Operations Research Proceedings 2014: Selected Papers of the Annual International Conference of the German Operations Research Society (GOR), RWTH Aachen University, Germany, September 2-5, 2014

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Experimental Validation of an Enhanced System Synthesis Approach....Pages 1-7
Stochastic Dynamic Programming Solution of a Risk-Adjusted Disaster Preparedness and Relief Distribution Problem....Pages 9-15
Solution Approaches for the Double-Row Equidistant Facility Layout Problem....Pages 17-23
Simulation of the System-Wide Impact of Power-to-Gas Energy Storages by Multi-stage Optimization....Pages 25-30
An Approximation Result for Matchings in Partitioned Hypergraphs....Pages 31-36
On Class Imbalance Correction for Classification Algorithms in Credit Scoring....Pages 37-43
The Exact Solution of Multi-period Portfolio Choice Problem with Exponential Utility....Pages 45-51
On the Discriminative Power of Tournament Solutions....Pages 53-58
An Actor-Oriented Approach to Evaluate Climate Policies with Regard to Resource Intensive Industries....Pages 59-64
Upper Bounds for Heuristic Approaches to the Strip Packing Problem....Pages 65-70
An Approximative Lexicographic Min-Max Approach to the Discrete Facility Location Problem....Pages 71-76
Effects of Profit Taxes in Matrix Games....Pages 77-82
Extension and Application of a General Pickup and Delivery Model for Evaluating the Impact of Bundling Goods in an Urban Environment....Pages 83-89
Optimizing Time Slot Allocation in Single Operator Home Delivery Problems....Pages 91-97
Robust Scheduling with Logic-Based Benders Decomposition....Pages 99-105
Optimal Adaptation Process of Emergency Medical Services Systems in a Changing Environment....Pages 107-113
Strategic Network Planning of Recycling of Photovoltaic Modules....Pages 115-120
Designing a Feedback Control System via Mixed-Integer Programming....Pages 121-127
Fair Cyclic Roster Planning—A Case Study for a Large European Airport....Pages 129-135
Why Does a Railway Infrastructure Company Need an Optimized Train Path Assignment for Industrialized Timetabling?....Pages 137-142
A Polyhedral Study of the Quadratic Traveling Salesman Problem....Pages 143-149
New Inequalities for 1D Relaxations of the 2D Rectangular Strip Packing Problem....Pages 151-157
Representing Production Scheduling with Constraint Answer Set Programming....Pages 159-165
Day-Ahead Versus Intraday Valuation of Flexibility for Photovoltaic and Wind Power Systems....Pages 167-172
A Real Options Model for the Disinvestment in Conventional Power Plants....Pages 173-179
Political Districting for Elections to the German Bundestag: An Optimization-Based Multi-stage Heuristic Respecting Administrative Boundaries....Pages 181-187
Duality for Multiobjective Semidefinite Optimization Problems....Pages 189-195
Algorithms for Controlling Palletizers....Pages 197-203
Capital Budgeting Problems: A Parameterized Point of View....Pages 205-211
How to Increase Robustness of Capable-to-Promise....Pages 213-219
An Iterated Local Search for a Re-entrant Flow Shop Scheduling Problem....Pages 221-226
Selecting Delivery Patterns for Grocery Chains....Pages 227-232
Towards a Customer-Oriented Queuing in Service Incident Management....Pages 233-239
A Lagrangian Relaxation Algorithm for Modularity Maximization Problem....Pages 241-247
Row and Column Generation Algorithm for Maximization of Minimum Margin for Ranking Problems....Pages 249-255
Dual Sourcing Inventory Model with Uncertain Supply and Advance Capacity Information....Pages 257-262
Integrated Line Planning and Passenger Routing: Connectivity and Transfers....Pages 263-269
Robust Discrete Optimization Problems with the WOWA Criterion....Pages 271-277
Robust Single Machine Scheduling Problem with Weighted Number of Late Jobs Criterion....Pages 279-284
Price of Anarchy in the Link Destruction (Adversary) Model....Pages 285-291
Decision Support System for Week Program Planning....Pages 293-299
On Multi-product Lot-Sizing and Scheduling with Multi-machine Technologies....Pages 301-306
Condition-Based Maintenance Policies for Modular Monotic Multi-state Systems....Pages 307-312
An Optimization Model and a Decision Support System to Optimize Car Sharing Stations with Electric Vehicles....Pages 313-320
Optimising Energy Procurement for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises....Pages 321-326
Approximation Schemes for Robust Makespan Scheduling Problems....Pages 327-333
The Price of Fairness for a Small Number of Indivisible Items....Pages 335-340
Robustness Concepts for Knapsack and Network Design Problems Under Data Uncertainty....Pages 341-347
An Insight to Aviation: Rostering Ground Personnel in Practice....Pages 349-355
Consensus Information and Consensus Rating....Pages 357-362
Integration of Prospect Theory into the Outranking Approach PROMETHEE....Pages 363-368
Multistage Optimization with the Help of Quantified Linear Programming....Pages 369-375
Analysis of Ambulance Location Models Using Discrete Event Simulation....Pages 377-383
Tight Upper Bounds on the Cardinality Constrained Mean-Variance Portfolio Optimization Problem Using Truncated Eigendecomposition....Pages 385-392
Scheduling Identical Parallel Machines with a Fixed Number of Delivery Dates....Pages 393-398
Kinetic Models for Assembly Lines in Automotive Industries....Pages 399-405
Optimization of Vehicle Routes with Delivery and Pickup for a Rental Business: A Case Study....Pages 407-413
An Ant Colony System Adaptation to Deal with Accessibility Issues After a Disaster....Pages 415-421
Modelling and Solving a Train Path Assignment Model....Pages 423-428
A New Approach to Freight Consolidation for a Real-World Pickup-and-Delivery Problem....Pages 429-435
High Multiplicity Scheduling with Switching Costs for Few Products....Pages 437-443
Sampling-Based Objective Function Evaluation Techniques for the Orienteering Problem with Stochastic Travel and Service Times....Pages 445-450
Optimized Pattern Design for Photovoltaic Power Stations....Pages 451-456
What Are New Insights Using Optimized Train Path Assignment for the Development of Railway Infrastructure?....Pages 457-463
The Cycle Embedding Problem....Pages 465-471
Dispatch of a Wind Farm with a Battery Storage....Pages 473-479
Exact Algorithms for the Vehicle Routing Problem with Soft Time Windows....Pages 481-486
Impact of Heat Storage Capacity on CHP Unit Commitment Under Power Price Uncertainties....Pages 487-492
Optimizing Information Security Investments with Limited Budget....Pages 493-499
Cut-First Branch-and-Price Second for the Capacitated Arc-Routing Problem....Pages 501-506
Solving a Rich Position-Based Model for Dairy Products....Pages 507-513
A European Investment and Dispatch Model for Determining Cost Minimal Power Systems with High Shares of Renewable Energy....Pages 515-521
Pre-selection Strategies for Dynamic Collaborative Transportation Planning Problems....Pages 523-529
Optimal Operation of a CHP Plant for the Energy Balancing Market....Pages 531-537
Gas Network Extension Planning for Multiple Demand Scenarios....Pages 539-544
Impacts of Electricity Consumers’ Unit Commitment on Low Voltage Networks....Pages 545-551
Congestion Games with Multi-Dimensional Demands....Pages 553-558
Unit Commitment by Column Generation....Pages 559-565
Parallel Algorithm Portfolio with Market Trading-Based Time Allocation....Pages 567-574
Global Solution of Bilevel Programming Problems....Pages 575-580
Robustness to Time Discretization Errors in Water Network Optimization....Pages 581-588
Forecasting Intermittent Demand with Generalized State-Space Model....Pages 589-596
Optimal Renewal and Electrification Strategy for Commercial Car Fleets in Germany....Pages 597-603
A Time-Indexed Generalized Vehicle Routing Model for Military Aircraft Mission Planning....Pages 605-611
Adapting Exact and Heuristic Procedures in Solving an NP-Hard Sequencing Problem....Pages 613-619
Strategic Deterrence of Terrorist Attacks....Pages 621-626
Optimal Airline Networks, Flight Volumes, and the Number of Crafts for New Low-Cost Carrier in Japan....Pages 627-633
Variable Speed in Vertical Flight Planning....Pages 635-641
A Fast Greedy Algorithm for the Relocation Problem....Pages 643-648
Multicriteria Group Choice via Majority Preference Relation Based on Cone Individual Preference Relations....Pages 649-655
Back Matter....Pages 657-659