| Dissertation Award Winners | |
| Expected Additive Time-Separable Utility Maximizing Capacity Control in Revenue Management | p. 3 |
| Routing and Capacity Optimization for IP Networks | p. 9 |
| Coping with Incomplete Information in Scheduling — Stochastic and Online Models | p. 17 |
| Availability and Performance Analysis of Stochastic Networks with Unreliable Nodes | p. 23 |
| Diploma Award Winners | |
| Heuristics of the Branch-Cut-and-Price-Framework SCIP | p. 31 |
| Forecasting Optimization Model of the U.S. Coal, Energy and Emission Markets | p. 37 |
| Optimal Control Strategies for Incoming Inspection | p. 43 |
| An Extensive Tabu Search Algorithm for Solving the Lot Streaming Problem in a Job Shop Environment | p. 49 |
| Applied Probability and Stochastic Programming | |
| Optimizing Consumption and Investment: The Case of Partial Information | p. 57 |
| Multistage Stochastic Programs via Stochastic Parametric Optimization | p. 63 |
| Risk-Sensitive Average Optimality in Markov Decision Chains | p. 69 |
| A Stochastic Programming Model with Decision Dependent Uncertainty Realizations for Technology Portfolio Management | p. 75 |
| Artificial Intelligence, Business Intelligence and Decision Support | |
| A Neural Network Based Decision Support System for Real-Time Scheduling of Flexible Manufacturing Systems | p. 83 |
| Improving Classifier Performance by Using Fictitious Training Data? A Case Study | p. 89 |
| Continuous Optimization | |
| Artificial DMUs and Contingent Weight Restrictions for the Analysis of Brazilian Retail Banks Efficiency | p. 97 |
| Performance of Some Approximate Subgradient Methods over Nonlinearly Constrained Networks | p. 103 |
| Discrete and Combinatorial Optimization | |
| Shortest-Path Algorithms and Dynamic Cost Changes | p. 111 |
| Solving Railway Track Allocation Problems | p. 117 |
| On a Class of Interval Data Minmax Regret CO Problems | p. 123 |
| A Benders Decomposition for Hub Location Problems Arising in Public Transport | p. 129 |
| Reliability Models for the Uncapacitated Facility Location Problem with User Preferences | p. 135 |
| The Real-Time Vehicle Routing Problem | p. 141 |
| A Decision Support System for Planning Promotion Time Slots | p. 147 |
| Greedy Heuristics and Weight-Coded EAs for Multidimensional Knapsack Problems and Multi-Unit Combinatorial Auctions | p. 153 |
| A Metaheuristic for the Periodic Location-Routing Problem | p. 159 |
| A New Formulation of the Capacitated Discrete Ordered Median Problems with {0,1}-Assignment | p. 165 |
| Econometrics, Game Theory and Mathematical Economics | |
| Investment Timing Problem Under Tax Allowances: The Case of Special Economic Zones | p. 173 |
| Computing the Value of Information in Quadratic Stochastic Decision Problems | p. 179 |
| How Often Are You Decisive: an Enquiry About the Pivotality of Voting Rules | p. 185 |
| Energy, Environment and Life Sciences | |
| A System Analysis on PEFC-CGS for a Farm Household | p. 193 |
| Taming Wind Energy with Battery Storage | p. 199 |
| The Influence of Social Values in Cooperation | p. 205 |
| Designing Sustainable Supply Chains by Integrating Logistical and Process Engineering Aspects - A Material Flow Based Approach for 2nd Generation Synthetic Bio-Fuels | p. 211 |
| Entrepreneurship and Innovation | |
| About the Limitations of Spreadsheet Applications in Business Venturing | p. 219 |
| A Decision-Analytic Approach to Blue-Ocean Strategy Development | p. 225 |
| Flexible Planning in an Incomplete Market | p. 231 |
| Social Entrepreneurs, Lead Donors and the Optimal Level of Fundraising | p. 237 |
| Finance, Banking and Insurance | |
| Studying Impact of Decision Making Units Features on Efficiency by Integration of Data Envelopment Analysis and Data Mining Tools | p. 245 |
| Analysts' Dividend Forecasts, Portfolio Selection, and Market Risk Premia | p. 251 |
| A Two-Stage Approach for Improving Service Management in Retail Banking | p. 257 |
| Non-maturing Deposits, Convexity and Timing Adjustments | p. 263 |
| Nichtparametrische Prädiktorselektion im Asset Management | p. 269 |
| Forecasting and Marketing | |
| Detecting and Debugging Erroneous Statements in Pairwise Comparison Matrices | p. 277 |
| Prognose von Geldautomatenumsätzen mit SARIMAX-Modellen: Eine Fallstudie | p. 283 |
| Health Care Management | |
| On Dimensioning Intensive Care Units | p. 291 |
| A Hybrid Approach to Solve the Periodic Home Health Care Problem | p. 297 |
| Tactical Operating Theatre Scheduling: Efficient Appointment Assignment | p. 303 |
| Managerial Accounting and Auditing | |
| Modeling and Analyzing the IAS 19 System of Accounting for Unfunded Pensions | p. 311 |
| Coordination of Decentralized Departments and the Implementation of a Firm-wide Differentiation Strategy | p. 317 |
| Case-Based Decision Theory: An Experimental Report | p. 323 |
| Multi Criteria Decision Making | |
| Truck Allocation Planning for Cost Reduction of Mechanical Sugarcane Harvesting in Thailand: An Application of Multi-objective Optimization | p. 331 |
| Efficiency Measurement of Organizations in Multi-Stage Systems | p. 337 |
| Production and Service Operations Management | |
| Construction Line Algorithms for the Connection Location-Allocation Problem | p. 345 |
| Service-Level Oriented Lot Sizing Under Stochastic Demand | p. 351 |
| Real-Time Destination-Call Elevator Group Control on Embedded Microcontrollers | p. 357 |
| Integrated Design of Industrial Product Service Systems | p. 363 |
| Lot Sizing Policies for Remanufacturing Systems | p. 369 |
| Multicriterial Design of Pharmaceutical Plants in Strategic Plant Management Using Methods of Computational Intelligence | p. 375 |
| Retail, Revenue and Pricing Management | |
| Optimizing Flight and Cruise Occupancy of a Cruise Line | p. 383 |
| Capacity Investment and Pricing Decisions in a Single-Period, Two-Product-Problem | p. 389 |
| Scheduling and Project Management | |
| Relational Construction of Specific Timetables | p. 397 |
| Alternative IP Models for Sport Leagues Scheduling | p. 403 |
| Penalising Patterns in Timetables: Novel Integer Programming Formulations | p. 409 |
| Online Optimization of a Color Sorting Assembly Buffer Using Ant Colony Optimization | p. 415 |
| Scheduling of Tests on Vehicle Prototypes Using Constraint and Integer Programming | p. 421 |
| Complexity of Project Scheduling Problem with Nonrenewable Resources | p. 427 |
| Simulation, System Dynamics and Dynamic Modelling | |
| Optimizing in Graphs with Expensive Computation of Edge Weights | p. 435 |
| Configuration of Order-Driven Planning Policies | p. 441 |
| Supply Chain Management and Traffic | |
| When Periodic Timetables Are Suboptimal | p. 449 |
| Acceleration of the A*-Algorithm for the Shortest Path Problem in Digital Road Maps | p. 455 |
| A Modulo Network Simplex Method for Solving Periodic Timetable Optimisation Problems | p. 461 |
| Simultaneous Vehicle and Crew Scheduling with Trip Shifting | p. 467 |
| Line Optimization in Public Transport Systems | p. 473 |
| Coordination in Recycling Networks | p. 479 |
| Produktsegmentierung mit Fuzzy-Logik zur Bestimmung der Parameter eines Lager-haltungsmodells für die Halbleiterindustrie | p. 485 |
| On the Value of Objective Function Adaptation in Online Optimisation | p. 491 |
| A Novel Multi Criteria Decision Making Framework for Production Strategy Adoption Considering Interrelations | p. 497 |
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