardino Romera Paredes from Hiverge won both the Scalability Deterministic and the Scalability Probabilistic challenge.

Winning entries from Linköping University team composed by Elliot Gestrin, Gustaf Söderholm, Paul Höft, Mauricio Salerno, Jendrik Seipp, and led by Daniel Gnad won the Explainability Challenge.

Entries from the team led by Jean Jodeau that includes Léna Aix and Benoît Bompol, all part of the company Sia, have been awarded a special prize.

We would like to sincerely thank all those who registered and engaged with the initiative. We are aware that the level of difficulty was high, and we are grateful for the interest and attention the competition received.

We look forward to sharing further details about the winning solutions soon.