Operations Research 2004: Tilburg, The Netherlands

GOR Awards

• Eric Sucky:
  Koordination von Abruf- und Lieferpolitiken in Supply Chains. 1-9
  
• Ingmar Steinzen:
  Ein Entscheidungsunterstützungssystem zur Verschnittoptimierung von Rollenstahl. 10-17
  
• Rolf H. Möhring, Ekkehard Köhler, Ewgenij Gawrilow, Björn Stenzel:
  Conflict-free Real-time AGV Routing. 18-24
  
• Andreas Tuchscherer:
  Dynamical Configuration of Transparent Optical Telecommunication Networks. 25-32
  

Reverse Logistics

• Ieke le Blanc, René Schreurs, Hein A. Fleuren, Harold Krikke:
  The value of information in a container collection system for end-of-life vehicles. 33-40
  
• Christian Gotzel, Karl Inderfurth:
  Approximate Policies for Hybrid Production and Rework Systems with Stochastic Demand and Yield. 41-49
  
• Wiebke Stölting, Thomas Spengler:
  Life cycle considerations in remanufacturing strategies - a framework for decision support. 50-58
  

Service Management

• Oualid Jouini, Yves Dallery, Rabie Nait-Abdallah:
  Stochastic Models of Customer Portfolio Management in Call Centers. 59-66
  

Production, Logistics and Supply Chain Management

• M. Lütke Entrup, Martin Grunow, Hans Otto Günther, T. Seiler, P. van Beek:
  An Milp Modelling Approach for Shelf Life Integrated Planning in Yoghurt Production. 67-75
  
• Hermann Gold:
  Dynamic optimization of routing in a Semiconductor Manufacturing Plant. 76-83
  
• René Haijema, Jan van der Wal, Nico M. van Dijk:
  Blood Platelet Production: a multi-type perishable inventory problem. 84-92
  
• Kirsten Hilsenbeck, Alexander Schömig, Walter Hansch:
  Zeitdiskrete Modellierung der Wechselwirkungen der Plan-Vorgaben bei Verwendung der Liefertreue als Leistungsgröße für die interne Supply Chain in der Halbleiterindustrie. 93-101
  
• Michael Kämpf, Peter Köchel:
  Sequencing and lot-size optimisation of a production-and-inventory-system with multiple items using simulation and parallel genetic algorithm. 102-109
  
• Michael Manitz:
  Ein Dekompositionsverfahren zur Bestimmung der Produktionsrate einer Fließproduktionslinie mit Montagestationen und stochastischen Bearbeitungszeiten. 110-117
  
• Eric Sucky:
  A dynamic model for strategic supplier selection. 118-126
  
• Peter Buchholz, Carsten Tepper:
  Functional Analysis of Process-Oriented Systems. 127-135
  

Transportation and Traffic

• Gabrio Caimi, Dan Burkolter, Thomas Herrmann:
  Finding Delay-Tolerant Train Routings through Stations. 136-143
  
• Ulrich Derigs, Thomas Döhmer:
  Router: A Fast and Flexible Local Search Algorithm for a Class of Rich Vehicle Routing Problems. 144-149
  
• Armin Fügenschuh, Alexander Martin, Peter Stöveken:
  Integrated Optimization of School Starting Times and Public Bus Services. 150-157
  
• Yufeng Guo:
  A Decision Support Framework for the Airline Crew Schedule Disruption Management with Strategy Mapping. 158-165
  
• Mattias Grönkvist, Jens Kjerrström:
  Tail Assignment in Practice. 166-173
  
• Oliver Kunze:
  Ein praxistauglicher Ansatz zur Lösung eines spezifischen D-VRSP-TW-UC. 174-183
  
• Jörn Schönberger, Herbert Kopfer:
  Freight Flow Consolidation in Presence of Time Windows. 184-191
  
• Ekkehard Köhler, Rolf H. Möhring, Gregor Wünsch:
  Minimizing Total Delay in Fixed-Time Controlled Traffic Networks. 192-199
  

Project Management and Scheduling

• Roman A. Koryakin:
  On Asymptotic Optimality of Permutation Schedules in Stochastic Flow Shops and Assembly Lines. 200-206
  
• Christoph Stark, Jürgen Zimmermann:
  An Exact Branch-and-Price Algorithm for Workforce Scheduling. 207-212
  
• Adam Janiak, Marcin Winczaszek:
  A Single Processor Scheduling Problem with a Common Due Window Assignment. 213-220
  

Marketing

• Xuemin Zhao, Reinhold Decker:
  Modeling SMEs' Choice of Foreign Market Entry: Joint Venture vs. Wholly Owned Venture. 221-229
  
• Reinhold Decker, Antonia Hermelbracht:
  Pattern Detection with Growing Neural Networks - An Application to Marketing and Library Data. 230-237
  
• Sören W. Scholz, Ralf Wagner:
  The Quality of Prior Information Structure in Business Planning - An Experiment in Environmental Scanning. 238-245
  
• Bernd Stauß, Wolfgang Gaul:
  Product Line Optimization as a Two Stage Problem. 246-253
  

Energyy Environment and Health

• Dominik Möst, Ingela Tietze-Stöckinger, Wolf Fichtner, Otto Rentz:
  Optimising energy models for hydrothermal generation systems to derive electricity prices. 254-262
  
• Monique A. van der Gaag, Helmut W. Saatkamp, Fred Vos, Michiel van Boven, Paul van Beek, Ruud B. M. Huirne:
  Simulation of the epidemiology of Salmonella in the pork supply chain. 263-270
  

Optimization of Bio Systems

• Shih Peng, Hsu-Ming Chang, D. Hsu, Chuan Tang:
  Modeling Signal Transduction of Neural System by Hybrid Petri Net Representation. 271-279
  
• F. B. Yilmaz, H. Öktem, G.-W. Weber:
  Mathematical Modeling and Approximation of Gene Expression Patterns. 280-287
  

Finance, Banking and Insurances

• Roland Mestel, Henryk Gurgul, Pawel Majdosz:
  On the Empirical Linkages between Stock Prices and Trading Activity on the German Stock Market. 288-296
  

Simulation and Applied Probability

• Hans Blanc:
  Numerical Transform Inversion for Autocorrelations of Waiting Times. 297-304
  
• Vlasta Kanková:
  A Note on the Relationship between Strongly Convex Functions and Multiobjective Stochastic Programming Problems. 305-312
  
• Stephan Kolassa, Stefan Schwarz:
  Two-Step Drawing from Urns. 313-318
  
• Karel Sladký, Nico M. van Dijk:
  Total Reward Variance in Discrete and Continuous Time Markov Chains. 319-326
  

Continuous Optimization

• Edouard Boudinov, Arkadiy Manevich:
  An Efficient Conjugate Directions Method Without Linear Searches. 327-334
  

Discrete and Combinatorial Optimization

• Diah Chaerani, Cornelis Roos, A. Aman:
  The Robust Shortest Path Problem by Means of Robust Linear Optimization. 335-342
  
• Alexey Baburin, Edward Gimadi:
  Approximation Algorithms for Finding a Maximum-Weight Spanning Connected Subgraph with given Vertex Degrees. 343-351
  
• Adam Janiak, Tomasz Krysiak:
  Multiprocessor Scheduling Problem with Stepwise Model of Job Value Change. 352-359
  
• Per Olov Lindberg, Gholamreza Razmara:
  The Prize Collecting Connected Subgraph Problem - A New NP-Hard Problem arising in Snow Removal Routing. 360-367
  
• Yuen-Ting Wu, Yu-Liang Wu:
  A Less Flexibility First Based Algorithm for the Container Loading Problem. 368-376
  

A.I., Fuzzy Logic and Multicriteria Decision Making

• Wolfgang Eiden:
  Scheduling with Fuzzy Methods. 377-384
  
• Andreas Kleine, Dennis Sebastian:
  Generalized DEA-Range Adjusted Measurement. 385-392
  
• Elmar Reucher, Wilhelm Rödder:
  A fuzzy DEA approach. 393-399
  
• Eike Rommelfanger, Wolfgang Köhler:
  Verknüpfung von Standortdaten und Vegetationsmodellen über die Zeigerwerte nach Ellenberg. 400-407
  
• Klaus B. Schebesch, Ralf Stecking:
  Extracting Rules from Support Vector Machines. 408-415
  

Econometrics, Game Theory and Mathematical Economics

• Herman Monsuur:
  A square law for power of positions in a network. 416-424
  

Business Informatics

• Emiel Caron, Hennie Daniels:
  Automated business diagnosis in the OLAP context. 425-433
  
• Carsten Felden, Peter Chamoni:
  User-Oriented Filtering of Qualitative Data. 434-442
  
• Michael Lutz, Johannes Kern:
  Vorstellung einer erweiterbaren Selbstlernumgebung "Operations Research" als Beispiel für exploratives, Web-basiertes E-Learning im Hochschulumfeld. 443-451
  
• Markus P. Thiel, Taïeb Mellouli, Yufeng Guo:
  Partially Integrated Airline Crew Scheduling for Team-oriented Rostering. 452-460
  

OR in Engineering

• Jutta Geldermann, Hannes Schollenberger, Martin Treitz, Otto Rentz:
  Multi Objective Pinch Analysis (MOPA) for Integrated Process Design. 461-469
  

Revenue Management

• Stefan Rehkopf, Thomas Spengler:
  Revenue Management in a Make-to-Order Environment. 470-478
  
• Silvia Riedel, Bogdan Gabrys:
  Hierarchical Multilevel Approaches of Forecast Combination. 479-486