Since 2004, the Computational Optimization and Applications (COAP) editorial board has selected a paper from the preceding year’s COAP publications for the “Best Paper Award.” The award competition among papers published in 2008 culminated in a tie between two papers. This article concerns the award winning work of Peter Hahn, Bum-Jin Kim, Monique Guignard-Spielberg and Yi-Rong Zhu at the Unive...
