Operations Research Proceedings 2014

This book contains a selection of refereed papers presented at the "International Conference on Operations Research (OR 2014)", which took place at RWTH Aachen University, Germany, September 2-5, 2014. More than 800 scientists and students from 47 countries attended OR 2014 and presented more than 500 papers in parallel topical streams, as well as special award sessions. The theme of the conference and its proceedings is "Business Analytics and Optimization".

Presents latest findings from research in OR

ExperimentalValidation of an Enhanced System Synthesis Approach.- Stochastic DynamicProgramming Solution of a Risk-Adjusted Disaster Preparedness and ReliefDistribution Problem.- Solution Approaches for the Double-Row EquidistantFacility Layout Problem.- Simulation of the System-Wide Impact of Power-to-GasEnergy Storages by Multi-Stage Optimization.- An Approximation Result forMatchings in Partitioned Hypergraphs.- On Class Imbalancy Correction forClassification Algorithms in Credit Scoring.- The Exact Solution ofMulti-Period Portfolio Choice Problem with Exponential Utility.- On theDiscriminative Power of Tournament Solutions.- An actor-oriented approach toevaluate climate policies with regard to resource intensive industries.- UpperBounds for Heuristic Approaches to the Strip Packing Problem.- An ApproximativeLexicographic Min-Max  Approach to theDiscrete Facility Location Problem.- Effects of Profit Taxes in Matrix Games.- Extensionand application of a general pickup and delivery model for evaluating theimpact of bundling goods in an urban environment.- Optimizing time slotallocation in single operator home delivery problems.- Robust Scheduling withLogic-Based Benders Decomposition.- Optimal Adaptation Process of EmergencyMedical Services Systems in a Changing Environment.- Strategic network planningof recycling of photovoltaic modules.- Designing a Feedback Control System viaMixed-Integer Programming.- Fair Cyclic Roster Planning - A Case Study for aLarge European Airport.- Why Does a Railway Infrastructure Company Need anOptimized Train Path Assignment for Industrialized Timetabling?.- A PolyhedralStudy of the Quadratic Traveling Salesman Problem.- New inequalities for 1Drelaxations of the 2D rectangular strip packing problem.- RepresentingProduction Scheduling with Constraint Answer Set Programming.- Day-ahead versusIntraday Valuation of Flexibility for Photovoltaic and Wind Power Systems.- AReal Options Model for the Disinvestment in Conventional Power Plants.- PoliticalDistricting for Elections to the German Bundestag: An Optimization-BasedMulti-Stage Heuristic Respecting Administrative Boundaries.- Duality formultiobjective semidefinite optimization problems.- Algorithms for ControllingPalletizers.- Capital Budgeting Problems: A parameterized point of view.- Howto increase robustness of capable-to-promise - A numerical analysis of preventive measures.- A Variable NeighborhoodSearch for a Re-entrant Flow Shop Scheduling Problem.- Selecting deliverypatterns for grocery chains.- Towards a Customer-oriented Queuing in ServiceIncident Management.- A Lagrangian Relaxation Algorithm for ModularityMaximization Problem.- Row and Column Generation Algorithm for Maximization ofMinimum Margin for Ranking Problems.- Dual sourcing inventory model withuncertain supply and advance capacity information.- Integrated Line Planningand Passenger Routing: Connectivity and Transfers.- Robust discreteoptimization problems with the WOWA criterion.- Robust single machinescheduling problem with  weighted numberof late jobs criterion.- Price of Anarchy in the Link Destruction (Adversary)Model.- Decision support system for week programm planning.- On Multi-ProductLot-Sizing and Scheduling with Multi-Machine Technologies.- Condition-BasedMaintenance Policies for Modular Monotic Multi-State Systems.- An OptimizationModel and a Decision Support System to Optimize Car Sharing Stations withElectric Vehicles.- Optimising energy procurement for small and medium-sized enterprises.-Approximation Schemes for Robust Makespan Scheduling Problems.- The price offairness for a small number of indivisible items.- Robustness Concepts forKnapsack and Network Design Problems under Data Uncertainty.- An Insight toAviation: Rostering Ground Personnel in Practice.- Consensus Information andConsensus Rating - A Note on Methodological Problems of Rating Aggregation.- Integrationof Prospect Theory into the outranking approach PROMETHEE.- MultistageOptimization with the help of Quantified Linear Programming.- Analysis ofAmbulance Location Models Using Discrete Event Simulation.- Tight upper boundson the cardinality constrained mean-variance portfolio optimization problemusing truncated eigendecomposition.- Scheduling identical parallel machineswith a fixed number of delivery dates.- Kinetic Models For Assembly Lines InAutomotive Industries.- Optimization of Vehicle Routes with Delivery and Pickupfor a Rental Business: A Case Study.- An Ant Colony System Adaptation to Dealwith Accessibility Issues after a Disaster.- Modelling and Solving a Train PathAssignment Model.- A New Approach to Freight Consolidation For a Real-WorldPickup-and-Delivery Problem.- High Multiplicity Scheduling with Switching Costsfor few Products.- Sampling-based objective function evaluation techniques forthe Orienteering Problem with Stochastic Travel and Service Times.- OptimizedPattern Design for Photovoltaic Power Stations.- What Are New Insights UsingOptimized Train Path Assignment for the Development of Railway Infrastructure?.-The Cycle Embedding Problem.- Dispatch of a wind farm with a battery storage.- Exactalgorithms for the vehicle routing problem with soft time windows.- Impact ofheat storage capacity on CHP unit commitment under power price uncertainties.- OptimizingInformation Security Investments With Limited Budget.- Cut-firstBranch-and-Price second for the Capacitated Arc-Routing Problem.- Solving arich position-based model for dairy products.- A European Investment andDispatch Model for Determining Cost Minimal Power Systems with High Shares ofRenewable Energy.- Pre-selection Strategies for Dynamic CollaborativeTransportation Planning Problems.- Optimal operation of a CHP plant for theenergy balancing market.- Gas network extension planning for multiple demandscenarios.- Impacts of electricity consumers' unit commitment on low voltagenetworks.- Congestion Games with Multi-Dimensional Demands.- Unit Commitment byColumn Generation.- Parallel Algorithm Portfolio with Market Trading-based TimeAllocation.- Global Solution of Bilevel Programming Problems.- Robustness to TimeDiscretization Errors in Water Network Optimization.- Forecasting intermittentdemand with generalized state-space model.- Optimal Renewal and ElectrificationStrategy for Commercial Car Fleets in Germany.- A Time-Indexed GeneralizedVehicle Routing Model for Military Aircraft Mission Planning.- Adapting exactand heuristic procedures in solving an NP-hard sequencing problem.- Strategicdeterrence of terrorist attacks.- Optimal Airline Networks, Flight Volumes, andthe Number of Crafts for New Low-cost Carrier in Japan.- Variable Speed inVertical Flight Planning.- A Fast Greedy Algorithm for the Relocation Problem.-Multicriteria Group Choice via Majority Preference Relation Based on ConeIndividual Preference Relations.