Operations Research Proceedings 2013

This book contains a selection of refereed papers presented at the "International Conference on Operations Research (OR 2013)" which took place at Erasmus University Rotterdam September 3-6, 2013. The conference was jointly organized by the German and the Dutch OR Society. More than 800 scientists and students from over 50 countries attended OR 2013 and presented more than 600 papers in parallel topical streams, as well as special award sessions. The theme of the conference and its proceedings is "Impact on People, Business and Society".

Computing an Upper Bound for the Longest Edge in an Optimal TSP-Solution.- Electricity Storage Systems and their Allocation in the German Power System.- Misspecified Dependency Modelling: What does it mean for Risk Measurement?.- Primal MINLP Heuristics in a Nutshell.- Layout Optimisation of Decentralised Energy Systems under Uncertainty.- Analysis of Micro-Macro Transformations of Railway Networks.- A Human Resource Model for Performance Optimization to Gain Competitive Advantage.- Re-Optimization of Rolling Stock Rotations.- Branch-and-Price on the Split Delivery Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows and Alternative Delivery Periods.- Welfare Maximization of Autarkic Hybrid Energy Systems.- Determining Optimal Discount Policies for a Supplier in B2B Relationships.- Exact and Compact Formulation of the Fixed-Destination Travelling Salesman Problem by Cycle Imposement through Node Currents.- 0-1 Multiband Robust Optimization.- A Branch-and-Price Approach for a Ship Routing Problem with Multiple Products and Inventory Constraints.- Data Driven Ambulance Optimization Considering Dynamic and Economic Aspects.- Risk-Adjusted On-line Portfolio Selection.- Quantified Combinatorial Optimization.- On the Modeling of Recharging Stops in Context of Vehicle Routing Problems.- Demand Fulfillment in an Assemble-to-Order (ATO) Production System.- Integrating Keyword Advertising and Dynamic Pricing for an Online Market Place.- Characterizing Relatively Minimal Elements via Linear Scalarization.- An MBLP Model for Scheduling Assessment Centers.- DEA Modeling for Efficiency Optimization of Indian Banks with Negative Data Sets.- The Inventory Management of Fresh Vegetables using Inventory Balance and across of its Supply Chain:- Moving Bins from Conveyor Belts onto Pallets using FIFO Queues:- A Generalization of Odd Set Inequalities for the Set Packing Problem.- New Lower Bounds for the Three-Dimensional Strip Packing Problem.- A New Method for Parameter Estimationof the GNL Model Using:Real-Coded GA.- Inventory Control with Supply Backordering:- Sequencing Problems with Uncertain Parameters and the OWA Criterion.- Application of Scheduling Theory to the Bus Evacuation Problem Modelling Delay Propagation in Railway Networks.- Sensitivity Analysis of BCC Efficiency in DEA with Application to European Health Services.- Competition for Resources.- Measurement of Risk for Wind Energy Projects: A Critical Analysis of Full Load Hours.- An Integer Programming Approach to the Hospitals/Residents Problem with Ties.- Learning in Highly Polarized Conflicts.- Marginal Cost of Capacity for the Case of Overlapping Capacity Investment.- Supply Chain Coordination under Demand Uncertainty: Analysis of General Continuous Quantity Discounts:- An Integer Programming Model for the Hospitals / Residents Problem with Couples.- Techno-Economic Analysis and Evaluation of Recycling Measures for Iron and Steel Slags.- Dynamical Supply Networks for Crisis and Disaster Relief Networks Resilience and Decision Support in Uncertain Environments.- A Column Generation Approach to Home Care Staff Routing and Scheduling.- A Dynamic Customer-Centric Pricing Approach for the Product Line Pricing Problem.- Mathematical Formulations for the Acyclic Partitioning Problem.- Minimizing Risks for Health at Assembly Lines.- A Multi-Objective Online Terrain Coverage Approach.- Hot Strip Mill Scheduling under Consideration of Energy Consumption.- Capacitated Network Design.- Robustness Analysis of Evolutionary Algorithms to Portfolio Optimization against Errors in Asset Means.- Two-Stage Robust Combinatorial Optimization with Priced Scenarios.- Workload Balancing in Transportation Crew Rostering.- An Optimal Placement of a Liaison with Short Communication Lengths between Two Members of the Same Level in an Organization Structure of a Complete K-ary Tree.- Clustering for Data Privacy and Classification Tasks.- A Decision Support Concept for Advanced TreatmentPlanning for Breast Cancer.- Comparison of Heuristics towards Approaching a Scheduling and Capacity Planning MINLP for Hydrogen Storage in Chemical Substances.- Influence of Fluctuating Electricity Prices due to Renewable Energies on Heat Storage Investments The Effects of Customer Misclassification on Cross-Training in Call Centers.- Inventory Management with Transshipments under Fill Rate Constraints Solution Method for the Inventory Distribution Problem.- Application of Sampling Plan Methods: Case of Indonesian Sugar Company.- Transportation Costs and Carbon Emissions in a Vendor Managed Inventory Situation.- Fuel Consumption Costs of Routing Uncertainty.- Optimization of Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) at Shell Chemicals Europe (SCE).- Time-Dependent Dynamic Location and Relocation of Ambulances.- Inventory Replenishment Models with Advance Demand Information for Agricultural Online Retailers.- Coordinating a Three-Echelon Telecom Supply Chain with Spanning and Pair-Wise Revenue Sharing Contracts.- The Material Loss and Failure Process in Sugar Production in Indonesia: A Case.