Operations Research Proceedings 2004: Selected Papers of the Annual International Conference of the German Operations Research Society (Gor) - Jointly (Paperback, 2004)

GOR Awards.- Koordination von Abruf- und Lieferpolitiken in Supply Chains.- Ein Entscheidungsunterstutzungssystem zur Verschnittoptimierung von Rollenstahl.- Conflict-free Real-time AGV Routing.- Dynamical Configuration of Transparent Optical Telecommunication Networks.- Reverse Logistics.- The value of information in a container collection system for end-of-life vehicles.- Approximate Policies for Hybrid Production and Rework Systems with Stochastic Demand and Yield.- Life cycle considerations in remanufacturing strategies - a framework for decision support.- Service Management.- Stochastic Models of Customer Portfolio Management in Call Centers.- Production, Logistics and Supply Chain Management.- An Milp Modelling Approach for Shelf Life Integrated Planning in Yoghurt Production.- Dynamic optimization of routing in a Semiconductor Manufacturing Plant.- Blood Platelet Production: a multi-type perishable inventory problem.- Zeitdiskrete Modellierung der Wechselwirkungen der Plan-Vorgaben bei Verwendung der Liefertreue als Leistungsgroße fur die interne Supply Chain in der Halbleiterindustrie.- Sequencing and lot-size optimisation of a production-and-inventory-system with multiple items using simulation and parallel genetic algorithm.- Ein Dekompositionsverfahren zur Bestimmung der Produktionsrate einer Fließproduktionslinie mit Montagestationen und stochastischen Bearbeitungszeiten.- A dynamic model for strategic supplier selection.- Functional Analysis of Process-Oriented Systems.- Transportation and Traffic.- Finding Delay-Tolerant Train Routings through Stations.- Router: A Fast and Flexible Local Search Algorithm for a Class of Rich Vehicle Routing Problems.- Integrated Optimization of School Starting Times and Public Bus Services.- A Decision Support Framework for the Airline Crew Schedule Disruption Management with Strategy Mapping.- Tail Assignment in Practice.- Ein praxistauglicher Ansatz zur Losung eines spezifischen D-VRSP-TW-UC.- Freight Flow Consolidation in Presence of Time Windows.- Minimizing Total Delay in Fixed-Time Controlled Traffic Networks.- Project Management and Scheduling.- On Asymptotic Optimality of Permutation Schedules in Stochastic Flow Shops and Assembly Lines.- An Exact Branch-and-Price Algorithm for Workforce Scheduling.- A Single Processor Scheduling Problem with a Common Due Window Assignment.- Marketing.- Modeling SMEs' Choice of Foreign Market Entry: Joint Venture vs. Wholly Owned Venture.- Pattern Detection with Growing Neural Networks - An Application to Marketing and Library Data.- The Quality of Prior Information Structure in Business Planning - An Experiment in Environmental Scanning.- Product Line Optimization as a Two Stage Problem.- Energy, Environment and Health.- Optimising energy models for hydrothermal generation systems to derive electricity prices.- Simulation of the epidemiology of Salmonella in the pork supply chain.- Optimization of Bio Systems.- Modeling Signal Transduction of Neural System by Hybrid Petri Net Representation.- Mathematical Modeling and Approximation of Gene Expression Patterns.- Finance, Banking and Insurances.- On the Empirical Linkages between Stock Prices and Trading Activity on the German Stock Market.- Simulation and Applied Probability.- Numerical Transform Inversion for Autocorrelations of Waiting Times.- A Note on the Relationship between Strongly Convex Functions and Multiobjective Stochastic Programming Problems.- Two-Step Drawing from Urns.- Total Reward Variance in Discrete and Continuous Time Markov Chains.- Continuous Optimization.- An Efficient Conjugate Directions Method Without Linear Searches.- Discrete and Combinatorial Optimization.- The Robust Shortest Path Problem by Means of Robust Linear Optimization.- Approximation Algorithms for Finding a Maximum-Weight Spanning Connected Subgraph with given Vertex Degrees.- Multiprocessor Scheduling Problem with Stepwise Model of Job Value Change.- The Prize Collecting Connected Subgraph Pr