Ebook: Operations Research Proceedings 2011: Selected Papers of the International Conference on Operations Research (OR 2011), August 30 - September 2, 2011, Zurich, Switzerland

This book contains a selection of refereed papers presented at the “International Conference on Operations Research (OR 2011)” which took place at the University of Zurich from August 30 to September 2, 2011. The conference was jointly organized by the German speaking OR societies from Austria (ÖGOR), Germany (GOR) and Switzerland (SVOR) under the patronage of SVOR. More than 840 scientists and students from over 50 countries attended OR 2011 and presented 620 papers in 16 parallel topical streams, as well as special award sessions. The conference was designed according to the understanding of Operations Research as an interdisciplinary science focusing on modeling complex socio-technical systems to gain insight into behavior under interventions by decision makers. Dealing with “organized complexity” lies in the core of OR and designing useful support systems to master the challenge of system management in complex environment is the ultimate goal of our professional societies. To this end, algorithmic techniques and system modeling are two fundamental competences which are also well-balanced in these proceedings.

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This book contains a selection of refereed papers presented at the “International Conference on Operations Research (OR 2011)” which took place at the University of Zurich from August 30 to September 2, 2011. The conference was jointly organized by the German speaking OR societies from Austria (?GOR), Germany (GOR) and Switzerland (SVOR) under the patronage of SVOR. More than 840 scientists and students from over 50 countries attended OR 2011 and presented 620 papers in 16 parallel topical streams, as well as special award sessions. The conference was designed according to the understanding of Operations Research as an interdisciplinary science focusing on modeling complex socio-technical systems to gain insight into behavior under interventions by decision makers. Dealing with “organized complexity” lies in the core of OR and designing useful support systems to master the challenge of system management in complex environment is the ultimate goal of our professional societies. To this end, algorithmic techniques and system modeling are two fundamental competences which are also well-balanced in these proceedings.

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This book contains a selection of refereed papers presented at the “International Conference on Operations Research (OR 2011)” which took place at the University of Zurich from August 30 to September 2, 2011. The conference was jointly organized by the German speaking OR societies from Austria (?GOR), Germany (GOR) and Switzerland (SVOR) under the patronage of SVOR. More than 840 scientists and students from over 50 countries attended OR 2011 and presented 620 papers in 16 parallel topical streams, as well as special award sessions. The conference was designed according to the understanding of Operations Research as an interdisciplinary science focusing on modeling complex socio-technical systems to gain insight into behavior under interventions by decision makers. Dealing with “organized complexity” lies in the core of OR and designing useful support systems to master the challenge of system management in complex environment is the ultimate goal of our professional societies. To this end, algorithmic techniques and system modeling are two fundamental competences which are also well-balanced in these proceedings.

Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
On the controlling of liquid metal solidification in foundry practice....Pages 3-8
Optimal dividend and risk control in diffusion models with linear costs....Pages 9-14
An optimal control problem for a tri-trophic chain system with diffusion....Pages 15-20
Necessary Optimality Conditions for Improper Infinite-Horizon Control Problems....Pages 21-26
Efficient Serial and Parallel Coordinate Descent Methods for Huge-Scale Truss Topology Design....Pages 27-32
About error bounds in metric spaces....Pages 33-38
Electricity Price Modelling for Turkey....Pages 39-44
Front Matter....Pages 45-45
The stable set polytope of claw-free graphs with stability number greater than three....Pages 47-52
Packing Euler graphs with traces....Pages 53-58
Minimum Cost Hyperassignments with Applications to ICE/IC Rotation Planning....Pages 59-64
Primal Heuristics for Branch-and-Price Algorithms....Pages 65-70
Rounding and Propagation Heuristics for Mixed Integer Programming....Pages 71-76
Inverse Shortest Path Models Based on Fundamental Cycle Bases....Pages 77-82
Parallel algorithms for the maximum flow problem with minimum lot sizes....Pages 83-88
Estimating trenching costs in FTTx network planning....Pages 89-94
Front Matter....Pages 95-95
Why pairwise comparison methods may fail in MCDM rankings....Pages 97-102
Ranking of qualitative decision options using copulas....Pages 103-108
Learning utility functions from preference relations on graphs....Pages 109-114
Dealing with conflicting targets by using group decision making within PROMETHEE....Pages 115-120
Relation between the Efficiency of Public Forestry Firms and Subsidies: The Swiss Case....Pages 121-126
Front Matter....Pages 127-127
Modeling impacts of the European Emission Trade System on the future energy sector....Pages 129-134
Feasibility on using carbon credits: A multiobjective model....Pages 135-140
Integration of Fluctuating Renewable Energy in Europe....Pages 141-146
Price-Induced Load-Balancing at Consumer Households for Smart Devices....Pages 147-152
Integration of renewable energy sources into the electricity system with new storage and flexibility options....Pages 153-158
Front Matter....Pages 159-159
Performance Evaluation of European Banks Using Multicriteria Analysis Techniques....Pages 161-166
Growth Optimal Portfolio Insurance in Continuous and Discrete Time....Pages 167-172
The Regularization Aspect of Optimal-Robust Conditional Value-at-Risk Portfolios....Pages 173-178
The effect of different market opening structures on market quality – experimental evidence....Pages 179-184
Reassessing recovery rates – floating recoveries....Pages 185-190
Downside Risk Approach for Multi-Objective Portfolio Optimization....Pages 191-196
Front Matter....Pages 197-197
Social Values and Cooperation. Results from an Iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma Experiment.....Pages 199-204
Honesty in Budgetary Reporting - an Experimental Study....Pages 205-210
Points Scoring Systems in Formula 1: A Game Theoretic Perspective....Pages 211-216
An experiment examining insider trading with respect to different market structures....Pages 217-222
Markov Simulation of an Iterated Prisoners’ Dilemma Experiment....Pages 223-228
Determining the Optimal Strategies for Antagonistic Positional Games in Markov Decision Processes....Pages 229-234
Front Matter....Pages 235-235
Analyses of Two Different Regression Models and Bootstrapping....Pages 237-242
Modifications of BIC for data mining under sparsity....Pages 243-248
Front Matter....Pages 249-249
Scheduling of outbound luggage handling at airports....Pages 251-256
Front Matter....Pages 249-249
A tree search heuristic for the container retrieval problem....Pages 257-262
Spatial and temporal synchronization of vehicles in logistics networks....Pages 263-268
Sequential Zone Adjustment for Approximate Solving of Large p-Median Problems....Pages 269-274
A new alternating heuristic for the (r | p)–centroid problem on the plane....Pages 275-280
Column Generation for Multi-Matrix Blocking Problems....Pages 281-286
Reduction of Empty Container Repositioning Costs by Container Sharing....Pages 287-292
Optimizing strategic planning in median systems subject to uncertain disruption and gradual recovery....Pages 293-298
A new simulated annealing algorithm for the freight consolidation problem....Pages 299-304
Models and Algorithms for Intermodal Transportation and Equipment Selection....Pages 305-310
Contraction Hierarchies with A* for digital road maps....Pages 311-316
An IP approach to toll enforcement optimization on German motorways....Pages 317-322
Driver scheduling based on “driver-friendly” vehicle schedules....Pages 323-328
Optimizing ordered median functions with applications to single facility location....Pages 329-334
A Column-and-Row Generation Algorithm for a Crew Planning Problem in Railways....Pages 335-340
Front Matter....Pages 341-341
Harmony Search Algorithms for binary optimization problems....Pages 343-348
Modeling Complex Crop Management-Plant Interactions in Potato Production under Climate Change....Pages 349-354
An Enhanced Ant Colony System for the Sequential Ordering Problem....Pages 355-360
Evolutionary Exploration of E/E-Architectures in Automotive Design....Pages 361-366
Front Matter....Pages 367-367
Optimal dimensioning of pipe networks: the new situation when the distribution and the transportation functions are disconnected....Pages 369-374
Analysis of Investment Incentives and the Influence of Growth Options in Regulated Industries....Pages 375-380
Front Matter....Pages 367-367
Robust Optimization in Non-Linear Regression for Speech and Video Quality Prediction in Mobile Multimedia Networks....Pages 381-386
Front Matter....Pages 387-387
Scheduling steel plates on a roller furnace....Pages 389-394
Check-In Counter Planning via a Network Flow Approach....Pages 395-400
OpenSolver - An Open Source Add-in to Solve Linear and Integer Progammes in Excel....Pages 401-406
Producing Routing Systems Flexibly Using a VRP Metamodel and a Software Product Line....Pages 407-412
Front Matter....Pages 413-413
Fill Time, Inventory and Capacity in a Multi-Item Production Line under Heijunka Control....Pages 415-420
Tight lower bounds by semidefinite relaxations for the discrete lot-sizing and scheduling problem with sequence-dependent changeover costs....Pages 421-426
Condition-based Maintenance Policy for decentralised Production/Maintenance-Control....Pages 427-432
Mid-Term Model-Plant Allocation for Flexible Production Networks in the Automotive Industry....Pages 433-438
Optimal (R, nQ) Policies for Serial Inventory Systems with Guaranteed Service....Pages 439-444
Channel coordination in a HMMS-type supply chain with profit sharing contract....Pages 445-450
Enhancing Aggregate Production Planning with an Integrated Stochastic Queuing Model....Pages 451-456
Remanufacturing of used products in a closed-loop supply chain with quantity discount....Pages 457-462
Integrated capacity and inventory decisions....Pages 463-468
Front Matter....Pages 469-469
Lower bounds for a multi-skill project scheduling problem....Pages 471-476
Synchronized Two-Stage Lot Sizing and Scheduling Problem in Automotive Industry....Pages 477-482
A branch-and-price algorithm for the long-term home care scheduling problem....Pages 483-488
On a multi-project staffing problem with heterogeneously skilled workers....Pages 489-494
Integrated schedule planning with supply-demand interactions for a new generation of aircrafts....Pages 495-500
Front Matter....Pages 501-501
Approximate Formula of Delay-Time Variance in Renewal-Input General-Service-Time Single-Server Queueing System....Pages 503-508
Front Matter....Pages 501-501
On solving strong multistage nonsymmetric stochastic mixed 0-1 problems....Pages 509-514
A Cost-Equation Analysis of General-Input General-Service Processor Sharing System....Pages 515-520
Multiperiod Stochastic Optimization Problems with Time-Consistent Risk Constraints....Pages 521-526
Robustness in SSD portfolio efficiency testing....Pages 527-532
Order Fulfillment and Replenishment Policies for Fully Substitutable Products....Pages 533-538
Stochastic Programming DEA Model of Fundamental Analysis of Public Firms for Portfolio Selection....Pages 539-544
Front Matter....Pages 545-545
Consumer Choice Modelling in Product Line Pricing: Reservation Prices and Discrete Choice Theory....Pages 547-552
Incentives for Risk Reporting with Potential Market Entrants....Pages 553-558
On the Integration of Customer Lifetime Value into Revenue Management....Pages 559-564
Front Matter....Pages 565-565
Formulation of A Sale Price Prediction Model Based on Fuzzy Regression Analysis....Pages 567-572
Visualizing Forecasts of Neural Network Ensembles....Pages 573-578
Forecasting Market Prices with Causal-Retro-Causal Neural Networks....Pages 579-584
Front Matter....Pages 585-585
The Gomory-Chv?tal Closure of a Non-Rational Polytope is a Rational Polytope....Pages 587-592
Dynamic Fleet Management for International Truck Transportation....Pages 593-598
Algorithmic Cost Allocation Games: Theory and Applications....Pages 599-604
Back Matter....Pages 605-607

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This book contains a selection of refereed papers presented at the “International Conference on Operations Research (OR 2011)” which took place at the University of Zurich from August 30 to September 2, 2011. The conference was jointly organized by the German speaking OR societies from Austria (?GOR), Germany (GOR) and Switzerland (SVOR) under the patronage of SVOR. More than 840 scientists and students from over 50 countries attended OR 2011 and presented 620 papers in 16 parallel topical streams, as well as special award sessions. The conference was designed according to the understanding of Operations Research as an interdisciplinary science focusing on modeling complex socio-technical systems to gain insight into behavior under interventions by decision makers. Dealing with “organized complexity” lies in the core of OR and designing useful support systems to master the challenge of system management in complex environment is the ultimate goal of our professional societies. To this end, algorithmic techniques and system modeling are two fundamental competences which are also well-balanced in these proceedings.

Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
On the controlling of liquid metal solidification in foundry practice....Pages 3-8
Optimal dividend and risk control in diffusion models with linear costs....Pages 9-14
An optimal control problem for a tri-trophic chain system with diffusion....Pages 15-20
Necessary Optimality Conditions for Improper Infinite-Horizon Control Problems....Pages 21-26
Efficient Serial and Parallel Coordinate Descent Methods for Huge-Scale Truss Topology Design....Pages 27-32
About error bounds in metric spaces....Pages 33-38
Electricity Price Modelling for Turkey....Pages 39-44
Front Matter....Pages 45-45
The stable set polytope of claw-free graphs with stability number greater than three....Pages 47-52
Packing Euler graphs with traces....Pages 53-58
Minimum Cost Hyperassignments with Applications to ICE/IC Rotation Planning....Pages 59-64
Primal Heuristics for Branch-and-Price Algorithms....Pages 65-70
Rounding and Propagation Heuristics for Mixed Integer Programming....Pages 71-76
Inverse Shortest Path Models Based on Fundamental Cycle Bases....Pages 77-82
Parallel algorithms for the maximum flow problem with minimum lot sizes....Pages 83-88
Estimating trenching costs in FTTx network planning....Pages 89-94
Front Matter....Pages 95-95
Why pairwise comparison methods may fail in MCDM rankings....Pages 97-102
Ranking of qualitative decision options using copulas....Pages 103-108
Learning utility functions from preference relations on graphs....Pages 109-114
Dealing with conflicting targets by using group decision making within PROMETHEE....Pages 115-120
Relation between the Efficiency of Public Forestry Firms and Subsidies: The Swiss Case....Pages 121-126
Front Matter....Pages 127-127
Modeling impacts of the European Emission Trade System on the future energy sector....Pages 129-134
Feasibility on using carbon credits: A multiobjective model....Pages 135-140
Integration of Fluctuating Renewable Energy in Europe....Pages 141-146
Price-Induced Load-Balancing at Consumer Households for Smart Devices....Pages 147-152
Integration of renewable energy sources into the electricity system with new storage and flexibility options....Pages 153-158
Front Matter....Pages 159-159
Performance Evaluation of European Banks Using Multicriteria Analysis Techniques....Pages 161-166
Growth Optimal Portfolio Insurance in Continuous and Discrete Time....Pages 167-172
The Regularization Aspect of Optimal-Robust Conditional Value-at-Risk Portfolios....Pages 173-178
The effect of different market opening structures on market quality – experimental evidence....Pages 179-184
Reassessing recovery rates – floating recoveries....Pages 185-190
Downside Risk Approach for Multi-Objective Portfolio Optimization....Pages 191-196
Front Matter....Pages 197-197
Social Values and Cooperation. Results from an Iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma Experiment.....Pages 199-204
Honesty in Budgetary Reporting - an Experimental Study....Pages 205-210
Points Scoring Systems in Formula 1: A Game Theoretic Perspective....Pages 211-216
An experiment examining insider trading with respect to different market structures....Pages 217-222
Markov Simulation of an Iterated Prisoners’ Dilemma Experiment....Pages 223-228
Determining the Optimal Strategies for Antagonistic Positional Games in Markov Decision Processes....Pages 229-234
Front Matter....Pages 235-235
Analyses of Two Different Regression Models and Bootstrapping....Pages 237-242
Modifications of BIC for data mining under sparsity....Pages 243-248
Front Matter....Pages 249-249
Scheduling of outbound luggage handling at airports....Pages 251-256
Front Matter....Pages 249-249
A tree search heuristic for the container retrieval problem....Pages 257-262
Spatial and temporal synchronization of vehicles in logistics networks....Pages 263-268
Sequential Zone Adjustment for Approximate Solving of Large p-Median Problems....Pages 269-274
A new alternating heuristic for the (r | p)–centroid problem on the plane....Pages 275-280
Column Generation for Multi-Matrix Blocking Problems....Pages 281-286
Reduction of Empty Container Repositioning Costs by Container Sharing....Pages 287-292
Optimizing strategic planning in median systems subject to uncertain disruption and gradual recovery....Pages 293-298
A new simulated annealing algorithm for the freight consolidation problem....Pages 299-304
Models and Algorithms for Intermodal Transportation and Equipment Selection....Pages 305-310
Contraction Hierarchies with A* for digital road maps....Pages 311-316
An IP approach to toll enforcement optimization on German motorways....Pages 317-322
Driver scheduling based on “driver-friendly” vehicle schedules....Pages 323-328
Optimizing ordered median functions with applications to single facility location....Pages 329-334
A Column-and-Row Generation Algorithm for a Crew Planning Problem in Railways....Pages 335-340
Front Matter....Pages 341-341
Harmony Search Algorithms for binary optimization problems....Pages 343-348
Modeling Complex Crop Management-Plant Interactions in Potato Production under Climate Change....Pages 349-354
An Enhanced Ant Colony System for the Sequential Ordering Problem....Pages 355-360
Evolutionary Exploration of E/E-Architectures in Automotive Design....Pages 361-366
Front Matter....Pages 367-367
Optimal dimensioning of pipe networks: the new situation when the distribution and the transportation functions are disconnected....Pages 369-374
Analysis of Investment Incentives and the Influence of Growth Options in Regulated Industries....Pages 375-380
Front Matter....Pages 367-367
Robust Optimization in Non-Linear Regression for Speech and Video Quality Prediction in Mobile Multimedia Networks....Pages 381-386
Front Matter....Pages 387-387
Scheduling steel plates on a roller furnace....Pages 389-394
Check-In Counter Planning via a Network Flow Approach....Pages 395-400
OpenSolver - An Open Source Add-in to Solve Linear and Integer Progammes in Excel....Pages 401-406
Producing Routing Systems Flexibly Using a VRP Metamodel and a Software Product Line....Pages 407-412
Front Matter....Pages 413-413
Fill Time, Inventory and Capacity in a Multi-Item Production Line under Heijunka Control....Pages 415-420
Tight lower bounds by semidefinite relaxations for the discrete lot-sizing and scheduling problem with sequence-dependent changeover costs....Pages 421-426
Condition-based Maintenance Policy for decentralised Production/Maintenance-Control....Pages 427-432
Mid-Term Model-Plant Allocation for Flexible Production Networks in the Automotive Industry....Pages 433-438
Optimal (R, nQ) Policies for Serial Inventory Systems with Guaranteed Service....Pages 439-444
Channel coordination in a HMMS-type supply chain with profit sharing contract....Pages 445-450
Enhancing Aggregate Production Planning with an Integrated Stochastic Queuing Model....Pages 451-456
Remanufacturing of used products in a closed-loop supply chain with quantity discount....Pages 457-462
Integrated capacity and inventory decisions....Pages 463-468
Front Matter....Pages 469-469
Lower bounds for a multi-skill project scheduling problem....Pages 471-476
Synchronized Two-Stage Lot Sizing and Scheduling Problem in Automotive Industry....Pages 477-482
A branch-and-price algorithm for the long-term home care scheduling problem....Pages 483-488
On a multi-project staffing problem with heterogeneously skilled workers....Pages 489-494
Integrated schedule planning with supply-demand interactions for a new generation of aircrafts....Pages 495-500
Front Matter....Pages 501-501
Approximate Formula of Delay-Time Variance in Renewal-Input General-Service-Time Single-Server Queueing System....Pages 503-508
Front Matter....Pages 501-501
On solving strong multistage nonsymmetric stochastic mixed 0-1 problems....Pages 509-514
A Cost-Equation Analysis of General-Input General-Service Processor Sharing System....Pages 515-520
Multiperiod Stochastic Optimization Problems with Time-Consistent Risk Constraints....Pages 521-526
Robustness in SSD portfolio efficiency testing....Pages 527-532
Order Fulfillment and Replenishment Policies for Fully Substitutable Products....Pages 533-538
Stochastic Programming DEA Model of Fundamental Analysis of Public Firms for Portfolio Selection....Pages 539-544
Front Matter....Pages 545-545
Consumer Choice Modelling in Product Line Pricing: Reservation Prices and Discrete Choice Theory....Pages 547-552
Incentives for Risk Reporting with Potential Market Entrants....Pages 553-558
On the Integration of Customer Lifetime Value into Revenue Management....Pages 559-564
Front Matter....Pages 565-565
Formulation of A Sale Price Prediction Model Based on Fuzzy Regression Analysis....Pages 567-572
Visualizing Forecasts of Neural Network Ensembles....Pages 573-578
Forecasting Market Prices with Causal-Retro-Causal Neural Networks....Pages 579-584
Front Matter....Pages 585-585
The Gomory-Chv?tal Closure of a Non-Rational Polytope is a Rational Polytope....Pages 587-592
Dynamic Fleet Management for International Truck Transportation....Pages 593-598
Algorithmic Cost Allocation Games: Theory and Applications....Pages 599-604
Back Matter....Pages 605-607
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