Operations Research Proceedings 2014

1. Experimental Validation of an Enhanced System Synthesis Approach
Lena C. Altherr, Thorsten Ederer, Ulf Lorenz, Peter F. Pelz, Philipp Pöttgen

2. Stochastic Dynamic Programming Solution of a Risk-Adjusted Disaster Preparedness and Relief Distribution Problem
Ebru Angün

3. Solution Approaches for the Double-Row Equidistant Facility Layout Problem
Miguel F. Anjos, Anja Fischer, Philipp Hungerländer

4. Simulation of the System-Wide Impact of Power-to-Gas Energy Storages by Multi-stage Optimization
Christoph Baumann, Julia Schleibach, Albert Moser

5. An Approximation Result for Matchings in Partitioned Hypergraphs
Isabel Beckenbach, Ralf Borndörfer

6. On Class Imbalance Correction for Classification Algorithms in Credit Scoring
Bernd Bischl, Tobias Kühn, Gero Szepannek

7. The Exact Solution of Multi-period Portfolio Choice Problem with Exponential Utility
Taras Bodnar, Nestor Parolya, Wolfgang Schmid

8. On the Discriminative Power of Tournament Solutions
Felix Brandt, Hans Georg Seedig

9. An Actor-Oriented Approach to Evaluate Climate Policies with Regard to Resource Intensive Industries
Patrick Breun, Magnus Fröhling, Frank Schultmann

10. Upper Bounds for Heuristic Approaches to the Strip Packing Problem
Torsten Buchwald, Guntram Scheithauer

11. An Approximative Lexicographic Min-Max Approach to the Discrete Facility Location Problem
Ľuboš Buzna, Michal Koháni, Jaroslav Janáček

12. Effects of Profit Taxes in Matrix Games
Marlis Bärthel

13. Extension and Application of a General Pickup and Delivery Model for Evaluating the Impact of Bundling Goods in an Urban Environment
Stephan Bütikofer, Albert Steiner

14. Optimizing Time Slot Allocation in Single Operator Home Delivery Problems
Marco Casazza, Alberto Ceselli, Lucas Létocart

15. Robust Scheduling with Logic-Based Benders Decomposition
Elvin Coban, Aliza Heching, J. N. Hooker, Alan Scheller-Wolf

16. Optimal Adaptation Process of Emergency Medical Services Systems in a Changing Environment
Dirk Degel

17. Strategic Network Planning of Recycling of Photovoltaic Modules
Eva Johanna Degel, Grit Walther

18. Designing a Feedback Control System via Mixed-Integer Programming
Lena C. Altherr, Thorsten Ederer, Ulf Lorenz, Peter F. Pelz, Philipp Pöttgen

19. Fair Cyclic Roster Planning—A Case Study for a Large European Airport
Torsten Fahle, Wolfgang Vermöhlen

20. Why Does a Railway Infrastructure Company Need an Optimized Train Path Assignment for Industrialized Timetabling?
Matthias Feil, Daniel Pöhle

21. A Polyhedral Study of the Quadratic Traveling Salesman Problem
Anja Fischer

22. New Inequalities for 1D Relaxations of the 2D Rectangular Strip Packing Problem
Isabel Friedow, Guntram Scheithauer

23. Representing Production Scheduling with Constraint Answer Set Programming
Gerhard Friedrich, Melanie Frühstück, Vera Mersheeva, Anna Ryabokon, Maria Sander, Andreas Starzacher, Erich Teppan

24. Day-Ahead Versus Intraday Valuation of Flexibility for Photovoltaic and Wind Power Systems
Ernesto Garnier, Reinhard Madlener

25. A Real Options Model for the Disinvestment in Conventional Power Plants
Barbara Glensk, Christiane Rosen, Reinhard Madlener

26. Political Districting for Elections to the German Bundestag: An Optimization-Based Multi-stage Heuristic Respecting Administrative Boundaries
Sebastian Goderbauer

27. Duality for Multiobjective Semidefinite Optimization Problems
Sorin-Mihai Grad

28. Algorithms for Controlling Palletizers
Frank Gurski, Jochen Rethmann, Egon Wanke

29. Capital Budgeting Problems: A Parameterized Point of View
Frank Gurski, Jochen Rethmann, Eda Yilmaz

30. How to Increase Robustness ofCapable-to-Promise
Ralf Gössinger, Sonja Kalkowski

31. An Iterated Local Search for a Re-entrant Flow Shop Scheduling Problem
Richard Hinze, Dirk Sackmann

32. Selecting Delivery Patterns for Grocery Chains
Andreas Holzapfel, Michael Sternbeck, Alexander Hübner

33. Towards a Customer-Oriented Queuing inService Incident Management
Peter Hottum, Melanie Reuter-Oppermann

34. A Lagrangian Relaxation Algorithm for Modularity Maximization Problem
Kotohumi Inaba, Yoichi Izunaga, Yoshitsugu Yamamoto

35. Row and Column Generation Algorithm for Maximization of Minimum Margin for Ranking Problems
Yoichi Izunaga, Keisuke Sato, Keiji Tatsumi, Yoshitsugu Yamamoto

36. Dual Sourcing Inventory Model with Uncertain Supply and Advance Capacity Information
Marko Jakšič

37. Integrated Line Planning and Passenger Routing: Connectivity and Transfers
Marika Karbstein

38. Robust Discrete Optimization Problems with the WOWA Criterion
Adam Kasperski, Paweł Zieliński

39. Robust Single Machine Scheduling Problem with Weighted Number of Late Jobs Criterion
Adam Kasperski, Paweł Zieliński

40. Price of Anarchy in the Link Destruction (Adversary) Model
Lasse Kliemann

41. Decision Support System for Week Program Planning
Benjamin Korth, Christian Schwede

42. On Multi-product Lot-Sizing and Scheduling with Multi-machine Technologies
Anton V. Eremeev, Julia V. Kovalenko

43. Condition-Based Maintenance Policies for Modular Monotic Multi-state Systems
Michael Krause

44. An Optimization Model and a Decision Support System to Optimize Car Sharing Stations with Electric Vehicles
Kathrin S. Kühne, Tim A. Rickenberg, Michael H. Breitner

45. Optimising Energy Procurement for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises
Nadine Kumbartzky, Brigitte Werners

46. Approximation Schemes for Robust Makespan Scheduling Problems
Adam Kurpisz

47. The Price of Fairness for a Small Number of Indivisible Items
Sascha Kurz

48. Robustness Concepts for Knapsack and Network Design Problems Under Data Uncertainty
Manuel Kutschka

49. An Insight to Aviation: Rostering Ground Personnel in Practice
Manuel Kutschka, Jörg Herbers

50. Consensus Information and Consensus Rating
Christoph Lehmann, Daniel Tillich

51. Integration of Prospect Theory into the Outranking Approach PROMETHEE
Nils Lerche, Jutta Geldermann

52. Multistage Optimization with the Help of Quantified Linear Programming
T. Ederer, U. Lorenz, T. Opfer, J. Wolf

53. Analysis of Ambulance Location Models Using Discrete Event Simulation
Pascal Lutter, Dirk Degel, Lara Wiesche, Brigitte Werners

54. Tight Upper Bounds on the Cardinality Constrained Mean-Variance Portfolio Optimization Problem Using Truncated Eigendecomposition
Fred Mayambala, Elina Rönnberg, Torbjörn Larsson

55. Scheduling Identical Parallel Machines with a Fixed Number of Delivery Dates
Arne Mensendiek, Jatinder N. D. Gupta

56. Kinetic Models for Assembly Lines in Automotive Industries
Lena Michailidis, Michael Herty, Marcus Ziegler

57. Optimization of Vehicle Routes with Delivery and Pickup for a Rental Business: A Case Study
Susumu Morito, Tatsuki Inoue, Ryo Nakahara, Takuya Hirota

58. An Ant Colony System Adaptation to Deal with Accessibility Issues After a Disaster
Héctor Muñoz, Antonio Jiménez-Martín, Alfonso Mateos

59. Modelling and Solving a Train Path Assignment Model
Karl Nachtigall, Jens Opitz

60. A New Approach to Freight Consolidation for a Real-World Pickup-and-Delivery Problem
Curt Nowak, Felix Hahne, Klaus Ambrosi

61. High Multiplicity Scheduling with Switching Costs for Few Products
Michaël Gabay, Alexander Grigoriev, Vincent J. C. Kreuzen, Tim Oosterwijk

62. Sampling-Based Objective Function Evaluation Techniques for the Orienteering Problem with Stochastic Travel and Service Times
Vassilis Papapanagiotou, Roberto Montemanni, Luca Maria Gambardella

63. Optimized Pattern Design for Photovoltaic Power Stations
Martin Bischoff, Alena Klug, Karl-Heinz Küfer, Kai Plociennik, Ingmar Schüle

64. What Are New Insights Using Optimized Train Path Assignment for the Development of Railway Infrastructure?
Daniel Pöhle, Matthias Feil

65. The Cycle Embedding Problem
Ralf Borndörfer, Marika Karbstein, Julika Mehrgardt, Markus Reuther, Thomas Schlechte

66. Dispatch of a Wind Farm with a Battery Storage
Sabrina Ried, Melanie Reuter-Oppermann, Patrick Jochem, Wolf Fichtner

67. Exact Algorithms for the Vehicle Routing Problem with Soft Time Windows
Matteo Salani, Maria Battarra, Luca Maria Gambardella

68. Impact of Heat Storage Capacity on CHP Unit Commitment Under Power Price Uncertainties
Matthias Schacht, Brigitte Werners

69. Optimizing Information Security Investments with Limited Budget
Andreas Schilling, Brigitte Werners

70. Cut-First Branch-and-Price Second for the Capacitated Arc-Routing Problem
Claudia Schlebusch, Stefan Irnich

71. Solving a Rich Position-Based Model for Dairy Products
Karl Schneeberger, Michael Schilde, Karl F. Doerner

72. A European Investment and Dispatch Model for Determining Cost Minimal Power Systems with High Shares of Renewable Energy
Angela Scholz, Fabian Sandau, Carsten Pape

73. Pre-selection Strategies for Dynamic Collaborative Transportation Planning Problems
Kristian Schopka, Herbert Kopfer

74. Optimal Operation of a CHP Plant for the Energy Balancing Market
Katrin Schulz, Bastian Hechenrieder, Brigitte Werners

75. Gas Network Extension Planning forMultiple Demand Scenarios
Jonas Schweiger

76. Impacts of Electricity Consumers’ Unit Commitment on Low Voltage Networks
Johannes Schäuble, Patrick Jochem, Wolf Fichtner

77. Congestion Games with Multi-Dimensional Demands
Andreas Schütz

78. Unit Commitment by Column Generation
Takayuki Shiina, Takahiro Yurugi, Susumu Morito, Jun Imaizumi

79. Parallel Algorithm Portfolio with Market Trading-Based Time Allocation
Dimitris Souravlias, Konstantinos E. Parsopoulos, Enrique Alba

80. Global Solution of Bilevel Programming Problems
Sonja Steffensen

81. Robustness to Time Discretization Errors in Water Network Optimization
Nicole Taheri, Fabian R. Wirth, Bradley J. Eck, Martin Mevissen, Robert N. Shorten

82. Forecasting Intermittent Demand with Generalized State-Space Model
Kei Takahashi, Marina Fujita, Kishiko Maruyama, Toshiko Aizono, Koji Ara

83. Optimal Renewal and Electrification Strategy for Commercial Car Fleets in Germany
Ricardo Tejada, Reinhard Madlener

84. A Time-Indexed Generalized Vehicle Routing Model for Military Aircraft Mission Planning
Jorne Bergh, Nils-Hassan Quttineh, Torbjörn Larsson, Jeroen Beliën

85. Adapting Exact and Heuristic Procedures in Solving an NP-Hard Sequencing Problem
Andreas Wiehl

86. Strategic Deterrence of Terrorist Attacks
Marcus Wiens, Sascha Meng, Frank Schultmann

87. Optimal Airline Networks, Flight Volumes, and the Number of Crafts for New Low-Cost Carrier in Japan
Ryosuke Yabe, Yudai Honma

88. Variable Speed in Vertical Flight Planning
Zhi Yuan, Armin Fügenschuh, Anton Kaier, Swen Schlobach

89. A Fast Greedy Algorithm for the Relocation Problem
Rabih Zakaria, Laurent Moalic, Mohammad Dib, Alexandre Caminada

90. Multicriteria Group Choice via Majority Preference Relation Based on Cone Individual Preference Relations
Alexey Zakharov

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