Program

SA-50: Opening Session
Stream: Plenary Sessions
Room: Plenaries room
Chair(s):

MA-01: Railway Scheduling Problems
Stream: Railway and Metro Transportation
Room: Room 118
Chair(s): Thomas Schlechte

• Maintenance in the Rolling Stock Rescheduling Model
  Joris Wagenaar
• The Demand Balancing Problem in Rail Freight Service
  Hanno Schülldorf
• A Decomposition Method for Multi-Period Network Expansion
  Andreas Bärmann, Alexander Martin
• Optimization Based Real-Time Decision Support at Motorail Terminals
  Pascal Lutter, Brigitte Werners

MA-02: Routing Problems with Profits and Other Applications
Stream: Vehicle Routing
Room: Room 111
Chair(s): Jose M. Belenguer

• A New Vehicle Routing Problem: Models and Algorithm
  
• Routing for Blood Supply Management
  Ali Ekici, Okan Ozener
• Modeling and Solving the Traveling Salesman Problem with Priority Prizes
  
• A Branch-and-Cut Algorithm for the Capacitated Team Orienteering Problem
  Jose M. Belenguer

MA-03: Airline/Airport Optimisation in Operations and Scheduling
Stream: Aviation
Room: Room 001
Chair(s): Raphael Wu

• An Operational-Safety Oriented Optimization of Airport Gate Assignment
  
• The Single Day Aircraft Maintenance Routing Problem
  Stephen Maher, Guy Desaulniers, Francois Soumis
• Constraint Programming Model of Integrated Recovery for Aircraft and Crew of Irregular Flight Schedules
  
• Auto ID Enhanced Management of Ground Service Equipment in Concurrent Aircraft Turnarounds
  

MA-04: Supply Chain Planning 1
Stream: Supply Chain Management
Room: Room 119
Chair(s): Achim Koberstein

• Designing a Planning System for Suppliers of the Machine Building Industry
  Nicolas Justus, Herbert Meyr
• Analysis, Design and Optimization of the Transport of Less than Container Load (LCL) Shipments for Intercontinental Sea Freight
  
• A Production Model for an Automobile Plant with Multiple Main Stages to Support the Bid Process with a Coordinated Cost Estimation
  Andrea Borenich, Peter Greistorfer, Marc Reimann
• A Stochastic Programming Approach to Determine Robust Delivery Profiles in Area Forwarding Inbound Logistics Networks
  Achim Koberstein, Tim Schöneberg, Leena Suhl

MA-05: Offshore Upstream Logistics
Stream: Petroleum Logistics
Room: Room 002
Chair(s): Irina Gribkovskaia

• Modelling of Supply Vessel Operations With Simulation
  Yauhen Maisiuk, Irina Gribkovskaia
• Offshore Oilfield Design
  Yury Redutskiy
• Evaluating Robustness of Speed Optimized Supply Vessel Schedules
  
• Robust Supply Vessel Planning with Speed Optimization
  

MA-06: City Logistic Operations
Stream: City Logistics and Freight Demand Modeling
Room: Room 211
Chair(s): Eiichi Taniguchi

• Parking Slot Assignment for Urban Distribution: Models and Formulations
  
• Evaluating City Logistics Measures for Efficient Management of Road Network Using Multi-agent Systems Model and Geographic Information Systems
  
• Assessing Impacts Of Sustainable Freight Transport Measures On Urban Areas
  
• Network Simulation versus Big Data: A Case Study of Traffic Impact Analysis for Off-Hour Deliveries in New York City
  

MA-07: Models for Gas and Electricity Markets
Stream: Equilibrium Problems in Energy
Room: Room 003
Chair(s): Asgeir Tomasgard

• A Multi-Period Stochastic Equilibrium Model for Global Energy Markets
  
• Market Power in the German Electricity Market - Increasing Renewable Shares and Congestion Management
  Jonas Egerer
• Modeling Renewable Energy Support Policies for the European Power Sector
  
• Interaction Between Energy Systems Models and Computable General Equilibrium Models
  

MA-08: Energy and Environmental Management
Stream: Energy Economics, Environmental Management and Multicriteria Decision Making
Room: Room 120
Chair(s): Peter Letmathe, Wolf Fichtner

• Classification of Power Quality Considering Voltage Sags Occurred in Feeders
  
• Long-term Effects of Power-to-Gas Storage Technology on Power Plant Dispatch Optimisation in Germany
  
• Optimization Methods for the Dimensioning of Distributed Energy Systems
  
• Synthetic Generation of Solar Radiation Data Sets
  John Boland

MA-09: Dynamical Systems and Mathematical Modelling
Stream: Dynamical Systems and Mathematical Modelling in OR
Room: Room 121
Chair(s): Yutaka Kimura, Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber, Yukihiro Maruyama

• Optimal Control of Treatment of HIV Infection Using Neural Network
  
• A New Statement of the Optimal Control Problem of the Metal Crystallization Process in Casting
  
• Maintenance Policies for Modular Monotonic Multi-State Systems
  

MA-10: Optimization Methods for Smartgrid Management
Stream: Optimization Models and Algorithms in Energy Industry
Room: Room 122
Chair(s): Cristina Corchero, Miguel Cruz-Zambrano

• Optimal Energy Management System for a Residential Microgrid
  Cristina Corchero, Lucia Igualada, Miguel Cruz-Zambrano
• Cooperative Day-Ahead DSM for Expected Cost Minimization in Microgrids
  
• Operational Planning in Smart Grids: Concept and Recent Developments
  
• Optimal Sizing of EV Fast Charging Stations Including Energy Storage and PV Systems
  Lucia Igualada, Miguel Cruz-Zambrano, Cristina Corchero

MA-11: Optimization Methods in Transportation Systems
Stream: Combinatorial Optimization
Room: Room 113
Chair(s):

• The Multiple Vehicle Pickup and Delivery Problem with LIFO Constraints
  Enrique Benavent, Mercedes Landete, Ivan Mota, Gregorio Tirado
• New Results for the Directed Profitable Rural Postman Problem
  
• A Large Neighborhood Search based Matheuristic for a Real Life Vehicle Routing Problem
  Simona Mancini
• An Exact Branch-and-Price Algorithm for the Fixed-Charge Transportation Problem
  

MA-12: Graphs and Networks I
Stream: Graphs and Networks
Room: Room 004
Chair(s):

• On City Logistics Pickup and Delivery Systems
  
• Pursuit-Evasion Games
  
• Complexity of Recognition Algorithms for G-Graphs
  
• An Optimal Level of Placing a Liaison with Long Communication Lengths between All Members of the Same Level in an Organization Structure of a Complete K-ary Tree
  Kiyoshi Sawada

MA-13: Scheduling Cluster Tools
Stream: Scheduling
Room: Room 123
Chair(s):

• Optimizing the Job Shop Scheduling Problem - a Neuro-Genetic Approach
  
• Feedback control of cluster tools for wafer delay regulation
  
• Scheduling of Cluster Tools with Complex Scheduling Requirements
  
• Efficient Scheduling of Inline Cluster Tools by Decomposition Method
  

MA-14: Realistic Production Scheduling
Stream: Realistic Production Scheduling
Room: Room 124
Chair(s): Rubén Ruiz

• Bi-Criteria Scheduling on a Batching Machine to Minimize Maximum Lateness and Makespan
  Edgar Possani, Marta Cabo Nodar
• On Generic Approaches to Prove NP-Hardness and to Construct Efficient Algorithms for some Scheduling Problems
  
• New Results for the Distributed Permutation Flowshop Problem
  Rubén Ruiz, Bahman Naderi
• Bottleneck Based CONWIP System in Make-to-Order Manufacturing
  

MA-15: Network Pricing
Stream: Revenue Management I
Room: Room 125
Chair(s): Patrice Marcotte, Rob Zuidwijk

• Bilevel Modelling of Energy Pricing Problem
  
• Joint Design and Pricing of Intermodal Port-Hinterland Network Services: Considering Economies of Scale and Service Time Constraints
  
• A Branch-and-Price Algorithm for the Network Pricing Problem with Connected Toll Arcs
  
• A Mathematical Programming Approach to Compute Booking Limits under a Non-Parametric Choice Model
  Gilles Savard, Morad Hosseinalifam, Patrice Marcotte

MA-16: Copositive and Polynomial Optimization I
Stream: Copositive and Polynomial Optimization
Room: Room 127
Chair(s):

• Computing Efficiently Real Points on Determinantal Varieties
  
• Exact Safety Verification of Hybrid Systems Based on Bilinear SOS Representation
  Zhengfeng Yang
• Border Basis Relaxation for Polynomial Optimization
  

MA-17: Global Optimization, Modelling and Data Mining
Stream: Global Optimization
Room: Room 005
Chair(s): Inci Batmaz, Tian Gao

• The Problem of Covering Solids by Spheres of Different Diameters
  
• External Sensors for Monitoring of Domains
  Sergey Astrakov
• Adaptive Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm for Global Optimization
  Erdal Emel, Alkin Yurtkuran
• Predicting the Amount of Precipitation of Eastern Black Sea Region by VARMA Models
  Ceyda Yazici, Ceylan Yozgatligil

MA-18: Multiobjective Optimization in Practice
Stream: Multiobjective Optimization - Theory, Methods and Applications
Room: Room 112
Chair(s): Karl-Heinz Kuefer, Volker Maag

• Multiobjective Layout Planning of Photovoltaic Power Plants
  
• A Ray Tracing Technique for the Pareto Set Navigation
  Dimitri Nowak
• Multiple Criteria Decision-Making in Medical Treatment Planning - is Pareto Efficiency Enough?
  Philipp Süss
• A Dimension Reduction Approach for the Nondominated Set Approximation
  Volker Maag

MA-19: Retail Shelf and Inventory Planning
Stream: Demand and Supply Planning in Consumer Goods and Retailing
Room: Room 128
Chair(s): Heinrich Kuhn

• A Decision Support System for Retail Assortment Planning with Substitution Effects
  Alexander Hübner, Heinrich Kuhn
• A New MIP Formulation for the Location and Allocation of Products and Product Families on Retail Shelves
  Teresa Bianchi-Aguiar, Elsa Silva, Luis Guimarães, Maria Antónia Carravilla, José Fernando Oliveira
• Data-Driven Order Policies with Censored Demand and Substitution in Retailing
  Anna-Lena Sachs, Stefan Minner
• A Conic Optimization Approach for SKU Rationalization
  

MA-20: IFORS Prize for OR in Development 2014 - 1
Stream: IFORS Prize for OR in Development 2014
Room: Room 129
Chair(s): Andrés Weintraub

• Emergency Engineering Rescue Scheduling and its Application in Disaster Relief Operations in China
  
• A Multi-Period Fleet Allocation Model for the Santiago Fire Department
  Juan Perez, Sebastian Maldonado
• Public Transit Planning and Scheduling Based on AVL Data in China
  Yindong Shen

MA-21: Optimization Modeling Software & Systems 1
Stream: Optimization Modeling in OR/MS
Room: Room 006
Chair(s): Robert Fourer

• Recent Enhancements in GAMS
  Toni Lastusilta
• Network Algorithms, Constraint Programming, and Decomposition in the SAS/OR OPTMODEL Modeling Language
  
• New AMPL Interfaces for Enhanced Development and Deployment of Optimization Models
  Robert Fourer
• Supporting Business Decision Making
  Sofiane Oussedik

MA-22: Stochastic Models
Stream: Health Care Data Analytics
Room: Room 007
Chair(s):

• A Simulation Approach to Assess the Adequacy of Survival Mixture Models: Application to Public Health
  
• A POMDP Model to Evaluate the Inclusion of HPV-DNA Test for Cervical Cancer Screening
  
• Admission Policies for Walk-in Patients at a Diagnostic Clinic
  

MA-23: Perspectives on Behavioural Operations Research
Stream: Behavioural Operational Research
Room: Room 008
Chair(s): L. Alberto Franco

• On the Importantance of Behavioural Operations Research
  Raimo P. Hämäläinen
• Have I been doing Behavioural OR for the Last 20 Years?
  Stewart Robinson
• How to Conduct Behavioural OR Studies: A Typology
  L. Alberto Franco, Etienne Rouwette
• An Outlook on Behavioural OR – Three Tasks, Three Pitfalls and One Definition
  Kai Helge Becker

MA-24: Preference Learning I
Stream: Preference Learning
Room: Room 212
Chair(s): Roman Slowinski

• Deriving Rankings from Incomplete Preference Information: A Comparison of Different Approaches
  Rudolf Vetschera
• Testing for the Multivariate Stochastic Order among Ordered Populations with Application to Ranking and Selection Problems
  Ori Davidov
• Handing Inequity Averse Preferences
  Alec Morton, Nikolaos Argyris, Ozlem Karsu
• Inducing Probability Distributions on the Set of Value Functions
  Salvatore Greco, Salvatore Corrente, Milosz Kadzinski, Roman Slowinski

MA-25: Infinite-Horizon Problems of Mathematical Economics
Stream: Mathematical Economics
Room: Room 009
Chair(s): Alexander Zaslavski

• Infinite-Horizon Variational Problems and Oscillations
  Joel Blot
• Infinite-Horizon Differential Games in the Discrete-Time Case
  
• Optimal Control Problems with Infinite Horizon and Budget Constraints
  Sabine Pickenhain
• Optimal Control Problems with Nonsingleton-Turnpikes
  Alexander Zaslavski

MA-26: Fuzzy Goal Programming
Stream: Fuzzy Decision Support Systems, Soft Computing, Neural Network
Room: Room 010
Chair(s): Mariano Jimenez-Lopez

• Model and Algorithms to Generate Group-Rankings from Interval Fuzzy Preference Relations
  María Luisa Martínez, Esther Dopazo, Mauricio Ruiz-Tagle
• A Fuzzy Goal Programming Approach for the Assignment Problem in Textile Rotary Printing Processes
  
• Ordinary Goal Programming with Fuzzy Goals
  Mariano Jimenez-Lopez, Amelia Bilbao-Terol, Mar Arenas-Parra
• Fractional Transportation Problem with Fuzzy Parameters
  Shiang-Tai Liu

MA-27: OR in Quality Management I
Stream: OR in Quality Management
Room: Room 213
Chair(s):

• Determination of Premium for Service Contracts
  Amitava Mitra
• Important Performance among Perceived Service Quality, Customer Attitudes, Satisfaction and Revisit Intention in Traditional Cultural Facility at the IIAC
  
• Bi-Objective Modelling Approach for New Product Development using the Belief Rule-Based Methodology: A Case Study from the Pastry and Confectionery Specialties Industry
  
• A Decision Model For Assessment of the Firms’ Competiviness Level in Terms of Quality
  

MA-28: Challenge ROADEF/EURO 1
Stream: Challenge ROADEF/EURO
Room: Room 130
Chair(s): Christian Artigues

• Decision Support for Rolling Stock Management – A Contribution to the 2014 EURO/ROADEF Challenge
  
• A Math-Heuristic Approach for the Roadef Challenge 2014
  Joergen Haahr, Simon Bull
• Solving a Train Assignment Problem by Decomposition
  

MA-29: Behavioral Economics and Finance
Stream: Financial Optimization
Room: Room 011
Chair(s): Chuan He

• Cost-Efficient Contingent Claims under Knightian Uncertainty: A Distributional Analysis
  
• Equilibrium Asset Pricing with Rational and Irrational Investors
  
• Quantile Formulation: A Link between Rank Dependent Utility Theory and Expected Utility Theory
  Zuo Quan Xu
• A Processing-Consistent Non-Bayesian Inference Model
  Chuan He, Jade Xiao

MA-30: Advances in Financial Mathematics, Economics and OR
Stream: Financial Mathematics and OR
Room: Room 012
Chair(s): Thomas Burkhardt, Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber

• Multiobjective Optimization of Credit Capital Allocation in Financial Insitutions
  Kamil Mizgier, Sarah Joseph
• Dependence of the Oil Companies’ Financial Results on Volatility of the World Oil Price
  Elena Kuchina
• Effectiveness of Different Trading Strategies for Price-Takers
  Lyudmila Egorova
• Portfolio Optimization Using Forecast and Data Envelopment Analysis
  Fernando Salomon, Edson Pamplona, Paulo Rotella Junior

MA-31: Elicitation
Stream: Decision Processes
Room: Room 013
Chair(s): Love Ekenberg

• Cardinal Ranking as a Means for Efficient Elicitation
  Mats Danielson
• A Verbal-Numerical Scale for the Evaluation of the ICT Contribution to Development in a Developing Country Context
  
• Interval Criteria Weights Trough a Slider: The CROC Way
  Aron Larsson
• Participation, Elicitation and Democracy
  Love Ekenberg

MA-32: Decision Analysis and Intelligence Processing
Stream: Humanitarian Operations Research
Room: Room 014
Chair(s): Erik Kropat, Silja Meyer-Nieberg, Moshe Kress

• A Structured War-Gaming Framework to Support Collective Preparedness for Managing Extreme Risks
  
• On Evaluating Conflict and Power of Players within Coalition Formation Games
  
• Finding the Needles in the Haystack: Efficient Intelligence Processing
  Moshe Kress, Ned Dimitrov
• Strategic Allocation of Medical Surplus
  Wee Meng Yeo

MA-33: Stochastic Inventory Models with Environmental Constraints
Stream: Environmental Sustainability in Supply Chain
Room: Room 015
Chair(s): Peter Kischka

• Newsvendor Model with a Second Order Opportunity and Consideration of Transport Emissions
  Katja Rettke
• The Single Period Inventory Model Under Dual Sourcing and Product Carbon Footprint Constraint
  Emel Arikan, Werner Jammernegg
• Inventory Models with Transshipment and Environmental Constraint
  Peter Kischka, Werner Jammernegg
• Inventory Control with Environmental Criteria and Stochastic Lead Times
  Jörg Ries, Johannes Fichtinger

MA-34: Big Data and Network Methods
Stream: Data Mining in Finance and Commodities
Room: Room 016
Chair(s): Dejan Stokic, Marcus Hildmann

• Community Structure in Networks and Modularity
  Leonidas Pitsoulis, Theodoros Gevezes
• Nonlinear Profile Monitoring using MARS (Multivariate Adaptive Regression Splines)
  
• Fast Search in Big Data without Indexing
  
• User recommendations for discovering consensus temporal patterns
  Cheng-kui Huang

MA-35: Stochastic Modeling and Simulation
Stream: Stochastic Modeling and Simulation in Engineering, Management and Science
Room: Room 131
Chair(s): Zeev (Vladimir) Volkovich, Erik Kropat, Ayse Ozmen, Manuela Maria de Oliveira

• The Phycotoxins’ Impact in the Technical Efficiency of the Portuguese Artisanal Dredge Fleet
  Manuela Maria de Oliveira, Ana Camanho, Miguel B. Gaspar
• Driver Sensitive Modeling of Spatio-Temporal Drivers of Land use Land Cover Change (LULCC)
  
• Economic Evaluation of Self-Monitoring of Blood Glucose as a Key Component for Type-2 Diabetes Treatment in Mexico Using Stochastic Simulation
  
• Modeling Artificial Neural Networks and Fuzzy Support Vector Machine for Heart Disease Detection
  

MA-36: Fisheries
Stream: OR in Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries
Room: Room 132
Chair(s): Stein Ivar Steinshamn

• Sustainable Harvest of a Native Species and Control of an Invasive Species: A Bioeconomic Model of a Commercial Fishery Invaded by a Space Competitor
  
• Big Gain, Little Pain: A Multi-Species Competition Model of Pelagic Fisheries
  Nils-Arne Ekerhovd, Stein Ivar Steinshamn
• Harvesting in a Fishery with Stochastic Growth and a Mean-Reverting Price
  Sturla Kvamsdal, Leif Sandal
• A Continuous-Time Age-Structured Bioeconomic Model for Optimal Resource Management
  

MA-37: AHP
Stream: AHP (Analytic Hierarchy Process) /ANP (Analytical Network Process)
Room: Room 017
Chair(s): Michele Lundy

• A Clustering Approach to Measure Inconsistency in Pairwise Comparison Judgements
  Michele Lundy, Sajid Siraj
• Application of an Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) Model to Assess Academic Corruption and Values in the Nigerian Educational System
  Adebola Glorious Adekoya, Sulaimon Olanrewaju ADEBIYI, Olateju Emmanuel Oyatoye, Bilqis Amole
• Market Attractiveness Evaluation of Sub-Saharan Africa by Using SWOT Analysis and AHP Methods
  Peter Nganga
• Identification and Evaluation of the Effective Criteria in Customer Satisfaction, Case Study: Wood Furniture Market
  

MA-38: Biomass-Based Supply Chains I
Stream: Biomass-Based Supply Chains
Room: Room 214
Chair(s):

• Requirements of a Mathematical Approach for Optimizing Biomass Value Chains for Material and Energetic Utilization
  Ann-Kathrin Mueller, Magnus Fröhling, Frank Schultmann
• Design of Lcoal Biomann to Energy Supply Chains with District Heating Systems under Uncertainty
  Şebnem Yılmaz Balaman, Hasan Selim
• Setting Priorities for the Performance Assessment of a Biomass-Based Supply Chain
  

MA-39: ORAHS I - Effectiveness & Performance
Stream: Health Care Applications
Room: Room 018
Chair(s): Sally Brailsford, Marion Rauner

• Establishing a Framework for the Effective Evaluation of OR in Healthcare
  Martin Pitt, Tom Monks
• Optimising the Operating Room Utilisation Rate and the Patient Waiting Time in a Spanish Hospital
  
• Online Allocation and Routing for Blood Delivery in Conditions of Variable and Insufficient Supply: A Case Study in Thailand
  Pornpimol Chaiwuttisak, Honora Smith, Yue Wu, Chris Potts
• Impact of Environmental Conditions on Efficiency of Austrian Red Cross Departments: Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) & Second Stage Regression
  Marion Rauner, Margit Sommersguter-Reichmann

MA-40: Scheduling and Lot Sizing Problems
Stream: Production and the Link with Supply Chain
Room: Room 019
Chair(s): Farouk Yalaoui, Gonzalo Enrique Mejia Delgadillo

• Multiple-Stage Parallel-Machine Capacitated Lot-Sizing and Scheduling with Sequence-Dependent Setup: A Case Study in the Wheel Industry
  
• Optimization Model for Scheduling Steelmaking and Continuous Casting Production
  Eduardo Salazar
• Lot-Sizing in an Export-Oriented Winery: Models and Heuristics under the Principle of Postponement
  
• A Reactive Scheduling Framework via Off-line Optimization
  Georgios M. Kopanos, Efstratios Pistikopoulos

MA-41: Lot-Sizing and Related Topics 1
Stream: Lot-Sizing and Related Topics
Room: Room 216
Chair(s): Grigory Pishchulov

• Production Inventory Model for Perishable Items whose Deterioration Starts after a Fixed Time
  Sarbjit Singh
• Continuous-Time Model for the Operational Pulp and Paper Production Planning
  
• Supply Chain Contracting under Asymmetric Information and Partial Vertical Integration
  Grigory Pishchulov, Knut Richter, Sougand Golesorkhi

MA-42: Green Freight Transportation 1
Stream: Green and Humanitarian Logistics
Room: Room 215
Chair(s): Emrah Demir

• A Conic Reformulation and a Local Search Heuristic for the VRP with Controllable Travel Times
  Sinan Gürel, Onur Can Saka, Tom van Woensel
• The Time-Dependent Two-Echelon Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem with Environmental Considerations
  Mehmet Soysal, Jacqueline Bloemhof, Tolga Bektas
• Modelling and Solution Approach for the Environmental Travelling Salesman Problem
  

MA-43: Algorithms and Applications - 1
Stream: Algorithms and Computational Optimization
Room: Room 217
Chair(s): Basak Akteke-Ozturk, Ulf Lorenz

• Penalizing Fractional Directions in the Integral Simplex Algorithm
  
• Improving ILP Solutions by Zooming around an Improving Direction
  Zaghrouti Abdelouahab, Issmail El Hallaoui, Francois Soumis
• A Decision Support System for Optimization in the Face of Uncertainty
  
• MIP Generation for System Synthesis Tasks
  

MA-44: Simulation in Management Accounting and Management Control I
Stream: Simulation in Management Accounting and Management Control
Room: Room 218
Chair(s): Friederike Wall

• A new Portfolio Risk Evaluation Model Including Huge Loss Events Derived from Market Prices: Continuous-Time Model
  Yukio Muromachi
• An Agent-Based Simulation of new Product Adoption for Multiple Technology Generations
  Markus Günther, Christian Stummer
• A Simulation-Based Approach for the Analysis of Allocation Methods for Cost-Center Accounting
  
• Frequency and Mode of Changing the Management Control System: Results of an Agent-Based Simulation
  Friederike Wall

MA-45: Computational Stochastic Programming
Stream: Stochastic Programming
Room: Room 219
Chair(s): Suvrajeet Sen

• Sell or Hold: A Simple Two-Stage Stochastic Combinatorial Optimization Problem
  George Nemhauser, Shabbir Ahmed, Qie He
• Approximation Strategies for Multistage Stochastic Programs
  
• Mitigating Uncertainty via Compromise Decisions
  Suvrajeet Sen, Bin Liu
• Parallelization and High Performance Computing Adjustment of the Cluster Benders Decomposition Algorithm
  Francesc Solsona, Jordi Mateo, LluisM Pla, Josep Lluis Lerida

MB-01: Train Timetabling and Dispatching
Stream: Railway and Metro Transportation
Room: Room 118
Chair(s): Thomas Schlechte

• Energy Efficient Freight Train Scheduling
  Frederik Fiand, Uwe T. Zimmermann
• On Comparing Robustness Approaches for Timetabling
  André Chassein, Marc Goerigk
• Automatically and Quickly Planning Platform and Route of Trains in Railway Stations
  Peter Sels, Thijs Dewilde, Dirk Cattrysse, Pieter Vansteenwegen
• A Real-Life Implementation of an Exact Train Dispatching Algorithm
  Carlo Mannino

MB-02: Models and Algorithms for Arc Routing Problems
Stream: Vehicle Routing
Room: Room 111
Chair(s): Marcos José Negreiros

• On the Distance-Constrained Generalized Directed Rural Postman Problem
  Isaac Plana, Thais Ávila, Angel Corberan, Jose Maria Sanchis
• Studing Arc Routing Models
  Cândida Mourão, Luís Gouveia, Leonor S.Pinto
• Hybrid Arc Routing Models
  Leonor S.Pinto, Luís Gouveia, Cândida Mourão
• New Heuristics for the Mixed General Routing Problem
  Marcos José Negreiros

MB-03: Air Traffic Management
Stream: Aviation
Room: Room 001
Chair(s): Carlton Evans

• Decision Support for Improving the SESAR Key Performance Areas
  
• A Decision Theoretic Approach for Trajectory Planning with Risk Mitigation
  
• Airline-Driven Performance-Based Air Traffic Management: Game Theoretic Models and Multi-Criteria Evaluation
  Carlton Evans, Vikrant Vaze, Cynthia Barnhart
• GRASP for Planning Multi-City Air Routes
  

MB-04: Supply Chain Planning 2
Stream: Supply Chain Management
Room: Room 119
Chair(s): Mirko Vujosevic

• A Quasi-fixed Cyclic Production Scheme for a Multi-Item Production System with Stochastic Demand
  
• Supply Chain Management using an Optimization-Simulation approach for the Pharmaceutical Distribution
  Sara Martins, Pedro Amorim, Gonçalo Figueira, Luis Guimarães, Bernardo Almada-Lobo
• Modeling Humanitarian Logistics in the Philippines
  
• A New Integrated Forward and Reverse Logistics Model: A Case Study
  

MB-05: Oil and Gas Transportation
Stream: Petroleum Logistics
Room: Room 002
Chair(s):

• Medium Term Forecasts of World Oil and Gas Consumption
  
• Changing Logistic Approaches in International Oil Trade Movements
  
• Analysis of Logistics Capabilities for Gas Transportation in the Arctic
  
• Oil Pipelines Transportation: Evaluation of Logistics Expenses
  

MB-06: Strategic Freight Demand Models
Stream: City Logistics and Freight Demand Modeling
Room: Room 211
Chair(s):

• Analytical Urban Freight Tour Models
  Jose Holguin-Veras
• Developing a Multi-Scale Multi-Region Input-Output Model
  
• Elasticity Estimations for Continental Intermodal Freight Transport
  
• Transport Mode Selection During Cargo Movement Operations in the South East Europe Area
  

MB-07: Complementarity Models in Natural Gas and Renewable Markets
Stream: Equilibrium Problems in Energy
Room: Room 003
Chair(s): Sauleh Siddiqui

• Risk Aversion in Imperfect Natural Gas Markets
  
• LNG Market Modeling
  
• A Complementarity Approach to Analyse the Influence of Renewables on Market Power
  
• An Equilibrium Model for the US RIN Market
  

MB-08: Electricity Markets and Smart Grids
Stream: Energy Economics, Environmental Management and Multicriteria Decision Making
Room: Room 120
Chair(s): Jinwoo Park

• Electricity Futures
  Silvana Stefani, Paolo Falbo, Daniele Felletti
• European Day Ahead Electricity Market Structures
  Kürşad Derinkuyu
• Market Design for Rapid Demand Response - The Case of Kenya
  Kurt Nielsen
• Optimal Operation Management for Electric Vehicle Battery Switch Stations in Smart Grid Environment
  

MB-09: Dynamical Systems and Mathematical Modelling 2
Stream: Dynamical Systems and Mathematical Modelling in OR
Room: Room 121
Chair(s): Yutaka Kimura

• Looking for Optimal Strategies in Agribusiness via Nonlinear Optimal Control
  
• A Study of the Enumeration of the Electoral Districts
  Keisuke Hotta
• The Second Dual of a Primal
  Takayuki Ueno, Yutaka Kimura, Seiichi Iwamoto

MB-10: Integration of Distributed Energy Resources in Electricity Systems
Stream: Optimization Models and Algorithms in Energy Industry
Room: Room 122
Chair(s): Tomas Gomez San Roman

• Transmission and Wind Investment in a Deregulated Electricity Industry
  
• Aggregated Scheduling of Plug-in Electric Vehicles Under Direct and Indirect Load Control Approaches
  
• Multi-temporal OPF for Maximizing the Integration of Energy from Renewable Sources in Distribution Grids
  
• Tools, Procedures and Principles of Coordination between DSOs & TSOs
  Miguel Cruz-Zambrano, Cristina Corchero

MB-11: Advances in Specialized Zero-One Optimization
Stream: Combinatorial Optimization
Room: Room 113
Chair(s): Fred Glover, Manuel Laguna, Gary Kochenberger

• GRASP-based Tabu Search for the Vertex p-Center Problem
  
• Convergent Scatter Search and Star Paths with Directional Rounding for 0-1 Mixed Integer Programs
  Saïd Hanafi, Raca Todosijevic, Fred Glover
• The Boolean Quadratic Programming Problem with GUB Constraints
  Yang Wang, Abraham Punnen
• Effective Long-Term Memory Strategies for Local Search-Based Optimization
  

MB-12: Graphs and Networks II
Stream: Graphs and Networks
Room: Room 004
Chair(s): Reinhardt Euler

• Coloring Circulant Graphs C_n(a,b,c)
  
• On Two Matching Problems in Induced Subgrids
  
• On the System of Two Submodular Functions
  Dimitrios Magos, Yiannis Mourtos
• There are only 42 Types of 10x10 Latin Squares (LS) to Consider in the Search for a Mutually Orthogonal Triple
  Gautam Appa, Reinhardt Euler, Anastasia Kouvela, Dimitrios Magos, Yiannis Mourtos

MB-13: Scheduling Theory and Applications
Stream: Scheduling
Room: Room 123
Chair(s): Malgorzata Sterna

• Late Work Minimization on Identical Parellel Machines
  Malgorzata Sterna, Xin Chen, Jacek Blazewicz, Xin Han
• Moldable Tasks in Berth and Quay Crane Allocation Problem
  Maciej Machowiak, Jacek Blazewicz
• Single Track Railway Scheduling Problem
  Grzegorz Pawlak, Gaurav Singh
• System Supporting Text Analysis
  Grzegorz Fenrich, Malgorzata Sterna

MB-14: Parallel Machines Problems
Stream: Realistic Production Scheduling
Room: Room 124
Chair(s): Federico Perea

• The Parallel Machine Scheduling Problem with Job Priorities and Sequence-Dependent Setup Times
  
• An Iterated Greedy Algorithm for the Unrelated Parallel Machine Scheduling Problem with Setup Times
  
• The Unrelated Parallel Machine Scheduling problem with additional Resources
  Federico Perea, Rubén Ruiz
• New (facet-defining) valid inequalities for a time-indexed formulation
  

MB-15: Dynamic and Competitive Pricing Models
Stream: Revenue Management I
Room: Room 125
Chair(s): María Camila Ramos

• Microeconomic Analysis of Cartel Equilibrium Optimization Model
  Michal Fendek, Eleonora Fendekova
• Pricing Game with Customer Choice Based on the Price-Performance Ratio
  
• A Pricing and Inventory Decision Model with Stochastic Demand for Perishable Products
  María Camila Ramos, Alejandro Cataldo, Juan-Carlos Ferrer

MB-16: Copositive and Polynomial Optimization II
Stream: Copositive and Polynomial Optimization
Room: Room 127
Chair(s):

• Energy Minimization via Conic Programming Hierarchies
  
• Computing Rational Solutions to Linear Matrix Inequalities
  
• Sparse Polynomial Optimization for Urban Distribution Networks
  Martin Mevissen, Bissan Ghaddar, Jakub Marecek
• Polynomial Optimization with Symmetric Polynomials
  

MB-17: Global Optimization and Applications in Development I
Stream: Global Optimization
Room: Room 005
Chair(s): Herman Mawengkang

• An Interavtive Approach for Solving Multi-Objective Model of Logistic System and Waste Management in Crude Palm Oil Industry
  Meslin Silalahi, Herman Mawengkang
• An Active Constrained Based Approach for Solving Problems for Positioning New Products under Risk
  Nerli Khairani, Herman Mawengkang
• The Dynamic Selection of Coordination Mechanisms in Indonesian Ministry of Religion Affairs Based on Agent Approach
  Azizah Hanim Nasution, Herman Mawengkang
• A Strategic Conflict is a Decision Problem Involving several Interest Groups or Decision Makers (DMs), Each of Which has Different Preferences
  

MB-18: Applications of Goal Programming
Stream: Multiobjective Optimization - Theory, Methods and Applications
Room: Room 112
Chair(s):

• A Real Life Door Assignment Problem with a Multiobjective Structure
  
• A Goal Programming Approach To Design The Supply Chain Network
  Mehmet Alegoz, Zehra Kamisli Ozturk
• A Non-Interactive Calibration Method of Linear-Quadratic Composite Metrics in Compromise Programming
  Argyris Kanellopoulos, Aleksander Banasik, G.D.H. (Frits) Claassen
• Prepartaion of Blended Flour by Goal Programming
  

MB-19: Business Analytics Methods for Demand and Supply Planning and Control
Stream: Demand and Supply Planning in Consumer Goods and Retailing
Room: Room 128
Chair(s):

• Strategic Inventories and Supply Chain Structure
  Sudheer Gupta
• Partially Observable Total-Cost Markov Decision Processes with Borel State Spaces and their Applications
  
• Inventory Models with Omega-Distributed Demand
  

MB-20: IFORS Prize for OR in Development 2014 - 2
Stream: IFORS Prize for OR in Development 2014
Room: Room 129
Chair(s): Andrés Weintraub

• Optimizing Ambulance Moveable Station Location and Vehicle Repositioning to Reduce Response Times for the City of São Paulo
  
• Modelling and Solutions of Slab Allocation and Reallocation Problems in Chinese Steel Industry
  Xinyu Tang, Gongshu Wang, Fanlin Meng, Peiyao Liu, Yuan Yuan
• Water Allocation Modelling and Policy Simulation for the Min River Basin of China under Changing Climatic Conditions
  

MB-21: Optimization Modeling Software & Systems 2
Stream: Optimization Modeling in OR/MS
Room: Room 006
Chair(s): Robert Fourer

• Recent Developments in IBM ILOG CPLEX Optimizer
  Xavier Nodet
• Robust Problem Formulation Alternatives
  Susanne Heipcke
• Developments in the AMPL Ecosystem
  Gautam Mitra, Christian Valente
• Optimizing a Manufacturing Process using JMP
  Volker Kraft

MB-22: OR and Health Care Management
Stream: Health Care Data Analytics
Room: Room 007
Chair(s): Janny LEUNG, Janny LEUNG

• The Impact of Directed Choice on the Design of Preventive Healthcare Facility Network Under Congestion
  Navneet Vidyarthi, Onur Kuzgunkaya
• Medical Decision Making in Resource Constrained Environments
  
• Using Simulation to Analyze Patient Flows in a Hospital Emergency Department in Hong Kong
  

MB-23: Behavioural Issues in Decision Making and Negotiation
Stream: Behavioural Operational Research
Room: Room 008
Chair(s): Etienne Rouwette

• Decision Analysis in the Context of the Behavioural Reality in Organizations – An Empirically Supported Framework for Analysing Implementation Problems
  Ana Barcus, Kai Helge Becker, Gilberto Montibeller
• Cognitive and Motivational Biases in Risk and Decision Analysis
  Gilberto Montibeller, Detlof von Winterfeldt
• The Impact of Need for Closure on Model-supported Group Conflict Management
  Etienne Rouwette, L. Alberto Franco, Hubert Korzilius
• Using Analytic Hierarchy Process to Enhance Consensus in Multi-agent Multi-issue Negotiation
  

MB-24: Preference Learning II
Stream: Preference Learning
Room: Room 212
Chair(s): Salvatore Greco, Roman Slowinski

• Descriptive Models of Deliberated Preferences
  
• New Veto Rule for a Sorting Model
  Olivier Sobrie, Marc Pirlot, Vincent Mousseau
• Integrated Preference Disaggregation Framework for Value-Driven Multi-Criteria Sorting
  Milosz Kadzinski, Krzysztof Ciomek, Roman Slowinski
• Robust Ordinal Regression for Dominance-based Rough Set Approach to Decision under Risk
  Roman Slowinski, Milosz Kadzinski, Salvatore Greco

MB-25: Mathematical Economics and Optimal Control
Stream: Mathematical Economics
Room: Room 009
Chair(s): Alexander Zaslavski

• Optimal Irrigation Scheduling for Wheat Production in Manitoba: A Simulation Study
  
• Harvesting in an Age-Structured Population
  Vladimir Veliov, Anton Belyakov
• Hierarchical Organizations
  
• Steady State Properties in a Class of Dynamic Models
  

MB-26: Fuzzy Multiobjective Programming
Stream: Fuzzy Decision Support Systems, Soft Computing, Neural Network
Room: Room 010
Chair(s): Monga K Luhandjula

• Approximation and Equivalence Approaches for Fuzzy Multiobjective Programming Problems
  Monga K Luhandjula
• Mathematical Programming Problems with Several Fuzzy Objective Functions
  Joseph Rangoaga
• Fuzzy Linear Programming Problems with Appropriate and Flexible Membership Functions
  
• Fuzzy Scenario-based Multi-Criteria Optimisation of a Manufacturing Supply Chain
  

MB-27: OR in Quality Management II
Stream: OR in Quality Management
Room: Room 213
Chair(s):

• The Factors to Affect Gap Between Exhibitors’ Expectations and Visitors’ Perceptive Satisfactions in Trade Shows
  Kuochung Chang
• Hybrid Quality Function Deployment for Tool Making
  
• A Fuzzy-QFD Decision Model for Service Design
  

MB-28: Challenge ROADEF/EURO 2
Stream: Challenge ROADEF/EURO
Room: Room 130
Chair(s): Safia Kedad-Sidhoum

• A Multi-stage Selection Hyper-heuristic for Rolling Stock Unit Management on Railway Sites
  
• Constructive and Heuristic Algorithms for a Rolling Stock Management Problem
  
• Local Search Algorithm for Trains Scheduling on Railways Sites
  Szymon Wasik, Piotr Zurkowski, Wojciech Jaśkowski

MB-29: Stochastic Models and Finance
Stream: Financial Optimization
Room: Room 011
Chair(s):

• Portfolio Decision under Loss Aversion Preference with Mean-reverting Returns
  Jianjun Gao, Xiangyu Cui, Duan Li
• The Survival Distribution of SABR Model
  Nian Yang
• Sensitivity Analysis of Nonlinear Behavior with Distorted Probability in an Incomplete Market
  

MB-30: Financial Mathematics and OR
Stream: Financial Mathematics and OR
Room: Room 012
Chair(s): Gordon Dash, Nina Kajiji

• Hierarchical Neuro-Cybernetic Systemic Risk Factors for Multiobjective ESG Portfolio Optimization
  Gordon Dash, Nina Kajiji
• Entrepreneurial Decisions on Effort and Project with a Non-Concave Objective Function
  
• Sustainability of the Japanese Pension System with the Automatic Balancing Mechanism
  Masanori Ozawa, Tadashi Uratani
• Optimal Investment Problem for Eco-Product
  

MB-31: Decision Processes under a Life-cycle Perspective
Stream: Decision Processes
Room: Room 013
Chair(s): Luis C. Dias

• Applying MCDA without Precise Weights to Life-Cycle Environmental Assessment of Vehicle Alternatives
  
• Multi-Criteria Analysis of Low Voltage Grid Expansions
  Tobias Lühn, Jutta Geldermann
• Multicriteria Assessment of the Use of Renewable Resources under a Life-cycle Perspective
  Jutta Geldermann, Meike Schmehl
• Incorporating Different Cognitive Styles into a DSS based on ILS Model
  Ana Paula Costa, Renato Barros Lima

MB-32: Health Care Analytics
Stream: Humanitarian Operations Research
Room: Room 014
Chair(s): Silja Meyer-Nieberg, Erik Kropat, Maria Teresinha Arns Steiner

• Discrete Event Simulation for Performance Modelling in an Outpatient Clinic
  
• Developing and Validating Joint Dynamic Ambulance Relocation and Flexible Dispatching Strategies: A Simulation-Optimization Approach
  
• Analysis of the Dengue’s Fever Care in a Basic Health Unit Using Discrete Event Simulation
  
• Multi-Optimization in the Partitioning Healthcare System of Parana State, Brazil
  Maria Teresinha Arns Steiner, Dilip Datta, Pedro Steiner Neto, Cassius Tadeu Scarpin, José Rui Figueira

MB-33: Environmental Sustainability in Global Operations
Stream: Environmental Sustainability in Supply Chain
Room: Room 015
Chair(s): Emel Arikan

• Investigating the Role of Electrified Vehicles for Automotive Industry Supply Chain and Fleet Sustainability
  Matthias Kannegiesser, Hans-Otto Guenther, Niels Autenrieb
• A Multi-Objective Modeling Approach for Intermodal Transport Planning with Environmental Aspects
  Martin Hrusovsky, Emrah Demir, Wolfgang Burgholzer, Werner Jammernegg, Tom van Woensel

MB-34: Large-Scale Risk Systems
Stream: Data Mining in Finance and Commodities
Room: Room 016
Chair(s):

• Robust Multivariate Regression for Large Scale Risk Systems
  
• Stress Testing Framework in a Large Scale Risk System
  
• Temporally Weighted Portfolio and Purchasing Sequences for Next-Purchase Prediction
  Katerina Shapoval, Thomas Setzer
• Impact of Market Data Quality on Capital Requirements
  Dejan Stokic

MB-35: Stochastic Sports Analysis
Stream: Stochastic Modeling and Simulation in Engineering, Management and Science
Room: Room 131
Chair(s):

• Mathematical Modeling of Team Competition in Artistic Gymnastics
  
• Are Soccer Schedules Robust?
  
• Figure Skating Scoring Optimization and Analysis
  

MB-36: Integrated Forest Planning
Stream: OR in Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries
Room: Room 132
Chair(s): Christian Rosset

• Rethinking the Strategic Model
  Eldon Gunn
• Models and Mathematical Decomposition for Large-Scale Location Problems in the Forestry Sector
  Bernard Gendron, Jean-François Cordeau, Sanjay Dominik Jena
• Integrated Planning and Control of Forest-based Supply Chains with Focus on Forest Management: Limitation and Potentialities
  
• A Model for Optimal Crop Selection Based on Conditional Value-at-Risk
  

MB-37: AHP Application
Stream: AHP (Analytic Hierarchy Process) /ANP (Analytical Network Process)
Room: Room 017
Chair(s): Yoichi Iida

• The AHP Based on Weighted Sum
  Yoichi Iida
• Mapping Verbal AHP Scale to Numerical Scale for Cloud Computing Strategy Selection
  Alessio Ishizaka
• Strategic Customer type Segmentation by AHP Analysis
  
• Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Solution, Based on the ANP Approach, Applied to Maintenance's Supplier Selection Problem
  

MB-38: Biomass-Based Supply Chains II
Stream: Biomass-Based Supply Chains
Room: Room 214
Chair(s): Frederic Lantz

• Supply Chain Management for the Design of Future Biorefineries
  
• Modelling the European Biofuel Supply Through a Mixed Integer Programme Linked with an Agricultural Model and a Refining Model
  Frederic Lantz

MB-39: ORAHS V - Outpatient Scheduling
Stream: Health Care Applications
Room: Room 018
Chair(s): Sally Brailsford, Weifen Zhuang

• Appointment Scheduling in Presence of Seasonal Demand
  
• Appointment Scheduling for Medical Diagnostic Facilities
  Weifen Zhuang
• An Adaptive Heuristic with Memory for Scheduling the Block Appointment System of an Eye Outpatient Clinic
  Ka Yuk Carrie Lin
• Case-based learnings for configuring custom packs
  Brecht Cardoen, Jeroen Belien, Mario Vanhoucke

MB-40: Production and Supply Chain Design
Stream: Production and the Link with Supply Chain
Room: Room 019
Chair(s): Jairo R. Montoya-Torres, Carlos L. Quintero-Araújo, Nadezhda Kozlovskaia

• On Supply Chain Network Re-Design after a Corporate Merger
  Scott Mason, Mariah Magagnotti, Kelly Sullivan
• A Multi-objectives Facility Layout Design Problem for Thin-film Solar Power Plants
  
• A Novel Mathematical Formulation for Minimizing the Makespan on a Single Batch Processing Machine
  Mario Velez-Gallego
• Complete Solution of the Extended EOQ Repair and Waste Disposal Model with Switching Costs
  

MB-41: Lot-Sizing and Related Topics 2
Stream: Lot-Sizing and Related Topics
Room: Room 216
Chair(s): Mathieu Van Vyve

• Computational Analysis of Lower Bounds for Economic Lot Sizing Problems with Remanufacturing
  Sharifah Aishah Syed Ali, Kerem Akartunali, Robert Van der Meer
• Bounds for a Production-Inventory-Routing Problem
  Cristina Requejo, Agostinho Agra
• Lagrangian Heuristic Applied to Lot Sizing Problems on Parallel Machines
  Diego Fiorotto, Silvio Alexandre de Araujo, Raf Jans
• Efficient Approximation Algorithms for the Economic Lot-Sizing in Continuous Time
  

MB-42: Electric Vehicles
Stream: Green and Humanitarian Logistics
Room: Room 215
Chair(s): Jakob Puchinger

• A Large Neighborhood Search for the Two-Echelon VRP: Extensions for Electric Vehicles
  Richard Hartl, Ulrich Breunig
• Strategic Mixed Fleet Management with Electric Vehicles
  Jakob Puchinger, Gerhard Hiermann, Pamela Nolz, Richard Hartl
• A Heuristic for Locating Electric Vehicle Charging Stations for Trip Chains
  Min Wen, Stefan Ropke
• Optimization Model and Algorithm for Wireless Charging Electric Vehicles
  Young Jae Jang, Ill Hoe Hwang

MB-43: Algorithms and Applications - 2
Stream: Algorithms and Computational Optimization
Room: Room 217
Chair(s): Gülser Köksal

• A Coal Blending Problem Solved by Column Generation
  
• Waste Sortation in Single Stream Recycling
  
• In-Depth Features of the CPLEX Optimization Studio IDE
  
• Product Mix Determination under Uncertainty for Effective Product Management
  

MB-44: Simulation in Management Accounting and Management Control II
Stream: Simulation in Management Accounting and Management Control
Room: Room 218
Chair(s): Stephan Leitner

• A Comparative Study between Different Storage Assignment Policies in Automated Storage/Retrieval Systems
  
• Bridging the Gap in Transport Project Evaluation: Accounting for the Inaccuracies in Demand Forecasts and Construction Costs Estimations
  
• Transfer Pricing - Impact of the Negotiation Duration
  Arno Karrer
• Does Collaboration Pay? An investigation for the Domain of Distributed Investment Decisions
  Stephan Leitner, Alexander Brauneis, Alexandra Rausch

MB-45: Stochastic Programming Models and Algorithms
Stream: Stochastic Programming
Room: Room 219
Chair(s): Unai Aldasoro

• Stochastic Programs with Decision Dependent Probabilities
  
• BFC-SDC Algorithm for Solving Multistage Mixed 0-1 Problems under Risk Averse Time Consistency Stochastic Dominance Constraints
  María Merino, Laureano F. Escudero, M. Araceli Garin, Gloria Perez
• BFC and other Decomposition Schemes in SMILPs
  Gerardo Perez Valdes, Adela Pages Bernaus, Asgeir Tomasgard
• On Parallelizing Decomposition Algorithms for Solving Stochastic Multistage Mixed 0-1 Problems
  Unai Aldasoro, Laureano F. Escudero, María Merino, Gloria Perez

MC-50: Plenary Session M. Brandeau
Stream: Plenary Sessions
Room: Plenaries room
Chair(s): Elena Fernandez

• Operations Research and Health Policy: Models that Can Make a Difference
  Margaret L. Brandeau

MD-01: Delays and Disruptions
Stream: Railway and Metro Transportation
Room: Room 118
Chair(s): Marie Schmidt

• Modelling Delay Propagation in Railway Networks
  
• An Iterative Framework for Railway Disruption Management
  Twan Dollevoet
• OR Models for Disruption Management at Netherlands Railways
  Dennis Huisman
• Route Choice in Case of Disruptions
  Paul Bouman, Marie Schmidt, Leo Kroon, Anita Schöbel

MD-02: Urban Logistics Problems
Stream: Vehicle Routing
Room: Room 111
Chair(s): Andrea Bettinelli

• The Multi-Zone Multi-Trip Vehicle Routing Problem with Separate Delivery and Collection
  Andrea Bettinelli, Teodor Crainic, Daniele Vigo
• A GRASP Algorithm with Path Relinking for the Multi-depot Location Routing Problem with Stochastic Customers
  Yannis (Ioannis) Marinakis, Magdalene Marinaki
• Waste Collection on Arcs – the Seixal Case Study
  
• Beyond Arc Routing
  Dmitry Krushinsky, Tom van Woensel

MD-03: Robust and Integrated Models for Airline Scheduling
Stream: Aviation
Room: Room 001
Chair(s): Luis Cadarso

• Comparing Delay Prediction Models for Robust Airline Resource Scheduling and Optimization
  Lucian Ionescu, Natalia Kliewer
• A Heuristic Algorithm for Personalized Integrated Cockpit Scheduling
  Atoosa Kasirzadeh, Mohammed Saddoune, Francois Soumis
• A Bi-Dynamic Constraint Aggregation Based Solution Approach for Crew Pairing Problem
  Mohammed Saddoune, Francois Soumis
• Integrated Airline Scheduling under Competition: the Entry of the High-speed Rail
  Luis Cadarso, Vikrant Vaze, Cynthia Barnhart, Ángel Marín

MD-04: Supply Chain Design 1
Stream: Supply Chain Management
Room: Room 119
Chair(s): F. Tevhide Altekin

• Design of a Collaborative Distribution Network
  Xin Tang, Fabien Lehuédé, Olivier Péton
• Supply Chain Network Design with Uncertain Demand
  Matias Schuster, Jean-Sébastien Tancrez
• Mathematical Model Applied to Bio-Diesel Supply Chains in Colombia
  
• Post-Sales Network Design of a Household Appliances Manufacturer
  

MD-05: Supply Chain Management in Petroleum Industry
Stream: Petroleum Logistics
Room: Room 002
Chair(s):

• The Value of Strategic Flexibility in Gas Transport Infrastructure Investments
  
• Modal Split in Offshore Upstream Supply Chain under the Objective of Emissions Minimization
  
• Preparedness Logistics for Arctic Offshore Operations
  
• Industry-wide Information Sharing in Oil and Gas Upstream Supply Chain: Analysis of Potential Impacts
  

MD-06: Behavioral Research on City Logistics
Stream: City Logistics and Freight Demand Modeling
Room: Room 211
Chair(s): Cara Wang

• Freight Deliveries Directly Generated by Residential Units: An Analysis with the 2009 NHTS Data
  Cara Wang, Keren Zhou
• A Reference Model for Determining Road Toll Charges
  Mario Dobrovnik, Sebastian Kummer
• Policy-Sensitive Vehicle Routing: An Optimization Approach for Evaluating Differentiated Transport Policy Measures
  
• Correlation Between Speeds in a Congested Road Network in the City of London
  

MD-07: Modelling the German "Energiewende" (Energy Transformation)
Stream: Equilibrium Problems in Energy
Room: Room 003
Chair(s): Daniel Huppmann

• How will Electric Vehicles Impact the Spot Market Prices for Electricity?
  Philipp Hanemann, Thomas Bruckner
• Carbon Emission Effects of the Power-to-Heat Technology in Germany
  
• Integrated Modelling of Reserve and Spot Electricity Markets in Systems with a Large Share of Variable Renewable Energy
  André Ortner
• National-Strategic Investment in European Electricity Transmission Capacity
  Daniel Huppmann, Jonas Egerer

MD-08: Sustainable Management and Climate Change
Stream: Energy Economics, Environmental Management and Multicriteria Decision Making
Room: Room 120
Chair(s): Marcus Brandenburg

• Geoengineering: Is it a Valuable Option for Climate Policy?
  
• Baseline Setting Problems of the Offset Mechanisms in the International Scheme for Climate Change
  
• Dynamic Capabilities and Policies for Sustainable Supply Chain Management – a System Dynamics Approach
  Marcus Brandenburg, Daniel Thiel, Stefan Seuring
• Lessons in Operations Management from State of Victoria’s Department of Education Bushfire Infrastructure Improvement Program
  Maria Cherilyn Marquez, Leorey Marquez

MD-09: Stochastic and Deterministic Dynamic Programming and its Applications 1
Stream: Dynamical Systems and Mathematical Modelling in OR
Room: Room 121
Chair(s): Yukihiro Maruyama

• Strong Representation Theorems for Non-Deterministic Sequential Decision Processes
  Yukihiro Maruyama
• Heuristics for the Optimal Routing of Customers in Queueing Systems with Heterogeneous Service Stations
  
• Primal Function and Dual Function Through Conjugation
  Yutaka Kimura, Seiichi Iwamoto
• A Comparison of Methods to Evaluate the Probability of Excessive Waiting in the M(t)/G/s(t)+G queue
  

MD-10: Robust and Stochastic Models for Electricity Systems
Stream: Optimization Models and Algorithms in Energy Industry
Room: Room 122
Chair(s):

• Contracting Strategies for Generation Companies with Ambiguity Aversion on Spot Price Distribution
  
• Two-Stage Robust Optimization Models for Power System Operation and Planning under Joint Generation and Transmission Security Criteria
  
• CVaR Constrained Planning of Renewable Generation with Consideration of System Inertial Response, Reserve Services and Demand Participation
  
• Electricity Market Equilibrium Models – A Robust Solution Approach
  Emre Çelebi

MD-11: Impact of Combinatorial Optimization on Solving Challenging Applications
Stream: Combinatorial Optimization
Room: Room 113
Chair(s): Maria Grazia Scutellà

• A Branch and Benders Cut Approach for Nonlinear Location-Design in Green Wireless Local Area Networks
  
• Decomposition Approaches to Assignment and Routing Problems in Home Health Care Services
  
• Network Design under Multi-Source Uncertainty
  Martin Tieves
• The Job-Scheduling and Tool Switching Problem
  Martine Labbé, Daniele Catanzaro, Luís Gouveia

MD-12: Graphs and Networks III
Stream: Graphs and Networks
Room: Room 004
Chair(s): Reinhardt Euler

• Pareto-Optimal Many-to-Many-Matchings: Complexity and Integer Programs
  
• On the Polytope of Closed Subsets of Directed Graphs and its Extension to Ordinal Transportation
  Pavlos Eirinakis, Dimitrios Magos, Yiannis Mourtos
• Hybrid Approaches for the Multi-Index Assignment Problem
  
• Modeling the Geometry of the Endoplasmic Reticulum Network
  

MD-13: Single Machine Scheduling
Stream: Scheduling
Room: Room 123
Chair(s): Zehra Duzgit

• Minimization of the Tool Switches Problem - Polynomial Algorithm for a Special Case
  Horacio Yanasse
• Due Date Quotation in Dynamic Single Machine Environment with Family Setups under Stochastic Job Characteristics
  Zehra Duzgit, Ali Tamer Unal

MD-14: Other Real and General Problems in Production Scheduling
Stream: Realistic Production Scheduling
Room: Room 124
Chair(s): Jacques Teghem

• A Branch and Bound Based Local Search for Consumable Resource-Constrained Single Machine Scheduling
  Mehenni Tahar
• Iterated Local Search Algorithm for Flexible Job Shop Scheduling Problems with Resource Constraints
  Dimitris Paraskevopoulos, Panagiotis Repoussis, Christos Tarantilis
• A Comparative Study of Evolutionary Algorithms in Two-Machine Flowshop Problem with Availability Constraints and Subject to Release Dates with Total Tardiness Criterion
  
• Minimizing the Maximum Lead Time in a Three-Stage Supply Chain Scheduling Problem
  

MD-15: Novel Models and Applications in Revenue Management
Stream: Revenue Management I
Room: Room 125
Chair(s):

• Optimal Keyword Bidding in Search-Based Advertising
  Baris Selcuk
• Learning and Pricing for Substitutable Products
  
• The Use of Marginal Revenues in Revenue Optimization
  Thomas Winter
• The Value of Intra-Category Information in an LA-AIDS Based Retail Price Optimization System
  

MD-16: Copositive and Polynomial Optimization III
Stream: Copositive and Polynomial Optimization
Room: Room 127
Chair(s): Luis Zuluaga

• Tractable Relaxations of Polynomial Optimization Problems
  Bissan Ghaddar, Martin Mevissen
• Appointment Sequencing: Moving Beyond The Smallest-Variance-First Rule
  
• On New Classes of Nonnegative Forms
  Zhening Li
• New Bounds for the cp-Rank in Copositive Optimization
  Immanuel Bomze, Werner Schachinger, Reinhard Ullrich

MD-17: Global Optimization and Applications in Development II
Stream: Global Optimization
Room: Room 005
Chair(s): Herman Mawengkang, Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber

• A Nonlinear Stochastic Optimization Model for Water Distribution Network Problems with Reliability Consideration
  Asrin Lubis, Herman Mawengkang, Herman Mawengkang
• Nonlinear Mixed-Integer Programming model for Sustainable Production Planning of Multi-Product Seafood Production
  Tutiarny Naibaho, Herman Mawengkang
• Neighborhood Based Search Approach for Solving a Class of Mixed-Integer Nonlinear Programming Problems
  Devy Mathelinea, Herman Mawengkang
• An Improved Interactive Approach for Solving Sustainable Land Revitalization Planning Problems
  

MD-18: Surrogate-Assisted Multiobjective Optimization I
Stream: Multiobjective Optimization - Theory, Methods and Applications
Room: Room 112
Chair(s):

• On the Validity of Replacing Upper Shells by Upper Approximations
  Janusz Miroforidis, Ignacy Kaliszewski
• Computationally Expensive Multiobjective Optimization - Survey and New Method
  
• Pareto Set Identification for Expensive Multiobjective Optimization Problems
  
• The Interactive HyperBox Exploration Method for Computationally Expensive Nonconvex Multiobjective Optimization Problems
  

MD-19: Retail Labor Scheduling
Stream: Demand and Supply Planning in Consumer Goods and Retailing
Room: Room 128
Chair(s): Armann Ingolfsson

• Retail Labour Planning Considering Customer Impatience
  Agust Thorbjornsson, Eyjolfur Asgeirsson, Armann Ingolfsson, Pall Jensson, Thorlakur Karlsson
• Retail Traffic: Arrivals, Labor Productivity and Staffing Decisions
  
• Box Office Demand-driven Labour Scheduling at the Movies
  
• Optimising and Testing Traffic-Based Staff Schedules for a Retail Chain
  

MD-20: IFORS Prize for OR in Development 2014 - 3
Stream: IFORS Prize for OR in Development 2014
Room: Room 129
Chair(s): Andrés Weintraub

• Measuring the Effectiveness of Development Programmes for Vulnerable Indigenous People in India
  Bijaya Krushna Mangaraj, Upali Aparajita
• Disaster Risk-Sensitive Shelter Plans from Community-Based Risk Analysis for Legazpi City, Philippines
  

MD-21: Optimization-Related Modeling & Software
Stream: Optimization Modeling in OR/MS
Room: Room 006
Chair(s):

• Adaptive Stable Additive Methods for Linear Algebraic Calculations
  
• Optimization Modeling in Heterogeneous Distributed Computing Infrastructure
  
• A Parallel Dual Simplex Method
  Qi Huangfu
• An Application of Queue Modelling to the Customers in a Gas Station
  

MD-22: DEA, AHP and Statistical Analysis
Stream: Health Care Data Analytics
Room: Room 007
Chair(s):

• Case-Mix Adjusted Efficiency Score: the Case of the South African Private Hospital Industry
  
• Efficiency and Quality implications in Health Care Management
  
• Demand Forecast and Optimal Allocation of ICU Beds: A Case Study in Rio de Janeiro
  

MD-23: Emotions and Human Behaviour in Interactions
Stream: Behavioural Operational Research
Room: Room 008
Chair(s): Raimo P. Hämäläinen

• PoSITeams - Positive Systems Intelligent Teams, an Agent Based Simulator for Studying Group Behaviour
  Juha Törmänen, Raimo P. Hämäläinen, Esa Saarinen
• An Affective Model for an Autonomous Decision Agent
  
• Why Emotional Behaviors Matter for the Design of Decision Support Systems (DSSs): Evidence from Text-based Electronic Negotiations
  
• Emotions in a Repeated Cournot Duopoly: A Psychophysiological Experiment
  Ilkka Leppanen, Raimo P. Hämäläinen

MD-24: Preference Learning III
Stream: Preference Learning
Room: Room 212
Chair(s): Krzysztof Dembczynski

• Preference Learning from Managerial versus Data Mining Point of View
  Peter Vojtas, Ladislav Peska
• Improve Infrastructure Stakeholder Collaboration through e-Participation: A Strategic Analytics Planning Approach
  Xiaojun Wang, Isabella Lami, Leroy White
• Regional Anti-Desertification Management with a Multi-Criteria Inference Approach: A Study of the Khorasan Razavi Province in Iran
  
• How German Parties Learn the Electorate’s Preferences
  Andranik Tangian

MD-25: Mathematical Methods of the Economic Theory
Stream: Mathematical Economics
Room: Room 009
Chair(s): Alexander Zaslavski

• A Theory for Estimating Consumer's Preference from Demand
  
• TRANSBOUNDARY POLLUTION CONTROL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ABSORPTION EFFICIENCY MANAGEMENT
  Fouad El Ouardighi, Konstantin Kogan
• Locally Robust Mechanism Design
  
• Proportional Coalitional Values for Monotonic Games on Convex Geometries with a Coalition Structure
  

MD-26: Neural Networks and Applications
Stream: Fuzzy Decision Support Systems, Soft Computing, Neural Network
Room: Room 010
Chair(s): Hans-Jörg von Mettenheim, Georgios Sermpinis

• Towards a Better Explanation of Asset Pricing Puzzles in Emerging Markets
  Leoni Eleni Oikonomikou
• Rolling Genetic Support Vector Regressions: An Inflation and Unemployment Forecasting Application in EMU
  
• High-Order Multivariate Neural Network Based Fuzzy Time Series Model for Car Road Accidents
  

MD-27: OR in Quality Management III
Stream: OR in Quality Management
Room: Room 213
Chair(s):

• Process Yield Assessment for Processes with Multiple Manufacturing Lines
  
• Skewed Correction Average Control Chart Based on Sample Standard Deviation
  Shih-Chou Kao, Yi-Chuan Huang
• A Variable Quick Switching Sampling System for Controlling Lot Fraction Nonconforming
  
• A New Sampling Plan by Variables Inspection for Product Acceptance Determination
  

MD-28: Optimal Project Investment Sequencing (Palisade)
Stream: Sponsored Sessions
Room: Room 130
Chair(s):

• Using genetic optimization algorithms for optimal project investment sequencing. How to evaluate project risks using Monte Carlo simulation.
  

MD-29: Volatility Modeling and Investment Strategies
Stream: Financial Optimization
Room: Room 011
Chair(s): Qi Wu, Nan Chen

• Mean-Field Formulations for Optimal Multi-period Mean-Variance Portfolio Selection
  Xun Li
• Multi-curve Term Structure Modeling with Low-dimensional Differing Short Rates
  Qi Wu
• Capturing the Term Structure of FX Smile
  

MD-30: Financial Mathematics 1
Stream: Financial Mathematics and OR
Room: Room 012
Chair(s): Masamitsu Ohnishi

• Regime Switching among Several Short Rate Models
  Keiichi Tanaka
• Equilibrium Relationship between the Performance and the Information Ratio with Transaction Costs
  Shingo Nakanishi, Masamitsu Ohnishi
• Limit Order Book Dynamics and Optimal Execution Strategy
  
• Free Boundary Problem for Double Stopping Russian Option
  

MD-31: Public Sector Networks and Applications
Stream: Decision Processes
Room: Room 013
Chair(s):

• Risk-Averse Network for Disaster Preparedness
  
• ICT and Humanitarian Supply Chains
  
• Allocation Models for Shared Ambulance Services
  
• Incident Response Bus Routes Planning and Management for Public Transit Networks
  

MD-32: Humanitarian Operations Research for Developing Countries
Stream: Humanitarian Operations Research
Room: Room 014
Chair(s): Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber, Joao Neiva de Figueiredo

• An Objective Methodology to Measure Corruption Levels and Institutional Maturity in Developing Countries
  Joao Neiva de Figueiredo
• Better Queue Management Using Data Envelopment Analysis: An Application in a Large Public Hospital of a Developing Country
  Komal Aqeel Safdar, Ali Emrouznejad, Prasanta Kumar Dey
• Multi-Objective Decision Analysis for Force Analysis of Conventional Forces Problem
  Mehmet Durkan
• A Stakeholder-based Approach for Assessing the Effects of Land Use Scenarios on Ecosystem Services: Cases of Bolgatanga and Bongo Districts in Upper East Region, Ghana
  

MD-33: Closed-loop Supply Chains and Reverse Logistics
Stream: Environmental Sustainability in Supply Chain
Room: Room 015
Chair(s): Fuminori Toyasaki

• The Redesign of Extended Producer Responsibility and its Impact on a Producer’s Recovery Strategies
  
• Accurate Response with Refurbished Consumer Returns
  Marc Reimann
• Reverse Logistics Decision Making for Modular Products
  Thomas Nowak, Fuminori Toyasaki, Tina Wakolbinger
• When and for Whom Would e-Waste be a Treasure Trove? Insights from a Network Equilibrium Model of e-Waste Flows
  Fuminori Toyasaki, Tina Wakolbinger, Thomas Nowak, Anna Nagurney

MD-34: Energy Analytics
Stream: Data Mining in Finance and Commodities
Room: Room 016
Chair(s): Marcus Hildmann

• Review of Day-ahead Planning Models for Electricity Trading
  
• Application of Modern Portfolio Theory for the Evaluation of Onshore Wind Power Investments in EU Countries
  Dimitrios Angelopoulos, Konstantinos Milios, Haris Doukas, John Psarras
• Apply Genetic Algorithms to Estimate Wind Energy Function Parameters
  
• A MINLP Model for the Bidding Design Problem of a Hydroelectric Producer: The Case of a Head-Dependent Cascaded Reservoir System in Spain
  Javier Diaz, Luis Moreno

MD-35: Stochastic Models
Stream: Stochastic Modeling and Simulation in Engineering, Management and Science
Room: Room 131
Chair(s): Koichi Nakade

• System Failure Probability of a k-out-of-n System Considering Common-Cause Failures
  Tetsushi Yuge, Shigeru Yanagi
• Advertisement on Social Network
  Hiroshi Toyoizumi
• Optimal Control Problems in a Closed Loop Manufacturing System with Stochastic Variability
  
• Optimal Maintenance Policy of Multiple Parts with Repair-Dependent Operating Cost
  Koichi Nakade

MD-36: Forestry Industry Production Planning and Management
Stream: OR in Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries
Room: Room 132
Chair(s): Ola Eriksson

• Designing Value Chains in the Forest Sector
  Sophie D'Amours, Mikael Rönnqvist, Marc-André Carle
• Optimizing the Log Yard Assignment Problem given Different Diameter Distributions and Volumes
  Maria Anna Huka, Manfred Gronalt
• Tactical Planning as the Focal Point of Forest Company Planning: A Suggestion
  

MD-37: Fuzzy AHP and ANP
Stream: AHP (Analytic Hierarchy Process) /ANP (Analytical Network Process)
Room: Room 017
Chair(s):

• Decision Making for the Type of Wind Turbines by DEMATEL and FANP
  
• A Multi-Criteria Decision Making Model for Developing Solar Cells
  
• Combining Fuzzy Integral and DANP Model to Improve Transportation Service Quality
  James Liou, Chao-Che Hsu

MD-38: Biomass-Based Supply Chains III
Stream: Biomass-Based Supply Chains
Room: Room 214
Chair(s): Taraneh Sowlati

• An Optimization and Stochastic Simulation Approach for Economic Feasibility Analysis of Biofuel Supply Chains
  
• A RDEA Heuristic Algorithm for the Optimal Design of Biomass Supply Chain Networks
  
• Uncertainties in Forest Biomass Supply Chain for Electricity Generation
  Taraneh Sowlati

MD-39: ORAHS II - Quality Improvement
Stream: Health Care Applications
Room: Room 018
Chair(s): Sally Brailsford, Turgay Ayer

• Routing and Scheduling of Urban Home Health Care Transport Systems
  Christian Fikar, Patrick Hirsch
• Competing on Quality: Evidence from Award Winning Hospitals in California
  
• Simulation of an Elevator Bank
  Preston White

MD-40: Supply Chain Optimization
Stream: Production and the Link with Supply Chain
Room: Room 019
Chair(s): Lionel Amodeo, Jonathan Oesterle

• Investigating the Relation between Product Modularity and Supply Chain Decoupling Level through Multi-Objective Optimization
  
• Bi-Objective Algorithm for Unidirectional Flow Path Design
  
• Implementing Decomposition Approaches in Multi- Period, Multi-Stage Supply Chain
  
• Option Contract Performance in a Supply Chain
  Alejandra Gómez_Padilla, Tsutomu Mishina

MD-41: Lot-Sizing and Related Topics 3
Stream: Lot-Sizing and Related Topics
Room: Room 216
Chair(s):

• Product Assortment and Production Planning
  
• Operations Planning in Dynamic Production Networks
  Atour Taghipour
• Numerical Analysis of Flow Time Oriented Lot Sizing Models: A Simulation Study of a Serial Production System
  
• A Discrete Particle Swarm Algorithm for Solving the JIT Part-Supplying Problem at Mixed-model Assembly Lines
  

MD-42: Green Freight Transportation 2
Stream: Green and Humanitarian Logistics
Room: Room 215
Chair(s): Emrah Demir

• A New Mathematical Formulation to Support Fleet Management Decisions
  
• CO2 Reduction by Using Inhomogeneous Fleets
  Herbert Kopfer, Jörn Schönberger
• Modal Shift and Sustainable Network Design for Municipal Solid Waste Transport Routing
  Dirk Inghels, Wout Dullaert
• Critical Review of CSR Indicators on Extended Producer Responsibility
  Cristobal Miralles

MD-43: Algorithms and Applications - 3
Stream: Algorithms and Computational Optimization
Room: Room 217
Chair(s): Edilaine Soler

• Controlling Dynamical Systems with Branch-and-Bound
  
• Interior Point Method for Solving the Maximum Loading Problem with Discrete Control Variables
  
• Impact of Sovereign Rating Actions on Holdings of Government Debt in Developed and Emerging Economies
  Tomasz Orpiszewski
• A Mathematical Formulation for Data Mule Scheduling in Sensor Networks
  

MD-44: Simulation in Management Accounting and Management Control III
Stream: Simulation in Management Accounting and Management Control
Room: Room 218
Chair(s): Cristian E. Cortes

• Metaheuristic to Improve Career Progression in an Organization with N Functional Careers
  
• Modeling Innovation Resistance in Technology Diffusion: An Agent-Based Approach
  Martin Zsifkovits, Markus Günther
• Simulation Approach for the Distribution Strategy and Fleet Design of a Major e-Commerce Provider in Santiago-Chile
  

MD-45: Stochastic Programming in Logistics and Transportation
Stream: Stochastic Programming
Room: Room 219
Chair(s): Patrizia Beraldi

• Robust Constrained Shortest Path Problems under Budgeted Uncertainty
  Luigi Di Puglia Pugliese, Francesca Guerriero, Michael Poss
• A Progressive Hedging Method for the Multi-Path Traveling Salesman Problem with Stochastic Travel Times
  Francesca Maggioni, Luca Gobbato, Guido Perboli
• The Traveling Repairman Problem with Stochastic Profits
  Maria Elena Bruni, Patrizia Beraldi, Demetrio Laganà, Roberto Musmanno, Francesca Vocaturo
• Mixed-Integer and Continuous Constrained Optimisation via Simulation
  

ME-01: Delays and Disruptions II
Stream: Railway and Metro Transportation
Room: Room 118
Chair(s): Leo Kroon

• Simultaneous Train Rerouting and Rescheduling on an N-track Network: A Model Reformulation with Network-based Cumulative Flow Variables
  Lingyun Meng, Xuesong Zhou
• Optimization for the Real-Time Railway Traffic Management: Case Studies in European Networks
  
• Disruption Management for High Speed Trains
  Leo Kroon, Lucas Veelenturf, Joris Wagenaar, Shuguang Zhan
• Rapid Transit Rail Systems: A Robust Design Model with Consistent Disruption Probabilities
  Ángel Marín, Esteve Codina, Luis Cadarso

ME-02: Maps, Zones and Routing
Stream: Vehicle Routing
Room: Room 111
Chair(s):

• Map Matching and Route Optimization
  Kaj Holmberg
• The Hierarchical Mixed Rural Postman Problem
  
• Using Cluster Analysis to Identify STops in GPS Data
  
• An Iterative Cluster-First Route-Second Approach for a Sales Territory Design Problem with Balanced Workload Requirements
  Matthias Bender, Anne Meyer, Stefan Nickel

ME-03: Addressing Uncertainty in Passenger Aviation
Stream: Aviation
Room: Room 001
Chair(s): Amy Cohn

• Mechanism Design for Setting the Parameters of Traffic Management Initiatives
  
• Minimizing Aircraft Lost Time on Tarmac
  
• Can Planned Time Buffers Result in Delays?
  Milind Sohoni
• True Demand Estimation -- A Novel Approach
  

ME-04: Supply Chain Design 2
Stream: Supply Chain Management
Room: Room 119
Chair(s): Mehmet Akif Sahman

• Using Integrated Location Routing Approach to Study the Effect of Vehicle Mix Strategies on Cost of a Milk Collection Network
  
• A Location-Routing Problem for Waste Oil Collection
  Fahriye Karabak, Burcu Balcik
• A Lagrangian Relaxation Heuristic to Determine the Methods for used-Product Return
  
• The Implementation of the Discrete Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm on a Real Facility Layout Problem
  

ME-05: Fuel Logistics
Stream: Petroleum Logistics
Room: Room 002
Chair(s):

• Sufficient Density of Refueling Stations for Alternative Fuel Vehicles
  Masashi Miyagawa
• Measuring the Availability of Fuelling Solutions
  
• Risk Management of Rail Transport of Petroleum Crude Oil
  

ME-06: Passenger Transportation in Cities
Stream: City Logistics and Freight Demand Modeling
Room: Room 211
Chair(s):

• A Survey of Travel Times at Shinjuku Skyscraper District in Tokyo
  
• A Simulation Framework for the Operational Problem of One-Way Car Sharing Systems
  Burak Boyaci, Martin Repoux, Nikolas Geroliminis
• Public Transit Network Optimization and Stop Configuration
  
• Optimizing the Shape of Rectangular Parking Lots Based on Lot Capacity and Door Location
  

ME-07: Multi-Level Programming and Equilibrium Models in Electricity Markets
Stream: Equilibrium Problems in Energy
Room: Room 003
Chair(s): Juan Miguel Morales

• Integrating Intermittent Renewable Energy Sources in Electricity Markets
  Cristian Pelizzari, Giorgia Oggioni
• Modeling the Impact of Imbalance Costs and Market Design on Generating Expansion of Stochastic Units
  Salvador Pineda Morente, Juan Miguel Morales
• Transmission Expansion Planning in Electricity Markets: A Bilevel Multi-Objective Framework
  
• A Method to Identify Competitive Wind Locations
  Juan Miguel Morales, Henrik Madsen

ME-08: Optimal Design in Environmental Management
Stream: Energy Economics, Environmental Management and Multicriteria Decision Making
Room: Room 120
Chair(s): Konstantinos Petridis, Eleni Zografidou

• Optimal Design of the Renewable Energy Production Map of Greece using a Multi-Period Goal Programming Model
  
• Optimal Design of Capacity Market with Startup Costs and Capacity Constraints
  Marina Dolmatova, Alexander Vasin
• Probabilistic Pricing for Wind Farms
  

ME-09: Stochastic and Deterministic Dynamic Programming and its Applications 2
Stream: Dynamical Systems and Mathematical Modelling in OR
Room: Room 121
Chair(s): Tomomi Matsui

• Dynamic Linear Bayesian Model for Inventory Optimization with Demand Forecasting
  Marisol Valencia Cárdenas, Javier Diaz, Juan Carlos Correa Morales
• Markov Decision Processes with Static Hidden States and Observations
  Takayuki Osogami
• An Analysis of Deterministic Random Walks on Hypercubes using the Krawtchouk Polynomial
  
• Compare the Ratio of Symmetric Polynomials of Odds to One and Stop
  Tomomi Matsui, Katsunori Ano

ME-10: Optimization Methods for Offshore and Onshore Wind Farms
Stream: Optimization Models and Algorithms in Energy Industry
Room: Room 122
Chair(s):

• Optimal Power Flow Tool for Mixed HVAC and HVDC Systems for Grid Integration of Large Wind Power Plants
  
• Optimal Offshore Wind Power Plant (OWPP) Design based on a Hybrid AC-DC Configuration
  
• Techno-Economic Optimization of Offshore Grids
  
• Effects of Optimal Grouping of Wind Farms in Day-Ahead Markets Through an External Agent
  

ME-11: Miscellaneous Topics in Combinatorial Optimization
Stream: Combinatorial Optimization
Room: Room 113
Chair(s): Michele Monaci

• Self-Splitting Tree Search in a Parallel Environment
  Matteo Fischetti, Michele Monaci, Domenico Salvagnin
• The Split Delivery Vehicle Routing Problem
  Hande Yaman
• On Two-Branch Split Cuts
  
• A Divide-and-Conquer Heuristic for the Minimal Steiner Tree Problem
  Badri Toppur

ME-12: Graphs and Networks IV
Stream: Graphs and Networks
Room: Room 004
Chair(s): Chunhui Lai

• Calculating the Network Complexity Index in Directed Acyclic Networks
  
• A New Technique of Embedding of Binary Trees into Hypercubes
  Kamal Kabyl, Abdelhafid Berrachedi
• Chordal-(k,l) and Strongly Chordal-(k,l) Graph Sandwich Problems
  
• Some Problems on Paths and Cycles
  Chunhui Lai

ME-13: Project Scheduling 1
Stream: Scheduling
Room: Room 123
Chair(s): Carlos Cardonha

• Project Scheduling using Buffers under Consideration of Psychological Effects of Cutting Down the Original Estimations
  
• Robust Project Scheduling at a Large IT Services Delivery Organization
  
• A Framework of Project Management Methods to use the Resource-Constrained Project Scheduling Problem
  
• The Online Resource Constrained Project Scheduling Problem with Bounded Multitasking
  Carlos Cardonha, Ricardo Herrmann, Victor Cavalcante

ME-14: DEA in Health and Education
Stream: DEA Applications
Room: Room 124
Chair(s): Carla Amado

• Analysis of Technical Efficiency and Scale using Time Series in Higher Education Institutions by Means of Window Analysis DEA
  Gonzalo Eduardo Campos Hernández, Marcela C. Gonzalez-Araya
• A Comparative Analysis of the Treatment of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Episodes
  
• Assessing the Effectiveness of Noncommunicable Diseases Prevention and Control Using Data Envelopment Analysis: An International Comparison
  
• Benchmarking Portuguese Hospitals through a web based Platform (HOBE)
  

ME-15: Pricing and Strategic Consumer Behavior in Revenue Management
Stream: Revenue Management II
Room: Room 125
Chair(s):

• Pricing of Conditional Upgrades in the Presence of Strategic Consumers
  
• Price Drop Guarantee in the Context of Limited Inventory
  
• The Reference Effects on a Firm's Dynamic Pricing and Inventory Strategies with Strategic Consumers
  

ME-16: Copositive and Polynomial Optimization IV
Stream: Copositive and Polynomial Optimization
Room: Room 127
Chair(s):

• A Semidefinite Hierarchy for Containment of Spectrahedra
  
• Counting Arithmetic Progressions using Semidefinite Programming
  
• Linear Matrix Inequalities and Spectrahedra in the Plane
  

ME-17: Global Optimization and Applications in Development III
Stream: Global Optimization
Room: Room 005
Chair(s): Herman Mawengkang, Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber

• An Interactive Approach for Solving Sustainable Production Planning Model of Crude Palm Oil Industry
  Hendaru Sadyadharma, Herman Mawengkang
• An Optimization Model for River Water Quality Problem
  
• An Improved Iterative Approach for Incomplete Dependent Variables
  Sampe Simangunsong, Herman Mawengkang
• An Improved Direct Search Method for Solving Land use Management Problems
  Suryati Sitepu, Siti Rusdiana, Herman Mawengkang

ME-18: Surrogate-Assisted Multiobjective Optimization II
Stream: Multiobjective Optimization - Theory, Methods and Applications
Room: Room 112
Chair(s): Jussi Hakanen

• Parallel Hybrid Multiobjective Derivative-Free Optimization in SAS
  Steven Gardner, Joshua Griffin
• A Simple Framework for Parallel Multi-Objective Optimization using JAVA
  F. Antonio Medrano, Richard Church
• Multiobjective Emergency Room Capacity Planning using Simulation Goal Programming and Response Surface Methodology
  Felipe Baesler, Oscar Cornejo
• A Globally Convergent Method for Approximating the Pareto Critical Set of a Multiobjective Optimization Problem with any Number of Objectives
  

ME-19: Retail Distribution and Replenishment
Stream: Demand and Supply Planning in Consumer Goods and Retailing
Room: Room 128
Chair(s): Thomas Wensing

• Multi-product Joint Replenishment Model with Substitution
  Mohamed Kharbeche, Bacel Maddah, Shaligram Pokharel, Ahmed Ghoniem
• Impact of Case Pack Sizes on Retail Instore Logistics Systems
  Heinrich Kuhn, Michael Sternbeck, Thomas Wensing
• Assignment of Transport Jobs to Multiple Contract Carriers
  Thomas Wensing

ME-20: Managing Risk in Energy Storage and Trading
Stream: Stochastic Optimization in Energy
Room: Room 129
Chair(s): Nils Löhndorf

• Risk-Sensitive Gas Storage Valuation under a Price Process with Long and Short term Dynamics
  Nils Löhndorf, David Wozabal
• Quantile Optimization in Electricity Trading in the Presence of Storage with Heavy-Tailed Prices
  
• Bidding Strategies in Electricity Markets with Long and Short Term Objectives
  Enrique Munoz de Cote
• Models for Optimizing Market Bids from Hydroelectric River Chains
  

ME-21: Optimization Modeling Applications in Air Transportation
Stream: Optimization Modeling in OR/MS
Room: Room 006
Chair(s): Kaan Aliefendioğlu

• Solving the Airspace Track/Level Scheduling Problem
  
• Operations Research Air Traffic Management (ATM) of the Future: A Support System for Free Flight Concept
  Charis Ntakolia, John Coletsos
• Robust Operation Model for Airline Ticket Distribution Channels with Uncertian Market Demands
  
• A Mathematical Programming Approach to Aircraft Maintenance Scheduling
  Kaan Aliefendioğlu, Fadime Üney-Yüksektepe

ME-22: Machine Learning in Healthcare
Stream: Health Care Data Analytics
Room: Room 007
Chair(s): Samuel Buttrey

• Application of an HIV Risk Scorecard Model to Track Changes in Risk Profile of Demographic Characteristics using Antenatal HIV Seroprevalence from 2001 to 2010
  
• Data Mining Application for Blood Consumption Forecasting in a Private Hospital
  
• Correlating Influenza Prevalence with Twitter Mentions of Flu
  Samuel Buttrey
• Precipitation Prediction by Hidden Markov Models
  

ME-23: Behavioural Issues in Modeling and Simulation
Stream: Behavioural Operational Research
Room: Room 008
Chair(s): Stewart Robinson

• Models, Optimality, Experts and Alternatives
  Julian Scott Yeomans
• Learning from Discrete-Event Simulation: Exploring the High Involvement Hypothesis
  
• Generating Insights: Experimental Study on the Effectiveness of Simulation Models in Creative Problem Solving
  Anastasia Gogi, Antuela Tako, Stewart Robinson
• Impacts of Mobile Internet on Customer Behavior
  

ME-24: Preference Learning IV
Stream: Preference Learning
Room: Room 212
Chair(s):

• Checking Classifiers Sensitivity to Non-Monotone Noise
  
• Alternative Decomposition Techniques for Label Ranking
  
• Efficient Label Tree Structures for Top-k Classification
  
• Looking for the Right Noise: A Decision Rule as a Maximum Likelihood Estimator.
  

ME-25: Optimization and Mathematical Economics
Stream: Mathematical Economics
Room: Room 009
Chair(s): Maria Carmela Ceparano

• Methods of the Parametric Control Theory for Testing Mathematical Models of Macroeconomic Systems
  
• On Vertical Separated Equilibrium for Two-Stage possibly Discontinuous Games
  Maria Carmela Ceparano
• An Interior-Point Path-Following Method for Computing Perfect d-Proper Equilibria for Strategic Games
  Chuangyin Dang
• Eigenbehaviors in Closed Economies: General Economic Equilibrium Constructive Proof
  

ME-26: Fuzzy Decision Making 2
Stream: Fuzzy Decision Support Systems, Soft Computing, Neural Network
Room: Room 010
Chair(s): Jaroslav Ramik, Martin Gavalec

• On Geometric Mean Generated Weights in Interval AHP
  Jiri Mazurek
• Aggregation of Pairwise Comparison Matrices by Fuzzification
  
• Microsoft Excel as a Tool for Multicriteria Decision Problems
  Radomir Perzina, Jaroslav Ramik
• Pairwise Comparison Matrix with Fuzzy Elements on Alo-Group
  Jaroslav Ramik

ME-27: Simulation and Numerical Methods in Finance
Stream: Simulation Methods in Finance
Room: Room 213
Chair(s): Katerina Papadaki, Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber

• No-Arbitrage ROM Simulation
  Michael Hanke
• Quantile Optimization via SNM-Q
  
• Stochastic Dynamic Programming Methods for the Portfolio Selection Problem
  Katerina Papadaki
• A Multistage Linear Stochastic Programming Model for Optimal Corporate Debt Management
  

ME-29: Multiple Criteria Decision Making and Optimization 1
Stream: Multiple-Criteria Decision Making and Optimization
Room: Room 011
Chair(s):

• A Multi Objective Decision Making Approach for Determining New Sorting Technology in Order Picking Systems
  
• A Multicriteria Ranking Procedure for a Medium-Sized Set of Alternatives based on Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization
  JAIME SOLANO, Juan Carlos Leyva-Lopez, Diego Alonso Gastélum Chavira
• A Combined AHP-based Approach for Evaluating and Ranking Economic Partners in a Public Organism
  
• Customization Order Screening in Engineering-to-Order Environment
  

ME-30: Financial Mathematics 2
Stream: Financial Mathematics and OR
Room: Room 012
Chair(s): Norio Hibiki

• Rating Models using Logistic and Cox Regression: Medium and Large Companies Case
  Aneta Ptak-Chmielewska, Anna Matuszyk
• Effects of a Sales Tax Increase on Firm Valuation: DCF Approach to Individual Firm Data
  
• Portfolio Selection Based on Bayesian Theory
  Yong Fang
• Multi-Period Stochastic Programming Model for State-Dependent Asset Allocation with CVaR
  

ME-31: Recent Advances on Decision Processes
Stream: Decision Processes
Room: Room 013
Chair(s): Irene Abi-Zeid

• Organizational Knowledge to Support Project Selection Activities in the Public Administration
  
• Integration of Elements from Prospect Theory into PROMETHEE
  Nils Lerche, Jutta Geldermann
• Monotonic Additive Preference Model for 3D Fusion System Parameters Adjustment
  
• The Value of Additional Information in Multicriteria Decision Analysis with Information Imperfections
  

ME-32: Network Decision Support
Stream: Humanitarian Operations Research
Room: Room 014
Chair(s):

• Incorporating Home-Returning and Home-Staying Decisions in Multi-Modal Multi-Activity Trip Chains of Multi-State Supernetworks
  
• Sensitivity Analysis for Analytic Network Models
  
• Modelling of Intermodal Networks
  
• A Heuristic Approach to Restore Road Network Connectivity after a Disaster
  

ME-33: Measuring and Optimizing Sustainable Behavior in Existing Systems
Stream: Environmental Sustainability in Supply Chain
Room: Room 015
Chair(s):

• Optimization of a Two-Echelon City Distribution Network with Cargo Bikes
  Alexandra Anderluh, Vera Hemmelmayr, Pamela Nolz
• Applying Dynamic, Process-Aware Information Systems to Supply Chain Data Collection
  
• OREG – Optimal Resource Management of Electric and Electronic Devices
  

ME-34: Power Systems Economics
Stream: Data Mining in Finance and Commodities
Room: Room 016
Chair(s): Marcus Hildmann

• Photovoltaic Energy Production Forecast using Support Vector Regression
  
• Hourly Price Forward Curve for Market Coupling
  Marcus Hildmann

ME-35: Simulation and Advanced Optimization, in Aviation Management and Manufacturing
Stream: Stochastic Modeling and Simulation in Engineering, Management and Science
Room: Room 131
Chair(s):

• Delay in Aircraft Routing
  Axel Parmentier, Frédéric Meunier
• An air traffic decision support model for flight departure in an international airport
  
• Hub Location and Fleet Composition in Offshore Personnel Transportation
  Eirik Fernández Cuesta, Henrik Andersson, Kjetil Fagerholt
• A Semidefinite Optimization Approach to the Parallel Row Ordering Problem
  Philipp Hungerländer

ME-36: Forest Planning under Risk
Stream: OR in Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries
Room: Room 132
Chair(s):

• A Dynamic Programming Approach to Optimize Short-Rotation Coppice Systems Management Scheduling under Climate Change
  
• Approaches for Analyzing Risk and Integrating Risk Attitudes in Forest Management
  
• Solving the Raw Materials Reception Process with an Optimization-Simulation Approach
  Alexandra Marques, Mikael Rönnqvist
• A Stochastic Optimization Model to Adressing Climate Change in Forest Planning
  

ME-37: Multiobjective Optimization in Asia (I)
Stream: Multiobjective Optimization
Room: Room 017
Chair(s):

• A Complexity Reduction Method for the Multiobjective Multiclass Support Vector Machine
  
• Parameter Tuning in Support Vector Regressions
  Yeboon Yun, Marvin K. Nakayama, Min Yoon
• Optimization over the Efficient Set of a Multiple Objective Linear Programming Problem with Reverse Convex Constraint
  
• The Unified Split Fixed-Point Variational Inequality Problem and Algorithmic Consequence
  

ME-38: Optimization Techniques for Some Statistics Models
Stream: Convex Optimization Methods and Applications
Room: Room 214
Chair(s): Xiaoming Yuan

• On How to Solve Large-Scale Log-Determinant Optimization Problems
  
• Exact Relaxations for Rank Minimization Problems in Euclidean Jordan Algebra
  
• Optimization in Censored Quantile Regression
  Lingchen Kong

ME-39: ORAHS III - Emergency Services
Stream: Health Care Applications
Room: Room 018
Chair(s): Sally Brailsford, Brigitte Werners

• Ambulance Planning with and without Region Borders
  Theresia van Essen, Melanie Reuter-Oppermann, Stefan Nickel
• Ambulance Planning under Uncertain Demand
  Melanie Reuter-Oppermann, Francisco Saldanha-da-Gama, Stefan Nickel
• Performance Improvement for Emergency Medical Services (EMS) with Time-Region-Specific Cruising Ambulances
  Jiun-Yu Yu, Kwei-Long Huang
• Simulation based Evaluation of Different Objectives for Emergency Medical Services
  

ME-40: Advances in Production and the Link with Supply Chain
Stream: Production and the Link with Supply Chain
Room: Room 019
Chair(s): Amin Chaabane, Alice Yalaoui

• Inventory Control and Environmental Policies in Reverse Logistics Supply Chain
  
• Mathematical Model to Determine the Configuration of a Reverse Supply Chain (RSC)
  
• Creating an Advanced Order Stream with the Proportional Order-up-to Policy
  
• Value of Disruption Information in an EOQ Environment
  

ME-41: Lot-Sizing and Related Topics 4
Stream: Lot-Sizing and Related Topics
Room: Room 216
Chair(s): José Maldonado

• Integrated Lot Sizing and Cutting Stock Problem
  Gislaine Mara Melega, Silvio Alexandre de Araujo
• Integrated Supply and Production Planning
  Fanny Hein, Christian Almeder
• Fuzzy Logic Approach for Dynamic Lot Sizing for a Warm/Cold Process
  
• Mathematical Models for an Integrated Lot Sizing and Scheduling Problem
  José Maldonado, Socorro Rangel

ME-42: Human Aspects in Transportation and Logistics
Stream: Green and Humanitarian Logistics
Room: Room 215
Chair(s):

• Innovative Operating Strategies for ADA Paratransit Services
  Luca Quadrifoglio
• A Relief Distribution Model with Decaying Resilience of the Affected Population
  
• Public Transportation Preferences of Disabled People
  Mehmet Sencer Zengin, Sabri Erdem
• Development of a Logistic Model and its Impact on Resilience
  

ME-43: Accounting, Corporate Governance and Valuation
Stream: Operational Research in Financial and Management Accounting
Room: Room 217
Chair(s): Matthias Amen

• Cost Control for Projects and IAS 11
  Matthias Amen
• A Multi Criteria Network Approach for Evaluating the Independency of Individuals in the Corporate Governance System
  Kai Kurhofer, Matthias Amen
• Valuation of Tax Savings
  
• Corporate Liquidity and Dividend Policy under Uncertainty
  

ME-44: Game Theory
Stream: Game Theory
Room: Room 218
Chair(s): Miquel Oliu Barton

• Modeling and Solution of COA Development based on Timed Influence Net and Game Theory
  
• Lexicographic Allocations and Extreme Core Payoffs: The Case of Assignment Games
  Tamás Solymosi, Marina Nunez
• A Monotonic and Merge-Proofness Rule in Minimum Cost Spanning Tree Situations
  Juan Vidal-Puga, Gómez-Rúa María
• Co-authorship Model with Link Strength
  

TA-01: (Integrated) Planning Models
Stream: Railway and Metro Transportation
Room: Room 118
Chair(s): Leo Kroon

• Train Routing through Stations
  
• Integrated Rolling Stock Planning for Suburban Passenger Train Services
  Per Thorlacius
• Timetabling with Crew Scheduling Integration at a Freight Railway Operator
  Lukas Bach, Twan Dollevoet, Dennis Huisman
• A New Approach to Crew Scheduling in Rapid Transit Networks
  Manuel Fuentes González, Ángel Marín

TA-02: Routing and Scheduling
Stream: Vehicle Routing
Room: Room 111
Chair(s):

• Multi-Denomination Currency Distribution Problem with Transportation Security Consideration
  King-Wah Anthony Pang, Yan-Feng Li
• Optimization of Inter-Depot Trunking with Heterogeneous Fleet and Semi-Trailer Swap Option
  
• Use Fibonacci Numbers to Improve Performance of a Genetic Algorithm
  Anita Gudelj, Danko Kezić
• Improving the Quality of Dual Solutions in Column Generation
  

TA-03: Aviation Management and Processes
Stream: Aviation
Room: Room 001
Chair(s): Stefan Wolfgang Pickl, Matthias Dehmer

• A System Dynamics Approach to the Boarding Process
  
• Flexibility and Customer Value in Airline Revenue Management
  Sebastian Vock, Catherine Cleophas
• A Game-Theoretic Model for Aviation Management Processes
  Stefan Wolfgang Pickl, Matthias Dehmer

TA-04: Contracting
Stream: Supply Chain Management
Room: Room 119
Chair(s): Gultekin Kuyzu

• Unsold versus Unbought Commitment: Minimum Total Commitment Contracts with Nonzero Setup Costs
  Geoffrey A. Chua
• Optimal Periodic Flexible Policies for Two-Stage Serial Supply Chains
  Wendy Liu, Nagesh Gavirneni
• Channel Coordination with a Single Supplier and Multiple Retailers Considering Customer Arrival Times and Route Selection
  
• Shipper Collaboration with Partner Constraints
  Gultekin Kuyzu

TA-05: Stochastic Programming in Maritime Transportation
Stream: Maritime Transportation
Room: Room 002
Chair(s): Lars Magnus Hvattum

• Comparing Optimization and Simulation Models for Stochastic Empty Container Repositioning
  Massimo Di Francesco, Alexei Gaivoronski, Paola Zuddas
• A Stochastic Model for Vessel Fleet Analysis for Maintenance Activities at Offshore Wind Farms
  
• Optimizing the Maintenance Vessel Fleet at an Offshore Wind Farm
  
• A Maritime Inventory Routing Problem with Uncertain Travel Times
  Lars Magnus Hvattum, Agostinho Agra, Marielle Christiansen, Daniel Esteban Delgado Merchan

TA-06: Health Care System Design
Stream: Logistics in Health Care
Room: Room 211
Chair(s):

• Health Care Supply Chain Design from a Stakeholder’s Perspective
  Nico Vandaele, Catherine Decouttere, Stef Lemmens
• Re-Examining the Patient Experience: Using Process Design and Trajectory to Improve Patient Satisfaction in Physician Practices
  

TA-07: Planning and Operation in Electric Power System
Stream: Equilibrium Problems in Energy
Room: Room 003
Chair(s): Shmuel Oren

• Subsidies to Renewables, Ramping Constraints and Plants' Dismantling
  Yves Smeers, Sebastian Martin
• Improving Do-Not-Exceed Limits for Renewables with Robust Corrective Topology Control
  
• Self-Commitment of Combined Cycle Units under Electricity Price Uncertainty
  Anthony Papavasiliou
• Modeling Incentives in Vertically Integrated Electricity Markets
  Andy Philpott

TA-08: Electric Mobility
Stream: Energy Economics, Environmental Management and Multicriteria Decision Making
Room: Room 120
Chair(s): Peter Letmathe

• E-Mobility: Influence of the Second Life of used Batteries on Profit and Demand
  
• Electric Vehicles with a Battery Switching Station: Adoption and Environmental Impact
  Buket Avci
• Combinatorial Optimization to Energy Management of an Electric Vehicle
  

TA-09: Enumeration and Discrete Structures
Stream: Dynamical Systems and Mathematical Modelling in OR
Room: Room 121
Chair(s): Yasuko Matsui

• A Fast Algorithm for Counting the Number of Primitive Sorting Networks
  
• Enumeration of Combinatorial Structures Using Oriented Matroids
  
• Enumeration of All Paths Between All Pairs of Vertices by Zero-Suppressed Binary Decision Diagrams
  
• Enumerating all the Optimal Cost Vertex Coloring of 1-Trees
  Yasuko Matsui

TA-10: Decision Support Models for the Energy Industry I
Stream: Optimization Models and Algorithms in Energy Industry
Room: Room 122
Chair(s): Andres Ramos

• Accelerating the Convergence of Stochastic Unit-Commitment Problems by Using a Tight and Compact MIP Formulation
  Germán Morales-Espana, Claudio Gentile, Andres Ramos
• Optimal Management of Virtual Power Plants in Liberalised Markets
  
• Operation Reserve Usage for Different Unit Time Periods of a Stochastic Unit Commitment
  Andres Ramos, Germán Morales-Espana, Javier García-González, Michel Rivier
• An Investigation about Package MINOS and Optimal Power Flow Problem
  Edmea Cássia Baptista, Adilson Preto de Godoi, Edilaine Soler

TA-11: Mixed-Combinatorial Methods in Distance Geometry
Stream: Combinatorial Optimization
Room: Room 113
Chair(s): Leo Liberti

• Universal Rigidity of Bar-and-Joint Frameworks and Distance Geometry
  
• Algorithms for Unassigned Distance Geometry Problems Arising in Molecule and Nanoparticle Atomic Structure Determination
  
• The Importance of Atom Orderings in Distance Geometry Applied to Protein Structure Determination
  
• Exact and Approximate Methods for Large Scale Distance Geometry Problems
  Leo Liberti

TA-12: Graphs and Networks V
Stream: Graphs and Networks
Room: Room 004
Chair(s): Pavel Irzhavski

• Improved Bounds on the Generalized Acyclic Chromatic Number
  
• New Technique of Coloring of Vertices in the Graphs
  
• A Fast Greedy Sequential Heuristic for the Graph Colouring Problem
  
• On the Complexity of the Hamiltonian Cycle Problem in Locally Connected Graphs
  Pavel Irzhavski

TA-13: Project Scheduling 2
Stream: Scheduling
Room: Room 123
Chair(s): Servet Hasgul

• A Project Scheduling Algorithm Considering Resource Constraints and Seasonal Effects
  
• Project Scheduling with Rework: An Application in the Animation and Videogame Industry
  
• Multimode TCSP with Generalized Temporal Constraints: A MILP Formulation
  
• Genetic Algorithm for a Two-Agent Scheduling Problem with Position-Dependent Learning Effects
  Jin Young Choi

TA-14: DEA in Transportation and Logistics
Stream: DEA Applications
Room: Room 124
Chair(s): Cristiano Morini

• Evaluating the Operational Efficiencies of Bus Transit Systems Considering Air Pollution
  Chao-Chung Kang
• Efficiency Analysis of Seaport Container Terminals in Brazil
  

TA-15: Behavioral Research in Pricing and Revenue Management
Stream: Revenue Management II
Room: Room 125
Chair(s): Ioana Popescu

• Dynamic Pricing in the Presence of Social Learning and Strategic Consumers
  
• Pricing with Anticipation
  
• Impact of Price Recommendation Tools by Salespeople
  Wedad Elmaghraby
• Social Influence and Customer Spending in Online Games
  

TA-16: Copositive and Polynomial Optimization V
Stream: Copositive and Polynomial Optimization
Room: Room 127
Chair(s): Immanuel Bomze

• Towards Absolute Delivery Schedule Reliability in Container Liner Shipping Using Copositive Cones
  
• Copositive Optimization Based Bounds on Box Constrained Quadratic Optimization
  Gizem Mullaoglu, E. Alper Yildirim
• Completely Positive Reformulations for Polynomial Optimization
  Luis Zuluaga

TA-17: Nonconvex Programming: Local and Global Approaches I
Stream: Global Optimization
Room: Room 005
Chair(s): Hoai An Le Thi, Tao Pham Dinh

• A DC Programming Approach for Sparse Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA)
  Duy Nhat Phan, Hoai An Le Thi
• DC Programming and DCA for Solving Binary Quadratic over a Special Polytope
  Hoai An Le Thi, Tao Pham Dinh, Hoai Minh Le
• Feature Selection for Ranking based on DC Programming and DCA
  Hoai Minh Le, Hoai An Le Thi, Tao Pham Dinh
• The Performance of the Flying Elephants Approach for Solving Traditional Non-Differentiable Problems
  Adilson Elias Xavier, Vinicius Layter Xavier

TA-18: Robustness in Multiobjective Optimization I
Stream: Multiobjective Optimization - Theory, Methods and Applications
Room: Room 112
Chair(s): Christiane Tammer, Alexander Engau

• A Unified Approach for Different Concepts of Robustness and Stochastic Programming via Nonlinear Scalarizing Functionals
  Christiane Tammer, Kathrin Klamroth, Elisabeth Köbis, Anita Schöbel
• The Relationship Between Multicriteria Robustness Concepts and Set-Valued Optimization
  
• Pareto Efficiency in Robust Optimization
  
• Trade-Offs - A Lost Dimension in Robust Optimization?
  Alexander Engau

TA-19: Retail Forecasting
Stream: Demand and Supply Planning in Consumer Goods and Retailing
Room: Room 128
Chair(s): Kai Hoberg

• Weather Effect on Apparel Sales in France
  
• The Influence of Weather in Online Retailing - An Empirical Analysis
  Kai Hoberg, Sebastian Steinker
• Collaborative Forecasting and Channel Coordination in a Perishable Goods Chain
  Jan van Dalen, Clint Pennings
• Public Forecast Information Sharing in a Market with Competing Supply Chains
  

TA-20: From the Old to the New: Managing the Transformation of our Energy System
Stream: Stochastic Optimization in Energy
Room: Room 129
Chair(s): Valerie Thomas

• Learning in Optimization: Integrated Assessment Modeling of Climate Change under Uncertainty
  Soheil Shayegh, Valerie Thomas
• Grid Integration Costs and the Optimal Climate Change R&D Portfolio
  
• Optimisation of Intelligent Oil Wells using Stochastic Algorithms
  
• Understanding the Diffusion of Residential Solar Panels using a Hazard Rate Model
  Sebastian Souyris, ANOOP RAI

TA-21: Optimization Modeling Applications in Manufacturing 1
Stream: Optimization Modeling in OR/MS
Room: Room 006
Chair(s): Tugba Saraç

• Minimisation of Production Costs and Chemical Pollutants in a Tin Foundry Plant
  
• Advanced Optimization and Simulation-based Tool for Complex Automated Manufacturing Systems
  
• A Multi-Objective Optimization Approach for Plastic Injection Molding Machine Scheduling Problem
  Tugba Saraç, Aydin Sipahioglu
• Project Selection with Uncertain Lifetime and Initial Outlay
  

TA-22: Cooperation in Operations Management
Stream: Game Theory and Operations Management
Room: Room 007
Chair(s): Ana Meca, Ignacio García-Jurado

• Cost Allocation in Inventory Pools with Service-Differentiated Demand Classes
  Mario Guajardo, Mikael Rönnqvist
• Cooperation in Service Systems: The 3-D Assignment M/G/c/c Game
  Shoshana Anily
• Centralized Inventory in a Farming Community
  
• Cooperation in Capacitated Inventory Situations with Fixed Holding Costs when Shortages are Allowed
  

TA-23: Behavioural Issues in Problem Structuring
Stream: Behavioural Operational Research
Room: Room 008
Chair(s): Leroy White

• Exploring Novice Facilitated Modelling Supported by Scripts
  Elena Tavella, Thanos Papadopoulos
• Coat-Tailing Behaviour in Decision
  Isabella Lami, Leroy White
• Behavioural Issues in PSMs
  Leroy White
• Integrating TRIZ with DEMATEL to tackle a systematic problems on evaluating the cloud system for long-term healthcare
  

TA-24: Ethics and OR I
Stream: OR and Ethics
Room: Room 212
Chair(s):

• Implications of Nomology for Ethics
  Cathal MacSwiney Brugha
• Operational Research Virtues in the Face of Climate Change
  
• Strengthening Decision-Making for Emergency Planning using Participatory Problem Structuring: A Case of Operational Research in the New Zealand Volunteer Sector
  Robyn Moore
• Ethical Rationality: Enriching Economic Rationality with Values and Dreams
  

TA-25: Applications of Game Theory
Stream: Mathematical Economics
Room: Room 009
Chair(s): Elena Mielcová

• Multi-Criteria Games: Ranking of Companies using Financial Indicators
  
• Transboundary Environmental Problems: A Multicriteria Games Approach
  Naouel Yousfi, Mohammed Said Radjef, Fazia Aoudia-Rahmoune, Aichouche Oubraham
• Asymmetric Shapley-Shubik and Banzhaf Power Indices Applied on Real Voting Data
  Elena Mielcová

TA-26: Fuzzy Decision Making 2
Stream: Fuzzy Decision Support Systems, Soft Computing, Neural Network
Room: Room 010
Chair(s): Martin Gavalec, Jaroslav Ramik

• X-Simplicity of a (Strong) Tolerance Eigenvector and an Interval Fuzzy Matrix
  Ján Plavka, Martin Gavalec
• Eigenspace Structure of a Max-Lukasiewicz Matrix
  Zuzana Nemcova, Martin Gavalec
• Topologies and Uniformities of Rough Set Approximations
  Milan Vlach
• Tolerance Eigenproblem in Fuzzy Algebra
  Martin Gavalec, Ján Plavka

TA-27: Advances in Operations/Marketing Interface
Stream: Operations/Marketing Interface
Room: Room 213
Chair(s): Kerstin Schmidt

• Considering the Effective Ad Promotion Tool by Palmore’s Cohort Analysis
  
• Coordination by Contracts in Distributed Product Development Processes with Complete Substitution
  

TA-28: Challenge ROADEF/EURO 3
Stream: Challenge ROADEF/EURO
Room: Room 130
Chair(s): Eric Bourreau

• Two Phase Approach Combining Heuristic and Integer Programming for SNCF Rolling Stock Problem
  
• Solving the ROADEF/EURO 2014 Challenge by a Double Column Generation Based Heuristic
  
• Modeling the Rolling stock unit management problem with Mixed Integer Programming and Constraint Programming
  Hadrien Cambazard, Nicolas Catusse

TA-29: Multiple Criteria Decision Making and Optimization 2
Stream: Multiple-Criteria Decision Making and Optimization
Room: Room 011
Chair(s): Nikolaos Matsatsinis

• Performance Evaluation of European Insurance Companies: A Comparison of Robust MCDA Approaches
  
• A Multicriteria Approach to Sort Time Series Models Applied to Stochastic Scenarios Generation
  
• Selection of Investment Alternatives in Power Generation Expansion using Multiobjective and Multicriteria Optimization Methods
  
• Educational Marketing Decision System Based on Multicriteria Analysis: The e-Marketing Online Platform
  Nikolaos Matsatsinis, Evangelos Grigoroudis

TA-30: Financial Mathematics 3
Stream: Financial Mathematics and OR
Room: Room 012
Chair(s):

• Optimal Capital Injection Problem under Financial Crisis
  
• Multilevel Monte Carlo Simulation for Game Option
  Hitoshi Inui, Katsunori Ano
• Optimal Impulse Control for Cash Management with Double Exponential Jump Diffusion Processes
  Kimitoshi Sato, Atsuo Suzuki
• American Double Exercise Put Option on Geometric Random Walk
  

TA-31: Processes of Applying MCDA
Stream: Decision Processes
Room: Room 013
Chair(s): Theodor Stewart

• Problem Structuring for MCDA: Incorporating External Expertise
  Valerie Belton
• Explanations for MCDA models
  K.Nadia Papamichail, Theodor Stewart
• Decision Processes for MCDA in a Developing Countries Context
  Theodor Stewart
• A Multi-Criteria Multi-Period Decision-Making Approach for Sustainable Project Selection
  Anissa Frini

TA-32: Disaster Management
Stream: Humanitarian Operations Research
Room: Room 014
Chair(s): Silja Meyer-Nieberg, Erik Kropat, Degang Liu

• The Adaptive Orienteering Problem with Stochastic Travel Times
  
• Applying Multicommodity Transshipment Network Flow Optimization Technique under Uncertainty to Measure the Robustness of the Transportation Network for Emergent Situation
  Novia Budi Parwanto, Hozumi Morohosi, Tatsuo Oyama
• Modeling and Optimizing Disaster Relief Inventories
  Degang Liu
• Software Platform for Managing UAV Operations
  

TA-33: Defence and Security Applicatons
Stream: Defence and Security Applications
Room: Room 015
Chair(s): Ana Isabel Barros

• Network Enabled Capabilities (NEC): From Long-Term Visions to Short-Term Operational Effects
  
• A New Approach to Deterrence: Planning to Achieve Deterrence Effects
  
• Assessment of a Conflict Intervention
  
• Dealing with Complexity and Chaos: The Military Experience
  Jan Frelin

TA-34: Portfolio Optimization 1
Stream: Decision Making Modeling and Risk Assessment in the Financial Sector
Room: Room 016
Chair(s): Ralph E. Steuer

• Asset Allocation Powered by Information Flow Correlation
  Jose Faias
• Extracting from the Classical for Large-Scale Semi-Continuous Variable Efficient Frontiers
  Ralph E. Steuer
• Multi-Period Mean-Variance Portfolio Selection with Risk Control over Bankruptcy and Uncertain Exit Time
  Wu Xianping
• Efficient Simulations for a Bernoulli Mixture Model of Portfolio Credit Risk
  Ismail Basoglu, Wolfgang Hörmann, Halis Sak

TA-35: Game Theory with Applications I
Stream: Stochastic Modeling and Simulation in Engineering, Management and Science
Room: Room 131
Chair(s):

• Harmonic Analysis of the Slutsky Effect
  
• Game Theoretic Approaches to Weight Assignments in DEA Problems
  
• Animal Spirits, Competitive Markets, and Endogenous Growth
  Kenji Miyazaki
• Existence of Pure Strategy Equilibrium in Finite Games and Direction Preservingness of Best Reply Functions
  

TA-36: Forest Management to Reduce Fire Risk
Stream: OR in Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries
Room: Room 132
Chair(s): Andrés Weintraub

• Flexible Planning of the Investment Mix in a Wildland Fire Management System: Spatially-Explicit Intra-Annual Optimization, Considering Preparedness and Escape Costs
  
• A Three-Step Approach to Forest Optimization Modelling for Assessing Trade-Offs in Spatial Fuel Management Strategies
  
• A Heuristic for Satisfying Adjacency Constraints when Scheduling Timber Harvests on Flammable Forest Landscapes
  Andrés Weintraub, David Martell, Fredy Troncoso

TA-37: Multiobjective Optimization in Asia (II)
Stream: Multiobjective Optimization
Room: Room 017
Chair(s):

• LP Well-Posedness for Bilevel Vector Equilibrium and Optimization Problems with Equilibrium Constraints
  
• Well-Posedness for the Bilevel New Generalized Mixed Equilibrium Problems in Banach Spaces
  
• Existence and Convergence of Common Fixed Points via an Iterative Projection Technique for Two Strict Pseudo-Contractions in Hilbert Spaces
  

TA-38: Optimality Conditions and Algorithms: From Convex to Nonconvex Optimization
Stream: Convex Optimization Methods and Applications
Room: Room 214
Chair(s): Russell Luke, Shoham Sabach

• A Simple Algorithm for Nonconvex and Nonsmooth Minimization Problems
  
• Sparse Optimization over Symmetric Sets
  

TA-39: ORAHS VI - Treatment Optimization
Stream: Health Care Applications
Room: Room 018
Chair(s): Sally Brailsford, Joana Matos Dias

• Development and Evaluation of a Continuous-Time Semi-Markov Model for the Disease Progression of Acute Heart Failure
  
• Tactical Planning at a Breast Cancer Outpatient Clinic
  Maartje van de Vrugt, Richard Boucherie
• A Simulated Annealing Approach Using a DDS-based Neighborhood for IMRT Beam Angle Optimization
  Joana Matos Dias, Humberto Rocha, Brígida da Costa Ferreira, Maria do Carmo Lopes

TA-40: Production Planning
Stream: Production and the Link with Supply Chain
Room: Room 019
Chair(s):

• Managing an Assemble-To-Order System with After Sales Market for Components
  Mohsen Elhafsi, Essia Hamouda ElHafsi
• A Comparison of Two Priority Rules in Kanban-Controlled Job Shop
  Ali Ardalan, Rafael Diaz
• A Decision Support System to Facilitate the Implementation of Workload Control in Make-to-Order Companies
  

TA-41: Green Logistics in Rich Vehicle Routing Problems
Stream: Simulation-Optimization in Logistics & Production
Room: Room 216
Chair(s): Javier Faulin

• Evaluating the Willingness to Pay using an Econometric Model for Road Transportation in the Spanish Pyrenees
  
• A Biased-Randomized Algorithm for the Vehicle Routing Problem with Backhauls
  Javier Belloso, Angel A. Juan, Javier Faulin, Elena Perez-Bernabeu
• Teaching Logistics and Routing Online: Experiences and Challenges using Virtual Campuses
  Francisco Faulin, Javier Faulin, Angel A. Juan
• Optimal Routing of Ambulances on Service with Queues and Demand Uncertainties. A Case Study of Zomba Central Hospital.
  

TA-42: Big Data Analytics for Quality Improvement
Stream: Big Data Analytics
Room: Room 215
Chair(s): Mustafa Baydoğan

• A New Procedure for Fault Variable Identification in Multistage Processes
  
• Ensemble Learning Strategies for Large-Scale Time Series Analysis and Data Mining
  
• A Model-based Prognosis of the Gas Pipeline with Corrosion Defects
  
• Learning a Bayesian Network Having One Latent Variable
  Chi-Hyuck Jun, Jun-Seong Kim

TA-43: Accounting and Financial Crisis
Stream: Operational Research in Financial and Management Accounting
Room: Room 217
Chair(s): Jonathan Crook

• Classification Algorithms for Imbalanced Business Financial Data
  Georgios Marinakos, Sophia Daskalaki
• The Stability of Survival Model Parameter Estimates for Predicting the Probability of Default: Empirical Evidence over the Credit Crisis
  Jonathan Crook, Mindy Leow
• Intensity Modelling with Macroeconomic Effects and Simulated Transitions
  Mindy Leow, Jonathan Crook

TA-44: OR in Regular Study Programs
Stream: Initiatives for OR Education
Room: Room 218
Chair(s): Ariela Sofer, Elise del Rosario, Liudmyla Pavlenko

• Integrating OR and Systems Engineering in Masters Capstone Projects
  Ariela Sofer, Karla Hoffman
• Object-oriented Coordinate Design of Course and Teaching Mode in OR
  Gang Du
• Operational Research Education in Taiwan
  Yu-Lin Wang
• Academic planning for OR education
  Erwin Reizes

TA-45: International Aspects of OR History and Education
Stream: International Aspects of OR: Cooperation – Coordination – Communication
Room: Room 219
Chair(s): Ulrike Reisach

• Acquisition of Relative Clauses in Brazilian Portuguese Studied by Categorical Data Analyses
  
• Relationship between Architectural Education and Graph Theory
  Mehmet Inceoglu
• Consideration of Intercultural Challenges and Different Thinking Patterns in Teaching German Understanding of Academic Research to Foreign Students
  
• Applying Grey Relation Analysis to Explore the College Students Studying Motivation, Learning Stress and Academic Achievement under Declining Birthrate Phenomenon
  Hua-Kai Chiou, Kun Mao

TB-01: Railway Timetabling
Stream: Railway and Metro Transportation
Room: Room 118
Chair(s): Karl Nachtigall, Jonas Harbering

• New Heuristic Solution Techniques for the Periodic Event Scheduling Problem (PESP)
  
• Combining Cyclic Timetable Optimization and Traffic Assignment
  Michael Kümmling, Jens Opitz, Peter Großmann
• Solving the Train Path Assignment Optimzation Problem by Column Generation
  Karl Nachtigall
• Approaches to Solving Single Track Timetabling
  Jonas Harbering, Marie Schmidt, Abhiram Ranade

TB-02: Inventory-Routing Problems
Stream: Vehicle Routing
Room: Room 111
Chair(s): Okan Ozener

• Inventory-Routing Scheme for an ATM Network Replenishment Problem
  Pablo A. Rey, Alejandro Cataldo, Cristian E. Cortes, Juan Perez, Homero Larrain
• An Inventory-Routing Problem with Pickups and Deliveries Arising in the Replenishment of Automated Teller Machines
  Roel G. van Anholt, Leandro Coelho, Gilbert Laporte, Iris F.A. Vis
• Cyclic Distribution Strategies for an Inventory Routing Problem
  Okan Ozener, Ali Ekici, Gultekin Kuyzu
• City-Courier Quick Service Network Topological Design
  

TB-03: Airline and Airport Operations
Stream: Aviation
Room: Room 001
Chair(s):

• Reducing Airport Gate Holdouts in Passenger Aviation
  
• Aircraft Line Maintenance Planning Optimisation
  Syed Shaukat, Raphael Wu
• Adaptive Process of Schedule Recovery for Airline Operations
  

TB-04: Warehousing
Stream: Supply Chain Management
Room: Room 119
Chair(s): René de Koster

• A Flexible Routing Strategy for Improving the Performance of a Sequential Zone-Picking Line
  
• Lean Six Sigma: An Application in a Warehouse Operation
  
• Evaluation of Satellite Information Tasks Processing Capacity
  
• The Impact or Order Picker Skills on Warehouse Performance
  

TB-05: Sustainability in Maritime Transportation
Stream: Maritime Transportation
Room: Room 002
Chair(s): Harilaos Psaraftis

• Impact study of the new sulphur regulations on a North Sea short sea route
  
• The Economic Speed of an Oceangoing Vessel in a Dynamic Setting
  Evangelos F. Mageirou, Theodore Bouritas, Harilaos Psaraftis
• Combining Speed and Routing Decisions in Maritime Transportation
  Christos Kontovas, Harilaos Psaraftis, Min Wen
• Maritime Fleet Deployment with Speed Optimization: Case Study from RoRo Shipping
  

TB-06: Translation of Health Systems Engineering Research into Clinical Practice
Stream: Logistics in Health Care
Room: Room 211
Chair(s):

• Implementing a Residency Scheduling Program at the University of Michigan Pediatric Emergency Department
  
• Spine Surgery Surgical Schedule Optimization
  
• Priority Scheduling of Jobs with Unknown Types
  
• Stochastic Optimization to Reduce Wait Times in an Outpatient Infusion Center
  

TB-07: Convex and Complementarity Models for Electricity Market Analysis
Stream: Equilibrium Problems in Energy
Room: Room 003
Chair(s): Mohammad Reza Hesamzadeh, Yelena Vardanyan

• Optimal Network Operations using a SOCP-OPF model
  
• An EPEC Approach for Modelling Exercise of Market Power on Ramp Rate
  Ekaterina Moiseeva, Mohammad Reza Hesamzadeh
• Multi-regional Transmission Planning as a Non-cooperative Decision-making
  Yaser Tohidi, Mohammad Reza Hesamzadeh
• The Optimal Coordinated Bidding of Risk Averse Hydropower Producer in Sequential Markets
  Yelena Vardanyan, Mohammad Reza Hesamzadeh

TB-08: Power Management and Decision Analysis in Sustainable Development
Stream: Energy Economics, Environmental Management and Multicriteria Decision Making
Room: Room 120
Chair(s): Semra Agrali

• Monitoring Electricity Power Grids using Chernoff Faces
  Valter Senna, Gustavo Carneiro
• A Pareto Analysis for Evaluating Energy Trade-Off in Part Supplying
  
• Deciding Between Carbon Trading and CCS: An Optimisation-based Case Study for Methanol Synthesis from Syngas
  

TB-09: Control Theory & System Dynamics
Stream: Dynamical Systems and Mathematical Modelling in OR
Room: Room 121
Chair(s):

• Optimal Control of One Economical Problem Using a Principle of Maximum
  
• System Dynamics Model for Firm level R&D Investment Decision Making
  
• Stabilizable Switched Systems by Partial State Reset
  
• Towards Fostering the Improvement of Public-Private Partnership in Social Services using System Dynamics Approach
  

TB-10: Decision Support Models for the Energy Industry II
Stream: Optimization Models and Algorithms in Energy Industry
Room: Room 122
Chair(s): Andres Ramos

• An Iterative Method for Coupling Computationally Heavy Profit-Maximizing Electricity and Gas Market Models
  
• Robust Transmission Expansion Planning (TEP) Applying Shrinkage
  
• Including Short-Term Operation Details in Strategic Generation Expansion Models
  
• Strategic Forward Trading and Technology
  Heikki Peura, Derek Bunn

TB-11: Network Routing
Stream: Combinatorial Optimization
Room: Room 113
Chair(s): Michael Juenger

• The Cut Property under Demand Uncertainty
  Sara Mattia
• Single-Commodity Robust Network Design Problem: Complexity, Instances and Heuristic Solutions
  
• Designing Robust Client-Server Networks under Simple Polyhedral Demand Uncertainties
  Daniel Schmidt, Valentina Cacchiani, Michael Juenger, Frauke Liers, Andrea Lodi
• Approximate Earliest Arrival Flows
  

TB-12: Nonstandard Numerical Methods for Differential Equations
Stream: Continuous and Discontinuous Dynamical Systems
Room: Room 004
Chair(s): Mevlüde Yakıt Ongun

• A Crack Problem for a Nonhomogeneous Strip
  
• Efficiency of Differential Transform and Variational Iteration Methods for the Solutions of Some Differential Equations
  
• Numerical Solution of Time-Fractional Zakharov-Kuznetsov Equation via Generalized Differential Transform Method
  
• Nonlinear Fuzzy IVPs Using by Nonstandard Finite Difference Schemes
  

TB-13: Advances in Scheduling
Stream: Scheduling
Room: Room 123
Chair(s): Alexandre Dolgui

• A New Algorithm for Multi-Agent Scheduling to Minimize Makespan on Two Machines
  Xiwen Lu
• Non-Identical Parallel Machine Scheduling with Sequence-Dependent Setup Times
  
• Multi-Attribute Scheduling on Unrelated Machines
  
• Lot-Sizing and Lot Sequencing on a Single Imperfect Machine with Breakdowns and Product Rejects
  

TB-14: DEA in Services
Stream: DEA Applications
Room: Room 124
Chair(s):

• Network DEA Model to Evaluate Post-Graduate Engineering Courses in Brazil
  
• Market Orientation, Innovation Capability, Marketing Proficiency, and New Product Market Success
  
• Determining Mobile Communication Operators’ Efficiency by using DEA
  
• Efficiency and Seasonality in the Portuguese Post Offices and Postal Distribution Centers
  

TB-15: Pricing and Consumer Behavior: Modeling and Estimation
Stream: Revenue Management II
Room: Room 125
Chair(s): Ozalp Ozer

• Markdown or Everyday-Low-Prices? The Role of Consumer Regret and Availability Misperception
  
• Optimal Reference Pricing for Healthcare Procedure Payments
  Victoire Denoyel, Laurent Alfandari, Aurelie Thiele
• Customer Behavior Modeling in Revenue Management Systems using a Global Optimization Approach
  Shadi Sharif Azadeh, Gilles Savard
• Behavioral Anomalies in Consumer Wait-or-Buy Decisions and Their Implications for Markdown Management
  Nikolay Osadchiy, Anton Ovchinnikov, Manel Baucells

TB-16: Structure Learning and Applications
Stream: Intelligent Optimization in Machine Learning and Data Analysis
Room: Room 127
Chair(s): Ivan Reyer

• Bayesian Sample Size Estimation for Patient Classification Survey
  Anastasia Motrenko
• A Machine-Learning Paradigm that Includes Pointwise Constraints
  
• Structure Learning and Forecasting Model Generation
  Vadim Strijov, Mikhail Kuznetsov, Anastasia Motrenko

TB-17: Nonconvex Programming: Local and Global Approaches II
Stream: Global Optimization
Room: Room 005
Chair(s): Hoai An Le Thi, Tao Pham Dinh

• DC Programming and DCA for Dictionary Learning
  
• Internet Routing by DC Programming and DCA
  Thi Thuy Tran, Hoai An Le Thi, Tao Pham Dinh
• DC Programming and DCA for Minimizing L1/L2 – Norms of Polyhedral Convex Function Vector over a Polyhedral Convex Set
  Tao Pham Dinh, Hoai An Le Thi, Hoai Minh Le
• Tracking of Potentially Threatening Target Evolution in a Network
  

TB-18: Robustness in Multiobjective Optimization II
Stream: Multiobjective Optimization - Theory, Methods and Applications
Room: Room 112
Chair(s): Alexander Engau, Christiane Tammer

• Robust Multi-Criteria Location Problems
  Christian Günther
• The Robustness Space Framework for Pareto Set Reduction
  
• Assessing the Robustness of Pareto Sets in Multi-Objective Integer Programming Problems
  
• Pareto-based Definitions of the Optimal Value and Optimal Solutions of a Fuzzy Program
  

TB-19: Inventory Planning I
Stream: Demand and Supply Planning in Consumer Goods and Retailing
Room: Room 128
Chair(s): Mahsa Ghandehari

• A Hybrid Optimization Approach for Inventory Space Allocation with Assembly Line Balancing
  
• Some New Findings About the Newsboy Problem
  
• Determining Strategic Inventory Ratio in Leagile Supply Chain Considering Desirable Decoupling Point
  

TB-20: Managing Smart Energy Grids under Uncertainty - I
Stream: Stochastic Optimization in Energy
Room: Room 129
Chair(s):

• Optimal Bidding Strategy of a Plug-in Electric Vehicle Aggregator in Day-ahead Electricity Mmarkets under Uncertainty
  
• Distributed Model Predictive Control for an Uncertain Smart Thermal Grid
  
• Multi-Stage Reserve Policies for Large-Scale Power Systems
  
• Robust Portfolio Planning of Offshore Wind Farms
  Zana Cranmer, Erin Baker

TB-21: Optimization Modeling Applications in Manufacturing 2
Stream: Optimization Modeling in OR/MS
Room: Room 006
Chair(s): Lena Charlotte Altherr

• Buffer Allocation and Preventive Maintenance Optimization in Unreliable Production Lines
  Nabil Nahas
• Optimization of Pick-and-Place in Die Attach Process
  
• Maximising over Time the Profit of a Renewable Tool
  Aureli Alabert, Mercè Farré
• Efficient Dynamic Flow Models with Technical Restrictions
  Lena Charlotte Altherr, Thorsten Ederer, Ulf Lorenz, Peter Pelz, Philipp Pöttgen

TB-22: Cooperation in Manufacturing and Service Systems
Stream: Game Theory and Operations Management
Room: Room 007
Chair(s): Ulas Ozen, Greys Sosic

• Asymptotic Invariance Results for Assembly Systems
  
• Competitive Allocation Rules for Cooperating Logistics Providers
  Behzad Hezarkhani, Marco Slikker, Tom van Woensel
• Manufacturers’ Competition and Sustainable Cooperation: Cost Structure and Stability Analysis
  
• Strategic Lateral Transshipment with Communication Constraints
  

TB-23: Behavioural Economics and Games
Stream: Behavioural Operational Research
Room: Room 008
Chair(s): Gregory Kersten

• Inequity aversion in screening contracts: experimental evidence and model analysis
  Guido Voigt
• Strategic Customer Behavior in Newsvendor System: Analysis and Experimental Study
  Yanan Song, Xiaobo Zhao
• Application of the Long-Run Macroeconomic Growth Model of Slovakia
  
• Auctions, Negotiations, and Reciprocity
  Gregory Kersten, Tomasz Wachowicz

TB-24: Applications of Analytics to Strategy
Stream: Strategy and Analytics
Room: Room 212
Chair(s): Frances O'Brien

• System Dynamics and Big Data: New Frontiers for Strategy
  MARTIN KUNC
• Soft Analytics and the Strategy Process
  Frances O'Brien, MARTIN KUNC
• Dynamics in the Formation of Group Preferences
  
• Optimal Strategy Planning Approach againts the Bad Impacts of OTTs on GSM Operators
  

TB-25: Numerical Methods in Data Mining
Stream: Data Mining
Room: Room 009
Chair(s): Emilio CARRIZOSA

• SAS High Performance Procedures for Large-Scale Dense SVM and Quantile Regression
  
• A Modified Frank-Wolfe Algorithm for Large Scale Problems in Data Mining
  
• Dimensionality Reduction of Categorical Data in Support Vector Machines
  Dolores Romero Morales, Emilio CARRIZOSA, Amaya Nogales-Gómez
• Sparse Computation for Large-Scale Binary Classification
  Philipp Baumann, Dorit Hochbaum

TB-26: Fuzzy Decision Making 3
Stream: Fuzzy Decision Support Systems, Soft Computing, Neural Network
Room: Room 010
Chair(s): Jaroslav Ramik, Martin Gavalec

• Fuzzy Classification in HR Management – Evaluation and Decision Making based on Multiple Attributes
  Jan Stoklasa, Pavel Holeček, Jana Talasova
• AHP Model for the Evaluation of Creative Work Outcomes of Art Colleges
  Jana Talasova, Jan Stoklasa, Vera Jandova
• Logical Aggregation in Decision Making: Applications and Perspectives
  
• Fuzzy Queuing Cost Model Optimization for Bus Passengers with Customers’ Perception of Service
  

TB-27: Pricing, Bundling, and Strategic Consumers in Supply Chain Management
Stream: Operations/Marketing Interface
Room: Room 213
Chair(s): Kathryn E. Stecke

• Selling Opaque Goods with Mixed Bundles
  
• Impact of Sourcing and Pricing Power on Retailer’s Optimal Store-Brand Quality under Competition
  Candace Yano, Feixiong Liao
• Demand Shaping through Bundling: A Dynamic Multiproduct Inventory-Pricing Model
  Yunya Song
• Towards Closer Integration of Planning and Execution Processes in an Retail Environment
  

TB-28: Turnkey Optimization on the Cloud (FICO)
Stream: Sponsored Sessions
Room: Room 130
Chair(s): Oliver Bastert, Susanne Heipcke

• Turnkey Optimization on the Cloud
  Oliver Bastert, Susanne Heipcke

TB-29: Multiple Criteria Decision Making and Optimization 3
Stream: Multiple-Criteria Decision Making and Optimization
Room: Room 011
Chair(s):

• Accident Causation Analysis with Multiple Criteria Decision Making Methods in Workplaces
  Erdem Aksakal, Metin Dagdeviren
• Effectiveness Analysis of Ratios from Paired Comparison
  
• Multi-criteria decision analysis in medical decision making
  

TB-30: Advances in Financial Decisions and Their Long-Term Horizon
Stream: Financial Mathematics and OR
Room: Room 012
Chair(s): Thomas Burkhardt, Andreas Loeffler, Ursula Walther

• Survival Risks and Risk Averse Management in Forestry
  Thomas Burkhardt
• Transaction Costs and Bid-Ask-Spreads
  Andreas Loeffler
• Risk Quantification in PPP Projects
  Ursula Walther

TB-31: Portfolio Decision Processes
Stream: Decision Processes
Room: Room 013
Chair(s): Juuso Liesiö

• Project Portfolio Selection for Group Decision Making using Multi-Criteria Analysis and Mathematical Programming through an Iterative Approach
  
• Adjustable Robustness for Multiobjective Project Portfolio Selection
  Thomas Fliedner, Juuso Liesiö
• Baseline Value Specification and Sensitivity Analysis in Multiattribute Project Portfolio Selection
  Juuso Liesiö, Antti Punkka
• Multicriteria Decision Support for Planning Renewable Power Production at Moroccoan Airports
  Tingting Fang, Risto Lahdelma, Abdellah Menou, Pekka Salminen

TB-32: Crisis and Disaster Management
Stream: Humanitarian Operations Research
Room: Room 014
Chair(s):

• Routing for Post-Disaster Needs Assessment Operations
  
• A Consistent Design Supporting Structure For Crisis Management Integrating Personal Behaviours Case analysis: The 2009 Australian Bushfire
  
• A Resource Distribution Network Model for Emergency Logistics Planning
  
• Facility Location and Network Design for Intermodal Transportation of Hazardous Materials
  

TB-33: Defence and Security Applications II
Stream: Defence and Security Applications
Room: Room 015
Chair(s): Ana Isabel Barros

• Prioritization of Capability Gaps in Defence Planning
  
• Multi-Criteria Decision Support for Base Closure and Realignment
  Özkan Özcan, Ahmet Kandakoglu, Nurdinç Şenay
• Multi Criteria Evaluation of Weapon System Maintenance Methods
  
• Multi-Criteria Evaluation of Conceptual Aircraft Designs
  Ahmet Kandakoglu, Y. Ilker Topcu, Cengiz Kahraman

TB-34: Portfolio Optimization 2
Stream: Decision Making Modeling and Risk Assessment in the Financial Sector
Room: Room 016
Chair(s): Paulo Rotella Junior

• Generalized Interval Multi-Objective Programming Problem and its Application to Portfolio Selection
  Pankaj Kumar, Geetanjali Panda, Umesh Gupta
• Clustering Stocks for Portfolio Optimization
  
• Developing a Credit Rating model for Supreme Banking Portfolio at ZABG Bank
  
• Forecast and Fuzzy Data Envelopment Analysis: A Portfolio Optimization
  Paulo Rotella Junior, Edson Pamplona, Fernando Salomon

TB-35: Game Theory with Applications II
Stream: Stochastic Modeling and Simulation in Engineering, Management and Science
Room: Room 131
Chair(s): Katsunori Ano, Leon Petrosyan, Vladimir Mazalov

• The Effect of Shock in Repeated Network Games
  Artem Sedakov
• Nash Bargaining Solutions in a Cooperative Fish War Model
  Vladimir Mazalov, Anna Rettieva
• Sharing Rules for Minimum Cost Arborescence Problems
  Yoshifumi Kusunoki, Tetsuzo Tanino

TB-36: Forest Fire Suppression
Stream: OR in Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries
Room: Room 132
Chair(s): John Hearne

• Using GPS Data to Model Forest Fire Initial Attack Airtanker Operations
  David Martell, Sharon Clark
• Optimal Deployment During an Escaped Fire
  

TB-37: Metaheuristics for Multiobjective Optimization
Stream: Multiobjective Optimization
Room: Room 017
Chair(s): Abraham Duarte

• Heuristics for the Bi-objective Path Dissimilarity Problem
  Jose Luis Gonzalez-Velarde, Rafael Marti, Abraham Duarte
• An Adaptation of the Variable Neighbourhood Search Methodology for Multi-Objective Optimization Problems
  Eduardo G. Pardo, Juan J. Pantrigo, Borja Menéndez, Abraham Duarte
• Multi-Objective Hybrid Algorithms for Solving Routing Problems
  
• A Multi-Objective Multi-start Algorithm for a Balanced Real-World Open Vehicle Routing Problem
  Alfredo G. Hernandez-Diaz, Ana Dolores López-Sánchez, Julian Molina, Daniele Vigo, Rafael Caballero

TB-38: Sparse Optimization Methods
Stream: Convex Optimization Methods and Applications
Room: Room 214
Chair(s): Ya-xiang Yuan, Xin Liu

• A Subspace Method for Minimizing a Convex Quadratic Function with Sparsity Constraint
  Ya-xiang Yuan
• Lower Bound Theory for Schatten-p Quasi-Norm Regularized Least Squares Problem
  Qingna Li, Shiqian Ma
• A Feasible Direction Method for Nonsmooth Convex Constrained Optimization
  

TB-39: ORAHS VII - Healthcare Systems
Stream: Health Care Applications
Room: Room 018
Chair(s): Sally Brailsford, Cigdem Gurgur

• The Doctor Staffing Model in Outpatient Department Based on Queuing Theory and Integer Programming
  Li Luo, Yong Lei
• Operating Room Scheduling With Sequence Dependent Uncertain Surgery Times
  Enis Kayis, Sahin Hanalioglu, Refik Gullu
• Sustainable HealthCare Supply Chains – Bundling Decisions for HealthCare Products
  Cigdem Gurgur
• Network Representation of Subproblem Solution Spaces in Nurse Scheduling
  

TB-40: Educational Planning and Development
Stream: Educational Planning and Development
Room: Room 019
Chair(s): Laura Lotero, Milagros Baldemor, Subhash Datta

• Design of Balanced Diets for 1 to 3 Year-Old Children from Government Day-care Centers in Ecuador
  
• Monte Carlo Simulation and Optimization for pollution reduction strategies at the Colegio Mayor de Antioquia University
  
• School Efficiency in a Developing Country
  
• Efficiency of Accounting Education in the Philippines
  

TB-41: Metaheuristics and Simheuristics in Logistics and Production
Stream: Simulation-Optimization in Logistics & Production
Room: Room 216
Chair(s): Djamila Ouelhadj, Angel A. Juan

• Simheuristics: Hybridizing Simulation with Metaheuristics for Decision-Making under Uncertainty
  
• A Multi-Start based Algorithm with Iterated Local Search for the Uncapacitate Facility Location Problem
  
• ReSATyrus: A Distributed Resource-Sharing Control Compiler
  
• Modeling Approach to Simultaneous Scheduling Batteries and Vehicles in Optimization of Transportation and Handling Tasks Realization
  Milorad Vidovic

TB-42: Efficient Big Data Algorithms
Stream: Big Data Analytics
Room: Room 215
Chair(s):

• Instant Planning with Case Based Reasoning
  
• Non-Parametric Machine Learning Models for Predicting American Option Prices: Comparison Study
  
• U.S. Senate Network Analysis based on Roll Call Votes
  

TB-43: Accounting and Management Decisions
Stream: Operational Research in Financial and Management Accounting
Room: Room 217
Chair(s): Markus Puetz

• Implementing Value Engineering based on a Multidimensional Quality-Oriented Management Control Calculus within a Target Costing and Target Pricing Approach
  Markus Puetz, Stefan Bock
• Robust Long Term Planning of Municipal Budgets
  
• The relationship of Cost System Precision and Organizational and Procedural Structures
  
• Flexibility in Cost-based Transfer Pricing
  

TB-44: Additional Educational Activities for OR
Stream: Initiatives for OR Education
Room: Room 218
Chair(s): Elise del Rosario, Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber, Liudmyla Pavlenko

• Developing OR Application Skills with AIMMS: A Bridge in OR Education
  Ovidiu Listes
• An Overview of the Intensive Programme in Optimization and DSS for Supply Chains (Odss.4SC)
  
• Summer School AACIMP: Introducing Operational Research to the Students with Various Backgrounds
  
• Feedback from the field - ILOG in IBM for a smarter planet
  Alex Fleischer

TB-45: Geometric Clustering
Stream: Geometric Clustering
Room: Room 219
Chair(s): Steffen Borgwardt, Andreas Brieden, Peter Gritzmann

• Partitioning in Polynomial Time via Edge-Complexity
  
• A Balanced k-Means Algorithm for Weighted Point Sets
  Steffen Borgwardt, Andreas Brieden, Peter Gritzmann
• Tabu Search and GRASP for the Capacitated Clustering Problem
  
• Three Distinctive Models for Multicriteria Clustering
  Yves De Smet

TC-50: Plenary Session J. Barceló
Stream: Plenary Sessions
Room: Plenaries room
Chair(s): Nelson Maculan

• Analytics and the Art of Modeling
  Jaume Barceló

TD-01: Railway Scheduling
Stream: Railway and Metro Transportation
Room: Room 118
Chair(s):

• Generating Delivery Commitments from Train Operators' Applications
  
• Optimizing Railway System Performance by Kronecker Algebra
  
• Re-optimization of Rolling Stock Rotations
  Thomas Schlechte, Ralf Borndörfer, Markus Reuther
• An Efficient Macroscopic Railway System Simulator
  

TD-02: Cross-docking and Warehouse Operations Optimtization
Stream: Vehicle Routing
Room: Room 111
Chair(s): Felix Brandt

• Lagrangean Relaxation for the Cross-dock Door Assignment Problem
  
• A Comparison of Heuristics for the Order Batching and the Picker Routing Problem in Manual Order Picking Systems
  André Scholz
• A Multi-Temperature Truck Layout and Loading Problem
  Felix Brandt, Anne Meyer
• A decision support system to optimize material handling at cross-docking terminals
  Pierre Baptiste, Yousef Maknoon, Miguel Anjos

TD-03: Airline Planning
Stream: Aviation
Room: Room 001
Chair(s): Sakae Nagaoka

• Optimizing Time-Dependent Arrival Rates for Truck Handling Operations at an Air Cargo Terminal
  Axel Franz, Raik Stolletz
• Effect of Pricing on Fleet Assignment with Itinerary-Based Demands
  
• Pair-wise Resilience Index based on the Miss Distance and Time to the Closest Point of Approach
  Sakae Nagaoka, Mark Brown

TD-04: Best Practices in Traffic Simulation
Stream: Traffic Flow Theory and Traffic Control
Room: Room 119
Chair(s):

• Validation of Traffic Simulation Models: Are we Looking in the Right Direction?
  
• HBS-compliant Capacity Analysis using VISSIM
  Peter Vortisch
• Sensitivity Analysis: A Valuable Tool in Traffic Model Calibration
  
• Meaningful Quantification of Traffic and Pedestrian Flow Model Accuracy
  

TD-05: Maritime Routing and Scheduling 1
Stream: Maritime Transportation
Room: Room 002
Chair(s): Kjetil Fagerholt

• OR Applications in the Maritime Industry
  
• Development of Containership Services with Transshipments and Deadlines
  Mico Kurilic
• A Decision Support Tool for Liner Shipping Network Design
  Berit Dangaard Brouer, Guy Desaulniers

TD-06: Health Care Operations Management
Stream: Logistics in Health Care
Room: Room 211
Chair(s): Katja Schimmelpfeng

• A Hierarchical Facility Layout Planning Approach for Large and Complex Hospitals
  Stefan Helber
• A Flexible Approach for Strategic Master Surgery Scheduling
  Andreas Fügener, Jens Brunner
• Clustering Clinical Departments for Wards to Achieve a Prespecified Blocking Probability
  Johann Hurink, Theresia van Essen
• Master Surgical Scheduling Considering Stochastic Surgery Durations
  Alexander Kressner, Katja Schimmelpfeng

TD-07: Challenges in Electricity Systems
Stream: Equilibrium Problems in Energy
Room: Room 003
Chair(s): Christoph Weber, Olivier Massol

• Capacity Markets in Europe – Assessing the Benefits of Coordinated Mechanisms versus National Appro
  Michael Bucksteeg, Christoph Weber
• The Impact of Disequilibria in Power Markets
  Thomas Kallabis, Christoph Weber
• Equilibrium Pricing of Reserve Power
  Christoph Weber, Lenja Niesen
• Production Intermittence in Spot Markets
  

TD-08: Green Design and Risk Pooling
Stream: Energy Economics, Environmental Management and Multicriteria Decision Making
Room: Room 120
Chair(s): Andreas Welling

• The Timing of Green Investments under Regime Switching and Ambiguity
  Andreas Welling, Elmar Lukas, Stefan Kupfer
• Green Investment Decisions in Battery Technology for Electric Vehicles: The Role of Uncertainty in the Product Life Cycle
  Stefan Kupfer, Karsten Kieckhäfer, Elmar Lukas, Thomas Spengler
• Discriminated Fee based Incentive Mechanisms for Green Design Products
  I-Hsuan Hong
• Risk Pooling in Commercial Returns by Managing Product Return Period
  

TD-09: Modeling and Optimizing Electricity Markets
Stream: Technical and Financial Aspects of Energy Problems
Room: Room 121
Chair(s): Florentina Paraschiv

• Medium-Term Planning for Thermal Electricity Production
  Florentina Paraschiv, Raimund Kovacevic
• Forecasting Electrical Demand in Commercial Buildings through Energy Performance Indicators using Time Series Methods.
  
• Electricity Swing Option Pricing by Bilevel Optimzation
  Raimund Kovacevic, Georg Pflug
• A Spot-Forward Model for Electricity Prices
  Michael Schürle, Florentina Paraschiv

TD-10: Decision Support Models for the Energy Industry III
Stream: Optimization Models and Algorithms in Energy Industry
Room: Room 122
Chair(s): F.-Javier Heredia

• Stochastic Optimal Generation Bid to Electricity Markets with Emission Risk Constraints
  
• Modeling Renewable Generation Sources for Medium-Term Electricity Generation Planning
  
• Mixed-Integer Linear Programming Models to Solve Optimization Problems of Radial Electrical Distribution Systems
  
• Solving Natural-Gas Infrastructure Planning Models with the Branch-and-Fix Coordination Algorithm
  Adela Pages Bernaus, Gerardo Perez Valdes, Asgeir Tomasgard

TD-11: Various New Advances in Combinatorial Optimization
Stream: Combinatorial Optimization
Room: Room 113
Chair(s):

• A Very Fast Implementation of the Work Function Algorithm based on Network Flows and Flow Cost Reduction
  
• Schedules for Marketing Products with Negative Externalities
  Xujin Chen, Tirui Cao, Hui Hui Wang
• Method of Pattern Analysis: New Algorithms
  Alexey Myachin
• Vehicle Routing for Solid Waste Collection: A Hybrid Metaheuristic Approach
  Antonio Chaves, Eliseu Araújo

TD-12: Difference Equations and Discrete Dynamical Systems
Stream: Continuous and Discontinuous Dynamical Systems
Room: Room 004
Chair(s):

• The Dynamics of a Difference Equation
  
• On a System of Difference Equations
  
• Solving Fractional Vibrational Problem Using Generalized Differential Transform Method
  
• A Model Based Systems Engineering Framework for Large Scale Enterprise Design and Management
  

TD-13: Scheduling and Logistics
Stream: Scheduling
Room: Room 123
Chair(s):

• The Routing of Sea Buses via Integer Linear Programming: The Case of Bosphorus
  Tekiner Kaya
• Two approaches of scheduling problems in a distribution center with two cranes and interference constraint
  
• Energy efficient scheduling on a Single Machine
  
• Scheduling of Identical Parts in Robotic Flow-shop for Different Cell Layouts
  

TD-14: DEA in Energy and Water services
Stream: DEA Applications
Room: Room 124
Chair(s):

• Evaluation of the Brazilian Electricity Distribution using Network DEA
  Lidia Angulo Meza, Placido Moreno, João Carlos Soares de Mello
• Monitoring Efficiency and Productivity of Promoters in Wind Energy Sector
  
• Measuring the Impact of Energy on Industry through: A DEA Approch
  
• Water Treatment Plants Efficiency in México
  

TD-15: Strategic Consumer Behavior, Pricing and Customer Choice
Stream: Revenue Management II
Room: Room 125
Chair(s):

• Quantity Competition in the Presence of Strategic Consumers
  
• Dynamic Pricing with Reference Price Effects under Heterogeneous Customer Arrivals
  Zizhuo Wang
• New Compact Linear Programming Formulations for Choice Network Revenue Management
  
• Pricing Strategies in a Fairness-sensitive Market
  

TD-16: Machine Learning Applications in Web Technology
Stream: Intelligent Optimization in Machine Learning and Data Analysis
Room: Room 127
Chair(s): Takashi Onoda

• Composition of Web Services for Scaling Using Finite States Machines
  Nadia Halfoune, Khaled Sellami
• Big Data - Classification and Optimization Algorithms
  
• Automated Radial Basis Function Neural Network Construction for Malicious URL Classification
  Dirk Snyman, Tiny Du Toit, Hennie Kruger
• Semantic Requests in Web Services Search
  Abdelmalek Boudries, Amad Mourad, Rabah Kassa

TD-17: Interior Point Methods for Large-Scale Optimization
Stream: Interior Point Methods and Conic Optimization
Room: Room 005
Chair(s): Miguel Anjos

• Inexact Search Directions and Matrix-free Interior Point Method for Quantum Information Problems
  Jacek Gondzio
• BlockIP: An Interior-Point Solver for Block Angular Problems
  
• Finding a Basis for the Splitting Preconditioner on Interior Point Methods
  
• Using Hybrid Preconditioners in an IPM for Large Block-Angular Problems
  

TD-18: New Trends in Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization
Stream: Multiobjective Optimization - Theory, Methods and Applications
Room: Room 112
Chair(s): Mariano Luque

• An Interactive Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization Method based on the WASF-GA Algorithm
  Mariano Luque, Kaisa Miettinen, Ana Belen Ruiz, Rubén Saborido Infantes
• A Hybrid GA and ACS Preemptive Multiobjective Model to Approach a Hydroelectric Dynamic Dispatch
  
• A Metamodel Assisted NSGA-II Algorithm for Multiobjective Optimization
  Karthik Sindhya
• Solving Two-Stage Stochastic Integer Linear Programming with Multiple Objective
  

TD-19: Retail Demand Planning
Stream: Demand and Supply Planning in Consumer Goods and Retailing
Room: Room 128
Chair(s): Winfried Steiner

• Product Line Pricing and Design for Aspirational Products with Multiple Customer Segments
  Udatta Palekar
• A Comparison of Different Types of Probit Models for Conjoint Segmentation
  Friederike Paetz, Winfried Steiner
• Association Rules Based on Tree-Building Technique in Market Basket Analysis
  
• Optimal Diapers Production Using Simplex Method
  

TD-20: Power System Design and Operation
Stream: Stochastic Optimization in Energy
Room: Room 129
Chair(s): Asgeir Tomasgard

• Wind Power, Congestion Management and the Variability of Power Prices
  
• Congestion Management by Dispatch or Re-dispatch: Flexibility Costs and Stochastic Effects
  Endre Bjørndal, Mette Bjørndal, Asgeir Tomasgard, Kjetil Midthun
• Reliability in the Power System Modeled in a Multi-Stage Stochastic Mixed Integer Programming Model
  
• Estimation of Stochastic Frontier Cost Efficiency for Companies in the Electricity Distribution Sector in Brazil
  

TD-21: ORCCS1
Stream: OR Consultancy and Case Studies
Room: Room 006
Chair(s): Sue Merchant

• Optimizing Collection Routes for Bottle Banks
  
• Optimal Department Locations Determination and Workforce Schedule in Textile Industry
  
• A Predictive Analytics Approach for Demand Forecasting in the Process Industry
  
• Learning from OR Practice
  John Ranyard, Robert Fildes

TD-22: Game Theory Applications in Supply Chains
Stream: Game Theory and Operations Management
Room: Room 007
Chair(s): Eda Kemahlioglu-Ziya

• On Using Incentives to Induce Reliable Supply: The Interplay of Supply Risk, Bargaining Power, and Process Design
  
• Can You Be Too Fast? Assortment Competition and Supply Chain Responsiveness
  Victor Martínez de Albéniz, Gurhan Kok
• Setting the Right Incentives for Global Planning and Operations
  
• Contracting for Capacity under Renegotiation: Partner Preferences and the Value of Anticipating Renegotiation
  Eda Kemahlioglu-Ziya

TD-23: Behavioural Operations and Supply-Chain Management
Stream: Behavioural Operational Research
Room: Room 008
Chair(s): Hajnalka Vaagen

• Workers to Job Allocation – Case Study of Central Europe Countries
  
• Simulation and Experimental Analysis of Pull-Type Ordering Methods
  
• Social Preconditions for Operational Excellence in Engineer-to-Order Dynamic Systems – The Context of Norwegian Offshore Shipbuilding
  

TD-24: Operations Finance Interface 1
Stream: Operations Finance Interface
Room: Room 212
Chair(s): Burak Kazaz

• Supply Chain Network Structure and Firm Performance
  Jing Wu, John Birge
• Pre-shipment Financing: Credit Capacities and Supply Chain Consequences
  
• Multinational Newsvendor Networks: On the Profit-Shifting Option of Multi-Plant Sourcing
  

TD-25: Patterns Detection in Very Large Datasets
Stream: Data Mining
Room: Room 009
Chair(s): Bart Baesens

• A Social Network Approach to Identifying Key Police Suspects using Data Mining
  
• Finding Cliques in Large Fraudulent Networks: Theory and Insights
  
• Detecting Collusion-Based Occupational Fraud in Business Processes
  
• Optimization Techniques in Astronomy
  

TD-26: Fuzzy Systems
Stream: Fuzzy Decision Support Systems, Soft Computing, Neural Network
Room: Room 010
Chair(s): Pavel Holeček

• Multiple-criteria Fuzzy Evaluation in FuzzME - Recent Development
  Pavel Holeček, Jana Talasova
• SPRINT SMEs: A Fuzzy Linguistic 2-Tuple Recommendation Approach for Allocating human Resources in Software Projects
  
• Direct Search methods to optimize Indoor Location Using Fuzzy Logic
  

TD-27: Contracts, Auctions, Upgrade Timing, and Reverse Supply Chain Management
Stream: Operations/Marketing Interface
Room: Room 213
Chair(s):

• Buyback Contract and Price Postponement in a Decentralized Supply Chain with Additive and Price-Dependent Demand
  
• The Timing of Product Upgrades with Brand Loyalty and Demand Aggregation
  Sam Kirshner, Yuri Levin, Mikhael Nediak
• Supply Network Coordination by Auctions
  Petr Fiala

TD-28: International Outreach and Implicit Expectations in OR
Stream: International Aspects of OR: Cooperation – Coordination – Communication
Room: Room 130
Chair(s): Graham Rand, Jakob Krarup, Ulrike Reisach, Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber

• Extending the Boundaries of IFORS
  Jakob Krarup
• Discovering and Dealing with Intercultural Issues in Operational Research
  Ulrike Reisach
• A Survey of Manpower Planning Process: A Bane or Boon of Unbounded Uncertainty and Bounded Rationality?
  Joshua Magbagbeola
• Pro Bono OR
  Graham Rand

TD-29: Multiple Criteria Decision Making and Optimization 4
Stream: Multiple-Criteria Decision Making and Optimization
Room: Room 011
Chair(s): Jelena J. Stanković

• Elicitation of Criteria Importance Weights with the Simos Method: A Robustness Concern
  Eleftherios Siskos, nikos Tsotsolas, Yannis Siskos
• Dynamic MCDA with PROMETHEE and GAIA
  Bertrand Mareschal
• What Social Choice Rules Could be Simplified to Scoring Rules?
  
• Fuzzy AHP application for improving BFC SEE model
  

TD-30: Location-Allocation Models
Stream: Allocation Problems in Game Theory
Room: Room 012
Chair(s): Lina Mallozzi

• Mathematical Models for a Location- Allocation Problem of Traffic Flow Capturing Facilities
  Yoichi Shimakawa, Hirotaka Takahashi, Hiroyuki Goto
• Maxmin Allocation of Homogeneous Goods: The Three Players Case
  Lucia Milone, Marco Dall'Aglio, Camilla Di Luca
• On the Problem of Optimally Locating Facilities and Allocating Customers to Facilities
  
• A Game Theoretical Model of Sensor Devices Placement in a Planar Region
  

TD-31: Security Decision Processes
Stream: Decision Processes
Room: Room 013
Chair(s):

• An Adversarial Risk Analysis Approach to Fraud Detection
  
• Cibersecurity Decision and Risk Management Process
  
• Incident Handling Decision Processes in Oil and Gas Offshore Drilling
  
• Potential Trade-offs of Different Financing and Regulatory Structures for Airport Security in Europe
  Woohyun Shim, Fabio Massacci, Julian Williams

TD-32: Information Systems
Stream: Data Mining, Knowledge Discovery and Artificial Intelligence
Room: Room 014
Chair(s): Laura Turrini

• Assessing Financial Incentives for Energy Policy-Making
  
• Towards Immune Genetic Algorithm for Composition of Web Services with Constraints
  Khaled Sellami, Djamal Dris
• Simulation as a key element of advisory system in construction engineering
  

TD-33: Defence and Security Applications III
Stream: Defence and Security Applications
Room: Room 015
Chair(s): Ana Isabel Barros

• Optimizing Adversary Aircraft Fleet Composition and Employment
  
• Optimal Scheduling of Canadian Armed Forces Search and Rescue Response Posture
  
• A Routing Problem of UAVs by Mission-Adapted Mathematical Programming
  
• The Multiple Traveling Salesmen Problem with Moving Targets
  Anke Stieber, Armin Fügenschuh

TD-34: Risk Analysis and Assessment
Stream: Decision Making Modeling and Risk Assessment in the Financial Sector
Room: Room 016
Chair(s): Jean-Luc Prigent

• Correlation Across Latent Variables in Credit Risk Models: A Direct Inference from Default Rates
  Fernando Moreira
• A Generalization of Cornish Fischer Formula to Compute VaR: Evidence on Real Estate Data
  Charles-Olivier Amedee-Manesme
• On the Debt Capacity of Growth and Decay Options
  
• Scoring Method of Enterprise Risk Management
  

TD-35: Game Theory with Applications III
Stream: Stochastic Modeling and Simulation in Engineering, Management and Science
Room: Room 131
Chair(s): Yasushi Masuda

• Comparison of Discrete Fixed Point Theorems by a Bimatrix Game
  Hidefumi Kawasaki
• Optimal Licensing for Incumbent Innovator in Differentiated Product Markets
  
• Game Theoretic User Equilibrium in a Congestion-Prone System with Priority
  Yasushi Masuda, Akira Tsuji

TD-36: Forest Management for Biodiversity
Stream: OR in Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries
Room: Room 132
Chair(s): Mustapha Ouhimmou

• Towards the Development of a Spatially Explicit Management Model to Protect the Fisher (Martes Pennanti) in an Industrial Forest in California
  
• Production Possibility Frontiers for Energy Wood, Timber Production and Biological Diversity in North Karelia, Finland
  
• Wood Allocation and Selection of Forest Harvest Areas - How to Consider Spatial Dispersion and Sustainable Forest Management Policies?
  Mustapha Ouhimmou, Azadeh Mobtaker, Mikael Rönnqvist, Marc Paquet

TD-37: Multicriteria Decision Making in Humanitarian Logistics
Stream: Multiobjective Optimization
Room: Room 017
Chair(s): Begoña Vitoriano, F. Javier Martin-Campo

• A Multicriteria Proposal for a Humanitarian Logistics Problem: An Integral Approach
  
• Metaheuristics for a Multi-Criteria Humanitarian Aid Distribution Problem
  José María Ferrer, M. T. Ortuno, Gregorio Tirado
• A Decomposition-based Heuristic for Optimizing Post-Disaster Relief
  
• Interactive Decision Making Approach for Selecting an Evacuation Plan
  Juan Gaytán, Javier Garcia-Gutierrez

TD-38: Proximal and Splitting Algorithms
Stream: Convex Optimization Methods and Applications
Room: Room 214
Chair(s): Xiaoming Yuan

• On the Extension of ADMM for Separable Convex Programming and Beyond: From Variational Inequality Perspective
  Xiaoming Yuan
• A Proximal Point Algorithm Using an Asymmetric Linear Term
  Deren Han
• Smoothing Proximal Gradient Methods for a Class of Nonsmooth Convex Minimization Problems
  

TD-39: Algorithms for Large-Scale 0-1 Linear and Quadratic Programming Problems
Stream: Discrete and Global Optimization
Room: Room 018
Chair(s): Jitamitra Desai

• An Improved RLT-based Mechanism for Solving Nonconvex 0-1 Quadratic Programs
  Jitamitra Desai
• On Augmented Lagrangian Duality In Integer Programming
  Andrew Eberhard, Natashia Boland
• Integer Bilevel Quadratic Fractional and Quadratic Programming Problem
  Nacera Maachou, Mustapha Moulai
• C-GRASP for Mixed Integer Global Optimization
  João Lauro Faco', Mauricio Resende, Ricardo Silva

TD-40: Innovations in Meta-Analytics I
Stream: Meta-Analytics: A Marriage of Metaheuristics and Analytics
Room: Room 019
Chair(s): Fred Glover, Manuel Laguna, Gary Kochenberger

• Variable Association Networks for Identifying Patterns in 0-1 Integer Programs
  Shunji Umetani
• A Two-Stage Population-Based Approach with Learning Mechanisms
  Eduardo Lalla-Ruiz, Christopher Expósito Izquierdo, Belén Melián-Batista, Marcos Moreno-Vega
• SAT-DM: Satisfiability Data Mining for Classification Problems
  Vincent Gardeux, Lars Magnus Hvattum, Fred Glover
• Meta-Analytics for Improved Heuristic Search in Combinatorial Spaces
  Manuel Laguna, Abraham Duarte, Rafael Marti, Anna Martínez-Gavara

TD-41: Enterprise-wide Optimization
Stream: Simulation-Optimization in Logistics & Production
Room: Room 216
Chair(s): Adrian Aguirre

• Optimal Operation of a Petrol Refinery Hydrogen Network
  
• Development of a Multi-Objective Optimization Model for the Integrated Management of Internal and External Production Resources
  
• A Large Neighbourhood Search Combined with Monte-Carlo Simulation for Coping with Airlines Operational Disruptions
  Daniel Guimarans, Pol Arias, Miguel Mujica Mota
• Improvements in Multi-Objective Optimization for Supply Chain Design Problem
  

TD-42: OR in Systemic Risk, Credit Risk and Rating
Stream: Big Data Analytics
Room: Room 215
Chair(s):

• Assessing the Effects of Spanish Financial Sector Restructuring on Branch Rivalry
  
• Credit Scoring Model with Additional Regression Parameters Taken from the Social Networks
  Nataliya Soldatyuk, Michal Cerny
• Assessing Developing Countries Creditworthiness Using the UTADIS Multicriteria Analysis Method
  

TD-43: Data Mining, Statistics and Reliability Theory
Stream: Computational Statistics
Room: Room 217
Chair(s):

• Maximum Margin Multiple Kernel Clustering by Semi-infinite Optimization
  
• New Solution Methods for the Mean Shift Outlier Model by M-Estimation Based on the Tikhonov Regularizaton and LASSO
  
• Point and Interval Estimation for Weibull Regression Model under Progressive Type-II Censoring
  
• A Simulation Study to Compare the Estimators for Several Discrete Distributions Under Type I Censoring
  

TD-44: OR Promotion among Academia, Businesses, Governments, etc.
Stream: Initiatives for OR Education
Room: Room 218
Chair(s): Liudmyla Pavlenko, Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber, Elise del Rosario

• Modeling Population Dynamics with Markov Chains and Logistic Regression in Industrial Engineering Faculty
  Erick Orozco
• Developing the Quantitative Curriculum in Business and Accounting
  
• The Modelling as Art for Sustainable Development of World (Fundamental Aspects in Engineering Education from the Viewpoint of a Nonlinear Analysts - OR)
  Lyudmila Kuzmina
• Is Big Data the New Sputnik? An Analysis of the Skills Gap in the Analytics Job Market
  Michael Mortenson, Stewart Robinson, Neil Doherty

TD-45: Sustainable Development
Stream: Sustainable Development
Room: Room 219
Chair(s): Zenonas Turskis, Tatjana Vilutienė

• Strategy Modelling for Hotel Facilities Management
  Rasa Apanaviciene, Silvija Kapočiene, Nerijus Varnas, Ala Daugeliene
• Integrated Group Fuzzy Multi-Criteria and Cost-Effective Model for Selection of Facility Management Services for Commercial Premises
  
• Quality Management Improvement in Road and Highway Engineering
  
• Markov Switching Applied to the Evolution of GDP of Argentina, Brasil, Colombia and Mexico, 1950 to 2004
  

TE-01: Robustness and Maintenance of Vehicles and Infra
Stream: Railway and Metro Transportation
Room: Room 118
Chair(s): Ángel Marín

• Long-Term Planning of Railway Track Maintenance
  
• Interactive Rolling-Horizon Scheduling of Depot Visits and Condition based Maintenance Tasks
  Bob Huisman, Cees Witteveen
• Optimal Scheduling of Aircrafts’ Engines Repair Process
  
• Scheduling of the train operation by a double track railroad while segments are closed.
  Nail Khusnullin, Alexander Lazarev

TE-02: Vehicle Routing Applications
Stream: Vehicle Routing
Room: Room 111
Chair(s): Refail Kasimbeyli

• Courier Routing for Hospital Labs
  
• The Blended Milk Collection Problem using Collection Points
  Germán Paredes-Belmar, Andrés Bronfman, Armin Lüer-Villagra, Vladimir Marianov
• Hybrid Metaheuristic for the Vehicle Routing and Scheduling Problem Featuring Perishability and Capacity Restrictions
  
• A Two - Objective Mixed Integer Mathematical Model for the Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem
  Melis Alpaslan, Refail Kasimbeyli
• Vehicle Routing and Scheduling with Cross-dock
  Yousef Maknoon, Pierre Baptiste, Gilbert Laporte

TE-03: Continuous Location (contributed)
Stream: Location
Room: Room 001
Chair(s): Tsutomu Suzuki

• Continuous Multifacility Ordered Median Location Problems
  Víctor Blanco, Justo Puerto, Safae EL Haj Ben Ali
• A Modelling Framework for Solving Restricted Planar Location Problems with Forbidden Regions Using Phi-Object
  
• Cyclic Dynamics of Demand Distribution and Facility Location
  Tsutomu Suzuki

TE-04: Urban Traffic Control
Stream: Traffic Flow Theory and Traffic Control
Room: Room 119
Chair(s):

• Robust Signal-Controlled Road Network Design with Equilibrium Flow
  Suh-Wen Chiou
• Optimizing Traffic Signals and its Consequences for Traffic in Surrounding Areas
  
• Analyzing the Shape of the Macroscopic Fundamental Diagram on Grid Urban Networks for Urban Planning Purposes
  
• A Time-budget Surplus Maximisation Three-objective User Equilibrium Model
  Judith Y. T. Wang, Matthias Ehrgott

TE-05: Optimization in Liner Shipping 1
Stream: Maritime Transportation
Room: Room 002
Chair(s): Berit Dangaard Brouer

• Scheduling of Connections in a Liner Shipping Network Reducing Bunker Consumption while Minimizing Transit Times
  
• Liner Shipping Network Design with Transit Times
  David Pisinger, Berit Dangaard Brouer, Christian Møller Karsten
• Feasibility of Shuttle Services in Liner Shipping Networks
  Judith Mulder, Rommert Dekker
• Solving the Liner Shipping Network Design Problem using Branch-and-Price
  

TE-06: Stochastic Modeling in Health Care
Stream: Logistics in Health Care
Room: Room 211
Chair(s):

• On Forecasting Outcomes of a Binary Time Series
  
• RFID-enabled Modeling and Analysis of Care Coordination in Ambulatory Care
  
• Modeling Non-punctual Patients in an Outpatient Clinic
  Luis Vargas, Carl May

TE-07: Dynamical Models in Sustainable Development I
Stream: Dynamical Models in Sustainable Development
Room: Room 003
Chair(s):

• Sustainability Performance of Energy Supply Chains
  Patricia Rogetzer
• System-Dynamics Analysis of the Belgian Energy Transition After the Nuclear Shut-Down
  Pierre Kunsch
• Long-Term Sustainable Optimal Management of Multispecies Stochastic Fisheries
  Diwakar Poudel, Leif Sandal, Stein Ivar Steinshamn, Sturla Kvamsdal
• Simulation Modelling of Human Activities in Agricultural Production Systems
  

TE-08: Carbon Footprint and Climate
Stream: Energy Economics, Environmental Management and Multicriteria Decision Making
Room: Room 120
Chair(s):

• Institutional Level, FDI and Pollution Tax
  
• Methodology of the Carbon Footprint in the Logistics Business Operations Applied for Food Manufacturing Companies
  
• Cooperation of Climate Clubs
  
• Sensor and Controller on Bio-diesel Fuel Market for Eco-efficient Policy Making
  

TE-09: Decision Dependent Stochastic Problems and Day-Ahead Forecasting in Energy
Stream: Technical and Financial Aspects of Energy Problems
Room: Room 121
Chair(s): Georg Pflug

• Decision Dependent Stochastic Optimization Problems
  Georg Pflug
• A Trust-Region Approach for Optimization under Decision-Dependent Uncertainty
  
• Forecasting one Day-ahead Household Natural Gas Consumption with Differently Sized Moving Datasets using Multiple Linear Regression
  
• New Approaches to Day Ahead Electricity Price Forecasting: MARS and CMARS Models
  Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber, Ayse Ozmen, Miray Hanim Yildirim

TE-10: Energy Management and Modelling
Stream: Optimization Models and Algorithms in Energy Industry
Room: Room 122
Chair(s): Mel Devine

• Techno Economic Model for Adopting Cogeneration or Conventional Steam Boiler throughout Natural Gas Penetration
  Matan Shnaiderman
• PRIMES-TREMOVE: A Transport Sector Model for Long-Term Energy-Economy-Environment Planning for EU
  Pelopidas Siskos
• Incorporating Risk Aversion into the Specification of Efficient Renewable Energy Feed-in Tariffs
  

TE-11: Advances in Combinatorial Optimization
Stream: Combinatorial Optimization
Room: Room 113
Chair(s): Paolo Toth, Silvano Martello

• The Biobjective Capacitated m-Ring Star Problem
  Herminia I. Calvete, Carmen Galé, Jose A. Iranzo
• A Branch-and-Bound Method for Box Constrained Integer Polynomial Optimization
  Claudia D'Ambrosio, Christoph Buchheim
• Models and Algorithms for Packing into the Smallest Square
  Silvano Martello, Michele Monaci
• Generalized Intersection Cuts from Orthant Interval Sets
  Egon Balas

TE-12: Preemptive Project Scheduling and Resource Leveling
Stream: Project Management and Scheduling
Room: Room 004
Chair(s): Jürgen Zimmermann, Julia Rieck

• A Column-Generation Approach to Lower Bounds for Resource Leveling Problems
  
• Models and Bounds for Preemptive Project Scheduling with Generalized Precedence Relationships
  
• Mathematical Formulations for RCPSP/max-cal
  
• MILP Models for Resource Leveling Problems
  Julia Rieck, Jürgen Zimmermann

TE-13: Handling Uncertainty in Scheduling and Lot-Sizing 1
Stream: Scheduling
Room: Room 123
Chair(s): Alexandre Dolgui, Mikhail Y. Kovalyov

• A Unified Modeling Approach for the Static-Dynamic Uncertainty Strategy in Stochastic Lot-Sizing
  Roberto Rossi, Onur Kilic, Armagan Tarim
• A General Lotsizing and Scheduling Problem with Stochastic Product Returns
  Guillaume Amand, Yasemin Arda
• Feasibility and Optimality Conditions for Setup Schedule in Uncertain Manufacturing Systems Depend on the Interplay between Setup Logistics and Perturbation Flow
  Jean-Pierre Kenne, Vladimir Polotski, Ali Gharbi
• Optimal Lot-Sizing with Deterioration and Price Management
  

TE-14: DEA Developments
Stream: DEA Applications
Room: Room 124
Chair(s):

• Piece-Wise Linear Cost Efficiency Evaluation
  Zohreh Moghaddas, Farhad Hosseinzadeh Lotfi, Mohsen Vaez-Ghasemi
• Multi-Directional Program Efficiency: The Case of Lithuanian Family Farms
  
• Likelihood Ranking of Decision Making Units
  
• Technological Superiority
  

TE-15: Revenue Management with Advertising Applications
Stream: Revenue Management II
Room: Room 125
Chair(s):

• Optimizing Online Advertising Budget Allocation across Multiple Placements
  
• A Class of Nonlinear Allocation Problems with Heterogeneous Substitution
  
• The Least Cost Influence Problem
  Rui Zhang, Dilek Gunnec, S. Raghavan
• Foundations of Social Network Ad Optimization
  

TE-16: Model Selection Methods
Stream: Intelligent Optimization in Machine Learning and Data Analysis
Room: Room 127
Chair(s): Ivan Reyer

• Multimodelling and Object Selection for Banking Credit Scoring
  Alexander Aduenko, Vadim Strijov
• Comparison of Different Clustering Algorithms Based PCF Classifiers
  Emre Çimen, Gurkan Ozturk
• Multicollinearity: Performance Analysis of Feature Selection Algorithms
  Alexandr Katrutsa, Vadim Strijov
• Data Mining Application with Decision Tree Algorithms for the Evaluation of Personal Loan Customers’ Repayment Performances
  

TE-17: Conic Optimization and Applications
Stream: Interior Point Methods and Conic Optimization
Room: Room 005
Chair(s): Tamás Terlaky

• Hierarchical Cuts to Strengthen Semidefinite Relaxations of NP-hard Graph Problems
  
• Specialized Interior Point Methods for Classes of Random Network Problems
  
• A Feasible Direction Algorithm for Nonlinear Second-Order Cone Optimization Problems
  Miguel Carrasco, Alfredo Canelas, Julio López

TE-18: Nonconvex Multiobjective Optimization I
Stream: Multiobjective Optimization - Theory, Methods and Applications
Room: Room 112
Chair(s): Julius Žilinskas, Panos Pardalos

• On Optimal Algorithms for Multi-Objective Global Optimization
  Antanas Zilinskas
• A Deterministic Method to Solve Constrained Multiobjective Optimization
  
• Nonlinear Multi-Objective Constrained Optimization: Using Second Order Approximation of Pareto Frontier Local Geometry in Descent-Diffusion Approach
  Alexis Pospelov, Fedor Gubarev
• Exact Solutions of the Cell Formation Problem in Group Technology
  Julius Žilinskas, Boris Goldengorin, Panos Pardalos

TE-19: Inventory Planning II
Stream: Demand and Supply Planning in Consumer Goods and Retailing
Room: Room 128
Chair(s):

• Joint Optimization of Maintenance and Spare Part Inventory Policies
  
• An Enhanced Model for Integrated Replenishment and Transportation Problem in a Dynamic Demand Environment
  
• Inventory Models with Non-Stationary Transition Probabilities to Determine the Optimal Mix of Owned and Rented Items
  Leonardo Epstein, Eduardo González-Császár
• A General Approximation to the Distribution of Count Data with Applications to Inventory Modeling
  

TE-20: Stochastic Optimization in Energy Infrastructure Planning
Stream: Stochastic Optimization in Energy
Room: Room 129
Chair(s):

• A Stochastic Programming Model for Renewable Energy Infrastructure Planning Considering Oligopolistic Competition
  
• Impact of Electricity Pricing Policy on the Investment of Renewable Energy
  
• Stochastic Project Scheduling for Wind Farm Installation
  Diclehan Tezcaner Ozturk, Euan Barlow, Kerem Akartunali, Matthew Revie, Sandy Day, Evangelos Boulougouris

TE-21: Lessons from Industrial Collaboration
Stream: OR Consultancy and Case Studies
Room: Room 006
Chair(s): John Ranyard

• Simulation Tools for Railway Planning
  
• Gas Transport Network Simulation and Optimization
  Ángel M. González-Rueda, Alfredo Bermúdez, Julio González-Díaz, Francisco José González-Diéguez
• Computing Stoichiometric Matrices in Chemical Reactions. An MINLP Problem
  Emilio CARRIZOSA, Rafael Blanquero, M. Asuncion Jimenez-Cordero, Boglárka G.-Tóth
• Logistic Report on the Location of an Agricultural Processing Plant
  María José Ginzo Villamayor, Julio González-Díaz, Balbina Casas-Méndez

TE-22: Cooperation and Competition in Operations Management
Stream: Game Theory and Operations Management
Room: Room 007
Chair(s): Alf Kimms, Ana Meca, Igor Kozeletskyi

• Retailer Assortment Strategies to Induce Manufacturer Competition
  Sebastian Heese, Victor Martínez de Albéniz
• Quality Gatekeeping at the Retail Level: Implications for the Role of Retailers in Quality Assurance
  Mingming Leng
• A Multi-Objective Allocation Problem in the Cooperative Traveling Salesman Problem with Rolling Horizon
  Igor Kozeletskyi, Alf Kimms
• Revenue in Contests with Many Participants
  Arieh Gavious

TE-23: Analysis of Human Behavioural Data and Knowledge
Stream: Behavioural Operational Research
Room: Room 008
Chair(s):

• A Decision Framework for Using Mood as Context in Recommender Systems
  
• Analysis of Commercial Vehicle Operation Data for Driving Safety Enhancement
  
• From Community Concerns to Societal Risk Perception
  
• Driver Attention for Information Display on Variable Message Signs with Graphics and Texts
  

TE-24: Operations Finance Interface 2
Stream: Operations Finance Interface
Room: Room 212
Chair(s): Anne Lange

• Analysis of an Artemisia-Based Malaria Medicine Supply Chain
  Scott Webster, Burak Kazaz, Prashant Yadav
• Franchise Contracting with Debt Financing and Bankruptcy Risk
  
• Wine Futures and Advance Selling under Quality Uncertainty
  

TE-25: Data Mining via Pattern Analysis and Recognition
Stream: Data Mining
Room: Room 009
Chair(s):

• Urban Bus Transit Boarding Pattern Analysis and Route Planning for the Disabled
  Deniz Türsel Eliiyi, Uğur Eliiyi
• Causal Inference with Simultaneous Outlier Detection and Removal
  
• Rule Mining in Critical Node Detection
  
• A Computational Rhetoric Framework for Mining Online Stock Commentaries
  

TE-26: Nonconvex Nonsmooth Optimization Methods
Stream: Nonsmooth Optimization and Variational Analysis
Room: Room 010
Chair(s): Napsu Karmitsa

• A New Bundle Method for Nonsmooth DC Optimization
  Kaisa Joki, Napsu Karmitsa, Marko M. Mäkelä
• Numerical Methods for Solving Nonsmooth Optimization Problems with Known Structures
  Adil Bagirov
• Piecewise-Concave Minimization via Nonconvex Bundle Local Searches
  Giovanni Giallombardo, Manlio Gaudioso, Giovanna Miglionico
• A New Bundle Method for Sparse Problems
  Napsu Karmitsa

TE-27: Pricing Decisions
Stream: Operations/Marketing Interface
Room: Room 213
Chair(s): Elif Dogdu

• Strategic Pricing Decisions for Competing Suppliers
  
• Pricing Warranty for Online Retailers
  Lei Guan
• Dynamic Pricing for Perishable Products in the Presence of Customer Behaviour
  Elif Dogdu, Derya Eren Akyol
• A Dynamic Pricing Strategy under Supplier Disruptions
  Mualla Gonca Avci, Derya Eren Akyol, Gokalp Yildiz

TE-28: Congestion Games: Dynamics and Algorithms
Stream: Dynamic and Repeated Games
Room: Room 130
Chair(s):

• A Lemke-Like Algorithm for the Multiclass Network Equilibrium Problem
  Thomas Pradeau, Frédéric Meunier
• Risk Measures and Shortest Paths in Network Games
  Roberto Cominetti, Alfredo Torrico
• A Mean-Risk Model for the Stochastic Traffic Assignment Problem
  
• Dynamics in Composite Congestion Games
  

TE-29: Multiple Criteria Decision Making and Optimization 5
Stream: Multiple-Criteria Decision Making and Optimization
Room: Room 011
Chair(s): Evangelos Grigoroudis

• Elicitation of a Model of Map Comparison Taking into account Geographic Aspects
  Valérie Brison, Marc Pirlot
• Fuzzy Multi-Criteria Group Decision Making: A Case of Art Students’ Placement in Undergraduate Art Programs
  V. Alpagut Yavuz
• Towards a Multi-Objective Capital Allocation within Data Centres
  
• Modeling Additional Information in the MUSA Method: A Robust Extension
  Evangelos Grigoroudis, Nikolaos Matsatsinis, Nikolaos Matsatsinis

TE-30: Recent Models on Emerging Optimization Problems
Stream: Allocation Problems in Game Theory
Room: Room 012
Chair(s): Takako Yamada

• An Ant Colony Optimization Algorithm for the Daily Photograph Selection Problem of Earth Observation Satellites
  Sezgin Kilic
• A Fuzzy-QFD based Mathematical Model for Sustainable Supplier Selection
  
• Characteristic Analysis and Modeling of User Tweet Behavior on a Consumer-Insight Rating Website
  

TE-31: Topics in Decision Processes
Stream: Decision Processes
Room: Room 013
Chair(s): Manel Baucells, Antonio Jiménez-Martín, Walter Gutjahr

• Expected Utility and Narrow Framing
  Manel Baucells, Rakesh Sarin
• Selecting Preventive, Palliative and Fault Transmission Safeguards for Risk Management of Information Systems: A Fuzzy Approach
  
• A Competitive Covering Tour Problem in Disaster Relief
  Christian Burkart, Walter Gutjahr, Pamela Nolz
• Decision making in the chaotic environment of first response to disasters
  Kate Hughes
• Decision-Making Social Networks
  

TE-32: Data Mining Applications and Applied Probability
Stream: Data Mining, Knowledge Discovery and Artificial Intelligence
Room: Room 014
Chair(s):

• What Drives Strategic Deviance in a Nascent Industry? Evidence from Big Data
  
• Diagnosis and Prediction of Equipment Fault using the Probability Model
  Inseok Lee, Jungbin Kim, Jun-Geol Baek
• How to Use Regression Method Properly
  
• Dynamic Pricing and Demand Learning for an Online Retailer
  David Simchi-Levi

TE-33: Defence and Security Applications IV
Stream: Defence and Security Applications
Room: Room 015
Chair(s): Ana Isabel Barros

• The Framework of the Decision-Making Support System for Joint Operations
  Chifei Zhou
• Creating Real Time Intelligence
  
• Information Retrieval Customized for Intelligence Collection
  Ned Dimitrov
• Development of Terrorist Threat Prediction Model in Indonesia by using Bayesian Network
  

TE-34: Risk Analysis and Management
Stream: Decision Making Modeling and Risk Assessment in the Financial Sector
Room: Room 016
Chair(s):

• Support Vector Regression for Loss Given Default Modelling
  Xiao Yao, Jonathan Crook, Galina Andreeva
• Modelling Operational Risk Using Skew t-Copulas via Bayesian Inference and Extreme Value Theory
  Betty Johanna Garzon Rozo, Jonathan Crook, Fernando Moreira
• Comparative Analysis of Multinomial and Multistage Logistic Regression Approaches to Credit Card Holders Behaviour Modelling
  
• Executive Compensation and Excessive Risk-Taking: A Quantile Regression Analysis
  

TE-35: Airline Optimization
Stream: Stochastic Modeling and Simulation in Engineering, Management and Science
Room: Room 131
Chair(s):

• A Multi-Period Airline Seat Inventory Control Model
  Sang-Won Kim
• Measurement of Efficiency Using Data Envelopment Analysis: An Application in Airline Industry
  
• Toward an Equitable and Collaborative Mechanism for Schedule Coordination at Congested US Airports
  Alexandre Jacquillat, Vikrant Vaze, Amedeo Odoni