Operations Research Proceedings 2007 : Selected Papers of the Annual International Conference of the German Operations Research Society (GOR)

Saarbrücken, September 5-7, 2007

Dissertation Award Winners.- Expected Additive Time-Separable Utility Maximizing Capacity Control in Revenue Management.- Routing and Capacity Optimization for IP Networks.- Coping with Incomplete Information in Scheduling ― Stochastic and Online Models.- Availability and Performance Analysis of Stochastic Networks with Unreliable Nodes.- Diploma Award Winners.- Heuristics of the Branch-Cut-and-Price-Framework SCIP.- Forecasting Optimization Model of the U.S. Coal, Energy and Emission Markets.- Optimal Control Strategies for Incoming Inspection.- An Extensive Tabu Search Algorithm for Solving the Lot Streaming Problem in a Job Shop Environment.- Applied Probability and Stochastic Programming.- Optimizing Consumption and Investment: The Case of Partial Information.- Multistage Stochastic Programs via Stochastic Parametric Optimization.- Risk-Sensitive Average Optimality in Markov Decision Chains.- A Stochastic Programming Model with Decision Dependent Uncertainty Realizations for Technology Portfolio Management.- Artificial Intelligence, Business Intelligence and Decision Support.- A Neural Network Based Decision Support System for Real-Time Scheduling of Flexible Manufacturing Systems.- Improving Classifier Performance by Using Fictitious Training Data? A Case Study.- Continuous Optimization.- Artificial DMUs and Contingent Weight Restrictions for the Analysis of Brazilian Retail Banks Efficiency.- Performance of Some Approximate Subgradient Methods over Nonlinearly Constrained Networks.- Discrete and Combinatorial Optimization.- Shortest-Path Algorithms and Dynamic Cost Changes.- Solving Railway Track Allocation Problems.- On a Class of Interval Data Minmax Regret CO Problems.- A Benders Decomposition for Hub Location Problems Arising in Public Transport.- Reliability Models for the Uncapacitated Facility Location Problem with User Preferences.- The Real-Time Vehicle Routing Problem.- A Decision Support System for Planning Promotion Time Slots.- Greedy Heuristics and Weight-Coded EAs for Multidimensional Knapsack Problems and Multi-Unit Combinatorial Auctions.- A Metaheuristic for the Periodic Location-Routing Problem.- A New Formulation of the Capacitated Discrete Ordered Median Problems with {0, 1}-Assignment.- Econometrics, Game Theory and Mathematical Economics.- Investment Timing Problem Under Tax Allowances: The Case of Special Economic Zones.- Computing the Value of Information in Quadratic Stochastic Decision Problems.- How Often Are You Decisive: an Enquiry About the Pivotality of Voting Rules.- Energy, Environment and Life Sciences.- A System Analysis on PEFC-CGS for a Farm Household.- Taming Wind Energy with Battery Storage.- The Influence of Social Values in Cooperation.- Designing Sustainable Supply Chains by Integrating Logistical and Process Engineering Aspects ― A Material Flow Based Approach for 2nd Generation Synthetic Bio-Fuels.- Entrepreneurship and Innovation.- About the Limitations of Spreadsheet Applications in Business Venturing.- A Decision-Analytic Approach to Blue-Ocean Strategy Development.- Flexible Planning in an Incomplete Market.- Social Entrepreneurs, Lead Donors and the Optimal Level of Fundraising.- Finance, Banking and Insurance.- Studying Impact of Decision Making Units Features on Efficiency by Integration of Data Envelopment Analysis and Data Mining Tools.- Analysts’ Dividend Forecasts, Portfolio Selection, and Market Risk Premia.- A Two-Stage Approach for Improving Service Management in Retail Banking.- Non-maturing Deposits, Convexity and Timing Adjustments.- Nichtparametrische Prädiktorselektion im Asset Management.- Forecasting and Marketing.- Detecting and Debugging Erroneous Statements in Pairwise Comparison Matrices.- Prognose von Geldautomatenumsätzen mit SARIMAX-Modellen: Eine Fallstudie.- Health Care Management.- On Dimensioning Intensive Care Units.- A Hybrid Approach to Solve the Periodic Home Health Care Problem.- Tactical Operating Theatre Scheduling: Efficient Appointment Assignment.- Managerial Accounting and Auditing.- Modeling and Analyzing the IAS 19 System of Accounting for Unfunded Pensions.- Coordination of Decentralized Departments and the Implementation of a Firm-wide Differentiation Strategy.- Case-Based Decision Theory: An Experimental Report.- Multi Criteria Decision Making.- Truck Allocation Planning for Cost Reduction of Mechanical Sugarcane Harvesting in Thailand: An Application of Multi-objective Optimization.- Efficiency Measurement of Organizations in Multi-Stage Systems.- Production and Service Operations Management.- Construction Line Algorithms for the Connection Location-Allocation Problem.- Service-Level Oriented Lot Sizing Under Stochastic Demand.- Real-Time Destination-Call Elevator Group Control on Embedded Microcontrollers.- Integrated Design of Industrial Product Service Systems.- Lot Sizing Policies for Remanufacturing Systems.- Multicriterial Design of Pharmaceutical Plants in Strategic Plant Management Using Methods of Computational Intelligence.- Retail, Revenue and Pricing Management.- Optimizing Flight and Cruise Occupancy of a Cruise Line.- Capacity Investment and Pricing Decisions in a Single-Period, Two-Product-Problem.- Scheduling and Project Management.- Relational Construction of Specific Timetables.- Alternative IP Models for Sport Leagues Scheduling.- Penalising Patterns in Timetables: Novel Integer Programming Formulations.- Online Optimization of a Color Sorting Assembly Buffer Using Ant Colony Optimization.- Scheduling of Tests on Vehicle Prototypes Using Constraint and Integer Programming.- Complexity of Project Scheduling Problem with Nonrenewable Resources.- Simulation, System Dynamics and Dynamic Modelling.- Optimizing in Graphs with Expensive Computation of Edge Weights.- Configuration of Order-Driven Planning Policies.- Supply Chain Management and Traffic.- When Periodic Timetables Are Suboptimal.- Acceleration of the A*-Algorithm for the Shortest Path Problem in Digital Road Maps.- A Modulo Network Simplex Method for Solving Periodic Timetable Optimisation Problems.- Simultaneous Vehicle and Crew Scheduling with Trip Shifting.- Line Optimization in Public Transport Systems.- Coordination in Recycling Networks.- Produktsegmentierung mit Fuzzy-Logik zur Bestimmung der Parameter eines Lagerhaltungsmodells für die Halbleiterindustrie.- On the Value of Objective Function Adaptation in Online Optimisation.- A Novel Multi Criteria Decision Making Framework for Production Strategy Adoption Considering Interrelations.