Program

MA-03: Opening session
Stream: Plenary sessions
Room: 200AB
Chair(s):

MB-01: Data science meets optimization
Stream: European working group: Data science meets optimization
Room: 307B
Chair(s): Patrick De Causmaecker

• Cost-sensitive support vector machines classification
  Emilio CARRIZOSA, Sandra Benítez-Peña, Rafael Blanquero, Pepa Ramírez-Cobo
• Optil.io: Evaluation platform for data science and optimization algorithms
  Szymon Wasik, Maciej Antczak, Jan Badura, Artur Laskowski, Tomasz Sternal
• Design of heuristic algorithms as an optimization problem
  Patrick De Causmaecker
• Optimization in large graphs
  Pieter Leyman, Patrick De Causmaecker

MB-02: Operational research in financial and management accounting
Stream: Operational research in financial and management accounting
Room: 308B
Chair(s): Matthias Amen

• Survey on tax management accounting in German SME as a basis for supporting operative planning
  Markus Puetz
• Further development of an operative planning approach with several production sites and different trade tax collection rates
  Matthias Amen
• A continuous auditing framework for human-machine-collaboration in the audit function
  Alexander Rudyk
• Modeling probabilty of default term structures: A new approach using scoring recalibration
  Daniel Börstler, Sascha H. Moells

MB-03: Keynote speaker: Dave Stanford
Stream: Keynote sessions
Room: 200AB
Chair(s): Steve Drekic

• Key performance indicators and their optimal performance
  David Stanford

MB-05: Ensemble learning for business analytics
Stream: Multiple classifier systems and applications
Room: 203
Chair(s): Sureyya Ozogur-Akyuz

• Time series forecasting using bootstrap-based ensemble
  Donghwan Kim, Jun-Geol Baek
• Evaluating the short term effect of cross market discounts in purchases using neural networks
  Vera Miguéis, Ana Camanho, João Cunha
• Data-driven system analysis and inferential modelling
  Jian-Bo Yang, Dong-Ling Xu
• Regularized ensemble pruning by optimizing accuracy diversity trade-off
  Sureyya Ozogur-Akyuz

MB-06: CORS student paper competition (open)
Stream: CORS student paper competitions
Room: 204A
Chair(s): Mehmet Begen, Nadia Lahrichi

• CORS Student paper competition (Open category)
  Mehmet Begen

MB-07: Expert elicitation
Stream: Expert judgement elicitation
Room: 204B
Chair(s): robin rivest

• Adventures in behavioural aggregation
  John Paul Gosling
• Predicting antimicrobial resistance
  Alec Morton, Abigail Colson, Tim Bedford, Itamar Megiddo, Ramanan Laxminarayan
• The refined partition method: Elicitation of dependence from experts with minimally informative distributions
  Christoph Werner
• A NUMERICAL EXPERIMENT ON THE POSSIBILITY OF GETTING THE AHP SOLUTION WITH MUCH LESS PAIRWISE COMPARISONS
  robin rivest

MB-08: Freight demand modeling
Stream: City logistics and freight demand modeling
Room: 205A
Chair(s): Carlos A. Gonzalez-Calderon, Jose Holguin-Veras

• Generalized Noortman and Van Es’ empty trips model
  Carlos A. Gonzalez-Calderon, Jose Holguin-Veras, Johanna Amaya, Ivan Sanchez-Diaz, Ivan Sarmiento
• Freight demand synthesis including modal split-a combined estimation procedure
  Lokesh Kalahasthi, Jose Holguin-Veras
• Coordination in delivery points networks for e-commerce last-mile
  Ivan Sanchez-Diaz, Ivan IvanC, Wouter Dewulf

MB-09: 2017 David Martell student paper prize in forestry
Stream: CORS SIG on forestry
Room: 205B
Chair(s): Jean-Francois Audy, Claudia Cambero, Taraneh Sowlati, David Martell

• Evaluating order acceptance policies for divergent production systems with co-production
  Ludwig Dumetz
• Agent-based simulation of multiple-round timber combinatorial auction
  Farnoush Farnia
• A bilevel model formulation for the distributed wood supply planning problem
  Gregory Paradis

MB-10: Nonsmooth optimization algorithms
Stream: Algorithmic nonsmooth optimization and differential equation solving
Room: 205C
Chair(s): Andrea Walther

• Clustering in large data sets with the limited memory bundle method
  Napsu Karmitsa, Adil Bagirov, Sona Taheri
• On optimality conditons for piecewise smooth functions
  Andreas Griewank
• On convexity conditions for piecewise smooth objective functions
  Andrea Walther, Andreas Griewank
• Implementation example of algorithmic differentiation for piecewise smooth functions with the ABS-normal form
  Koichi Kubota

MB-11: Revenue management, pricing, managerial accounting
Stream: Revenue management, pricing, managerial accounting (contributed)
Room: 206A
Chair(s): Álvaro Flores

• A Reward determination framework for crowdsourcing
  Gülfem Isiklar Alptekin, Asli Sari
• Markdown optimization for geographically diversified customers using randomized decomposition approach
  Andrew Vakhutinsky, Kresimir Mihic
• Cost sharing with consideration of network service quality between internet service provider and content provider
  Kwei-Long Huang, Chia-Wei Kuo
• Trial-offer markets with continuation
  Álvaro Flores, Pascal Van Hentenryck, Gerardo Berbeglia

MB-12: Financial mathematics 1
Stream: Financial mathematics and OR
Room: 206B
Chair(s): Norio Hibiki

• An EBIT-based structural credit risk model using Bayesian estimation
  Rei Yamamoto, Kazunari Sawada
• Stress testing model based on supply chain relationships
  Muneki Kawaguchi
• CAPM on segmented markets: A synthesis, an extension and an application to Islamic financial markets
  Ahmed Badreldin, Bernhard Nietert
• Multi-period optimization model with downside risk for market order execution
  Norio Hibiki, Shunichi Takenobu

MB-13: Performance and efficiency evaluation
Stream: Recent advances in performance and efficiency evaluation
Room: 207
Chair(s): Adel Hatami-Marbini

• Gangs elimination in DEA cross-evaluation
  Gholam R. Amin
• A DEA-DA approach for classifying multi-group observations
  Mehdi Toloo, Adel Hatami-Marbini
• Dual-role factors for imprecise data envelopment analysis
  Adel Hatami-Marbini

MB-14: Bayesian mechanism design via duality
Stream: Algorithmic/computational game theory
Room: 305
Chair(s): Matthew Weinberg

• Simple mechanisms for subadditive buyers via duality
  Yang Cai
• A simple and approximately optimal mechanism for a buyer with complements
  Ophir Friedler, Matthew Weinberg, Michal Feldman, Inbal Talgam Cohen, Alon Eden
• The FedEx problem
  Kira Goldner, Amos Fiat, Anna Karlin, Elias Kousoupias
• A duality based unified approach to Bayesian mechanism design
  Matthew Weinberg, Yang Cai, Nikhil Devanur

MB-15: Interior point methods 1
Stream: Continuous optimization (contributed)
Room: 307A
Chair(s): Aurelio Oliveira

• Further development of column generation with the primal-dual interior point method
  Jacek Gondzio
• An interior algorithm for solving nonlinear second-order cone complementarity problems
  Julio López, Miguel Carrasco, Hector Ramirez
• Optimized choice of parameters in interior-point methods for linear programming
  Aurelio Oliveira, Luiz-Rafael Santos, Fernando Villas-Bôas, Clovis Perin

MB-16: Operations finance interface 1
Stream: Operations finance interface
Room: 308A
Chair(s): Thomas Archibald

• Optimal investment decisions for recovery from disruptions in the decentralized supply chains
  Nader Azad, Elkafi Hassini, Manish Verma
• Harvest decisions of budget-constrained farmers
  Anne Lange
• Supply chain networks and cascading failures
  John Birge

MB-17: TSP and VRP
Stream: Discrete optimization - Computational methods
Room: 309A
Chair(s): Stefan Ropke

• Solving time-dependent traveling salesman problem with time windows with dynamic discretization discovery
  Duc Minh Vu, Natashia Boland, Mike Hewitt, Martin Savelsbergh
• On solvable cases of the shortest TSP-path problem
  Vladimir Deineko
• Quality of bound versus running time of the branch-and-bound algorithm: A computational experiment
  Stefan Ropke

MB-18: Enumeration problems and applications 1
Stream: Game theory, discrete mathematics and their applications
Room: 2101
Chair(s): Yasuko Matsui

• On safe sets in graphs
  Yasuko Matsui
• On the enumeration of chequered tilings in polygons
  Takashi Horiyama, Hiroaki Hamanaka, Ryuhei Uehara
• Enumerating all 2-edge-connected subgraphs
  Katsuhisa Yamanaka, Takashi Hirayama, Hiroki Kaga, Naoki Katoh, Yasuaki Nishitani, Toshiki Saitoh, Kunihiro Wasa
• Enumerating floorplans
  Shin-ichi Nakano

MB-19: Business analytics 1
Stream: Business analytics
Room: 2102AB
Chair(s): Wouter Verbeke, Dries Benoit, Kristof Coussement

• Profit-based classification and feature selection with support vector machines: An application in credit scoring
  Sebastian Maldonado, Cristian Bravo, Julio López, Juan Perez
• A closer look at voting methods for cost-sensitive ensembles
  George Petrides, Wouter Verbeke
• Profit driven uplift modeling
  Floris Devriendt, Wouter Verbeke
• A profit-based approach for evaluating business-oriented regressions
  Cristian Bravo, Wouter Verbeke

MB-20: Realistic production scheduling
Stream: Scheduling: Theory and applications
Room: 2103
Chair(s): Rubén Ruiz, Imma Ribas

• Improved iterated greedy procedures for the distributed permutation flowshop problem
  Rubén Ruiz, Quan-Ke Pan, Bahman Naderi
• A metaheuristic algorithm for the unrelated parallel machine scheduling problem with additional resources
  Eva Vallada, Fulgencia Villa, Luis Fanjul Peyró
• Approaching scheduling with automatic algorithm design
  Pedro Alfaro-Fernandez, Rubén Ruiz, Federico Pagnozzi, Thomas Stützle
• Simulation-optimization scheme for solving a real case of a ready mixed concrete dispatching problem
  Cristian E. Cortes, Mauricio Cerda, Zdenko Koscina, Pablo A. Rey

MB-21: Maritime optimization 1
Stream: Port operations
Room: 2104A
Chair(s): Judith Mulder

• Port competition in Northwestern Europe: A case study
  Nemanja Milovanovic
• Simultaneous optimization of speed and buffer times in liner shipping
  Judith Mulder, Willem van Jaarsveld, Rommert Dekker
• Industrial and tramp ship routing - Neighborhoods and metaheuristics
  Gabriel Homsi, Rafael Martinelli, Thibaut Vidal
• A city logistics problem in a maritime urban area
  Massimo Di Francesco, Teodor Gabriel Crainic, Enrico Gorgone, Paola Zuddas

MB-23: Optimization models for supply chains
Stream: Modeling and simulation of supply chains
Room: 2105
Chair(s): Sandra Eksioglu

• Decision-making under uncertainty to support the planning of biomass supply
  Ignacio Blanco, Daniela Guericke, Juan Miguel Morales, Henrik Madsen
• A multi-objective optimization model for designing resilient supply chain networks
  Joshua Margolis, Kelly Sullivan, Scott Mason, Mariah Magagnotti
• Tax or subsidy? An analysis of environmental policies in supply chains
  Xuan Zhao
• Evaluating the economic and environmental impacts of biomass cofiring with and without carbon capture technology
  Sandra Eksioglu, Hadi Karimi

MB-24: Financial mathematics with applications in energy, environment and climate
Stream: Financial mathematics with applications in energy, environment and climate
Room: 301A
Chair(s): Maria Teresa Vespucci, Yan Gao, Ceyda Yazici

• Applying convex optimal power flow to distribution locational marginal pricing
  Zhao Yuan, Mohammad Reza Hesamzadeh
• Application of bootstrap to likelihood ratio test to detect multiple changepoints in small time series data
  Ceyda Yazici, Ceylan Yozgatligil, Inci Batmaz
• Economic analysis on renewable energy polices: The effects of cost function and market structure
  Mari Ito, Ryuta Takashima, Makoto Tanaka, Yihsu Chen
• Nonsmooth optimization approach to the real-time pricing for smart grid
  Yan Gao

MB-25: OR and ethics 1
Stream: OR and ethics
Room: 301B
Chair(s): Robyn Moore, Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber

• Effects of corporate social performance on default risk: Structural model-based analysis on Japanese firms
  Hitoshi Takehara
• A factor analysis of public opinion on nuclear power in Japan
  Shohei Nagata, Ryuta Takashima, Noriaki Sakai, Itaru Takahashi, Makoto Funakoshi, Masayuki Tomiyama, Hiroshi Kimura, Kazuhisa Kawakami, Takeshi Iimoto
• Threads of validation in research through complementary use of TOC and other qualitative research methods
  Robyn Moore

MB-26: OR in health and life sciences
Stream: Probabilistc methods and simulation in health and life sciences
Room: 302A
Chair(s): Hitoshi Hohjo, Masahiko Sakaguchi

• An analysis of public policies and patient preferences on the healthcare system
  Aydin Teymourifar, Onur Kaya, Gurkan Ozturk
• Prediction of hematologic cancer incidence among the aging society in Kanagawa, Japan
  Masahiko Sakaguchi, Kayoko Katayama, Hiroto Narimatsu
• The use of analytics to assess and improve logistics decisions in home health care services in a developing country
  Elena Valentina Gutiérrez, Sebastian Cortes Zapata, Juan Sebastian Jaen
• An integer program for the generation of balanced diets of minimum cost for elderly
  Fernanda Salazar, Sandra Gutierrez

MB-27: Behavioural issues in the practice of OR
Stream: Behavioural OR
Room: 302B
Chair(s): L. Alberto Franco

• Why pay attention to paths in the practice of environmental modelling?
  Raimo P. Hämäläinen, Tuomas Lahtinen, Joseph Guillaume
• The structure of problem structuring conversations: A boundary games approach
  Jorge Velez-Castiblanco
• A comparison of PSM and non-PSM supported workshops: The creation and use of models
  Isabella Lami, Elena Tavella
• Making OR practice 'visible': An ethnomethodological study of a facilitated modelling workshop
  L. Alberto Franco, Christian Greiffenhagen

MB-28: Healthcare delivery and planning
Stream: OR in healthcare
Room: 303A
Chair(s): Patrick Hirsch

• A stochastic agent-based model with optimization strategies for nursing workforce planning
  Mário Amorim Lopes, Álvaro Almeida, Bernardo Almada-Lobo
• Patient survey of referral from one surgeon to another to reduce maximum waiting time for elective surgery and hours of over-utilized operating room time
  Franklin Dexter, Ilana Logvinov, Elisabeth Dexter, Sorin Brull
• The challenges of home health care routing and scheduling
  Patrick Hirsch, Christian Fikar

MB-29: Military, defense and security applications 1
Stream: Military, defense and security applications
Room: 303B
Chair(s): René Séguin

• Modelling the population demographics of a new military occupation
  Lynne Serre
• Optimal student allocation to timetables using dancing links and integer linear programming
  Vivian Nguyen
• Modeling the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) air technician occupation
  René Séguin

MB-31: Pollution management and environmental education
Stream: Energy economics, environmental management and multicriteria decision making
Room: 304B
Chair(s): Martin Smid, Efsun Kürüm

• Optimal dynamic emission covering
  Martin Smid
• A performance based MCDM framework for the management of environmental pollution in major cities
  H. Ziya Ulukan, Sigrid de Mendonca Andersen, emre demircioglu
• Robust optimization under decision-dependent uncertainty sets
  David Pozo

MC-03: Plenary speaker: Alvin Roth
Stream: Plenary sessions
Room: 200AB
Chair(s): Michael Trick

• Marketplace design
  Alvin Roth

MD-01: Optimization for data science
Stream: European working group: Data science meets optimization
Room: 307B
Chair(s): Andrew J. Parkes, Ender Özcan

• Progress in analysis of the space of heuristics
  Andrew J. Parkes, Asghar Neema Mohammad Beglou, Andrew Burnett
• A schedule selection method for the proactive and reactive scheduling problem
  Morteza Davari, Patrick De Causmaecker
• Orienteering on a continuous surface
  João Pedro Pedroso, Ke Zhang, Alpar Vajk Kramer
• Knowledge representation and optimization
  Tu San Pham, Patrick De Causmaecker

MD-02: Applying data analytics
Stream: Data science and analytics (contributed)
Room: 308B
Chair(s): A. D. Amar

• Using the logical analysis of data to roads’ clustering based on performance
  Soumaya Yacout, Ahmed Elsheikh, Mohamed-Salah Ouali
• Back to the future: Google deep mind's AlphaGo & Monte Carlo tree search
  Michael Fu
• Applying OR/Analytics to skiing: Whistler-Blackcomb's mega day challenge
  John Lyons, Peter Bell, Mehmet Begen
• Real time weighted-dynamic time warping and exponential penalty
  Inseok Lee, Jun-Geol Baek

MD-03: Keynote speaker: John Birge
Stream: Keynote sessions
Room: 200AB
Chair(s): Nelson Maculan

• Stochastic optimization with particles and Markov chains
  John Birge

MD-05: Multiple classifier systems and applications
Stream: Multiple classifier systems and applications
Room: 203
Chair(s): Anteneh Ayanso

• Supervised learning of predictive cadres
  Alexander New, Kristin Bennett
• Learning from imbalanced big behaviour data
  Jellis Vanhoeyveld, David Martens
• Consensus similarity graph based on proximity relations
  Tulin Inkaya
• Machine learning-based multi-criteria inventory classification
  Anteneh Ayanso, Reena Yoogalingam

MD-06: CORS student paper competition (undergraduate)
Stream: CORS student paper competitions
Room: 204A
Chair(s): Mehmet Begen

• CORS Student paper competition (Undergraduate)
  Mehmet Begen

MD-07: Inverse optimization
Stream: Inverse optimization
Room: 204B
Chair(s): Daria Terekhov

• Solution methods for generalized inverse optimization
  Rafid Mahmood, Timothy Chan
• A non-parametric inverse optimization framework for identifying risk measures
  Jonathan Li
• Robust inverse optimization
  Daria Terekhov, Taewoo Lee, Houra Mahmoudzadeh, Kimia Ghobadi

MD-08: City logistics: Routing research and applications
Stream: City logistics and freight demand modeling
Room: 205A
Chair(s): Eiichi Taniguchi, Hugo YOSHIZAKI

• Collaborative freight systems
  Alysson Costa, Russell Thompson, Ronny Kutadinata
• Container loading and cross-docking in city logistics
  Pedro Castellucci, Franklina Toledo, Alysson Costa, Russell Thompson
• Evaluating off-hours deliveries for time and capacity constrained urban distribution systems with a continuous approximation model
  Hugo YOSHIZAKI, Claudio B. Cunha

MD-09: 2017 IFORS prize for OR in development 1
Stream: 2017 IFORS prize for OR in development
Room: 205B
Chair(s): Mikael Rönnqvist, Ke Liu, Richard Larson, Mario Guajardo, Víctor Parada, Jan van Vuuren, Guillermo Durán, Roman Slowinski, Peter Bell, Sue Merchant

• An exact solution for the joint-pollution routing problem along two collaborating cold supply chain networks
  Lamis Amer, Amr Eltawil
• Optimization models and algorithms for fingerprint recognition and its applications in AFIS of China
  Tiande Guo, Congying Han, Tong Zhao, Yong A, Chaochao Bai, Siqi Tang, Min Wu
• Performance assessment and definition of improvement paths towards the double bottom-line of microfinance institutions: An application to the MC² network in Cameroon
  Isabelle Piot-Lepetit, NZONGANG JOSEPH

MD-10: Production and warehousing
Stream: Production management, supply chain management (contributed)
Room: 205C
Chair(s): Yves R. Sagaert

• A decade of academic research on warehouse order picking: Trends and challenges
  Babiche Aerts, Trijntje Cornelissens, Kenneth Sörensen, Christof Defryn
• An integrated cluster-based storage policy
  Masoud Mirzaei, Nima Zaerpour, René de Koster
• Setting optimal planned leadtimes for activities in a production network
  Sjors Jansen, Zumbul Atan, Ton de Kok, Ivo Adan
• Improving tactical sales forecasting for supply chain management with global macroeconomic big data
  Yves R. Sagaert, Nikolaos Kourentzes, El-Houssaine Aghezzaf, Bram Desmet

MD-11: Transport demand and network modeling
Stream: Traffic flow theory and control
Room: 206A
Chair(s): Emma Frejinger

• Prediction of multimodal route choices in a dynamic public transport network
  Maëlle Zimmermann, Kay Axhausen, Emma Frejinger
• Real-time toll optimization based on prediction
  Bilge Atasoy, Ravi Seshadri, Moshe Ben-Akiva
• Arc-based MILP reformulation of a traffic control bi-level program
  Leonard Morin, Emma Frejinger, Bernard Gendron
• On the nested fixed point algorithm for recursive route choice models
  Emma Frejinger, Tien Mai

MD-13: Vehicle scheduling
Stream: Scheduling problems in logistics
Room: 207
Chair(s): Simon Emde

• Truck scheduling with workforce dependent processing times
  Giorgi Tadumadze, Nils Boysen, Simon Emde, Felix Weidinger
• A multiperiod auto-carrier transportation problem with probabilistic future demands
  Christian Billing, Florian Jaehn, Thomas Wensing
• Scheduling electric vehicles for just-in-time in-house part feeding
  Simon Emde, Hamid Abedinnia, Christoph Glock

MD-14: Matching and dynamic markets
Stream: Algorithmic/computational game theory
Room: 305
Chair(s): Inbal Talgam Cohen, Shai Vardi

• Dynamic matching in school choice: Efficient seat reallocation after late cancellations
  Irene Lo, Itai Feigenbaum, Yash Kanoria, Jay Sethuraman
• Near-optimal exploration-exploitation approaches for assortment selection
  Vashist Avadhanula, Shipra Agrawal
• Spatial-temporal pricing for ridesharing platforms
  Hongyao Ma, Fei Fang, David C. Parkes
• Controlled dynamic fair division
  Shai Vardi

MD-15: Interior point methods 2
Stream: Continuous optimization (contributed)
Room: 307A
Chair(s): Florian Potra

• A new preconditioner for a second order method for compressed sensing problems
  Paula Kikuchi, Aurelio Oliveira
• Interior point methods for sufficient horizontal LCP in a wide neighborhood of the central path with best known iteration complexity
  Florian Potra

MD-17: Non-linear discrete optimization, facets, enumeration and linearization
Stream: Discrete optimization - Computational methods
Room: 309A
Chair(s): João Lauro Faco'

• Integer L-shaped algorithm and MISOCP for nonlinear network design problem
  Emine Gundogdu, Sinan Gürel
• Complex MINLP by the generalized-CGRASP method
  João Lauro Faco', Ricardo Silva, Mauricio Resende
• Linearization and quadratization techniques for multilinear 0-1 optimization problems
  Elisabeth Rodriguez-Heck, Yves Crama
• Getting strong bounds for the crossdock door assignment problem using a Lagrangean relaxation of an RLT model having the 0-1 ILP
  Jongwoo Park, Monique Guignard-Spielberg

MD-18: Game theory and its applications
Stream: Game theory, discrete mathematics and their applications
Room: 2101
Chair(s): Ryusuke Hohzaki

• A security game with attrition on a network
  Ryusuke Hohzaki
• A discrete fixed point theorem and an existence theorem of a pure-strategy equilibrium
  Hidefumi Kawasaki
• A two-person timing game with a general valued function and a constant discount rate
  Hitoshi Hohjo
• An approach to solve interval-valued generalized solidarity values of cooperative games under interval setting
  Deng-Feng Li, Wei Fei

MD-19: Business analytics 2
Stream: Business analytics
Room: 2102AB
Chair(s): Kristof Coussement, Wouter Verbeke, Dries Benoit

• Customer intelligence and analytics in the financial industry: A unifying customer lifetime value-based analytics framework
  Sam Verboven, Wouter Verbeke
• Leaf modeling: An application in customer churn prediction
  Arno De Caigny, Kristof Coussement, Koen W. De Bock
• Churn Prediction using hierarchical generative models
  Wai Kit Tsang, Dries Benoit
• Inferior member participation prevention in online research communities
  Steven Debaere, Kristof Coussement, Tom De Ruyck

MD-20: Scheduling with resource constraints
Stream: Scheduling: Theory and applications
Room: 2103
Chair(s): Jose M Framinan

• Order scheduling with tardiness objective: Approximate solutions
  Jose M Framinan, Paz Perez Gonzalez, Victor Fernandez-Viagas
• Scheduling problems minimizing makespan with periodic maintenance
  Paz Perez Gonzalez, Jose M Framinan, Victor Fernandez-Viagas
• A population-based constructive heuristic for the permutation flowshop scheduling problem
  Victor Fernandez-Viagas, Paz Perez Gonzalez, Jose M Framinan
• Approximation algorithms for machine scheduling problems with non-renewable resource constraints
  Tamas Kis, Péter Györgyi

MD-21: Maritime optimization 2
Stream: Port operations
Room: 2104A
Chair(s): David Franz Koza

• Tighter MIP formulations for the barge container ship routing problem
  Laurent Alfandari, Tatjana Davidović, Fabio Furini, Ivana Ljubic, Vladislav Maras, Sébastien Martin
• Tramp ship routing and scheduling with voyage separation requirements
  Jesper Larsen, Richard Lusby, Charlotte Vilhelmsen
• A column generation algorithm for the liner shipping network design problem
  David Franz Koza, Guy Desaulniers, Berit Dangaard Brouer
• A rolling horizon approach to optimally serve road containerized demand in a cooperative environment
  Claudia Caballini, Simona Sacone, Ilaria Rebecchi

MD-23: Approaches for modeling and simulation of semiconductor supply chains
Stream: Modeling and simulation of supply chains
Room: 2105
Chair(s): Lars Moench, Hans Ehm

• Combining agent-based modeling and recursive simulation to mimic decision-making in semiconductor supply chains
  Thomas Ponsignon
• A mathematical approach for the optimization of a supply chain in semiconductor industry
  Gottfried Nieke, Dirk Doleschal, Gerald Weigert
• Production planning formulations including process improvement activities for semiconductor supply chains
  Timm Ziarnetzky, Lars Moench, Thomas Ponsignon, Hans Ehm
• Incorporating elements of a sustainable and distributed generation system into a production planning formulation for a wafer fab
  Lars Moench, Timm Ziarnetzky, Jesus Jimenez

MD-24: Improving healthcare in Ontario
Stream: CORS SIG on healthcare
Room: 301A
Chair(s): Daphne Sniekers

• MRI wait times in Ontario – An evidence-based tool to assist allocating regional funding hours to improve decision making and patient wait times
  Luciano Ieraci, Saba Vahid, Brian Ho, Kala Studens, Penny Wang, Ali Vahit Esensoy, Jonathan Norton
• Capacity planning for community-based dementia health care services in Ontario; using administrative health care databases and agent-based simulation methods
  Tannaz Mahootchi, Danielle Shawcross, Dallas Seitz, Natalie Warrick, Ali Vahit Esensoy
• Forecasting Ontario provincial drug expenditures – A hybrid approach to improving accuracy
  Daphne Sniekers, Paula Murray, Yusuf Shalaby, Luciano Ieraci, Helen Guo, Lucy Qiao, Aliya Pardhan, Jessica Arias
• Implementing the resource allocation of dialysis center at Scarborough and Rouge hospital
  Mina Alirezaee, Michael Carter

MD-25: OR and ethics 2
Stream: OR and ethics
Room: 301B
Chair(s): Maryam Hafezi

• Humanitarian logistics in Mexico
  Jaime Mora Vargas
• Product line design strategies under governmental imposed policies
  Maryam Hafezi

MD-26: Forecasting of renewable energy
Stream: Stochastic assessment of renewable energy
Room: 302A
Chair(s): John Boland

• Probabilistic forecasting of solar energy
  John Boland
• A Markov-Switching vector autoregressive stochastic wind generator for multiple spatial and temporal scales
  Amanda Hering
• Stochastic characterization of global solar radiation variability and its influence on forecasting errors models
  Ted Soubdhan

MD-27: Behavioural issues in decision making 1
Stream: Behavioural OR
Room: 302B
Chair(s): Gilberto Montibeller

• Capturing preferences for fairness in resource allocation problems
  Nikolaos Argyris, Ozlem Karsu, Alec Morton
• Any bias in spatial decision-making processes?
  Valentina Ferretti
• Bayes and prejudice
  Detlof von Winterfeldt
• On the effectiveness of debiasing overprecision in probabilistic estimates
  Gilberto Montibeller, Valentina Ferretti, Detlof von Winterfeldt

MD-28: Healthcare logistics
Stream: OR in healthcare
Room: 303A
Chair(s): Stefan Nickel, Teresa Melo, Brigitte Werners

• Optimal allocation of ambulances and simulation based evaluation
  Brigitte Werners, Pia Mareike Steenweg, Lara Wiesche
• Robust multi-class multi-period scheduling of MRI services with wait targets
  Akram Mirahmadi Shalamzari, Houra Mahmoudzadeh, Hossein Abouee Mehrizi
• A robust optimization approach for outpatient admission planning
  Nazanin Aslani, Onur Kuzgunkaya, Navneet Vidyarthy, Daria Terekhov
• Designing response supply chain against bioattacks
  Peter Yun Zhang, Nikolaos Trichakis, David Simchi-Levi

MD-29: Military, defense and security applications 2
Stream: Military, defense and security applications
Room: 303B
Chair(s): Arjun Madahar

• A PRICIE (+G) analysis working group online collaboration and planning tool for the Canadian Army: Methodology and application
  Emile Pelletier
• Senior defence decision-making: A game theoretic conceptual approach for improved cooperation
  Renée Kidson, Stephan De Spiegeleire, Alan Dupont, Brent Haddad
• The three steps analysis method for joint operations
  Chifei Zhou
• Prioritising policies, through force structure risk & affordability analysis: The UK strategic defence & security review
  Arjun Madahar

MD-30: Forest value chain design 1
Stream: OR in forestry
Room: 304A
Chair(s): Foroogh Abasian

• Development of an economically sustainable and balanced tactical forest management plan: A case study in Quebec
  Azadeh Mobtaker, Mustapha Ouhimmou, Mikael Rönnqvist, Marc Paquet
• Dry kiln scheduling regarding the integrated value chain problem for sawmills
  Maria Anna Huka, Marc-André Carle, Sophie D'Amours, Mikael Rönnqvist
• Investigating approaches to strategic network capacity design using mixed integer mathematical programming
  narges Sereshti, Eldon Gunn
• Forest biorefinery network design under uncertainty- case study in Newfoundland
  Foroogh Abasian, Mikael Rönnqvist, Mustapha Ouhimmou

MD-31: Energy management applications
Stream: Energy economics, environmental management and multicriteria decision making
Room: 304B
Chair(s): Thomas Volling

• Piecewise linear bounding for energy optimization in hybrid electric vehicles
  Sandra Ulrich Ngueveu
• Impact of temperature extremes on electricity demand: A case study
  Caston Sigauke, Murendeni Nemukula, Delson Chikobvu
• Welfare optimal nominations in passive gas networks and associated equilibria
  Julia Grübel, Jonas Egerer, Veronika Grimm, Lars Schewe, Martin Schmidt, Gregor Zöttl
• Energy-oriented scheduling of identical parallel machines considering a two-part tariff system
  Thomas Volling, Lukas Strob

ME-01: Applications of heuristics
Stream: Applications of heuristics
Room: 307B
Chair(s): Geir Hasle, Lukas Bach

• An effective tabu search approach for multi-objective scheduling of flexible manufacturing systems
  Seyed Sina Mirinargesi, Arash Mohammadi, Sepideh Farazmand Far, Azadeh Bolourchi Hossein Zadeh, Soheil Lamei Javan, Bahman Pirhayati Rouzbahani
• Dynamic preprocessing for the airline manpower problem
  Björn Thalén, Per Sjögren
• Annealing metaheuristic approaches to the 3D printer head problem
  Seán McGarraghy, Terry Harrison, Adrian Doyle, Peter Hannon
• Optimal design for a series-parallel system: Replacement policy to improve system reliability
  Daoud AIT-KADI, Zouheir Malki, Nabil Nahas

ME-02: Data mining and big data analysis
Stream: Data science and analytics (contributed)
Room: 308B
Chair(s): Kwang-Jae Kim

• Ranking from textual data
  Andrey Kateshov, Alexander Grigoriev, Nalan Baştürk
• Identifying significant keywords based on diversity indices
  Dohyun (Norman) Kim, Nagyoon Song, Chungmok Lee, Jinseo Park
• Process mining methodology for the development of user-oriented projects
  Yaimara Céspedes González, Patricia Arieta Melgarejo
• System informatics-based services: Recent cases and research issues
  Kwang-Jae Kim, Chie-Hyeon Lim, Jun-Yeon Heo, Minjun Kim, Ki-Hun Kim, Chang-Ho Lee

ME-05: Stochastic model 1
Stream: Stochastic modeling and simulation in engineering, management and science
Room: 203
Chair(s): Hiroshi Toyoizumi

• An equilibrium arrival-time distribution for a discrete-time single-server queue with acceptance period and general service time distribution
  Yutaka Sakuma, Hiroyuki Masuyama, Emiko Fukuda
• Error bound for the QBD approximation of a two dimensional reflecting random walk
  Masahiro Kobayashi, Hiroyuki Masuyama, Yutaka Sakuma, Atsushi Inoie
• Numerical computation of the stationary queue length in the M/G/1+PH queue
  Yoshiaki Inoue
• Priority queue and limit order book
  Hiroshi Toyoizumi

ME-07: Heuristics for routing
Stream: Vehicle routing
Room: 204B
Chair(s): Francesco Carrabs

• Impacts in solutions of the vehicle routing problem generated by different optimization criteria: An experiment with simulated annealing
  Arnaldo Vallim
• An algorithm for solving the deterministic Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) using the combination of three sequential heuristic and optimization rules
  Luis Moreno, Javier Diaz, Julian Gonzalez
• A hybrid approach for the two-dimensional vehicle routing problem with balanced load
  Pol Arias, Daniel Guimarans, Gilbert Laporte
• A matheuristic for the set orienteering problem
  Francesco Carrabs, Claudia Archetti, Raffaele Cerulli

ME-08: Demand and price learning for RM
Stream: Revenue management and pricing
Room: 205A
Chair(s): Wei Wang, Ravi Kumar

• Bayesian optimal exploration and exploitation in dynamic pricing
  Jue Wang
• Price learning and optimization for airline revenue management
  Ravi Kumar, Wei Wang
• Effective demand normalization to reduce price-dependent predictor variables
  Amanda Xu, Pan Chen

ME-09: 2017 IFORS prize for OR in development 2
Stream: 2017 IFORS prize for OR in development
Room: 205B
Chair(s): Mikael Rönnqvist, Ke Liu, Richard Larson, Mario Guajardo, Víctor Parada, Jan van Vuuren, Guillermo Durán, Roman Slowinski, Peter Bell, Sue Merchant

• A decision support methodology to obtain the most of pedagogical resources in Brazil: Efficient education through optimal teacher/student/class/school allocations
  Joao Neiva de Figueiredo, Sérgio Fernando Mayerle, Hidelbrando Ferreira Rodrigues, Daiane DeGenaro Chiroli
• A robust DEA-centric location-based decision support system for expanding recreovía hubs in the city of Bogotá (Colombia)
  Sepideh Abolghasem, Felipe Solano, Claudia Bedoya, Lina Navas, Ana Paola Ríos, Edwin A. Pinzón, Andres Medaglia, Olga Lucia Sarmiento

ME-10: Quality and information in production and inspection planning
Stream: Production management, supply chain management (contributed)
Room: 205C
Chair(s): Yu-Ting Tai

• Weighted X-bar control chart for a non-normal process
  Shih-Chou Kao
• Information economics approach to the design of multiple inspection plans
  Young H. Chun
• An intelligent multiple-zone machine layout method based on a fuzzy set theory and metaheuristic algorithm within a TFT-LCD bay
  Teng-Sheng Su, Ming-Hon Hwang
• Product acceptance determination based on the process capability index
  Yu-Ting Tai

ME-11: Transport economics and operation
Stream: Traffic flow theory and control
Room: 206A
Chair(s): Eric Gonzales, Diego Correa-Barahona

• Spillover parking as a neighborhood nuisance
  Eren Inci, Robin Lindsey, Murat Inan
• Congestion pricing for the morning commute with heterogeneous trip lengths
  Raphael Lamotte, Nikolas Geroliminis
• Data-driven spatial-temporal dynamic equilibrium matching models of welfare effects from New York City taxi and Uber markets
  Diego Correa-Barahona, Joseph Chow, Kaan Ozbay
• Optimizing the Social Cost of Multimodal Transportation Systems with Network Models of Traffic and Transit
  Eric Gonzales

ME-12: Financial mathematics 2
Stream: Financial mathematics and OR
Room: 206B
Chair(s): Toshikazu Kimura

• Study of prediction of financial instruments prices in terms of momentum effect
  Yuto Otsuka, Takashi Hasuike
• Numerical performance of multilevel Monte Carlo with two optimization tools for options valuation
  Hitoshi Inui
• Dynamic pricing for perishable assets with price lock-in options
  Kimitoshi Sato
• Valuing employee stock options with a barrier option model
  Toshikazu Kimura

ME-13: Scheduling problems
Stream: Scheduling problems in logistics
Room: 207
Chair(s): Jorge Riera-Ledesma, Montaz Ali

• Power of preemption: A review
  Alan Soper, Vitaly Strusevich
• Generator maintenance scheduling based on the risk of power generating unit failure
  Jancke Eygelaar, Jan van Vuuren
• Simulation optimization approach for the stochastic quay crane scheduling problem
  Naoufal Rouky, Mohamed NEZAR ABOURRAJA, Jaouad Boukachour, Dalila Boudebous, Ahmed EL HILALI ALAOUI
• A non-linear integer programming aircraft assignment model
  Montaz Ali

ME-14: Computational mechanism design
Stream: Algorithmic/computational game theory
Room: 305
Chair(s): Simina Branzei, Aris Filos-Ratsikas

• A new class of combinatorial markets with covering constraints: Algorithms and applications
  Jugal Garg, Nikhil Devanur, Ruta Mehta, Vijay Vazirani, Sadra Yazdanbod
• Optimal planning for container pre-staging and flow rates at seaport rail terminals in the present of uncertainties
  Ying Xie, Dongping Song
• Deep learning for predicting human strategic behavior
  James Wright, Jason Hartford, Kevin Leyton-Brown

ME-15: Optimization methods
Stream: Continuous optimization (contributed)
Room: 307A
Chair(s): Jacques Desrosiers

• Non-linear conjugate gradient method for vector optimization
  Luis Roman Lucambio Perez, Leandro Prudente
• Improvements of an updating method of Lagrange multipliers in the procedure of listing FJ points for a reverse convex quadratic programming problem
  Syuuji Yamada
• Optimal switching between cash-flow streams
  Thomas Weber
• The pricing problem in column generation
  Jacques Desrosiers, Jean-Bertrand Gauthier

ME-16: Operations finance interface 2
Stream: Operations finance interface
Room: 308A
Chair(s): Anne Lange

• Optimum premium for service contracts for damage protection and delays in delivery
  Amitava Mitra
• Modelling the venture capitalist-entrepreneur relationship
  Thomas Archibald, Edgar Possani
• Impact of banking and forward contracts on renewable energy certificate market
  Ryo Ito, Ryuta Takashima

ME-17: DEA and performance measurement 1
Stream: DEA applications
Room: 309A
Chair(s): Joseph Paradi

• Efficiency measurement of university research groups, a problem of shared outputs
  Sonia Avilés-Sacoto, Wade Cook, David Güemes-Castorena, Francisco Benita, Joe Zhu, Hector Ceballos
• Objective identification of technological returns to scale for data envelopment analysis models
  Mohammadreza Alirezaee, Ensie Hajinezhad, Joseph Paradi
• A cross-country efficiency analysis framework for assessing banking operating environments
  Skarleth Carrales, Jamal Ouenniche
• Comparing pension funds and mutual funds by using mixed variable DEA
  Joseph Paradi

ME-18: Enumeration problems and applications 2
Stream: Game theory, discrete mathematics and their applications
Room: 2101
Chair(s): Yasuko Matsui

• Enumeration and evaluation for the single-seat constituency system
  Keisuke Hotta, Kawahara Jun, Takashi Horiyama, Shin-ichi Minato
• Fast enumeration algorithms for induced trees in graphs
  Kunihiro Wasa, Hiroki Arimura, Takeaki Uno
• Enumerating geometric partitions using oriented matroids
  Hiroyuki Miyata
• Optimization and enumeration of decision trees from massive data sets
  Hiroki Arimura, Kazuhito Osabe, Takeaki Uno

ME-19: Business analytics 3
Stream: Business analytics
Room: 2102AB
Chair(s): Dries Benoit, Kristof Coussement, Wouter Verbeke

• Understanding heavy goods vehicles’ behaviour by means floating car data
  Sheida Hadavi, Tias Guns, Wouter Verbeke, Cathy Macharis
• Detecting unobserved fraud in a new telecom product using network and spatial analysis
  Dieter Oosterlinck, Philippe Baecke, Dries Benoit
• A new class of relational classification techniques based on centrality measures
  Dimitri Robert, Wouter Verbeke, Thomas Crispeels, María Óskarsdóttir, Bart Baesens

ME-20: Multiplicity of scheduling problems: New and updated applications
Stream: Scheduling: Theory and applications
Room: 2103
Chair(s): Socorro Rangel, Hélio Fuchigami

• A math-heuristic algorithm for a new parallel scheduling problem
  Edson Senne
• Design of an easy-to-use computer tool for university timetabling
  Jose Antonio Marmolejo, Jonas Velasco
• A computational study of MILP models for weighted just-in-time flow shop scheduling problem
  Hélio Fuchigami, Socorro Rangel

ME-21: Maritime optimization 3
Stream: Port operations
Room: 2104A
Chair(s): Jose M. Belenguer

• A mathematical formulation for the pre-marshalling problem
  Consuelo Parreño-Torres, Ramon Alvarez-Valdes, Rubén Ruiz
• A simulation-based study on trucking traffic and mitigation strategies within a maritime port
  Jean-Francois Audy, Éloïse Goudreau, Chantal Baril, Viviane Gascon
• Heuristics for the yard crane scheduling problem in a port container terminal
  Fulgencia Villa, Eva Vallada, Jose M. Belenguer, Ramon Alvarez-Valdes
• A matheuristic for the yard crane scheduling problem in a port container terminal
  Jose M. Belenguer, Ramon Alvarez-Valdes, Eva Vallada, Fulgencia Villa

ME-23: Stochastic models of supply chains
Stream: Modeling and simulation of supply chains
Room: 2105
Chair(s): John Fowler, Scott Mason, Ozias Ncube

• Simulation-based scheduling for the slitting lines of a steel coil producer
  Evrim Gencalp, Onur Can Saka, Kaan Esendağ
• A real options approach for joint overhaul and replacement strategies with mean reverting prices
  Alejandro Mac Cawley, Maximiliano Cubillos, Rodrigo Pascual
• MODELLING SUPPLY CHAIN PERFORMANCE IN THE PRESENCE OF SUSTAINABILITY INDUCED CONSTRAINTS
  Ozias Ncube

ME-24: Scheduling and capacity planning in health
Stream: CORS SIG on healthcare
Room: 301A
Chair(s): Jonathan Patrick

• Setting wait time targets in a multi-priority clinical setting
  Vusal Babashov, Antoine Sauré, Jonathan Patrick
• Scheduling medical students to clinical rotations
  Adam Diamant, Andre Augusto Cire, Tallys Yunes
• Dynamic multi-appointment patient scheduling with resource compatibility restrictions
  Antoine Sauré, Ingeborg Bikker, Nathan Horvath, Claire Ma, Scott Tyldesley
• Dynamic multi-priority, multi-class patient scheduling with stochastic service times
  Jonathan Patrick, Antoine Sauré, Mehmet Begen

ME-25: Developing knowledge economy
Stream: Knowledge as a nation development strategy
Room: 301B
Chair(s): A. D. Amar

• On the collective soul of booms and busts: A socio-dynamic theory of business cycles
  Julia Puaschunder
• How can nations develop knowledge economy
  A. D. Amar, Daniel Goceljak

ME-26: Renewable energy and system flexibility
Stream: Stochastic assessment of renewable energy
Room: 302A
Chair(s): Benjamin Böcker, Christoph Weber

• Stochastic bidding of electric vehicles at different energy markets
  Maren Kier, Christoph Weber
• Real time scheduling of electric vehicle charging under uncertainty
  Zongfei Wang, Patrick Jochem, Wolf Fichtner
• Development of a probabilistic methodology for adequacy assessment under uncertainty: Considering spatially correlated uncertainties and flow-based market coupling
  Benjamin Böcker, Julia Bellenbaum, Thomas Kallabis, Christoph Weber
• Efficient storage operation and investments: Analytics of the electricity market equilibrium in continuous time
  Christoph Weber, Benjamin Böcker

ME-27: Simulating human behaviour
Stream: Behavioural OR
Room: 302B
Chair(s): Duncan Robertson, Young-Jun Son

• SMART cities: Multiple criteria public housing assignment motivated by neurobehavioral simulation
  Gordon Dash, Nina Kajiji, S Tiffany Donaldson
• Neural network analysis of behavioral agent based service channel data
  Logan Laite, Karthik Sankaranarayanan
• A conceptual model of trust behaviour in emergency evacuation: Evidence from Indonesian volcano eruption
  Hilya Mudrika Arini, Tim Bedford, John Quigley
• Agent-based models for simulating behavior
  Duncan Robertson

ME-28: Radiotherapy optimization
Stream: OR in healthcare
Room: 303A
Chair(s): Dionne Aleman

• Multicriteria approach for IMRT treatment planning based on fuzzy inference systems
  Joana Matos Dias, Humberto Rocha, Brígida da Costa Ferreira, Tiago Ventura, Maria do Carmo Lopes
• Automation of quality assurance for radiotherapy treatment plans
  Hootan Kamran Habibkhani, Dionne Aleman, Chris McIntosh, Tom Purdie
• Coupling inverse optimization and knowledge based planning
  Aaron Babier, Justin Boutilier, Andrea McNiven, Timothy Chan
• A novel matheuristic method for the volumetric-modulated arc therapy treatment planning problem
  Mehdi Mahnam, Michel Gendreau, Nadia Lahrichi, Louis-Martin Rousseau

ME-29: Military, defense and security applications 3
Stream: Military, defense and security applications
Room: 303B
Chair(s): Ana Novak, Ana Novak

• Scenario based military logistics modelling – Methodological and practical challenges
  Brynjar Arnfinnsson
• Workforce analytics for strategic human resources planning
  Jillian Henderson, Mira Halbrohr
• Discrete-event simulation in the maintenance process of Brazilian marine corps armored vehicles
  Fabricio Carvalho, Fernando Alexandrino, Edilson Arruda, Glaydston Ribeiro
• The optimal supply of trainee pilots using Markov decision processes
  Ana Novak

ME-30: Forest harvesting planning
Stream: OR in forestry
Room: 304A
Chair(s): Sonia Pacheco Faias

• Comparing full and partial bundling in combinatorial auctions for timber allocation in Quebec
  Riadh Azouzi, Marc-André Carle, Mikael Rönnqvist, Sophie D'Amours
• Forest harvest scheduling with clearcut and core area constraints
  Isabel Martins, João Pedro Pedroso, Miguel Constantino, Teresa Neto
• Estimating the value-creation potential of optimal wood supply plans
  Gregory Paradis, Luc LeBel
• Competition pattern in young cork oak stands
  Sonia Pacheco Faias, Joana Amaral Paulo, Margarida Tome

ME-31: Energy system optimization
Stream: Energy economics, environmental management and multicriteria decision making
Room: 304B
Chair(s): Reinaldo Souza, Hans Christian Gils

• Methods to improve computing times in linear optimization energy system models
  Hans Christian Gils, Karl-Kiên Cao, Manuel Wetzel, Felix Cebulla, Kai von Krbek, Yvonne Scholz, Frieder Borggrefe, Tobias Fichter
• Feedback of electricity consumption and price
  Reinaldo Souza, Fernando Luiz Cyrino Oliveira, Paula Maçaira, Gheisa Esteves, Vanessa Oliveira, Danilo Carmo, Plutarcho Lourenco, Bruno Bastos, Rodrigo Calili, Felipe Silva, Wesley Fagundes
• Integrated regional electricity planning models: Generation/transmission investments and market-clearing equilibrium
  Emre Çelebi
• Valuing demand responsiveness: Using houses as batteries to trade electricity across markets and time
  James Corbishley

TA-01: Time constrained routing problems
Stream: Discrete optimization in logistics and transportation
Room: 307B
Chair(s): Jean-François Côté, Manuel Iori

• The vehicle routing problem with time windows and a fragility constraint
  Guy Desaulniers, Clément Altman, Fausto Errico
• A GVNS heuristic for the traveling salesman problem with time windows - Minimizing completion time
  Khalid Amghar, Jean-François Cordeau, Bernard Gendron
• A tabu search heuristic for a multi-attribute technician routing and scheduling problem
  ines Mathlouthi, Michel Gendreau, Jean-Yves Potvin
• Large neighborhood search with constraint programming for the time-dependent vehicle routing problem with synchronization constraints
  Michel Gendreau, Hossein Hojabri, Jean-Yves Potvin, Louis-Martin Rousseau

TA-02: New developments in planning of assembly lines
Stream: Design and management of manufacturing systems
Room: 308B
Chair(s): Yossi Bukchin, Olga Battaïa

• Constraint programming for solving the simple assembly line balancing problem
  Yossi Bukchin
• Balancing mixed-model assembly lines in the footwear industry with a variable neighbourhood descent method
  José Soeiro Ferreira, Parisa Sadeghi, Rui Rebelo
• Resequencing mixed-model assembly lines with restoration to customer orders
  Florian Taube, Stefan Minner
• Operations research approaches to mitigate ergonomic risks: Case of paced assembly lines
  Olga Battaïa, Dmitry Arkhipov, Alena Otto

TA-03: Keynote speaker: Roman Slowinski
Stream: Keynote sessions
Room: 200AB
Chair(s): Theodor Stewart

• Preference learning through robust ordinal regression
  Roman Slowinski

TA-04: Healthcare and knowledge management analytics
Stream: Healthcare and knowledge analytics
Room: 202
Chair(s): A. D. Amar

• Estimating causality using balance optimization subset selection
  Sheldon Jacobson, Hee Youn Kwon, Jason Sauppe
• An OR and MIC-based data analysis: Does short-term air pollution affect the outpatient visits for acute exacerbation of COPD?
  Li Luo, Yong Lei, Zhilin Yong
• Combining Domain Knowledge with Interpretable Machine Learning in Industrial Chemical processes
  Ahmed Ragab, Hakim Ghezzaz, Mohamed EL KOUJOK, Mouloud amazouz, Soumaya Yacout
• Data science for knowledge generation in human-computer interaction
  Guillermo Molero-Castillo, Alejandro Velázquez Mena

TA-05: Stochastic model 2
Stream: Stochastic modeling and simulation in engineering, management and science
Room: 203
Chair(s): Yasushi Masuda

• Sustainable agricultural supply chain management considering weather derivative and contract farming
  Takashi Hasuike
• Applied real option valuation method using simulation and exercise boundary fitting
  Yuri Lawryshyn, Matt Davison
• Simulation-based assortment optimization
  Tien Mai
• Routing control for a system with parallel stations and homogeneous customers by priority pass
  Yasushi Masuda, Akira Tsuji

TA-06: CORS practice prize
Stream: CORS practice prize
Room: 204A
Chair(s): Mikael Rönnqvist, Bernard Gendron, Mustapha Ouhimmou, Fredrik Odegaard

• A two phase algorithm for a real-life 3D container loading problem
  Philippe Grangier, Marc Brisson, Michel Gendreau, Fabien Lehuédé, Louis-Martin Rousseau, John Ye
• Discrete event simulation model for planning level 2 “step-down” bed needs using NEMS
  Felipe Rodrigues, Greg Zaric, David Stanford
• Applying OR to the gamification of skiing at Whistler‐Blackcomb
  John Lyons, Peter Bell, Mehmet Begen

TA-07: Vehicle routing applications
Stream: Vehicle routing
Room: 204B
Chair(s): William Guerrero

• A decomposition-based approach for the coordinated vehicle routing problem
  Andrea Arias, Ricardo Gatica, Timothy Matis
• Air cargo rescheduling for demand fluctuations considering transshipments
  Felipe Delgado, Cristobal Sirhan, Homero Larrain
• The technician allocation and routing problem for offshore wind farms
  Albert Schrotenboer, Michiel uit het Broek, Bolor Jargalsaikhan, Kees Jan Roodbergen
• Bilevel optimization applied to routing problems on healthcare logistics
  William Guerrero, Henry leal Moreno, Angélica Sarmiento Lepesqueur

TA-08: Pricing problems
Stream: Revenue management and pricing
Room: 205A
Chair(s): S. Emre Alptekin

• A bilevel modelling approach to service network design and pricing: Application to intermodal transportation
  Christine Tawfik, Sabine Limbourg
• A tri-level programming approach for discount coordination under price-sensitive demand
  Ginger Y. Ke, James Bookbinder
• Revenue management in the energy field
  Luce Brotcorne, Sébastien Lepaul, Léonard von Niederhäusern
• A data pricing framework for internet of things solutions
  S. Emre Alptekin, Gülfem Isiklar Alptekin

TA-09: IFORS: Distinguished lecturer retrospective
Stream: IFORS sessions
Room: 205B
Chair(s): Nelson Maculan

• IFORS: Distinguished lecturer retrospective
  Silvano Martello, Michael Florian, Andrés Weintraub

TA-10: Production management and operations management
Stream: Production management, supply chain management (contributed)
Room: 205C
Chair(s): Amy H. I. Lee

• The refined proportionality constants of hand dimensions
  Ching-Hua Lin, Sheng-Hung Lo
• A capacity planning model for stockers in 300mm wafer fabrication factory
  Ying Mei Tu
• A supplier evaluation model for the food industry
  Amy H. I. Lee, He-Yau Kang
• An integrated replenishment model for the bike industry
  He-Yau Kang, Amy H. I. Lee, Wan-Yu Wu

TA-11: Traffic flow theory and control problems
Stream: Traffic flow theory and control
Room: 206A
Chair(s): Bilal Farooq

• An optimization approach for full road flow observability in a traffic network considering the measurement error
  Mostafa salari, Lina Kattan
• Development of Variable Speed Limit System to improve travel time
  Nadia Moshahedi, Lina Kattan
• Large-scale pedestrian movement analysis using a network of Wi-Fi sensors
  Bilal Farooq, Alexandra Beaulieu
• On the origins of mathematical modeling of pedestrian dynamics
  Mohcine Chraibi

TA-12: Financial mathematics 3
Stream: Financial mathematics and OR
Room: 206B
Chair(s): Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber, Qi Wu

• A geometrical approach to forecast burst-time of stock market bubbles
  Efsun Kürüm, Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber, Cem Iyigün
• Portfolio selection with unfixed investment timings
  Chunhui Xu, Yanli Huo, Takayuki Shiina
• Contingent capital: Short-selling incentives and discretionary triggers
  Mark Reesor, Adam Metzler
• Term structure modeling of negative interest rates
  Sing Fan Chan, Qi Wu

TA-13: Personnel scheduling 1
Stream: Scheduling problems in logistics
Room: 207
Chair(s): Sanja Petrovic

• Empirical studies on airplane boarding
  Simone Neumann, Leonie Hutter, Florian Jaehn
• Optimization of employee shift schedules with inter-department transfers
  Dalia ATTIA, Guy Desaulniers, Francois Soumis
• Fairness staffing for a multi-skill call center
  Göran Svensson, Per Enqvist
• Nurse rostering with well-being measures
  Sanja Petrovic, Jane Parkin, Timothy Curtois, David Wrigley

TA-14: MCDA applications and new research directions 1
Stream: Multicriteria decision analysis
Room: 305
Chair(s): Valentina Ferretti

• A structured decision support framework for risk assessment of energy technologies
  Marco Cinelli, Matteo Spada, Milosz Kadzinski, Roman Slowinski, Peter Burgherr, Stefan Hirschberg
• Synthesizing a set of rules by a noncompensatory sorting model: An application to environmental evaluation
  Valérie Brison, Marc Pirlot, Antoine Rolland
• Predictive analytics and disused railways requalification: insights from a post factum analysis perspective
  Milosz Kadzinski, Valentina Ferretti, Krzysztof Ciomek

TA-15: Methods and algorithms in convex optimization 1
Stream: Continuous optimization (contributed)
Room: 307A
Chair(s): Jie Tao

• Strong and stable strong Fenchel-Lagrange duality in evenly convex optimization problems
  Maria Dolores Fajardo, Jose Vidal
• A new data qualification in convex multiobjective semi-infinite programming
  Margarita Rodríguez Álvarez, Miguel Goberna, Virginia N. Vera de Serio
• On a convex resource allocation problem with nested lower and upper constraints
  Thibaut Vidal, Daniel Gribel, Patrick Jaillet
• Global linear convergent algorithm to compute the minimum volume enclosing ellipsoid
  Jie Tao

TA-16: Intelligent DSS
Stream: Decision support systems
Room: 308A
Chair(s): K.Nadia Papamichail

• A next-item recommendation approach based on Borda majority count
  Li-Ching Ma
• New evidential reasoning modelling approach for data-driven system analysis and prediction
  Shuaiyu Yao, Jian-Bo Yang, Dong-Ling Xu, Paul Dark
• The impact of organizational factors on knowledge sharing performance
  Femi Olan
• Factors affecting knowledge-based decision support systems in multinational corporations
  Mahmoud Abdelrahman, K.Nadia Papamichail

TA-17: DEA and performance measurement 2
Stream: DEA applications
Room: 309A
Chair(s): Yu Yu

• Performance assessment of Portuguese wastewater treatment plants using data envelopment analysis
  Ana Camanho, Alda Henriques, Milton Fontes, Pedro Amorim, Jaime Gabriel Silva
• A performance framework for European museums
  Stella Sofianopoulou
• Evaluation of ecological systems and the recycling of undesirable outputs: An efficiency study of regions in China
  Wanghong Li, Wade Cook
• Measuring the R&D efficiency in China: A two-stage data envelopment analysis with time lags effects
  Yu Yu

TA-18: Location, logistics, transportation and traffic 1
Stream: Location, logistics, transportation, traffic (contributed)
Room: 2101
Chair(s): Hossein Zolfagharinia

• A study on the operational problems at the outbound side of a distributor cross docking area
  Ying-Chin Ho, Chih-Feng Chou
• A study on putting-style order-picking operations in a sistributor cross docking area with multiple picking-storage-cell blocks
  Chih-Feng Chou, Ying-Chin Ho
• A study on the operational decision problems in a synchronized sequential-zone picking system with a flow-rack order-consolidation system
  Shan-Nung Chu, Ying-Chin Ho
• Time window discretization method for a dynamic truckload pickup and delivery problem
  Hossein Zolfagharinia

TA-19: Riemannian optimization
Stream: Riemannian optimization and related topics
Room: 2102AB
Chair(s): Orizon P Ferreira

• Image space analysis for generalized optimization problems on Hadamard manifolds with applications
  Zhou Liwen
• Iteration-complexity of gradient, subgradient and proximal point methods on Riemannian manifolds
  Glaydston Bento, Orizon P Ferreira, Jefferson Melo
• Enlargement of monotone vector fields and an inexact proximal point method for variational inequalities in Hadamard manifolds
  Orizon P Ferreira, Edvaldo E. A. Batista, Glaydston de Carvalho Bento

TA-20: Optimization of gas networks 1
Stream: Optimization of gas networks
Room: 2103
Chair(s): Martin Schmidt

• Dynamic compressor optimization in natural gas pipeline systems
  Terrence W.K. Mak, Pascal Van Hentenryck, Anatoly Zlotnik, Russell Bent
• MIP-based instantaneous control of mixed-integer PDE-constrained gas transport problems
  Martin Schmidt, Martin Gugat, Günter Leugering, Alexander Martin, Mathias Sirvent, David Wintergerst
• A MILP-hierarchy for MINLPs from gas transport optimization
  Lars Schewe, Robert Burlacu, Bjoern Geissler
• Convex relaxations for gas expansion planning
  Pascal Van Hentenryck, Russell Bent, Hassan Hijazi

TA-21: Quayside operations
Stream: Port operations
Room: 2104A
Chair(s): Ramon Alvarez-Valdes

• A mathematical formulation to solve the staff rostering problem minimizing the risk derived from heavy loads handling and repetitive movements
  Massimo Paolucci, Claudia Caballini, Tommaso Napoli
• An exact and heuristic approach to the berth allocation problem in terminals with irregular quays
  Thomas Van den Bossche, Juan F. Correcher, Ramon Alvarez-Valdes, Greet Vanden Berghe
• Berth allocation at a bulk terminal with storage capacity constraints
  Guoqing Wang
• A new mixed integer linear model for the berth allocation and quay crane assignment problem
  Ramon Alvarez-Valdes, Juan F. Correcher, Jose Tamarit

TA-22: Stochastic programming algorithms and applications
Stream: Simulation, stochastic programming and modeling (contributed)
Room: 2104B
Chair(s): Julian Gonzalez, Anirudh Subramanyam

• A new algorithm for solving two-stage robust optimization problems with mixed-integer recourse
  Anirudh Subramanyam, Wolfram Wiesemann, Chrysanthos E. Gounaris
• An efficient algorithm for solving nonsymmetric multistage mixed 0-1 convex stochastic problems
  Eugenio Mijangos
• Pension fund ALM with stochastic dominance constraints and hedging derivatives
  Sebastiano Vitali, Milos Kopa, Vittorio Moriggia
• A heuristic solution methodology for solving the Vehicle Routing problem with Stochastic Demands (VRPSD)
  Julian Gonzalez, Luis Moreno

TA-23: MADM principles 1
Stream: Multiple criteria decision analysis
Room: 2105
Chair(s): Jyh-Jiuan Lin

• Optimal assets allocation in high frequency data
  Jyh-Jiuan Lin, Chih-Lin Wu, Chih-Chang Chiu, Ching-Hui Chang
• AN ALTERNATIVE OF CENTRAL LIMIT THEOREM?
  
• Designing an EQL based CUSUM chart
  Tai-Yue Wang, Sheng-An Yang
• Application of functional data analysis in travel demand forecasting
  Huey-Kuo Chen

TA-24: New findings through healthcare analytics
Stream: CORS SIG on healthcare
Room: 301A
Chair(s): Marco Bijvank

• Issuing policies for hospital blood inventory
  Alireza Sabouri
• Empirical investigation of current practices at emergency departments
  Marco Bijvank
• The affine accumulating priority queue
  Maryam Mojalal, David Stanford, Richard Caron, Peter Taylor, Ilze Ziedins

TA-25: OR for development and developing countries 1
Stream: OR for development and developing countries
Room: 301B
Chair(s): Subhash Datta, Elise del Rosario, Olabode Adewoye, Maria Alejandra Castellini

• The advantages of multi-methodology in the collaborative processes of knowledge building in Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs)
  Maria Alejandra Castellini, Jose Luis Zanazzi, Horacio Rojo, Mischel Carmen N. Belderrain
• A chaid analysis methodology for exploring sustainable practices for green supply chain management
  Sadia Samar Ali
• Impact of Strategies on reducing air pollution in Delhi--- Bringing OR and Education to serve
  Sadia Samar Ali, Archit Gupta

TA-26: Convex optimization and equilibrium problems in electricity market
Stream: Equilibrium problems in energy
Room: 302A
Chair(s): Mohammad Reza Hesamzadeh, Othmane Mazhar

• An algorithmic approach to electricity spot market prediction with regime shift regression
  Othmane Mazhar, Cristian Rojas, Mohammad Reza Hesamzadeh, Carlo Fischione
• Nash equilibrium in hydro-dominated systems under uncertainty: Modified Benders approach
  Ekaterina Moiseeva, Mohammad Reza Hesamzadeh
• The bi-level transmission expansion problem with a regulatory constraint
  Dina Khastieva, Mohammad Reza Hesamzadeh
• Modeling the oligopolistic competition of generators in two-settlement electricity markets: Two-stage stochastic EPEC approach
  Mahir Sarfati, Mohammad Reza Hesamzadeh

TA-27: Behavioural issues in decision making 2
Stream: Behavioural OR
Room: 302B
Chair(s): Rudolf Vetschera

• Role of feedback on bidding behavior in first price reverse auctions
  Ayşegül Engin
• Identifying the heuristics and biases in the prenegotiation preference elicitation
  EWA ROSZKOWSKA, Gregory Kersten, Tomasz Wachowicz
• Challenges and issues in building a shared model for multi-criteria group decision making: A case study from sustainable transportation
  Francis Marleau Donais, Irene Abi-Zeid, Roxane Lavoie
• Factors influencing the ratio bias
  Rudolf Vetschera, David Bourdin

TA-28: Admission and physician planning
Stream: OR in healthcare
Room: 303A
Chair(s): Jens Brunner

• Managing the admission and discharge processes in the intensive care unit
  Jie Bai, Andreas Fügener, Jochen Gönsch, Jens Brunner
• Flexible break assignment in physician scheduling
  Melanie Erhard, Jens Brunner
• Handling overtime in physician scheduling
  Jens Brunner, Andreas Fügener

TA-29: Military, defense and security applications 4
Stream: Military, defense and security applications
Room: 303B
Chair(s): David Lowe

• Quantifying the residual risks associated to force protection postures
  Mark Rempel, Raman Pall
• A methodology to measure and monitor level of operational effectiveness of a CSOC
  Ankit Shah, Rajesh Ganesan
• Solving the moving target search problem using indistinguishable searchers
  Francois-Alex Bourque
• Multistage scheduling approach for defense planning based on a comprehensive capability view
  Michael Preuß

TA-30: Planning under uncertainty
Stream: OR in forestry
Room: 304A
Chair(s): David Martell

• OPTIMIZATION OF HARVEST PLANNING IN FOREST STANDS INFESTED BY SPRUCE BUDWORM USING STOCHASTIC PROGRAMMING
  Iris Zhu Chen, Mustapha Ouhimmou, Mikael Rönnqvist
• Location of suppliers and vehicle routing under uncertainty
  Sattar Ezzati, Mikael Rönnqvist, Jean-Francois Audy
• Fiber procurement planning under sourcing uncertainties
  Ali Rahimi, Mikael Rönnqvist, Luc LeBel, Jean-Francois Audy
• Timber production on flammable forest landscapes
  David Martell, Dennis Boychuk, Cristobal Pais, Andrés Weintraub, David Woodruff

TA-31: Teaching OR/MS 1
Stream: Teaching OR
Room: 304B
Chair(s): Laura Plazola Zamora

• Project-oriented OR courses for production planning
  Pedro Piñeyro, Hector Cancela, Antonio Mauttone, Luis Stábile, Carlos Testuri
• A case-based undergraduate operations research course
  Daniel Frances, Daria Terekhov
• Comics as a tool for teaching and learning OR
  Laura Plazola Zamora, Ana Torres

TB-01: Large-scale optimization in logistics and transportation
Stream: Discrete optimization in logistics and transportation
Room: 307B
Chair(s): Sanjay Dominik Jena

• On the spatial separability of uncapacitated single assignment p-hub median problems
  Taghi Khaniyev, Samir Elhedhli, Fatih Safa Erenay
• A branch-and-Benders cut algorithm for the capacitated vehicle routing problem
  Furkan Enderer, Claudio Contardo, Bernard Gendron
• The value of flexibility in long-haul transportation network design
  Mike Hewitt
• A Lagrangian heuristic for a rapid transit line design problem
  Souhaïla El Filali, Bernard Gendron, Gilbert Laporte

TB-02: Novel theoretical developments for integrated planning approaches
Stream: Design and management of manufacturing systems
Room: 308B
Chair(s): Alena Otto

• Theoretical foundation of iterative production planning – scheduling algorithms: The case of order release planning
  Hubert Missbauer
• A capacity planning MILP model including capacity allocation, backlogging, workforce planning, overtime and shift planning
  Gorkem Yilmaz
• Effective continuous-time formulations for scheduling shipyard block assembly system
  Natalia Paola Basán, Javier Faulin, Alejandro García del Valle, MENDEZ CARLOS
• Single machine scheduling with combined time-changing effects
  Vitaly Strusevich, Kabir Rustogi

TB-03: Keynote speaker: Stefania Bellavia
Stream: Keynote sessions
Room: 200AB
Chair(s): José Mario Martínez

• Computational aspects in second order methods for large scale optimization
  Stefania Bellavia

TB-04: Location, logistics, transportation and traffic 2
Stream: Location, logistics, transportation, traffic (contributed)
Room: 202
Chair(s): Lakshay .

• A study of dispatch frequency for a city logistics provider
  Che-Fu Hsueh
• Robust traffic management for the Kiel canal
  Frank Meisel
• Self-organisation in traffic signal control algorithms
  Samantha Movius
• Operating strategies for bus-based evacuation planning
  Lakshay ., Nomesh Bolia

TB-05: Stochastic modeling and simulation in engineering, management and science 1
Stream: Stochastic modeling and simulation in engineering, management and science
Room: 203
Chair(s): Erik Kropat, Zeev (Vladimir) Volkovich, Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber, Ronald Akerman Ortiz Garcia

• "Dice"-sion making under uncertainty: When can a random decision reduce risk?
  Erick Delage, Daniel Kuhn, Wolfram Wiesemann
• Demand management for distribution centers: Does stochastic variability matter?
  Raik Stolletz, Axel Franz
• Representation of the Uncertainty Scenarios in the Brazilian Hydrothermal Dispatch: Replacement of Inflow Tree by Lattice
  Fernanda Nakano Kazama, Laura Silva Granada, Paulo Correia
• A rumor spreading based evacuation simulation model in call center environments: A case study in Medellín, Colombia
  Ronald Akerman Ortiz Garcia, Yony Fernando Ceballos, Elena Valentina Gutiérrez

TB-06: HCOR healthcare SIG student presentation competition
Stream: CORS student paper competitions
Room: 204A
Chair(s): Nadia Lahrichi, Armann Ingolfsson, David Stanford, Valérie Bélanger

TB-07: Routing and scheduling in urban logistics
Stream: Vehicle routing
Room: 204B
Chair(s): Vera Hemmelmayr, Pamela Nolz, Benjamin Biesinger

• Strategic planning of free-floating electric car sharing systems with user incentives
  Benjamin Biesinger, Bin Hu, Martin Stubenschrott, Matthias Prandtstetter
• Location flexibility in parcel delivery services
  G.D.H. (Frits) Claassen, Dmitry Krushinsky, Xuezhen Guo
• Operational plannings of couriers for attended home delivery
  Frédéric Semet, Luce Brotcorne, Maria I. Restrepo, Thomas Pocreau

TB-08: Revenue management: From theory to practice
Stream: Revenue management and pricing
Room: 205A
Chair(s): Kerstin Schmidt

• An exact method to solve the challenging sales based integer program of airlines revenue management
  Mauro Piacentini, Gianmaria Leo, Giorgio Grani, Laura Palagi, Hunkar Toyoglu
• Overbooking under dynamic and static policies for network
  Wei Wang, Ravi Kumar, Darius Walczak
• Revenue management approach for two-way e-carsharing systems with one electric vehicle
  Kerstin Schmidt, Isa von Hoesslin, Thomas Volling, Thomas Spengler

TB-09: IFORS: Past, present and future
Stream: IFORS sessions
Room: 205B
Chair(s): Graham Rand

• IFORS: Past, present and future
  Peter Bell, WILLIAM PIERSKALLA, Elise del Rosario, Michael Trick

TB-10: Bilevel and two-phase optimization approaches
Stream: Multiobjective optimization methods and applications
Room: 205C
Chair(s): Pekka Malo

• Multi-objective Stackelberg game between a regulating authority and a mining company: A case study in environmental economics
  Anton Frantsev, Ankur Sinha, Pekka Malo, Kalyanmoy Deb
• Aubin property for solution mapping in parametric linear programming problem
  Daniil Berezhnov, Leonid Minchenko
• A bi-objective GRASP with path relinking to optimize waste collection services: A practical application in the south of Spain
  Laura Delgado Antequera, Manuel Laguna, Joaquín Pacheco, Rafael Caballero
• Solving optimistic bilevel programs by iteratively approximating lower level optimal value function
  Pekka Malo, Ankur Sinha, Kalyanmoy Deb

TB-11: Hyperheuristics
Stream: Hyperheuristics
Room: 206A
Chair(s): Andrew J. Parkes

• A hyperheuristic framework for optimizing the parameters of dual local search
  Mona Hamid, Jamal Ouenniche
• Combining particle swarm optimization variants on high dimensional continuous optimization problems
  Hugo Deschênes, Caroline Gagne
• Optimising LEGO constructions
  Torkil Kollsker

TB-12: Financial mathematics 4
Stream: Financial mathematics and OR
Room: 206B
Chair(s): Markku Kallio, Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber

• Portfolio optimization models considering behavioral stocks
  Kuo-Hwa Chang, Michael Young
• Dynamic analysis of ridesharing markets in the presence of incentivized matching
  Qi Wu, Shumin Ma
• Cooperative mitigation of contagion in financial networks
  Markku Kallio, Aien khabazian
• A portfolio decision process with a value-at-risk criterion
  Yuji Yoshida

TB-13: Personnel scheduling 2
Stream: Scheduling problems in logistics
Room: 207
Chair(s): Guy Desaulniers

• Personnel shift scheduling with preferences in the retail industry
  Lucas Bancel, Guy Desaulniers
• Real-time personnel re-scheduling after a minor disruption
  Issmail El Hallaoui, Rachid Hassani, Guy Desaulniers
• Re-scheduling employees to avoid overtime
  Cherifa Saadi, Guy Desaulniers

TB-14: MCDA applications and new research directions 2
Stream: Multicriteria decision analysis
Room: 305
Chair(s): Valentina Ferretti

• Designing decision maps: Subjective values in spatial analysis for policy-making processes
  Giovanna Fancello
• Generation of alternatives within policy making processes
  Irene Pluchinotta, Valentina Ferretti, Alexis Tsoukias
• Roles of multicriteria decision analysis in public sector strategic planning
  Theodor Stewart
• Fuzzy extension of the outranking based rough set approach
  Salem Chakhar, M Reza Abdi, Ashraf Labib, mariem masmoudi, Habib Chabchoub

TB-15: Methods and algorithms in convex optimization 2
Stream: Continuous optimization (contributed)
Room: 307A
Chair(s): Matus Benko

• A linear-time algorithm for computing conjugates of piecewise linear-quadratic functions
  Yves Lucet, Tasnuva Haque
• Fast subgradient method with dynamic smoothness parameter
  Enrico Gorgone, Antonio Frangioni, Bernard Gendron
• Sequential injective algorithm for weakly univalent vector equation and its application to mixed second-order cone complementarity problems
  Shunsuke Hayashi
• New stationarity concepts for mathematical programs with disjunctive constraints
  Matus Benko, Helmut Gfrerer

TB-16: DSS applications
Stream: Decision support systems
Room: 308A
Chair(s): Femi Olan

• A preference modelling approach in tourism destination choice based on the FITradeoff method
  Rodrigo José Pires Ferreira, Alexandre Leoneti, Adiel Teixeira de Almeida
• Forecasting of bivalve landings with multiple regression and data mining: The case of the Portuguese artisanal dredge fleet
  Manuela Maria de Oliveira, Ana Camanho, John Walden, Vera Miguéis, Nuno Ferreira, Miguel B. Gaspar
• Assessing airline competition - A multi attribute decision making approach
  Aman Gupta
• A comparative study on breast cancer risk factors assessment
  Tuncay Gürbüz, Elif Doğu, Y. Esra ALBAYRAK

TB-17: DEA and performance measurement 3
Stream: DEA applications
Room: 309A
Chair(s): Carlos Ernani Fries

• Second order cone programming approach to two-stage network data envelopment analysis
  Kun Chen, Joe Zhu
• A multi-criteria ranked indicator algorithm for performance measurement
  Walter Garrett
• On the relationship between technical efficiency and logistics services: Brazilian market case
  Carlos Ernani Fries, Murilo Wohlgemuth, Fernanda Christmann
• Tax efficiency of Brazilian local governments and its determinants: a semi-parametric approach via beta regression
  Luiz Henrique dos Santos Fernandes, Maria da Conceição Sampaio de Sousa

TB-18: Data science and analytics 1
Stream: Data science and analytics (contributed)
Room: 2101
Chair(s): Sanjay Melkote

• A study on forecasting car sales volume of small sample a combined with big data
  Yue He, dan Zhang, Aixin Wang
• Efficient parcel delivery by deriving customers' key locations
  Stiene Praet, David Martens
• Railway demand forecasting: A machine learning approach
  Neda Etebarialamdari, Gilles Savard, Miguel Anjos
• Predicting power outages using neural networks
  Sanjay Melkote, Francesco Bariani, Mark Freeman, Hannah Myer, Priya Raman, George Slavov

TB-19: Inventory management and capacitated lot-sizing
Stream: Lot-sizing and related topics
Room: 2102AB
Chair(s): Ganesh Janakiraman, Stéphane DAUZERE-PERES

• (R, S) policy with correlated demands
  Mengyuan Xiang, Roberto Rossi, Belen Martin Barragan
• A Dantzig-Wolfe formulation and a column generation approach for the multi-level capacitated lot-sizing problem with set-up carryover and emission constraint
  Nusrat Chowdhury, Fazle Baki, Ahmed Azab
• Optimal policies for a production system with commitment cost subject to service level and mean waiting time constraints
  Taher Ahmadi
• The solution of multiproduct inventory problem using mixed integer nonlinear programming
  Edmea Cássia Baptista, Álvaro Lourenção, Adriana Cherri, Edilaine Soler, Fernando de Souza

TB-20: Optimization of gas networks 2
Stream: Optimization of gas networks
Room: 2103
Chair(s): Lars Schewe

• Deciding robust feasibility and infeasibility using a set containment approach: An application to stationary passive gas network operations
  Denis Aßmann, Frauke Liers, Michael Stingl, Juan Vera
• On probabilistic capacity maximization in stationary gas networks
  Holger Heitsch
• Discrete versus continuous gas network expansion planning
  Ralf Lenz, Robert Schwarz
• Modeling inefficiencies in booking based gas markets
  Jonas Egerer, Julia Grübel, Veronika Grimm, Lars Schewe, Martin Schmidt, Gregor Zöttl, Alexander Martin

TB-21: Simulation and modeling without optimization
Stream: Simulation
Room: 2104A
Chair(s): Andrew Collins, Patrick Hester

• Assessment games
  Sue Collins
• On the lack of penetration of soft OR in United States of America
  Patrick Hester, Andrew Collins, Ying Thaviphoke
• Simulation-based assessment of unmanned aerial vehicles traffic congestion in metropolitan area
  Seyun Kim, Jungwoo Cho, Yoonjin Yoon

TB-22: Simulation, stochastic programming and modeling
Stream: Simulation, stochastic programming and modeling (contributed)
Room: 2104B
Chair(s): Benjamin Legros, dinesh sharma

• Mathematical analysis of machine repair problems with common cause failure, hot spares and multiple repairmen
  dinesh sharma
• Unintended consequences of optimizing a queue discipline for a service level defined by a percentile of the waiting time
  Benjamin Legros
• Morphing M/M/m: A new view of an old queue
  Neil Gunther
• Single-period newsvendor problem under random end-of-season demand
  Subrata Mitra

TB-23: MADM principles 2
Stream: Multiple criteria decision analysis
Room: 2105
Chair(s): Jung-Ho Lu

• A hybrid multiple attributes decision-making model for evaluating wetland restoration and environmental protection plan
  Chie-bein Chen, Vivien Y.C. Chen, Gwo-Hshiung Tzeng, Tze Jen Wang
• Board characteristics and firm performance: Evidence from Taiwan
  Jung-Ho Lu, Fan-Wen Huang
• Using DANP to establish a model for finding a best mentor: A study of Taiwan chefs
  Chin-Tsai Lin, Jung-Ho Lu, Ting-Ting Chang

TB-24: Hospital planning 1
Stream: CORS SIG on healthcare
Room: 301A
Chair(s): Peter Vanberkel, Michael Beeler

• Fighting fake medicine in global supply chains
  Michael Beeler, David Simchi-Levi, Cynthia Barnhart
• Bed Mapping with surge protocols: Implementation of generalized DES model at three hospital
  Carolyn Busby, Michael Carter
• MSICU Length-of-stay prediction model based on NEMS
  Felipe Rodrigues, Greg Zaric, John Wilson
• Alternative care providers in rheumatoid arthritis patient care: A queueing and simulation analysis
  Toni Tagimacruz

TB-25: OR for development and developing countries 2
Stream: OR for development and developing countries
Room: 301B
Chair(s): Subhash Datta, Leroy White, Sue Merchant, Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber

• Optimizing market strategies for peanut farmer coops
  Trilochan Sastry
• An adaptive large neighbourhood search heuristic for the bid construction problem in total truckload transportation procurement auctions
  Hammami Farouk, Monia Rekik, Leandro Coelho
• Implementation and evaluation of the targetting performance of the 4Ps program in Northwestern Philippines
  Milagros Baldemor
• The Kerkenes eco-center project in Central Anatolia, Turkey
  Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber, Francoise Summers

TB-26: Power sector perspectives and equilibrium modeling
Stream: Equilibrium problems in energy
Room: 302A
Chair(s): Christian Skar, Martin Kristiansen

• A linear complementarity model for assessment of storage technologies in mixed energy and capacity markets
  Magnus Askeland
• Coordinated microgrid energy management with a multi agent approach
  Sambeet Mishra, Chiara Bordin, Asgeir Tomasgard, Ivo Palu
• Congestion management in a stochastic dispatch model for electricity markets
  Mette Bjørndal, Endre Bjørndal, Kjetil Midthun, Golbon Zakeri
• Benefit allocations of multinational grid investments using cooperative game theory
  Martin Kristiansen

TB-27: Behavioural issues in environmental-decision making 1
Stream: Behavioural OR
Room: 302B
Chair(s): Alice H. Aubert

• Analysing the behavioural factors in green supplier selection
  Mehrnoosh Enjelasi, Behnam Fahimnia, Andrew Collins
• Using trade-off preferences to identify non-additive multi-criteria value functions
  Fridolin Haag, Peter Reichert, Nele Schuwirth, Judit Lienert
• Environmental decision analysts, let’s be playful!
  Alice H. Aubert, Judit Lienert
• Adaptive governance with open traceable accountable cognizant science and policy
  Pierre Glynn, Alexey Voinov, Carl Shapiro, Karen Jenni

TB-28: Kidney exchange programs
Stream: OR in healthcare
Room: 303A
Chair(s): Kseniia Klimentova, João Pedro Pedroso

• Study of a heuristic for efficient computation of optimized sets of chains and cycles observing the Spanish KEP policies
  Francesc Castro, Esteve del Acebo, Miquel Bofill, Mateu Villaret
• Kidney exchange programs: A game
  Margarida Carvalho, Andrea Lodi, Ana Viana, João Pedro Pedroso
• Fairness in multi-agent kidney exchange programs
  Kseniia Klimentova, Nicolau Santos, João Pedro Pedroso, Ana Viana

TB-30: Forest value chain design 2
Stream: OR in forestry
Room: 304A
Chair(s): Mikael Rönnqvist

• General portrait and performance evaluation of wood yard design
  Marta Trzcianowska, Daniel Beaudoin, Luc LeBel
• A generic framework for analazing the sustainable integration of new products: An application to the forest value chain
  Louis-Alexandre Lapointe, Mustapha Ouhimmou, Mikael Rönnqvist
• Techno-economic analysis and capacity planning model for a kraft lignin biorefinery to produce bio-based polymers
  Luana Dessbesell, Nubla Mahmood, Zhongshun Yuan, Mathew Leitch, Reino Pulkki, Chunbao (Charles) Xu
• Routing and trail design for soil damage avoidance
  Mikael Rönnqvist, Patrik Flisberg, Gert Andersson, Gustav Friberg, Erik Willén

TB-31: Teaching OR/MS 2
Stream: Teaching OR
Room: 304B
Chair(s): David Hartvigsen

• Deal or no deal: A spreadsheet game to introduce decision making under uncertainty
  Timothy Chan
• The online appointment scheduling game
  Antoine Sauré, Martin Puterman
• Process simulation in the classroom
  David Hartvigsen

TC-03: Plenary speaker: Egon Balas
Stream: Plenary sessions
Room: 200AB
Chair(s): Dionne Aleman

• Disjunctive programming as a tool for convexifying nonconvex sets
  Egon Balas

TD-01: Large scale optimization in air transportation
Stream: Discrete optimization in logistics and transportation
Room: 307B
Chair(s): Francois Soumis

• Constraints aggregation for large-scale pairing problems
  Francois Soumis, Mohammed Saddoune, François Lessard
• Combining Benders decomposition and column generation for solving integrated crew pairing and personalized crew assignment problems
  Vahid Zeighami, Francois Soumis
• Considering flight preferences in the airline crew pairings to improve the crew rostering
  Frédéric Quesnel
• Airline crew assignment problem solved by branch and price using neighborhood
  SALAH-EDDINE MAKHLOUFI, Francois Soumis, Issmail El Hallaoui

TD-02: Planning of complex manufacturing processes
Stream: Design and management of manufacturing systems
Room: 308B
Chair(s): Olga Battaïa

• Metaheuristics for the infrared heating in the thermoforming process: A comparison study
  Djamal Rebaine, Kahina Bachir Cherif, Fouad Erchiqui, Issouf Fofana
• Determination of start times by application of evolution strategies for scheduling in a balanced steelmaking and continuous casting production system
  Eduardo Salazar
• Water-integrated production scheduling in the food industry: A case study in cheese manufacturing
  Renzo Akkerman, Sai Jishna Pulluru
• Sequencing at several-piece-flow assembly lines
  Alena Otto, Xiyu Li

TD-03: Keynote speaker: Julia Bennell
Stream: Keynote sessions
Room: 200AB
Chair(s): Janny LEUNG

• Get packing! Key concepts and future directions in cutting and packing problems
  Julia Bennell

TD-04: Location, logistics, transportation and traffic 3
Stream: Location, logistics, transportation, traffic (contributed)
Room: 202
Chair(s): FIROZ AHMAD

• Estimation of moving history information
  Sara Hirayama, Masaki Ando, Takashi Hasuike, Shunji Umetani
• Discrete choice models the Bayesian way: The effect of sample size, number of choice tasks and alternatives
  Luiz Lucas, Wagner Esteves, Felipe Souza
• Dispatch optimization in bulk tanker transport operations
  Ted Gifford
• A transportation problem under non-linear cost function with varying demand and supply
  FIROZ AHMAD, AHMAD YUSUF ADHAMI

TD-05: Stochastic modeling and simulation in engineering, management and science 2
Stream: Stochastic modeling and simulation in engineering, management and science
Room: 203
Chair(s): Raik Stolletz, Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber, Parker Servello

• Joint optimization of jobs sequence and inspection policy for a system with a two-stage failure process
  Sharareh Taghipour
• Dynamic policies for equipment replacement in response to technological innovation
  Christopher Kirkbride, Diego Ruiz-Hernandez
• A Markov chain Monte Carlo simulation to predict property destination changes in Medellín, Colombia
  Julian Andres Castillo Grisales, Yony Fernando Ceballos, Elena Valentina Gutierrez Gutierrez
• An algorithmic approach to optimal evacuation
  Parker Servello, Melvin Quick, Esteban Ramirez, Erik Vonkaenel

TD-06: Data driven humanitarian logistics
Stream: Humanitarian logistics
Room: 204A
Chair(s): Erwin van der Laan

• On the design of a relief system of a metropolitan city
  Bela Vizvari
• The impact of budget constraint on the interaction between fundraising and procurement decisions
  Fuminori Toyasaki, Emel Arikan, Lena Silbermayr

TD-07: Inventory routing 1
Stream: Vehicle routing
Room: 204B
Chair(s): Amirah Rahman

• An adaptive large neighbourhood search heuristic for a deteriorating item inventory routing problem: A case of liquefied natural gas
  Yousef Ghiami, Emrah Demir, Tom van Woensel, Marielle Christiansen, Gilbert Laporte
• Inventory routing and freight consolidation for perishable goods
  Maged Dessouky, Weihong Hu
• Adaptive large neighbourhood search heuristic for the cold chain routing problem
  Amirah Rahman, Joshua Ignatius, Seyyed-Mahdi Hosseini-Motlagh, Parizad Vakili

TD-08: Revenue management
Stream: Revenue management and pricing
Room: 205A
Chair(s): Meisam Soltani-koopa

• Enhancing customers’ segmentation: Targeting and quality differentiation
  Amit Eynan, Benny Mantin
• Products closing times optimization for choice-based revenue management
  Thibault Barbier, Gilles Savard, Miguel Anjos, Fabien Cirinei
• A lifetime-value of a liquidity-constrained retailer
  Meisam Soltani-koopa, Yuri Levin, Mikhael Nediak, Anton Ovchinnikov

TD-09: IFORS: Panel discussion with the administrative committee
Stream: IFORS sessions
Room: 205B
Chair(s): Michael Trick

• IFORS: Panel discussion with the administrative committee
  Richard Hartl, Karla Hoffman, Luciana Buriol, Graham Rand, Elise del Rosario, Sue Merchant, Guillermo Durán, Nelson Maculan, Jacek Blazewicz, Chang Won Lee

TD-10: Multiobjective optimization methods with applications
Stream: Multiobjective optimization methods and applications
Room: 205C
Chair(s): Tadeusz Trzaskalik

• A new method for continuous multi-objective weather routing based on combination of multi - and single objective methods
  Kateryna Mishchenko, Mats Molander
• Sensitivity analysis for multiple criteria decision making problems
  Stanislaw Walukiewicz
• Interior point methods applied to the predispatch hydroelectric system with modification in the network topology and spinning reserve
  Silvia Maria Simões Carvalho, Aurelio Oliveira, Mayk Coelho
• Quasi-hierarchical method for discrete multiobjective stochastic dynamic programming problems
  Tadeusz Trzaskalik, Maciej Nowak

TD-11: Supply chain coordination 1
Stream: Supply chain management
Room: 206A
Chair(s): Bhavinkumar Shah

• Flexible capacity strategy in an asymmetric oligopoly market with competition and demand uncertainty
  Liu Yang, C.T. Ng
• Supply chains for public-interest goods
  Nesim Erkip, Ece Zeliha Demirci
• Coordination on improvement of the supplier: The role of the buyer on managing investment
  Amirmohsen Golmohammadi, Elkafi Hassini
• Efficacy of price discounts, effort sharing and direct promotion as supply chain co-ordination mechanisms
  Bhavinkumar Shah, gopalan srinivasan

TD-12: Meet the editors of EJOR on its 40th anniversary
Stream: EJOR special session
Room: 206B
Chair(s): Roman Slowinski

• Some facts about the current status of the European Journal of Operational Research (EJOR)
  Roman Slowinski, Immanuel Bomze, Emanuele Borgonovo, Robert Dyson, José Fernando Oliveira, Ruud Teunter
• Forty years of the European Journal of Operational Research: A bibliometric overview
  José M. Merigó, Sigifredo Laengle, Jaime Miranda, Roman Slowinski, Immanuel Bomze, Emanuele Borgonovo, Robert Dyson, José Fernando Oliveira, Ruud Teunter
• Publishing research in OR - The perspective of EJOR editors
  Robert Dyson, José Fernando Oliveira

TD-13: Scheduling applications
Stream: Scheduling problems in logistics
Room: 207
Chair(s): Cristina Núñez-del-Toro

• Periodic event scheduling and its application in manufacturing systems
  Tobias Hofmann
• Practical extensions for the twin robots scheduling problem
  Andreas Wiehl, Florian Jaehn
• Crop scheduling of plant factory with considering multi-period harvest
  Chao-Lung Yang, Kwei-Long Huang, Chia-Wei Kuo
• A branch-and-price algorithm for the aperiodic multi-period service scheduling problem
  Cristina Núñez-del-Toro, Elena Fernandez, Jörg Kalcsics

TD-14: Sustainable food logistics
Stream: Sustainable logistics
Room: 305
Chair(s): Jacqueline Bloemhof, Saman Hassanzadeh Amin

• Assessing eco-efficiency of alternative biorefining technologies in agri-food supply chains
  Argyris Kanellopoulos, Jochem Jonkman, Jacqueline Bloemhof
• Sustainable supply chain design in the food system with dietary considerations: A multi-objective approach
  Sonja Rohmer, G.D.H. (Frits) Claassen, J.C. Gerdessen, Pieter van 't Veer, Jacqueline Bloemhof
• The load dependent vehicle routing problem for temperature controlled road transportation
  Heleen Stellingwerf, Argyris Kanellopoulos, Jacqueline Bloemhof, Jack van der Vorst
• Design and optimization of a bottled water forward and reverse supply chain network
  Saman Hassanzadeh Amin, Pezhman Papen

TD-15: Nonconvex optimization and methods
Stream: Continuous optimization (contributed)
Room: 307A
Chair(s): Yi-Shuai NIU

• Double bundle method for nonsmooth DC optimization
  Kaisa Joki, Adil Bagirov, Napsu Karmitsa, Marko M. Mäkelä, Sona Taheri
• Hyperbolic smoothing method applied to the problem of covering solid bodies with equal spheres
  Helder Venceslau, Daniela Lubke, Vinicius Layter Xavier, Adilson Elias Xavier
• On DC decompositions and DC algorithms for polynomial optimization
  Yi-Shuai NIU
• Acceleration of Uzawa method for quadraic programming in contact mechanics
  Yoshihiro Kanno

TD-16: MCDM / MCDA DSS
Stream: Decision support systems
Room: 308A
Chair(s): Caroline Mota, Adiel Teixeira de Almeida

• Multi-criteria model to identify vulnerable areas: An application in a Brazilian context
  Debora Pereira, Caroline Mota, Martin Andresen
• Map-based multicriteria analysis to support stakeholder-oriented urban energy scenarios
  Sara Torabi, Patrizia Lombardi, Jacopo Toniolo, Francesca Abastante, Isabella Lami
• Decision aid with partial information using FITradeoff for preference elicitation
  Adiel Teixeira de Almeida, Eduarda Frej, Rodrigo José Pires Ferreira
• Flexible and interactive DSS for ranking problematic
  Eduarda Frej, Adiel Teixeira de Almeida

TD-17: DEA and performance measurement 4
Stream: DEA applications
Room: 309A
Chair(s): P. Matthias Takouda

• Benchmarking the benchmarks – Comparing the accuracy of Data Envelopment Analysis models
  Sebastian Kohl, Jens Brunner
• Applying Data Envelopment Analysis to identify vacuum parameters of brake fluid filling machine for preventing brake test failure
  Kun-Ping Cheng, Chang Dong-Shang, Chien-Hui Wang
• DEA in the Canadian mining industry: A case study
  P. Matthias Takouda, Mohamed Dia, Kobana Abukari, Abdelouahid Assaidi

TD-18: Classification problems
Stream: Data science and analytics (contributed)
Room: 2101
Chair(s): Sofie De Cnudde

• An efficient geometric approach for one-class classification with enhanced interpretability and classification accuracy
  Jin Young Choi
• Optimal risk bounds for multi-class supervised classification
  Loubna Benabbou, Pascal Lang
• A norm-ball covering approach to the one-class classification
  Sehwa Kim, Kyungsik Lee, Young-Seon Jeong
• A benchmarking study of classification techniques for big behavioral data
  Sofie De Cnudde, David Martens

TD-19: Lot-sizing in distribution and scheduling
Stream: Lot-sizing and related topics
Room: 2102AB
Chair(s): Masoud Chitsaz, Stéphane DAUZERE-PERES, Mariá Nascimento

• Logic-based Benders decomposition for capacitated lot sizing and routing problem
  H. Murat Afsar, faicel hnaien
• A unified decomposition matheuristic for assembly, production and inventory routing
  Masoud Chitsaz, Jean-François Cordeau, Raf Jans
• Fuzzy stochastic production-distribution problem: A modeling and solution approach
  Ümit Sami Sakallı, Emre Çalışkan
• Capacitated lot sizing problem with a fixed product sequence
  Xueying Shen, Stéphane DAUZERE-PERES, Filippo Focacci, Fabio Furini

TD-20: Uncertainty modeling for stochastic optimization
Stream: Stochastic optimization
Room: 2103
Chair(s): Warren Powell

• SDDP using a hidden semi-Markov information model
  Juliana Nascimento
• Bayesian optimization with gradients
  Matthias Poloczek, Jian Wu, Andrew Wilson, Peter Frazier
• Backward approximate dynamic programming with a hidden semi-Markov information state
  Joseph Durante

TD-21: Agent-based simulation
Stream: Simulation
Room: 2104A
Chair(s): Patrick Hester, Andrew Collins

• Agent-based simulation and strategic team formation
  Andrew Collins, Justin E. Lane, Daniele Vernon-Bido
• Simulation of the behavior of a set of consumers in a dynamic social network
  Yony Fernando Ceballos, Daniel Anderson Soto, German Sanchez
• The agent-based model of coopetition on internet-based platforms
  Margarita Gladkova, Nikolay Zenkevich

TD-22: Hybrid algorithms
Stream: Constraint programming
Room: 2104B
Chair(s): Andre Augusto Cire

• A decision-diagram-based approach for solving scheduling problems
  Jaime E. Gonzalez, Andre Augusto Cire, Louis-Martin Rousseau, Andrea Lodi
• A decision diagram-based Lagrangian approach to the one-to-one multi-commodity pickup and delivery traveling salesman problem
  Margarita P. Castro, Andre Augusto Cire, J. Christopher Beck
• Responsive mixed-initiative system for reoptimization of mixed-integer programming
  Marc-André Ménard, Claude-Guy Quimper, Jonathan Gaudreault, Yassine Attik
• Dual picking for maximal reduced-cost based fixing in MIP
  Louis-Martin Rousseau, omid sanei, Andre Augusto Cire

TD-23: MADM principles 3
Stream: Multiple criteria decision analysis
Room: 2105
Chair(s): Chen-Tung Chen

• Multi-criteria decision analysis: An evaluation model for decided of botanic drug development and its active pharmaceutical ingredient production method
  Mei-Wen Wenny Kao, Po-Kun Tseng, Chin-Tsai Lin, Chyi-Jang Wu, Kai-Wun Yeh
• Modeling the dynamic DEA model with measuring the carry-over effects of both human capital and organizational forgetting on the safety performance of business operations
  Li-Ting Yeh
• A fuzzy cognitive map model with linguistic decision information
  Chen-Tung Chen, Wei-Zhan Hung, Hui-Ling Cheng, Jheng-Han Sie

TD-24: Innovations and analysis of EMS in Nova Scotia
Stream: CORS SIG on healthcare
Room: 301A
Chair(s): Peter Vanberkel

• An empirical analysis and simulation model of ambulance offload delay
  Molly Elliott, Peter Vanberkel, Alix Carter
• An empirical analysis of the effect of ambulance offload delay on the efficiency of the ambulance system
  MENGYU LI, Peter Vanberkel, Alix Carter
• Mixing scheduled patients with walk-in patients at collaborative emergency centres
  Jacob Wing, Peter Vanberkel, Alix Carter
• A geospatial analysis of the Nova Scotia emergency care network
  Lauren McNamara, Peter Vanberkel, Alix Carter, David Petrie, Samuel Campbell

TD-25: Game theory and optimization for health and life sciences 1
Stream: Optimization, analytics and game theory for health and life sciences
Room: 301B
Chair(s): Elena Gubar, Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber, Ryan Palmer

• Comparison of static ambulance location models
  Theresia van Essen, Pieter van den Berg
• Appointment scheduling of MRI examinations
  Bjørn Nygreen, Anders N. Gullhav, Marielle Christiansen, Hanna Selvaag, Anders Eilertsen
• Fokker-Planck equation and protein folding problem
  Elso Drigo Filho, Franciele Polotto, Jorge Chahine, Ronaldo J. Oliveira
• Evaluating community healthcare by incorporating care outcomes into patient flow modelling
  Ryan Palmer, Martin Utley

TD-26: Equilibrium problems in energy 1
Stream: Equilibrium problems in energy
Room: 302A
Chair(s): Afzal Siddiqui, Steven Gabriel

• Power and heat market model: Cross-commodity effects in the Nordic energy system
  Ahti Salo, Vilma Virasjoki, Afzal Siddiqui, Behnam Zakeri
• Evaluating an interconnection project: Do strategic interactions matter?
  Sébastien Debia, David Benatia, Pierre-Olivier Pineau
• A simulation-based model for optimal demand response load-shifting: Case study for the Texas power market
  Steven Gabriel
• Sustainable transmission planning in imperfectly competitive electricity industries: Balancing economic efficiency and environmental outcomes
  Afzal Siddiqui, Makoto Tanaka, Yihsu Chen

TD-27: Theoretical issues in behavioural OR
Stream: Behavioural OR
Room: 302B
Chair(s): Leroy White

• Behavioural system dynamics: A first sketch map of the territory
  David Lane
• The role of artefacts within facilitated modelling workshops
  Thanos Papadopoulos, Elena Tavella
• Theorising collective behaviour in OR interventions with Searle's social ontology
  Katharina Burger, Leroy White
• Social embeddedness, behavioural OR and group decision support: What is the connection?
  Leroy White

TD-28: Computational biology, bioinformatics and medicine
Stream: Computational biology, bioinformatics and medicine
Room: 303A
Chair(s): Jens Allmer, Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber, Jacek Blazewicz

• Heuristics for rank aggregation in evolutionary microbiology
  Alexander Bolshoy
• Structural alignment of contact-based 3D protein substructures: The problem and its implementation on Optil.io platform
  Maciej Antczak, Marta Kasprzak, Piotr Lukasiak, Szymon Wasik, Jacek Blazewicz
• Stochastic optimal control of impulsive systems under regime switches and paradigm shifts, in biology, finance and economics
  Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber, Emel Savku, Azar Karimov, Nadi Serhan Aydin

TD-29: Optimization in unconventional oil and gas resources development
Stream: OR in the oil and gas sectors
Room: 303B
Chair(s): Zukui Li

• Stochastic programming models for optimal shale well development and refracturing planning under exogenous and endogenous uncertainties
  Ignacio Grossmann, Markus Drouven, Diego Cafaro
• Projection-based reformulation and decomposition algorithm for mixed-integer bilevel linear programs and application on noncooperative shale gas supply chain
  Fengqi You
• Strategic optimization of the oil sands SAGD drainage area arrangement and development planning
  Zukui Li
• Stochastic programming approach to integrated shale gas supply chain design and water management
  Omar Guerra, Gintaras V. Reklaitis

TD-30: Uncertainties in biomass-based supply chains
Stream: Biomass-based supply chains
Room: 304A
Chair(s): Sandra Eksioglu

• Cloud-based decision support system integrating biomass quality and uncertainty to optimize the production of biofuels
  Krystel Castillo, Mario Aboytes-Ojeda, Sandra Eksioglu, Mohammad Roni
• Stochastic models for an optimal blending of biomass under cost, quality and uncertainty considerations
  Mowen Lu, Sandra Eksioglu

TD-31: Teaching OR/MS 3
Stream: Teaching OR
Room: 304B
Chair(s): José L. Pino, Yaroslavna Pankratova

• Master’s degree program on game theory and operations research
  Yaroslavna Pankratova, Elena Gubar, Leon Petrosyan, Vladislav Taynitskiy, Natalia Vasilyeva
• Affecting performance in tertiary education by means of mathematical modeling
  Hennie Kruger, Tiny Du Toit, Annette van der Merwe
• Using SPC techniques to monitor students’ evaluation of university courses and faculty members’ teaching performance
  Sofia Sivena, Yiannis Nikolaidis
• OR/MS in executive masters in higher education management
  José L. Pino, Mª Teresa Cáceres

TE-01: Risk analysis and management
Stream: Decision making modeling and risk assessment in the financial sector
Room: 307B
Chair(s): Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber, Katsunori Ano, James Liou

• Longevity risk management for annuities by longevity derivatives
  Tadashi Uratani
• Hedging rainfall risk with derivatives in hospitality industry
  Cristian Pelizzari, Simona Franzoni
• A note on real estate pricing models with exogenous variables
  Hiroshi Ishijima, Akira Maeda
• A novel MCDM based FMEA model for risk analysis
  James Liou, Huai-Wei Lo

TE-02: Metaheuristics for combinatorial optimization problems
Stream: Metaheuristics - Matheuristics
Room: 308B
Chair(s): Francis Vasko

• Binarizations of continuous metaheuristics to solve the set covering problem: Simpler is better
  Francis Vasko, Yun Lu
• Population-based metaheuristics for the multiple-choice multidimensional knapsack problem
  Yun Lu, Francis Vasko
• Adaptation of firefly algorithm to solve GAP
  Gilberto Torres-Cockrell, Javier Ramirez-Rodriguez , Roman Anselmo Mora-Gutiérrez, Eric Alfredo Rincón-García, Antonin Ponsich
• PSO-3P for portfolio optimization problem
  Javier Ramirez, SERGIO de-los-Cobos-Silva, Miguel Angel Gutierrez , Pedro Lara-Velazquez, Roman A. Mora Gutiérrez, Antonin Ponsich, Eric Alfredo Rincón-García

TE-04: Location, logistics, transportation and traffic 4
Stream: Location, logistics, transportation, traffic (contributed)
Room: 202
Chair(s): Alexander Belenky

• Real-time book collection location search system
  Tomoki Hirai, Hiroyuki Ebara
• Bunkering port and quantity determination in a hub and spoke system
  Danijela Tuljak-Suban, VALTER SUBAN
• The design of transfer timetables for public transits
  Jin-Yuan Wang, Yu-Fan Hsu
• Robust mathematical models associated with negotiating financial investments in large-scale transportation projects
  Alexander Belenky, Gennady Fedin, Alain Kornhauser

TE-05: Stochastic modeling and simulation in engineering, management and science 3
Stream: Stochastic modeling and simulation in engineering, management and science
Room: 203
Chair(s): Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber, Derya Dinler, Alan Wan

• Computing probabilities of Boolean functions of sets in the n-space, with application of the multivariate quantiles: p-level efficient points
  Jinwook Lee, Andras Prekopa
• Numerical methods to deal with GI/G/1 queues when inter-arrival times and/or service times have geometric tails
  Javad Tavakoli, Winfried Grassmann
• Network consolidation through a modified assignment algorithm
  Alexander Barclay, John Yannotty, Quentin Donofrio
• Reducing simulation input-model risk via input model averaging
  Alan Wan, Barry L. Nelson, Xinyu Zhang

TE-06: Performance measurement in humanitarian logistics
Stream: Humanitarian logistics
Room: 204A
Chair(s): Tina Wakolbinger

• Dynamic allocation of NGO funds among program, fundraising, and administration
  Telesilla Kotsi, Goker Aydin, Alfonso Pedraza-Martinez
• A framework for outsourcing humanitarian logistics activities
  Tina Wakolbinger, Timo Gossler
• Scenario-based multi-stage disaster preparedness measurement model for high hazard potential regions
  Mehdi Hakimifar, Mehdi Ghazanfari, Tina Wakolbinger, Fuminori Toyasaki, Fuminori Toyasaki

TE-07: Inventory routing 2
Stream: Vehicle routing
Room: 204B
Chair(s): Marcus Poggi

• A matheuristic algorithm for the multi-depot inventory routing problem
  Annarita De Maio, Luca Bertazzi, Leandro Coelho, Demetrio Laganà
• Efficient routes in a periodic inventory routing problem
  Rosario Paradiso, Luca Bertazzi, Geoffrey A. Chua, Demetrio Laganà
• On the complexity of some special cases of the inventory routing problem
  Annelieke Baller, Martijn van Ee, Leen Stougie
• Solving an inventory routing problem via Benders decomposition
  Marcus Poggi, Rafael Martinelli, Fabiàn Penaranda

TE-08: Dynamic programming and Markov decision process
Stream: Dynamical systems and mathematical modelling in OR
Room: 205A
Chair(s): Yukihiro Maruyama, Masayuki Horiguchi

• Analyses of the cover time of deterministic random walks
  Takeharu Shiraga
• An approximate optimization algorithm in Markov decision processes and its application to a two-stage production and inventory system
  Koichi Nakade, Shizuru Tsuchiya
• Strong representation by non-deterministic sequential decision process and its applications
  Yukihiro Maruyama
• Bayesian control chart with unknown parameter
  Masayuki Horiguchi

TE-09: Primal integer optimization
Stream: Discrete optimization in logistics and transportation
Room: 205B
Chair(s): Issmail El Hallaoui

• Integral simplex: An introduction
  Samuel Rosat, Issmail El Hallaoui, Francois Soumis
• Integral simplex using doule decomposition
  omar foutlane, Issmail El Hallaoui
• Integer column generation
  TAHIR ADIL, Issmail El Hallaoui, Guy Desaulniers
• An improved version of the integral simplex using decomposition algorithm
  Zaghrouti Abdelouahab, Issmail El Hallaoui, Francois Soumis

TE-10: Combinatorial and mixed-integer multiobjective optimization
Stream: Multiobjective optimization methods and applications
Room: 205C
Chair(s): Martin Kidd

• vOpt: An open source software environment for multiobjective mathematical optimization
  Xavier Gandibleux, Gauthier Soleilhac, Anthony Przybylski, Stefan Ruzika
• A many-objective evolutionary algorithm with fixed reference points and path relinking
  Mert Sahinkoc, Ümit Bilge
• Multi-agent, two-criteria: Optimization total the number of tardy jobs and the makespan on identical parallel processors
  TRAN VAN UT, Ameur Soukhal, Thanh Thuy Tien TA
• A new criterion space search method for finding a discrete representation of the nondominated set in biobjective mixed integer programming
  Martin Kidd, Richard Lusby, Jesper Larsen

TE-11: Supply chain coordination 2
Stream: Supply chain management
Room: 206A
Chair(s): Mingyuan Chen

• Perfect coordination in supply chain under information asymmetries
  Dimitris Zissis, George Ioannou, Apostolos Burnetas
• Supply chain coordination under asymmetric information and partial vertical integration
  Grigory Pishchulov, Knut Richter, Sougand Golesorkhi
• Information sharing and information errors in a two-level supply chain
  Jizhou Lu, Gengzhong Feng, Kin Keung Lai, Stephen Shum
• Modeling supply chains with technology transfer and market sharing
  Mingyuan Chen

TE-12: AHP/ANP
Stream: Multiple criteria decision making and optimization (contributed)
Room: 206B
Chair(s): Josef Jablonsky

• Computing the principal eigenvector of positive matrices by the method of cyclic coordinates
  Kristóf Ábele-Nagy, János Fülöp
• Identifying thresholds of acceptance for inconsistent pairwise comparisons based on probabilistic reasoning
  Sajid Siraj, Matteo Brunelli, Alan Pearman
• Muticriteria analysis with ANP to strengthen decisions about sustainable electrical energy generation in Mexico
  Alan Monterrubio, Mayra Elizondo
• AHP model for performance evaluation of employees in a management consulting company
  Josef Jablonsky, Lucie Lidinska

TE-13: Applications of MCDA
Stream: Applications of MCDA
Room: 207
Chair(s): Theodor Stewart

• Multi-criteria analysis as a tool to enhance intermodality and promote ticket integration in public transport
  Klaas De Brucker
• Multicriteria assessment of agricultural biomass for energy and material use
  Jutta Geldermann, Meike Schmehl
• Perceived taste of wine goes beyond the tongue: The impact of color
  Moha Ghaderi, Nuria Agell

TE-14: Green logistics 1
Stream: Sustainable logistics
Room: 305
Chair(s): Maximilian Schiffer

• Optimal charging station placement in a free-floating electric car sharing system
  Georg Brandstätter, Markus Leitner, Mario Ruthmair
• Multi-agent modeling and applications for green logistics
  Cenk Sahin, M. Ali Ülkü
• Is a new definition of intermodal transport interesting for transferring flows from road to more environmentally friendly modes?
  Martine Mostert, An Caris, Sabine Limbourg
• Are electric commercial vehicles breaking even - Competitiveness of ECVs in medium-duty logistics networks
  Maximilian Schiffer, Sebastian Stütz, Grit Walther

TE-15: Survivable network design
Stream: Graphs, telecommunication, networks (contributed)
Room: 307A
Chair(s): Laura Mónica Escobar Vargas

• Polynomial-time algorithms for combinatorial optimization problems with interval data
  Xudong Hu
• Using the new software GraphsInGraphs to help finding a robust communication network
  Eglantine Camby, Gilles Caporossi, Marcia Paiva, Moises Ribeiro, Segatto Marcelo
• A methodology for transmission expansion planning problem considering reduction of the search space based on angular cuts and minimum effort criterion
  Laura Mónica Escobar Vargas, Rubén Augusto Romero Lázaro

TE-16: DSS technologies
Stream: Decision support systems
Room: 308A
Chair(s): Adiel Teixeira de Almeida, Caroline Mota

• Pricing real options premium based on conditional value at risk concept
  Kyongsun Kim, Chan S. Park
• Relative inner evaluation of an individual by interval group AHP
  Tomoe Entani
• Improving educational quality through QFD and AHP
  Tetsuro Morita, Yuki Muro, Aozora Kawana, Shin-ichiro Yokoyama, Tsutomu Mishina
• Sequential exploration with geological dependencies and uncertainty in oil prices
  Babak Jafarizadeh

TE-17: Control theory and system dynamics
Stream: Control theory, system dynamics (contributed)
Room: 309A
Chair(s): Sakae Nagaoka, Suh-Wen Chiou

• Robust signal control for urban traffic network with hazmat shipments
  Suh-Wen Chiou
• Pump life monitoring and failure prediction based on vibration signal analysis in semiconductor manufacturing process
  Youngji Yoo, Jun-Geol Baek
• Condition-based maintenance and production planning
  Michiel uit het Broek, Ruud Teunter
• Modeling an air traffic control difficulty index based on a distance in time-space domain of aircraft trajectory
  Sakae Nagaoka, Mark Brown

TE-18: Forecasting preferences for marketing applications
Stream: Data science and analytics (contributed)
Room: 2101
Chair(s): Gabrielle Gauthier Melançon

• Learning consumer preferences for large-scale assortment optimization
  Sanjay Dominik Jena, Andrea Lodi
• Assortment scoring for fashion in retail
  Christian Hudon
• Cognitive Predictive Models for Marketing Applications
  Pavankumar Murali, Joe Zhou, Ta-Hsin Li, Pietro Mazzoleni
• Preference-based customer segmentation for assortment planning
  Gabrielle Gauthier Melançon

TE-19: Stochastic lot-sizing
Stream: Lot-sizing and related topics
Room: 2102AB
Chair(s): M. Karimi-Nasab

• Multi-period production planning by Shapley value model with constraints
  Nobuyuki Ueno, Koji Okuhara
• Stochastic and deterministic lot-sizing problems with different evaluation frameworks
  Dariush Tavaghof-Gigloo, Stefan Minner
• Production scheduling with perishable inventories of limited lifespan
  Mehdi Karimi-Nasab
• Analysis of the effect of the distribution parameters on the optimal inventory policy and performance measures
  Boualem Rabta, Gerald Reiner

TE-20: Applications of risk-averse optimization
Stream: Stochastic optimization
Room: 2103
Chair(s): Daniel Jiang

• Stochastic optimization with risk parity
  Alexander Vinel
• Managaing shutdown risk in commodity and energy production
  Alessio Trivella, Selvaprabu Nadarajah, Stein-Erik Fleten, Denis Mazieres, David Pisinger
• A spectrum of risk-averse optimal policies for electric vehicle charging
  Daniel Jiang, Warren Powell

TE-21: MADM principles 4
Stream: Multiple criteria decision analysis
Room: 2104A
Chair(s): Hei Chia Wang, Pin-Ju Juan

• Knowledge management strategy of semantic web service repository
  Hei Chia Wang, Chi-Fai Pao
• New maritime paradise: Exploring the selecting factors regarding cross-strait senior tourists in cruise travel
  Wen-Yu Chen
• Measuring location selection factors for hostels
  Pin-Ju Juan, Peng-Yu Juan, Yi-Shan Chen

TE-22: Learning in constraint programming
Stream: Constraint programming
Room: 2104B
Chair(s): Claude-Guy Quimper

• Learning parameters for the sequence constraint from solutions
  Émilie Picard-Cantin, Mathieu Bouchard, Claude-Guy Quimper, Jason Sweeney
• Counting weighted spanning trees to solve constrained minimum spanning tree problems
  Gilles Pesant, Antoine Delaite
• A posteriori evaluation of counting-based branching heuristics in constraint programming using data mining
  Samuel Gagnon, Gilles Pesant
• Generalizing the edge-finder rule for the cumulative constraint
  Vincent Gingras, Claude-Guy Quimper

TE-23: Real-time planning
Stream: Optimization for public transport
Room: 2105
Chair(s): Ángel Marín, Esteve Codina, Ricardo Garcia-Rodenas, Luis Cadarso

• Marketing automation for the railway industry
  Maria Luz Lopez, Ricardo Garcia-Rodenas, Jose Carlos Garcia Garcia
• An investigation into targeted dynamic control for real-time traffic management of large railway networks
  Taha Ghasempour, David Kirkwood, Fang Xu, Gemma Nicholson, Benjamin Heydecker, Taku Fujiyama
• Rescheduling a train service plan accounting for energy consumption and passenger compensation policy in case of disruptions
  Luis Cadarso, Ricardo Garcia-Rodenas, Ángel Marín
• A railway rapid transit network design model with variable demand sensitive to the disruptions
  Esteve Codina, Francesc López-Ramos, Ángel Marín

TE-24: Machine learning and optimization for homecare
Stream: CORS SIG on healthcare
Room: 301A
Chair(s): Nadia Lahrichi, Louis-Martin Rousseau

• An ALNS for the home health care routing and scheduling problem
  Florian Grenouilleau, Nadia Lahrichi, Louis-Martin Rousseau
• Dynamic scheduling of home care patients to medical providers
  Andre Augusto Cire, Adam Diamant
• Machine learning algorithms in home care services
  Violaine Mongeau-Pérusse, Nadia Lahrichi, Louis-Martin Rousseau
• Vehicle routing problems with synchronized visits and stochastic/time-dependent travel and service times: applications in healthcare
  Seyed Hossein Hashemi Doulabi, Louis-Martin Rousseau, Gilles Pesant

TE-25: Game theory and optimization for health and life sciences 2
Stream: Optimization, analytics and game theory for health and life sciences
Room: 301B
Chair(s): Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber, Sadia Samar Ali, Qi Cao

• Visual interface of classifier system for psychiatric patients
  Edwin Montes-Orozco, Javier Ramirez-Rodriguez , Roman Anselmo Mora-Gutiérrez, Carlos Cruz Ulloa, SERGIO de-los-Cobos-Silva, Eric Alfredo Rincón-García, Miguel Angel Gutierrez , Antonin Ponsich, Pedro Lara-Velazquez
• Controlling mass-casualty flow for emergency healthcare: A simulation analysis
  Mohsin Nasir Jat, Raza Ali Rafique, Muhammad Shakeel Sadiq Jajja, Sanna Ullah
• Population-based allocation of limited CRC screening resources
  Abdelhalim Hiassat, Fatih Safa Erenay, Osman Ozaltin
• Value of information analysis using non-parametric regression models: A case study in heart failure disease management
  Qi Cao, Erik Buskens, Maarten Postma, Douwe Postmus

TE-26: Equilibrium problems in energy 2
Stream: Equilibrium problems in energy
Room: 302A
Chair(s): Kerstin Daechert, Tim Felling

• A bicriteria perspective on an L-penalty approach for solving MPECs
  Kerstin Daechert, Sauleh Siddiqui, Javier Saez-Gallego, Steven Gabriel, Juan Miguel Morales
• A robust approach to transmission constraints in zonal electricity markets
  Tim Felling, Björn Felten, Christoph Weber
• Strategic generation investment using a stochastic rolling-horizon MPEC approach and adaptive risk management
  Thomas Kallabis, Steven Gabriel
• Flow-based market coupling in the European electricity market
  Endre Bjørndal, Mette Bjørndal, Hong Cai

TE-27: Behavioural issues in environmental-decision making 2
Stream: Behavioural OR
Room: 302B
Chair(s): Judit Lienert

• Designing decision processes to overcome barriers to sustainable water systems
  Lisa Scholten
• Behavioural aspects of decision making in energy systems – A selection of current topics
  Valentin Bertsch
• Energy use feedback: A behavioural OR approach toward better decisions and more efficient energy behaviours
  Marta Lopes, Carlos Henggeler Antunes, Hermano Bernardo, Humberto Jorge
• Are all proposed objectives useful in environmental decision-making?
  Judit Lienert, Valerie Belton, Fridolin Haag, Jyri Mustajoki, Mika Marttunen

TE-28: Medicine, computational biology and bioinformatics
Stream: Computational biology, bioinformatics and medicine
Room: 303A
Chair(s): Jacek Blazewicz, Anissa Frini

• Influential factors analysis of the needs on stroke patients
  Changzheng He, Xiaozhou He, Yuanyuan Zhuang
• Assessing and improving trauma outcomes prediction models
  Fatima Almaghrabi, Dong-Ling Xu, Jian-Bo Yang
• A sorting multi-criteria approach for evaluating polypharmacy quality
  Anissa Frini, Caroline Sirois, Marie-Laure Laroche

TE-29: Technical and financial aspects of energy problems
Stream: Technical and financial aspects of energy problems
Room: 303B
Chair(s): Irena Milstein, Afzal Siddiqui

• Combining strategic and operational uncertainty in long-term power system planning
  Christian Skar, Héctor Marañón-Ledesma, Asgeir Tomasgard
• The effect of uncertainty on capacity and prices in competitive electricity markets
  Irena Milstein, Asher Tishler, Nurit Gal, C.K. Woo
• Investment in an asymmetric duopoly under risk aversion
  Kazuya Ito, Ryuta Takashima
• Investment in renewable energy under uncertainty in Norway and Sweden
  Maria Lavrutich, Verena Hagspiel

TE-30: Optimization of biomass-based supply chains
Stream: Biomass-based supply chains
Room: 304A
Chair(s): Taraneh Sowlati

• Operational level transshipment problem in forest-based biomass supply chains
  Krishna Teja Malladi, Taraneh Sowlati
• Integrated biomass to bioenergy and biofuel supply chain optimization
  Shaghaygh Akhtari, Taraneh Sowlati
• Incorporating social benefits in multi-objective optimization of forest-based bioenergy and biofuel supply chains
  Taraneh Sowlati, Claudia Cambero

TE-31: OR in industry, software, software for OR
Stream: OR in industry, software for OR (contributed)
Room: 304B
Chair(s): Jordi Mateo

• Railway timetabling and train dispatching under stochastic conditions
  Jawad Elomari, Markus Bohlin, Martin Joborn
• Global inventory planning with coupled Markov decision processes
  Eric Prescott-Gagnon, Thierry Moisan, Yossiri Adulyasak
• Maintenance cost optimization of offshore gas installations
  Rogelio Emmanuel Jauregui Miramontes, Pasi Luukka, Mikael Collan, Yuri Lawryshyn
• Deterministic linear optimization as a service
  Jordi Mateo, Kevin Borrell, LluisM Pla, Francesc Solsona, Adela Pages Bernaus

WA-01: Financial modeling 1
Stream: Decision making modeling and risk assessment in the financial sector
Room: 307B
Chair(s): Efsun Kürüm, Sebastien Lannez

• FICO optimization: A use case about optimizing credit line increase
  Sebastien Lannez, Livio Bertacco, Zsolt Csizmadia, Neill Crossley, Susanne Heipcke
• Residential real estate investment: Optimal holding period with taxation
  Jean-Luc Prigent, Charles-Olivier Amedee-Manesme, Fabrice Barthélémy, Philippe Bertrand
• Mean-variance indifference pricing
  Yang Shen
• Equilibrium asset pricing with incomplete information on regimes
  David Christen, Bernhard Nietert

WA-02: Metaheuristics for routing and other problems
Stream: Metaheuristics - Matheuristics
Room: 308B
Chair(s): Kenneth Sörensen

• Routing - efficient and simple
  Florian Arnold, Kenneth Sörensen
• A GRASP with restarts heuristic for the Steiner traveling salesman problem
  Celso Ribeiro, Ruben Interian
• Visual attractiveness in vehicle routing problems
  Daniele Vigo, Diego Gabriel Rossit
• The generalized Steiner cable-trench problem with application to error correction in vascular image analysis
  Eric Landquist, Francis Vasko, Gregory Kresge, Adam Tal, Yifeng Jiang, Xenophon Papademetris

WA-03: Keynote speaker: Avishai Mandelbaum
Stream: Keynote sessions
Room: 200AB
Chair(s): Elise del Rosario

• Theompirical research in OR/IE/OM: A theory- and data-based journey through service systems
  Avishai Mandelbaum

WA-04: Location, logistics, transportation and traffic 5
Stream: Location, logistics, transportation, traffic (contributed)
Room: 202
Chair(s): Danilo Tagliolato

• Industry 4.0 and the full integration of supply chains
  Danilo Tagliolato, Cristiano Morini
• Approximating the multiple-vehicle routing problems
  Yichen Yang, Zhaohui Liu
• Centralized combinatorial auctions for the procurement of TL transportation services: What benefits for the carriers?
  Intissar Ben Othmane, Monia Rekik
• Reduction of greenhouse gases emissions by using different routing problems
  Juraj Pekár, Ivan Brezina, Zuzana Čičková

WA-05: Stochastic modeling and simulation in engineering, management and science 4
Stream: Stochastic modeling and simulation in engineering, management and science
Room: 203
Chair(s): Ceylan Yozgatligil, Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber, Shangwei Xie

• Sequencing with stochastic release dates
  Claus Gwiggner
• Forecasting short-term electric energy demand in Australia, Brazil and G7 countries through Bagging exponential smoothing methods
  Erick Meira, Fernando Luiz Cyrino Oliveira
• Methods to compare expensive stochastic optimization algorithms
  Shangwei Xie

WA-06: Optimization in humanitarian logistics
Stream: Humanitarian logistics
Room: 204A
Chair(s): Walter Gutjahr, Begoña Vitoriano

• Humanitarian facility location and supply prepositioning under road vulnerability
  Melih Çelik
• Humanitarian logistics: Warehousing and transportation models
  Begoña Vitoriano, M. Teresa Ortuno, Adán Rodriguez
• Trajectories, lexicographic goals and incident controller’s regret: Formulating objectives in the presence of an emergency
  Natalie Simpson, James Minas
• Exploratory study of the anticipation effects in post-disaster environments
  Diana Ramirez-Rios, Jose Holguin-Veras, Luk Van Wassenhove, Victor Cantillo, Shaligram Pokharel, Johanna Amaya, Trilce Encarnacion

WA-07: Vehicle routing problems
Stream: Vehicle routing
Room: 204B
Chair(s): Lina Simeonova

• Modelling customer dependencies in the probabilistic traveling salesman problem
  Pascal Wissink, Jamal Ouenniche
• The best network improvement for multi-depot vehicle routing problems in an incomplete network
  Corrinne Luteyn, Pieter Vansteenwegen
• Real time control and routing of AGV for container hub ports
  Ek Peng Chew, Loo Hay Lee, Zhipeng Qiu
• The mixed fleet vehicle routing problem with demand-dependent service times and light loads: Formulation and population variable neighbourhood search with adaptive memory
  Lina Simeonova, Niaz Wassan, Said Salhi, Gábor Nagy

WA-08: Business analytics
Stream: Data science and analytics (contributed)
Room: 205A
Chair(s): Dominique Welt

• A collaborative problem driven requirements engineering approach to design an HR analytics application
  lynda atif, camille rosenthal sabroux
• Optimal feature extraction and selection method for PdM (Predictive Maintenance) of roots-vacuum-pump in semiconductor manufacturing process
  Kyuchang Chang, Youngji Yoo, Jun-Geol Baek
• Optimization of shows schedules on linear television
  Sebastian Souyris, Jaime Miranda
• Critical factors of success for implementing business intelligence initiatives in governmental organizations
  Dominique Welt, ADNENE HAJJI

WA-09: Routing problems with time windows assignment
Stream: Discrete optimization in logistics and transportation
Room: 205B
Chair(s): Jean-François Côté, Manuel Iori

• Strengthened precedence inequalities for the TWAVRP
  Kevin Dalmeijer, Guy Desaulniers
• The time window assignment vehicle routing problem with time-dependent travel times
  Remy Spliet, Said Dabia, Tom van Woensel
• A practical time slot management and routing problem in attended home delivery
  Bruno Bruck, Jean-François Cordeau, Manuel Iori
• The stochastic multi-period time windows assignment problem
  Jean-François Côté, Alice Raffaele, Renata Mansini

WA-10: Hub location
Stream: Location
Room: 205C
Chair(s): Francisco Saldanha-da-Gama

• Reliable single allocation hub location problem under hub breakdowns
  Nicolas Kämmerling, Borzou Rostami, Christoph Buchheim, Uwe Clausen
• The green hub location-routing problem: A model and solution technique
  Pierre Dejax, Xiao YANG, Nathalie Bostel, Marc Paquet
• Exact solution of hub network design problems with profits
  Elena Fernandez, Armaghan Alibeyg, Ivan Contreras
• A heuristic algorithm for r-allocation p-hub median problems
  Francisco Saldanha-da-Gama, Angel Corberan, Rafael Marti, Juanjo Peiró

WA-11: Inventory management
Stream: Supply chain management
Room: 206A
Chair(s): Stefan Minner

• On the optimality of reorder points: A solution procedure for joint optimization in 2-level distribution networks using (R,Q) order policies
  Christopher Grob, Andreas Bley
• Multi-objective mathematical model of routing and inventories for the supply chain of perishables: The case of the fruit sector
  Diego Fernando Batero Manso, Javier Arturo Orjuela Castro
• Influence of production, transportation, and inventory flows on costs and service levels in a lost sales push-pull production-inventory system
  Michael Vidalis, Georgios Varlas
• Multi-echelon inventory control for perishable products: Push or pull?
  Stefan Minner

WA-12: Multiple criteria decision making and optimization 1
Stream: Multiple criteria decision making and optimization (contributed)
Room: 206B
Chair(s): Farzaneh Ahmadzadeh

• INFERENCE RULES FOR SUPPLIER SELECTION USING SPHERICAL METRIC FUNCTION AS A DECIDER
  Dickson E. A OMOROGBE, Sunday Omosigho
• Sustainable indicators for rural area and analysis of causal relationships using FDM and fuzzy DEMATEL
  Wei-Ming Wang
• A multiple criteria decision aid model for preanesthetic evaluation
  Vincent Mousseau, Mohamed Amine Lazouni, Said Mahmoudi, Marc Pirlot, Olivier Sobrie
• Multi-dimensional risk management by evidential reasoning approach
  Farzaneh Ahmadzadeh, Carlos Jansson

WA-13: Matheuristics
Stream: Matheuristics
Room: 207
Chair(s): Gianfranco Guastaroba

• A matheuristic solution approach for the optimal design of multiproduct batch plants with parallel production lines
  Floor Verbiest, Trijntje Cornelissens, Johan Springael
• Iterative restricted space search applied to the periodic capacitated arc routing problem with continuous moves
  Guilherme Vinicyus Batista, Cassius Scarpin, Jose Eduardo Pecora
• Adaptive Kernel Search: A heuristic for solving mixed integer linear programs
  Gianfranco Guastaroba, Martin Savelsbergh, M. Grazia Speranza

WA-14: Green logistics 2
Stream: Sustainable logistics
Room: 305
Chair(s): Paulo Barros Correia, Antoine Legrain

• Smart traffic light: Parametric optimization function with Bézier curve
  Rhuam Estevam, Saulo Ribeiro
• A probabilistic model of shared transportation service addressing accessibility inequities
  Mahdieh Allahviranloo, Marouane Zellou
• An on-demand multi-modal transportation system
  Antoine Legrain, Connor Riley, Pascal Van Hentenryck

WA-15: Content delivery
Stream: Graphs, telecommunication, networks (contributed)
Room: 307A
Chair(s): Sy-Ming Guu

• Comparison between SDN and conventional networks based on multimedia services
  David Salazar
• Protective device and isolating switch allocation for distribution reliability optimization with tie switches and distributed generators
  Jia Guo
• Broadcast domination in permutation graphs
  Eunjeong Yi
• Finding an optimal data transmission in BitTorrent-like peer-to-peer file sharing system
  Sy-Ming Guu

WA-16: Decision theory
Stream: Decision support systems
Room: 308A
Chair(s): Shaofeng Liu

• Complexity, decision support and human behaviour
  Winnie Pelser
• R&D project selection using recent advances in multi-criteria ordinal classification methods
  Edy López Cervantes, Eduardo René Fernández González
• Aggregating opinions on ordinal proximities among linguistic terms of qualitative scales
  José Luis García-Lapresta, Raquel González del Pozo, David Perez-Roman

WA-17: Nonlinear optimization with uncertainties 1
Stream: Nonlinear optimization with uncertainties
Room: 309A
Chair(s): Natasa Krejic

• Some complexity results with high-order regularization
  José Mario Martínez
• Relaxed Peaceman-Rachford splitting method on the sum of two maximal strongly monotone operators: Convergence study
  Chee Khian Sim, Renato D.C. Monteiro
• Distributed spectral-like gradient method
  Natasa Krejic, Dragana Bajovic, Dusan Jakovetic, Nataša Krklec Jerinkić
• Fast and robust self-localization of networked agents
  Claudia Soares, Joao Gomes

WA-19: Lot-sizing and related topics
Stream: Lot-sizing and related topics
Room: 2102AB
Chair(s): Bernardo Almada-Lobo, Christian Almeder, Stéphane DAUZERE-PERES, Raf Jans

• Consumer stockpiling behavior in a changing economy: Implications for retail inventory management
  Xiaodan Pan, Benny Mantin, Martin Dresner
• An effective tabu search algorithm to optimize a multi-product multi-constraint EOQ model
  Hamidreza Mozaffari Gilani, Arezoo Bolourchi Hossein Zadeh, Ashraf Moharrami, Siamak Ghodsi Rad, Mohammadreza Dolatirik, Mahyar Amir Abbasi

WA-20: Theory and applications of optimization under uncertainty
Stream: Stochastic optimization
Room: 2103
Chair(s): Kartikey Sharma

• Modelling delay dissatisfactions in appointment scheduling
  Shuming Wang
• Ellipsoidal methods for adaptive choice-based conjoint analysis
  Denis Saure, Juan Pablo Vielma
• Robust optimization with decision dependent uncertainty sets
  Kartikey Sharma, Omid Nohadani

WA-21: Cutting and Packing 1
Stream: Cutting and packing
Room: 2104A
Chair(s): José Fernando Gonçalves

• PRIMAL-DUAL ALGORITHMS FOR THE CONSTRAINED TWO-DIMENSIONAL GUILLOTINE CUTTING PROBLEM
  Eduardo Uchoa, André Velasco
• An efficient local search algorithm for nesting problems of rasterized shapes
  Shunji Umetani, Shohei Murakami, Hiroshi Morita
• A multi-period irregular bin packing problem with usable leftovers.
  Julia Bennell, Ranga P. Abeysooriya, Antonio Martinez Sykora
• A novel NLIP formulation and a BRKGA based approach for a production and cutting problem in the home-textile industry
  José Fernando Gonçalves

WA-22: Applications of constraint programming
Stream: Constraint programming
Room: 2104B
Chair(s): Gilles Pesant

• Solving the wedding seating problem by constraint programming
  Philippe Olivier, Gilles Pesant, Andrea Lodi
• Online algorithms for the linear tape scheduling problem
  Carlos Cardonha, Lucas Villa Real
• A logic-based Benders approach to home health care delivery
  Ryo Kimura, Aliza Heching, John Hooker
• Balancing nursing workload by constraint programming
  Gilles Pesant

WA-23: Demand driven public transportation modeling
Stream: Optimization for public transport
Room: 2105
Chair(s): Virginie Lurkin, Michel Bierlaire

• Integrating supply and demand within the framework of mixed integer linear problems
  Meritxell Pacheco Paneque, Shadi Sharif Azadeh, Michel Bierlaire, Bernard Gendron
• Short-term demand estimation for ride-hailing systems using machine learning approaches
  Melvin Wong, Ismaïl Saadi, Bilal Farooq, Jacques Teller, Mario Cools
• Forward-looking smart mobility systems
  Xiang Song, Bilge Atasoy, Moshe Ben-Akiva
• Innovative intercity transport mode: Application of choice preference integrated with attributes nonattendance
  Anae Sobhani, Bilal Farooq

WA-24: Emergency response optimization
Stream: CORS SIG on healthcare
Room: 301A
Chair(s): Justin Boutilier, Christopher Sun

• Rise and shock: Optimal defibrillator placement in a high-rise building
  Timothy Chan
• How load affects service times in emergency medical service
  Armann Ingolfsson
• Optimizing public defibrillator deployment to overcome spatial and temporal accessibility barriers
  Christopher Sun, Timothy Chan
• Optimizing a drone network to deliver automated external defibrillators
  Justin Boutilier, Timothy Chan

WA-25: Game theory and optimization for health and life sciences 3
Stream: Optimization, analytics and game theory for health and life sciences
Room: 301B
Chair(s): Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber, Milagros Baldemor, Preston White

• Cadaver driven chains in kidney exchange program
  Utkarsh Verma, Viswanath Billa, Narayan Rangaraj, Deepa Usulumarty
• Impulsive control in multi-strain epidemic model
  Yaroslavna Pankratova, Elena Gubar, Vladislav Taynitskiy
• Appointment rescheduling using geospatial data: A notional simulation
  Preston White, William Scherer, Peter Whitehead
• Mergers and acquisitions in blood banking systems: A supply chain network approach
  Anna Nagurney, Amir Masoumi, Min Yu

WA-26: Optimization in power systems
Stream: Equilibrium problems in energy
Room: 302A
Chair(s): Anya Castillo, Cristiana Lara

• MINLP formulation and solution strategies for network-constrained unit commitment with nonlinear AC models
  Carl Laird, Jianfeng Liu, Anya Castillo, Jean-Paul Watson
• Scenario-based decomposition for parallel solution of the contingency-constrained ACOPF
  Jean-Paul Watson, Carl Laird, Anya Castillo
• MILP formulation and nested decomposition algorithm for planning of electric power infrastructures
  Cristiana Lara, Ignacio Grossmann
• Global Solution Methods for Globally Optimal Energy Storage System (ESS) Integration
  Anya Castillo, Dennice Gayme

WA-27: Behavioural OR and operations management
Stream: Behavioural OR
Room: 302B
Chair(s): Ilkka Leppanen

• Consultant interventions and behavioural change in supply chain forecasting
  Fotios Petropoulos, Dilek Onkal, Konstantinos Nikolopoulos
• Loss-averse decision analysis in overbooking problem
  Junlin Chen, Xiaobo Zhao, Deng Gao
• The influence of individual factors on group decision-making in dynamic environments
  Michael Leyer, Jürgen Strohhecker
• Cognitive regulation and decision conflict in the newsvendor game
  Ilkka Leppanen

WA-28: Applications of OR 1
Stream: Applications of OR (contributed)
Room: 303A
Chair(s): Dung-Ying Lin

• Analysis of selected economic indices as tools for economic sustainability: Nigeria as a case study
  Solomon Eliada-Anyanwu, Abdulfatai Lawal, Oladipo Rojugbokan
• Conflict resolution models in the Arctic region
  Sergey Shvydun, Fuad Aleskerov
• The impact of product category, country of origin, involvement and product characteristics on brand attachment
  Hellabi Zoubeyda
• A strategic network model for international container flows
  Dung-Ying Lin

WA-29: Operation and planning problems in electric energy systems
Stream: Technical and financial aspects of energy problems
Room: 303B
Chair(s): Luis Baringo

• Survivable electricity distribution network design using batteries
  Ruth Dominguez, Andy Philpott
• Optimal coupling of heat and electricity markets via hierarchical optimization
  Lesia Mitridati, S. Jalal Kazempour, Pierre Pinson, Nicoló Mazzi
• Reserve procurement in power systems with high renewable capacity: How does the time framework matter?
  Giorgia Oggioni, Ruth Dominguez, Yves Smeers
• Offering strategy for a virtual power plant participating in energy and reserve markets
  Luis Baringo, Ana Baringo, José Manuel Arroyo

WA-30: Blood system management
Stream: Health care management
Room: 304A
Chair(s): John Blake

• Modelling the impact of extended shelf life platelets
  John Blake
• An age-based lateral-transshipment policy for perishable items
  Maryam Dehghani, Babak Abbasi
• Coordinated network management for platelets in Canada
  Kristyn Reid

WA-31: Additional educational activities for OR
Stream: Initiatives for OR education
Room: 304B
Chair(s): Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber, Olga Nazarenko, Hans W. Ittmann

• A South African perspective on OR/MS education
  Hans W. Ittmann
• A system approach to understand the factors that influence the quality of primary education in developing nations
  Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber, Pedamallu Chandra Sekhar, Linet Ozdamar, Hanife Akar, Herman Mawengkang
• Early detection of university students with potential difficulties
  Anne-Sophie Hoffait

WB-03: Plenary speaker: Martine Labbé
Stream: Plenary sessions
Room: 200AB
Chair(s): Richard Eglese

• Bilevel programming, pricing problems and Stackelberg games
  Martine Labbé

HA-01: Portfolio optimization
Stream: Decision making modeling and risk assessment in the financial sector
Room: 307B
Chair(s): Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber, Derya Dinler, Miyoung Lee

• Reference-dependent expected shortfall: A new risk measure without perceiving tail event
  Sumito Onozaki, Junichi Imai
• Risk parity convex optimization algorithm
  Evgeny Bauman, Apollon Fragkiskos
• Risk analysis for project portfolios using a Bayesian network model
  Ying Yang, Gang Wang, Dong-Ling Xu
• Improved portfolio optimization approach in the sense of out-of-sample performance in the financial field
  Miyoung Lee, Jihun Kim, Sekyung Oh

HA-02: Analysis and decision making in queues 1
Stream: CORS SIG on queueing theory
Room: 308B
Chair(s): Gennady Shaikhet

• Diffusion approximations for controlled weakly interacting systems
  Eric Friedlander
• Designing load balancing policies: Lessons from NDS regime
  Varun Gupta
• Coverage, coarseness and classification: Determinants of social efficiency in priority queues
  Martin Lariviere
• Dedicated or pooled: Designing queues for large service systems
  Junfei Huang

HA-03: Keynote speaker: Detlof von Winterfeldt
Stream: Keynote sessions
Room: 200AB
Chair(s): Natashia Boland

• Decision analysis to improve homeland security
  Detlof von Winterfeldt

HA-04: Derivative-free approaches to noisy optimization
Stream: Derivative-free optimization
Room: 202
Chair(s): Sandra Santos

• Applying a pattern search and implicit filtering algorithm for solving a noisy problem of parameter identification
  Sandra Santos, Deise Ferreira, Maria Ehrhardt
• An approach based on nonmonotone directional direct search to noisy optimization
  Ana Luisa Custodio, Samuel Marcos
• On the construction of quadratic models for derivative-free trust-region algorithms
  Adriano Verdério, Elizabeth Wegner Karas, Lucas Garcia Pedroso, Katya Scheinberg

HA-05: New risk management
Stream: Financial and commodities modeling
Room: 203
Chair(s): Rita D'Ecclesia, Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber, Yuriy Kaniovskyi

• Too-big-to-fail: The value of implicit government guarantee
  Georges Tsafack
• A study of uncertainty in an operational process model to determine risks
  Oroselfia Sanchez, Idalia Flores
• Dependent credit-rating migrations: A heuristics for estimating unknown parameters
  Yuriy Kaniovskyi, Georg Pflug, Yuriy Kaniovskyi

HA-06: Understanding the practice of problem structuring methods
Stream: Problem structuring interventions
Room: 204A
Chair(s): Mike Yearworth

• Developing a study of naturally occurring problem structuring
  Eleanor Reynolds
• Strategic city planning: The compatibility of PSMs with(in) practice
  Ine Steenmans
• Choosing and combining problem structuring methods in practice
  Jane S. Christie
• Developing a set of constitutive rules for using the viable system model in real world applications
  Mike Yearworth, Angela Espinosa, David Lowe

HA-07: Routing with time window or duration constraints
Stream: Vehicle routing
Room: 204B
Chair(s): Maaike Hoogeboom

• Efficient move evaluations for time-dependent vehicle routing problems with route duration constraints
  Thomas Visser, Remy Spliet
• Vehicle routing problem for perishable items with time windows
  Ji-Su Kim, Li Liu, Chi-Guhn Lee
• The traveling salesman problem with time windows in postal services
  Alexis Bretin, Guy Desaulniers, Louis-Martin Rousseau
• Vehicle routing problem with arrival time diversification
  Maaike Hoogeboom, Wout Dullaert

HA-08: Data science and analytics 2
Stream: Data science and analytics (contributed)
Room: 205A
Chair(s): Wonsang Lee

• Dynamic management for software errors and product recall
  John Wilson
• Vulnerability assessment for populated areas: Case of study Bucaramanga (Colombia)
  Daniel Orlando Martinez Quezada, Henry Lamos, Gustavo Chio Cho
• Measuring and profiling e-government stages of nations: An application of unsupervised learning technique
  Nigussie Mengesha, Dawit Demissie, Anteneh Ayanso
• Analyzing topic transitions of innovations in emerging areas
  Wonsang Lee

HA-09: Decomposition methods in logistics and transportation
Stream: Discrete optimization in logistics and transportation
Room: 205B
Chair(s): Ivan Contreras

• A Benders based exact algorithm for the uncapacitated multicommodity network design problem
  Carlos Zetina, Ivan Contreras, Jean-François Cordeau
• Combinatorial bounds and cuts for the CDAP
  Carlos Luna-Mota, Ivan Contreras, Jean-François Cordeau
• An exact algorithm for multi-level uncapacitated facility location problems
  Camilo Ortiz-Astorquiza, Ivan Contreras, Gilbert Laporte
• A comparison of formulations and relaxations for cross-dock door assignment problems
  Ivan Contreras, Wael Nassief, Brigitte Jaumard

HA-10: Recent advances in location analysis
Stream: Location
Room: 205C
Chair(s): Francisco Saldanha-da-Gama

• A Benders decomposition approach for location of charging stations in an electric car sharing system with demand uncertainty
  Hatice Calik, Bernard Fortz
• A generalized model for plant location
  Mercedes Pelegrín, Alfredo Marín
• Formulations for the discrete ordered median problem with novel features
  Diego Ponce, Alfredo Marín, Justo Puerto
• A new class of continuous facility location problems
  Jack Brimberg, Anita Schöbel

HA-11: Decomposition methods
Stream: Telecommunications and network optimization
Room: 206A
Chair(s): Dimitri Papadimitriou

• Optimal aggregated ConvergeCast scheduling
  Mahesh Bakshi, Brigitte Jaumard, Lata Narayanan
• A dual decomposition framework for the two-stage stochastic Steiner tree problem
  Markus Sinnl, Markus Leitner, Ivana Ljubic, Martin Luipersbeck
• Logic-based Benders decomposition for the capacity- and load-constrained task allocation problem
  Dimitri Papadimitriou

HA-12: Multiple criteria decision making and optimization 2
Stream: Multiple criteria decision making and optimization (contributed)
Room: 206B
Chair(s): Majed Al-Shawa

• Purchasing professional services: Differences in managers' choice of decision criteria
  Mahmut Sonmez
• The logarithmic least squares optimality of the geometric mean of weight vectors calculated from all spanning trees for (in)complete pairwise comparison matrices
  Sándor Bozóki, Vitaliy Tsyganok
• Multi-attribute replacement policy in a cumulative damage model
  SHEY-HUEI SHEU
• Is it worth fighting a patent troll? Using the constrained rationality framework to model and analyze the showdown between RIM and NTP, as an example
  Majed Al-Shawa

HA-13: Conic and bilinear relaxations
Stream: Copositive and conic optimization
Room: 207
Chair(s): Immanuel Bomze

• Linearized robust counterparts of two-stage robust optimization problem
  Amir Ardestani-Jaafari, Erick Delage
• A fresh CP look at mixed-binary QPs: New formulations and relaxations
  Jianqiang Cheng, Immanuel Bomze, Peter Dickinson, Abdel Lisser
• Semi-Lagrangian relaxations of CDT problems - a copositive view
  Immanuel Bomze, Vaithilingam Jeyakumar, Guoyin Li

HA-14: Metaheuristics: VNS, TS, SA
Stream: Metaheuristics - Matheuristics
Room: 305
Chair(s): Abraham Duarte, Nicolle Clements

• An effective hybridisation of adaptive variable neighbourhood search and large neighbourhood search for the cumulative capacitated VRP
  Said Salhi, Jeeu Fong Sze, Niaz Wassan
• Behavior of neighborhood operators in a variable neighborhood search
  Sandra Huber, Martin Josef Geiger
• Adaptive tabu search with strategic oscillation for the bipartite boolean quadratic programming problem with partitioned variables
  Yang Wang, Qinghua Wu, Abraham Punnen, Fred Glover
• Heuristic approach to multidimensional assignment of grid points for effective vegetation monitoring and land use in east Africa
  Nicolle Clements, Virginia Miori

HA-15: Graphs, path and cycles
Stream: Graphs, telecommunication, networks (contributed)
Room: 307A
Chair(s): Tatsuo Oyama

• The most inconsistent graph of paired comparisons with ties
  Konrad Kułakowski
• On the geometric-arithmetic index with given minimum degree
  Ljiljana Pavlovic, Milica Milivojevic
• Path-counting problem and survivability function - Definition, approximation and applications
  Tatsuo Oyama, Kazuhiro Kobayashi
• P-cycle and FIPP p-cycle networks design
  Irene Loiseau, Agustín Pecorari

HA-16: Emerging topics in OM
Stream: Game theory and operations management
Room: 308A
Chair(s): Kevin Li

• Evaluation of a pharmaceutical risk-sharing agreement when patients are screened for the probability of success
  Fredrik Odegaard, Reza Mahjoub, Greg Zaric
• Service product design and consumer refund policies
  Xiao Huang, Dan Zhang
• Pricing strategies in a closed-loop supply chain with marketing effort and fairness concerns
  Kevin Li, Peng Ma, Jing Ma

HA-17: Optimization methods in machine learning
Stream: Nonlinear optimization with uncertainties
Room: 309A
Chair(s): Stefania Bellavia

• On the employment of inexact restoration for the minimization of functions whose evaluation is subject to errors
  Ernesto G. Birgin, Natasa Krejic, José Mario Martínez
• Coordinate descent converges faster with the Gauss-Southwell rule than random selection
  Mark Schmidt
• Spectral projected gradient method for stochastic optimization
  Nataša Krklec Jerinkić, Natasa Krejic

HA-18: Location, logistics, transportation and traffic 6
Stream: Location, logistics, transportation, traffic (contributed)
Room: 2101
Chair(s): Ismail Sahin

• An integrated approach for the cross-docking and routing problem
  Eduardo Delcides Bernardes, Franklina Toledo
• Design challenges and performance analysis of the AGV-pick system
  Kaveh Azadeh, Debjit Roy, René de Koster
• Tests of Markov assumptions using transitions matrices developed for train delay propagation
  Ismail Sahin

HA-19: Robust optimization: Theory and applications
Stream: Robust optimization
Room: 2102AB
Chair(s): Ihsan Yanikoglu

• Decision rule bounds for robust bilevel programs
  Ihsan Yanikoglu
• Multistage adaptive binary optimization with applications to R&D process management
  Aurelie Thiele
• Radius of robust feasibility in conic linear programming
  Miguel Goberna
• Robust optimization and ordered median problems
  Justo Puerto

HA-20: Advances in multi-stage stochastic programming
Stream: Stochastic optimization
Room: 2103
Chair(s): Merve Bodur

• A discrepancy-based approach for scenario-tree generation
  Julien Keutchayan, David Munger, Michel Gendreau
• A sequential sampling algorithm for stochastic multistage programs
  Harsha Gangammanavar
• Two-stage linear decision rules for multi-stage stochastic programming
  Merve Bodur, James Luedtke

HA-21: Cutting and Packing 2
Stream: Cutting and packing
Room: 2104A
Chair(s): Adriana Cherri

• A new column generation approach to the two-dimensional two-stage cutting stock problem
  SueJeong Kwon, Kyungsik Lee
• On cutting stock and pricing for perishable products
  Pablo A. Rey, Antoine Sauré, Alejandro Cataldo
• Biobjective approaches for the cutting stock problem minimizing total number of objects and saw cycles
  Socorro Rangel, Jesus Saez Aguado
• A stochastic programming approach to the cutting stock problem with usable leftovers
  Adriana Cherri, Luiz Henrique Cherri, José Fernando Oliveira, Maria Antónia Carravilla, Douglas Alem

HA-22: Decision support and applications
Stream: Discrete optimization, mixed integer programming (contributed)
Room: 2104B
Chair(s): Muhammad Asim Qureshi

• Mining candidate solutions to understand the results of an optimization-based decision support system
  Michael Morin, Rallou Thomopoulos, Irene Abi-Zeid, Maxime Léger, François Grondin, Martin Pleau
• CPLEX 12.7 helps you write better models
  Xavier Nodet, Daniel Junglas
• A hybrid meta-heuristic algorithm for cut-off grade optimization in open pit mining operations
  Muhammad Asim Qureshi, Mohammad Waqar Ali Asad

HA-23: Re-scheduling and OD estimation
Stream: Optimization for public transport
Room: 2105
Chair(s): Marie Schmidt, Evelien van der Hurk

• Rolling stock rescheduling in case of delays
  Rowan Hoogervorst, Twan Dollevoet, Dennis Huisman, Gabor Maroti
• The vehicle rescheduling problem with retiming
  Dennis Huisman, Rolf Van Lieshout, Judith Mulder
• A Benders' algorithm for real-time train routing and scheduling including effective inequalities
  Kaba Keita, Paola Pellegrini, Joaquin Rodriguez, Ángel Marín
• Exploratory analysis of time and spatial patterns in smart card data
  Paul Bouman, Evelien van der Hurk, Peter Vervest, Leo Kroon

HA-24: Hospital planning 2
Stream: CORS SIG on healthcare
Room: 301A
Chair(s): Peter Vanberkel, Ege Babadagli

• A mixed-integer linear programming optimization model for capturing expert planning style in interstitial low dose rate prostate brachytherapy
  Ege Babadagli, Ronald Sloboda, Nawaid Usmani, John Amanie, Albert Murtha, Don Yee, Muhammad Jamaluddin, John Doucette
• Physician scheduling to improve patient flow through emergency rooms
  Farzad Zaerpour, Marco Bijvank, Zhankun Sun
• Identifying the effect of medical screening examinations on rural hospital emergency department patient flow
  Murray Cote

HA-25: Managing flammable landscapes under uncertainty
Stream: CORS SIG on forestry
Room: 301B
Chair(s): David Martell

• Mapping current and future wildfire risk in Canada
  Xianli Wang
• Spatial fire response optimization
  Matthew Thompson, Yu Wei, Erin Belval, Greg Dillon, Jessica Haas
• Modeling demand for fire suppression resources
  Alex Masarie, Yu Wei, Matthew Thompson, Iuliana Oprea, Erin Belval, Dave Calkin
• Evaluating a forest management strategy with respect to uncertain forest disturbance using Monte Carlo simulations
  Dirk Kloss, Wenbin Cui

HA-26: New scheduling models and algorithms
Stream: Scheduling: Theory and applications
Room: 302A
Chair(s): Debora Ronconi

• Three-stage MILP planning model to support the transport scheduling of light oil derivatives in a pipeline network
  Guilherme Schnirmann, Suelen N. B. Magatão, Flávio Neves-Jr, Lucas Bueno, William Hitoshi Tsunoda Meira, Leandro Magatão, Lucia Valéria Arruda
• A tire curing scheduling problem
  Hector Cancela, Agustín Ghioldi, Sofía Lemes, Pedro Piñeyro, Joaquín Velázquez
• A new network flow model for the minimization of tool switches problem
  Horacio Yanasse, Tiago Silva, Antonio Chaves
• A biased random key genetic algorithm for the hybrid flowshop scheduling problem
  Debora Ronconi, Guilherme Mainieri

HA-27: Behavioural issues in markets and environmental management
Stream: Behavioural OR
Room: 302B
Chair(s): Melanie Ayre

• Inspection or penalty? An experimental investigation on selling genuine products or counterfeit products
  Dong Xie, Xiaobo Zhao, Wanshan Zhu, Jinxing Xie
• Design and validation of a behaviourally informed forecasting support system
  Meysam Arvan, Behnam Fahimnia, Mohsen Reisi, Enno Siemsen
• Organizational cultures and the creation of temporary multi-organization for environmental emergency management: Some hints from flashflood emergency in Lorca (Spain)
  Raffaele Giordano, Irene Pluchinotta, Alessandro Pagano, Alessandro Pagano
• Designing a market to generate OR data - An industrial ecology case study
  Melanie Ayre, Sarah King, Andrew Reeson

HA-28: Applications of OR 2
Stream: Applications of OR (contributed)
Room: 303A
Chair(s): Vladimir Matveenko

• Robust routing for evacuation plan
  Shaghayegh Mokarami, S. Mehdi Hashemi
• Efficiency in non-life insurance market in Argentina via data envelopment analysis and its sensitivity to the inputs/outputs selection
  Zilla Sinuany-Stern, Gustavo Ferro
• Bi-objective multiple criteria data envelopment analysis model combined with optimization via Monte Carlo simulation applied to a steel industry in Brazil
  Fernando Marins, Aneirson Silva, Erica Dias, Marcelo Figueiredo
• Network analysis based on a typology of nodes
  Vladimir Matveenko, Alexei Korolev

HA-29: Power systems planning and uses
Stream: Long term planning in energy, environment and climate
Room: 303B
Chair(s): Edi Assoumou, Nadia Maïzi

• Developing systematic innovation principle to resolve the structural paradox of nuclear-free homeland
  Yi-Chun Chen, Dong Shang Chang, Chun-Cheng Chen
• Optimization problem for power flow controller
  Takayuki Shiina, Jun Imaizumi, Chunhui Xu, Susumu Morito
• Energy vehicle routing problem for differently sized and powered vehicles
  Herbert Kopfer, Benedikt Vornhusen
• The long term potential for electricity and gas grids integration in France
  Edi Assoumou, Rémy Doudard, Jerôme Gutierrez

HA-30: Healthcare service delivery and analytics
Stream: Health care management
Room: 304A
Chair(s): Yong-Hong Kuo

• Overbooking decisions for balancing direct and indirect time in healthcare
  Yan Chen
• Improving access to radiation therapy treatment through enhanced patient appointment scheduling
  Nathan Horvath, Claire Ma, Ingeborg Bikker, Martin Puterman, Antoine Sauré, Scott Tyldesley
• Improvement of operation process for healthcare workers with wearable sensors at an elderly day care facility in Japan
  Masato Takanokura, Yuta Shimosako, Koki Karube, Munenori Kakehi, Tetsuo Yamada
• RFID analytics for hospital ward management
  Yong-Hong Kuo, Chun-Hung Cheng

HA-31: OR in regular study programs
Stream: Initiatives for OR education
Room: 304B
Chair(s): Gordon Dash, Nina Kajiji, Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber, Sadia Samar Ali

• Collaborative learning strategy in enhancing the analytical performance of tertiary students in calculus III
  Milagros Baldemor
• Active and experiential learning in the advanced quant-FIN classroom
  Nina Kajiji, Gordon Dash

HB-01: Financial modeling 2
Stream: Decision making modeling and risk assessment in the financial sector
Room: 307B
Chair(s): Efsun Kürüm, Zrinka Lukac

• Coupon bond duration and convexity analysis: A non-calculus approach
  Zrinka Lukac, Vedran Kojić, Margareta Gardijan Kedžo
• Valuation of Israeli options using a projected successive over relaxation algorithm
  Aloagbaye Momodu, Chi-Guhn Lee
• A semi-parametric contingent claims default forecasting model
  Zenon Taoushianis, Christakis Charalambous, Spiros Martzoukos
• Momentum and density forecasting
  Jose Faias, Duarte Stokes

HB-02: Metaheuristics for routing problems
Stream: Metaheuristics - Matheuristics
Room: 308B
Chair(s): Andreas Reinholz, Weiqi Li

• Insights on the integration of local search in a large neighborhood search heuristic for the dial-a-ride problem
  Kris Braekers, Yves Molenbruch
• Iterated local search and simulated annealing algorithms for the inventory routing problem
  Aldair Alvarez, Pedro Munari, Reinaldo Morabito
• Comparison of trajectory-based metaheuristics for the electric vehicle routing problem
  Rodrigo Linfati
• Solution attractor of local search system for the traveling salesman problem
  Weiqi Li

HB-03: Keynote speaker: Asuman Ozdaglar
Stream: Keynote sessions
Room: 200AB
Chair(s): Karla Hoffman

• Incremental methods for additive convex cost optimization
  Asu Ozdaglar

HB-04: Performance improvement in derivative-free optimization algorithms
Stream: Derivative-free optimization
Room: 202
Chair(s): Sébastien Le Digabel

• Order-based error for managing ensembles of surrogates in derivative-free optimization
  Sébastien Le Digabel, Bastien Talgorn, Michael Kokkolaras, Charles Audet
• Modified spectral simplex gradient method for unconstrained optimization
  Milagros Loreto, Ana Luisa Custodio
• Multi-objective black-box optimization using a hybrid method combining accelerated random search with a direct search method
  Rommel Regis

HB-06: Community-based operations research
Stream: Problem structuring interventions
Room: 204A
Chair(s): Michael P Johnson, Pamela Sydelko

• Towards an understanding of rich picture interpretation for, by and with community in operations research
  Tessa Berg, Simon Bell, Steve Morse
• From social impact to propensity to produce social innovation
  Maria Franca Norese
• Participatory problem structuring methods for generating common interagency understandings of wicked problems
  Pamela Sydelko

HB-07: Exact methods for routing 1
Stream: Vehicle routing
Room: 204B
Chair(s): Borzou Rostami

• A branch-and-cut algorithm for the capacitated routing problem with profits and service level requirements
  Christos Orlis, Demetrio Laganà, Wout Dullaert, Daniele Vigo
• A branch-cut-and-price algorithm for the distance constrained multi-depot vehicle routing problem
  Ruslan Sadykov, Artur Pessoa, Eduardo Uchoa
• Branch-price-and-cut for the p-step formulations of vehicle routing problems
  Pedro Munari
• The vehicle routing problem with stochastic and correlated travel times
  Borzou Rostami, Guy Desaulniers, Fausto Errico, Andrea Lodi

HB-08: Data science and analytics 3
Stream: Data science and analytics (contributed)
Room: 205A
Chair(s): sara tagarian

• Selection of appropriate forecasting model
  Ekrem TAÇYILDIZ, Banu GUNER
• The case for inliers
  Jeffry Savitz
• The econometric and time series analysis of price dynamics of new and remanufactured products
  Supanan Phantratanamongkol, Gu Pang
• Developed algorithm for maximum patterns in logical analysis of data
  sara tagarian, Soumaya Yacout, Hany Osman

HB-09: Distribution problems
Stream: Discrete optimization in logistics and transportation
Room: 205B
Chair(s): Jean-François Côté, Manuel Iori

• Optimizing less than truckload distribution through a virtual hub
  Thomas Chabot, Florence Bouchard, Ariane Legault Michaud, Jacques Renaud, Leandro Coelho
• Modeling and solution approaches for the stochastic two-echelon distribution network design problem
  Imen Ben Mohamed, François Vanderbeck, Walid Klibi
• A real-world multi-period routing problem for pharmaceutical distribution
  Raphael Kramer, Jean-François Cordeau, Manuel Iori

HB-10: Applications in location and transportation
Stream: Location
Room: 205C
Chair(s): Diego Ruiz-Hernandez

• Development of vehicle charging facility location problem based on flow-capturing location-allocation model
  Yohei Kakimoto, Hirotaka Takahashi, Yoichi Shimakawa, Hiroyuki Goto
• Biorefinery location and green perspectives: A practical approach
  Javier Faulin, Adrian Serrano, Javier Belloso
• Inducing universal access to privately managed social interest goods via location decisions
  Diego Ruiz-Hernandez, Javier Elizalde, Amaya Erro

HB-11: Network optimization
Stream: Telecommunications and network optimization
Room: 206A
Chair(s): S. Raghavan

• Clustered intersected TSP approximation algorithms
  Michal Stern, Nili Beck, Eyal Knaan
• New path elimination constraints for multi-depot and location-routing problems
  Luís Gouveia, Tolga Bektas, Daniel Santos
• Generalizations of the dominating set problem on social networks
  S. Raghavan, Rui Zhang

HB-13: Reduction and efficient bounding in conic optimization
Stream: Copositive and conic optimization
Room: 207
Chair(s): Paula Amaral

• Completely positive lower bounds for min-max fractional quadratic problems
  Paula Amaral, Immanuel Bomze
• On reduced semidefinite programs for second order moment bounds with applications
  Karthik Natarajan, Chung Piaw Teo
• Dimension reduction for semidefinite programs
  Frank Permenter, Pablo Parrilo

HB-14: Sharing and collaboration for sustainable transportation
Stream: Sustainable logistics
Room: 305
Chair(s): Stefan Voss, Frederik Schulte

• Modeling mobility as a service in a corporate setting
  Miriam Enzi, Benjamin Biesinger, Sebastian Knopp, Sophie Parragh, Matthias Prandtstetter
• Colaborative transportation under Cournot competition
  Franco Basso, Leonardo Basso, Mikael Rönnqvist, Andrés Weintraub
• Robust ride-sharing with client clustering under travel time uncertainty
  Sunghoon Chung
• Cooperation to reduce emissions in road transport: Efficient core and shapley value allocations for a cooperative truck scheduling problem
  Frederik Schulte, Eduardo Lalla-Ruiz, Silvia Schwarze, Stefan Voss, Rosa G. González-Ramírez

HB-15: Dynamics, games and optimization
Stream: Applications of dynamical models
Room: 307A
Chair(s): Damián Emilio Gibaja Romero, Montserrat Pons

• A colourful generalization for the poison Game
  Damián Emilio Gibaja Romero
• Bregman learning dynamics for robust stochastic games
  hamidou tembine
• COA modeling based on stochastic games
  Chao Chen, Changjun Fan
• Intertemporal consumption bundling with sharing markets
  Maryam Razeghian, Thomas Weber

HB-16: Cooperation and competition in supply chains
Stream: Game theory and operations management
Room: 308A
Chair(s): Qiong Wang

• A non-cooperative approach to cost allocation in joint replenishment
  Xuan Wang, Simai He, Jay Sethuraman, Jiawei Zhang
• Simultaneous penalization and subsidization for stabilizing grand coalitions in unbalanced cooperative games
  Lindong Liu, XIANGTONG QI, Zhou Xu
• Cooperation and contract design in project management with subcontracting
  Xiao-qiang Cai, Nicholas Hall, Feng Zhang
• Population monotonicity in newsvendor games
  Qiong Wang, Xin Chen, Xiangyu Gao, Zhenyu Hu

HB-17: Nonlinear optimization with uncertainties 2
Stream: Nonlinear optimization with uncertainties
Room: 309A
Chair(s): Angelia Nedich, Wei Shi

• Distributed non-convex optimization
  Behrouz Touri, Tatiana Tatarenko
• DeFW: Projection-free multi-agent optimization
  Hoi To Wai, Jean Lafond, Anna Scaglione, Eric Moulines
• Balancing computation and communication in distributed optimization
  
• A class of decentralized resource allocation algorithms and its connection to consensus optimization
  Wei Shi, Angelia Nedich, Alex Olshevsky

HB-18: Numerical methods for multiobjective optimization problems
Stream: Multiobjective optimization
Room: 2101
Chair(s): Andreas Löhne, Matthias Ehrgott

• Global optimization techniques for robust multiobjective optimization
  Gabriele Eichfelder, Julia Niebling, Stefan Rocktäschel
• The boxed line algorithm for mixed integer biobjective optimization
  Tyler Perini, Natashia Boland, Diego Pecin, Martin Savelsbergh
• Primal and dual algorithms for the optimisation of a linear function over the non-dominated set of a multi-objective optimisation problem
  Matthias Ehrgott, Zhengliang Liu

HB-19: Advances in robust optimization and control
Stream: Robust optimization
Room: 2102AB
Chair(s): Angelos Georghiou

• Scenario reduction revisited: Fundamental limits and guarantees
  Napat Rujeerapaiboon, Kilian Schindler, Daniel Kuhn, Wolfram Wiesemann
• Robust control with adjustable uncertainty sets: Providing frequency reserves to the power grid via demand response
  Angelos Georghiou
• Two-stage robust linear programming over Wasserstein balls
  Grani A. Hanasusanto, Daniel Kuhn
• Robust dual dynamic programming
  Angelos Tsoukalas, Angelos Georghiou, Wolfram Wiesemann

HB-20: Dynamical models in sustainable development 1
Stream: Dynamical models in sustainable development
Room: 2103
Chair(s): Emilio Galdeano-Gómez

• Production phases and market for timber gridshell structures
  Marzieh Ghiyasinasab, Nadia Lehoux, Sylvain Ménard
• Predicting short-term traffic congestion on urban motorway networks
  Taiwo Adetiloye, Anjali Awasthi
• ASSESSING ECO-EFFICIENCY AND ITS DETERMINANTS OF HORTICULTURAL FARMING IN SOUTHEAST SPAIN
  Emilio Galdeano-Gómez, Angeles Godoy-Durán, Juan Carlos Perez Mesa, Laura Piedra-Muñoz, Cynthia Giagnocavo

HB-21: Cutting and Packing 3
Stream: Cutting and packing
Room: 2104A
Chair(s): João Pedro Pedroso

• Integer programming models for the quasi-polyomino strip packing problem
  Marcos O. Rodrigues, Franklina Toledo
• A BRKGA-based matheuristic for the irregular strip packing problem
  Larissa Oliveira, Franklina Toledo, Maria Antónia Carravilla, José Fernando Oliveira
• Exact methods for recursive circle packing
  Stephen Maher, Ambros Gleixner, Benjamin Müller, João Pedro Pedroso

HB-22: Paths and sequences
Stream: Discrete optimization, mixed integer programming (contributed)
Room: 2104B
Chair(s): Rosa Medina

• Enumeration of all the longest paths between two nodes using a small-m method
  Hiroyuki Goto, Yoichi Shimakawa, Masashi Miyagawa
• Adding edges with short lengths between one node and every other node of the same depth in a complete K-ary tree
  Kiyoshi Sawada
• Murty's algorithm for semiassignment problem
  Rosa Medina, Enrico Malaguti, Sebastian Rodriguez

HB-23: Rolling stock scheduling and routing
Stream: Optimization for public transport
Room: 2105
Chair(s): Denise Tönissen

• A propagation approach to acyclic rolling stock rotation optimization
  Boris Grimm, Thomas Schlechte, Markus Reuther
• Multiple depot vehicle scheduling problem with controlled trip shifting
  Lucie Desfontaines, Guy Desaulniers
• Recoverable robust maintenance location routing for rolling stock
  Denise Tönissen, Joachim Arts

HB-24: Transportation logistics in healthcare
Stream: CORS SIG on healthcare
Room: 301A
Chair(s): Louis-Martin Rousseau, Nadia Lahrichi

• Analysis and optimization of patient external transportation in Montreal
  Anne-Laurence Thoux, Elisa Dubois, Eva Petitdemange, Louis-Martin Rousseau, Nadia Lahrichi
• Simulation and optimization to improve health logistics and distribution networks
  Nadia Lahrichi, Gabriel Madelin
• Using discrete-event simulation to support the management of an intrahospital transportation service
  Valérie Bélanger, Maxime Painchaud, Angel Ruiz

HB-25: OR application in wood supply management
Stream: CORS SIG on forestry
Room: 301B
Chair(s): Luc LeBel

• Application of the leagile strategy to maximise value generation in the forest products supply chain
  Shuva Gautam, Luc LeBel
• An assessment of the potential economic impact of preserving old-growth forest using different strategic forest management policies in the fire-prone boreal forest
  Baburam Rijal, Luc LeBel, David Martell, Gauthier Sylvie, Jean-Martin Lussier, Frédéric Raulier
• Implementation of a logistical center: Costs, benefits and deployment
  François Sarrazin, Luc LeBel, Nadia Lehoux

HB-26: Strategies in sports
Stream: OR in sports
Room: 302A
Chair(s): Ryan Chen

• Calculating MLB game outcomes using probability and regression analysis
  Justin Long, Sarah Roudybush, Warren Geither
• Predicting NFL offensive play types with ensemble machine learning
  Ryan Chen
• A DEA approach to measuring efficiency of a set of players of a baseball team and ranking players according to importance as a team member
  Nobuyoshi Hirotsu

HB-27: Optimization in renewable energy systems 1
Stream: Optimization in renewable energy systems
Room: 302B
Chair(s): Serap Ulusam Seckiner, Fuzhan Nasiri, Alexia Marchand

• Risk-averse optimization and sample average approximation for a virtual power plant
  Ricardo Pinto de Lima, Loïc Giraldi, Antonio Conejo, Ibrahim Hoteit, Olivier Maître, Omar Knio
• Forecasting distributed solar energy penetration using machine learning techniques: A study case for a Brazilian state
  Gheisa Esteves
• Least-squares Monte Carlo methods for hydropower optimization
  Michel Denault, Pascal Côté, Nicolas Léveillé, Jean-Philippe Olivier-Meunier, Jean-Guy Simonato
• An effective neighborhood search for short-term planning of large-scale hydropower systems
  Alexia Marchand, Michel Gendreau, Marko Blais, Grégory Emiel

HB-28: Applications of OR 3
Stream: Applications of OR (contributed)
Room: 303A
Chair(s): Mohamed Abdulkader

• A robust DEA-centric location-based decision support system for expanding recreovía hubs in the city of Bogotá (Colombia)
  Lina Navas, Sepideh Abolghasem
• Pick-up and delivery with complex loading constraints: Application to the gasoline distribution
  Abderrahman Bani, Issmail El Hallaoui, Correa Ayoub Insa
• OR methods in engineering: Finding an optimal design of a hydrostatic transmission system between conflicting objectives
  Lena Charlotte Altherr, Peter Pelz
• Optimizing the distribution network of online shopping systems
  Mohamed Abdulkader, Tarek ElMekkawy, Yuvraj Gajpal

HB-29: Integration of intermittent and renewable energy sources
Stream: Long term planning in energy, environment and climate
Room: 303B
Chair(s): Nadia Maïzi, Thibaut Cuvelier

• Optimising workforce and energy costs by exploiting production flexibility
  Thibaut Cuvelier, Quentin Louveaux
• Maximizing intermitency in 100% renewable and reliable power systems: A holistic approach applied to Reunion Island in 2030
  Nadia Maïzi, Vincent Mazauric, Edi Assoumou, Vincent Krakowski, Stephanie Bouckaert
• Methodology for insertion of intermittent energy in Brazilian hydrothermal dispatch
  Fernando Luiz Cyrino Oliveira, Paula Maçaira, Yasmin Cyrillo, Reinaldo Souza, Fabio Hideki Iha, Luiz Fernando Lorey
• Real options in renewable portfolio standards
  Makoto Goto, Ryuta Takashima

HB-30: Health care management
Stream: Health care management
Room: 304A
Chair(s): Michael Carter, Karmel Shehadeh

• A Monte Carlo optimization framework for solving the colonoscopy scheduling problem under uncertainty
  Karmel Shehadeh, Amy Cohn
• Annual block scheduling for residency programs
  William Pozehl, Amy Cohn
• Fuzzy multicriteria model for selection of vibration technology in a health care organization: A case study
  Maria Carmen Carnero

HB-31: OR promotion among academia, businesses, governments, etc.
Stream: Initiatives for OR education
Room: 304B
Chair(s): Sue Merchant, Elise del Rosario, Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber, Kseniia Ilchenko

• Ways of promoting OR in an ever-changing environment
  Sue Merchant
• Promotion of OR in the Philippines
  Elise del Rosario
• Development and promotion of operational research in Nigeria
  Olabode Adewoye

HC-03: Plenary speaker: Andres Weintraub
Stream: Plenary sessions
Room: 200AB
Chair(s): Celso Ribeiro

• OR practice matters
  Andrés Weintraub

HD-01: Applications of Benders decomposition
Stream: Telecommunications and network optimization
Room: 307B
Chair(s): Bernard Fortz

• Benders Decomposition for the network design problem with vulnerability constraints
  Martim Joyce-Moniz, Luís Gouveia, Markus Leitner
• A Benders decomposition based framework for solving cable trench problems
  Martin Luipersbeck, Hatice Calik, Markus Leitner
• Using variables aggregation and Benders decomposition for solving large-scale extended formulations
  Bernard Fortz, Markus Leitner

HD-02: Analysis and decision making in queues 2
Stream: CORS SIG on queueing theory
Room: 308B
Chair(s): Gennady Shaikhet

• Choosing how to optimally parallelize jobs
  Benjamin Berg
• Optimal traffic schedules
  Harsha Honnappa, Mor Armony, Rami Atar
• Equilibrium behavior of randomized load balancing algorithms
  Pooja Agarwal

HD-03: Keynote speaker: Ulrike Leopold-Wildburger
Stream: Keynote sessions
Room: 200AB
Chair(s): Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber

• Operations research and behavioral economics
  Ulrike Leopold-Wildburger

HD-04: Challenging applications in derivative-free optimization
Stream: Derivative-free optimization
Room: 202
Chair(s): Ana Luisa Custodio

• Hull-form optimization via hybrid global/local multi-objective derivative-free algorithms
  Riccardo Pellegrini, Andrea Serani, Giampaolo Liuzzi, Stefano Lucidi, Francesco Rinaldi, Emilio Fortunato Campana, Matteo Diez
• Scenario tree modeling for stochastic short-term hydropower operations planning
  Sara Séguin, Charles Audet, Pascal Côté
• Hybrid parallel derivative-free optimization for machine learning problems
  Steven Gardner, Oleg Golovidov, Joshua Griffin, Patrick Koch, Scott Pope

HD-05: Dynamic programming 1
Stream: Dynamic programming
Room: 203
Chair(s): Maxime Ogier

• Dynamic programming based algorithms for the temporal knapsack problem
  François Clautiaux, Boris Detienne
• Approximate dynamic programming for planning driverless fleets of electric vehicles
  Lina Al-Kanj, Warren Powell
• A heuristic approach to solve an integrated warehouse order picking problem
  Maxime Ogier, Martin Bue, Diego Cattaruzza, Frédéric Semet

HD-06: NSERC/CRSNG special session
Stream: NSERC/CRSNG special session
Room: 204A
Chair(s):

HD-07: Exact methods for routing 2
Stream: Vehicle routing
Room: 204B
Chair(s): Stefano Michelini

• Formulations for location arc routing problems
  Jessica Rodríguez-Pereira, Elena Fernandez, Gilbert Laporte
• Robust multi-period vehicle routing problems under customer order uncertainty
  Chrysanthos E. Gounaris, Anirudh Subramanyam, Frank Mufalli, José M. Laínez-Aguirre, Jose Pinto
• Branch-and-price algorithms for a VRP with time windows and variable departure times
  Stefano Michelini, Yasemin Arda, Hande Kucukaydin

HD-08: Portfolio planning in weather and energy
Stream: Decision analysis
Room: 205A
Chair(s): Destenie Nock

• Building a portfolio of weather risk transfer contracts: Contrasts with natural catastrophe contracts and implications for reducing risk to the vulnerable
  Samuel Bodily, D. Matthew Coleman
• Improving rural electricity system planning: An agent-based model for stakeholder engagement and decision making
  Jose Alfaro
• Ancillary service revenues in a high renewable future
  Todd Levin
• Multi-criteria decision analysis of natural gas pipeline capacity expansion in New England: Impacts on the overall system sustainability
  Destenie Nock, Erin Baker

HD-09: Simulation-based approaches in management and economics
Stream: Simulation in management accounting and control
Room: 205B
Chair(s): Stephan Leitner

• An agent-based variant of the standard hidden-action model
  Stephan Leitner, Friederike Wall
• Allocation of procurement volumes in a buyer-supplier model
  Kristian Strmenik
• Effects of population scenario on sustainability of the Japanese pension system
  Michael Krause, Masanori Ozawa, Tadashi Uratani

HD-10: Facility location problems
Stream: Location
Room: 205C
Chair(s): Katarzyna Krupińska

• A dynamic shelter location and evacuation planning model for flood disasters
  Maria Paola Scaparra, Melissa Gama, Bruno Filipe Santos
• Multi-type, multi-zone facility location
  Andries Heyns, Warren du Plessis
• Preferential description of robust locations
  Katarzyna Krupińska

HD-11: Forward and reverse supply chain design
Stream: Supply chain management
Room: 206A
Chair(s): Davoud Ghahremanlou

• Exact and heuristic approaches to a real-world multi-period network design problem
  Roland Braune
• Dynamic reverse supply chain design for durable products under uncertainty
  Masoumeh Kazemi Zanjani, Mohammad Jeihoonian, Michel Gendreau
• Coordinated facility location, inventory and pricing decisions in a closed loop supply chain
  Onur Kaya, Büsra Ürek
• Effects of blend wall and government policies on the petroleum supply chain
  Davoud Ghahremanlou, Wieslaw Kubiak

HD-12: Timetabling
Stream: Timetabling and project management
Room: 206B
Chair(s): Kylian Van Dessel

• Towards more configurable and interactive timetabling tools using a knowledge-based approach
  Kylian Van Dessel, Pieter Smet, Joost Vennekens
• A fast threshold acceptance algorithm for solving educational timetabling problems
  Nuno Leite, Fernando Melício, Agostinho Rosa
• Mathematical model and solution approaches for multisession exams-building assignment
  Zeliha Ergül Aydın, Zehra Kamisli Ozturk

HD-13: Copositive and polynomial optimization
Stream: Copositive and conic optimization
Room: 207
Chair(s): Luis Zuluaga

• Copositive certificates of non-negativity
  Luis Zuluaga
• Quadratic programs with hollows
  Boshi Yang, Kurt Anstreicher, Samuel Burer
• Complex polynomial optimization
  Cédric Josz

HD-14: Hybrid metaheuristics and emerging computational technologies for combinatorial optimization
Stream: Metaheuristics - Matheuristics
Room: 305
Chair(s): Cesar Rego, Buyang Cao

• Tabu search algorithms for clustering problems - Parallelization and lessons learned
  Buyang Cao, Fang Yu, Cesar Rego, Fred Glover
• Hybrid genetic algorithms for minimum sum-of-squares clustering
  Daniel Gribel, Thibaut Vidal
• A method of handling linear constraints for particle swarm optimization
  Kiseok Sung
• Extending metaheuristic unconstrained binary quadratic problem solvers to exploit early quantum computers
  Michael Booth, Steven P. Reinhardt

HD-15: Dynamic models and industrial organisation 1
Stream: Applications of dynamical models
Room: 307A
Chair(s): Ladimer Nagurney

• A dynamic game theory model for dispute resolution between public and private sector partners in PPPs
  Mohammad Rajabi
• A game theory model for freight service provision security investments for high-value cargo
  Ladimer Nagurney, Anna Nagurney, Shivani Shukla, Sara Saberi
• An evolutionary game model of bystanders’ behaviour
  Yuriko Isada, Nobuko Igaki, Aiko Shibata
• Biform game models in supply chain analyses
  Petr Fiala

HD-16: Game theory in supply chains
Stream: Game theory and operations management
Room: 308A
Chair(s): Deng-Feng Li

• Research on two-sided matching model between logistics service suppliers and cross-border e-commerce enterprises
  Xiaoxue Zheng
• Joint replenishment and transshipment for three locations
  Weifen Zhuang
• Cost allocation in collaborative transportation with overlapping coalitions
  Ondrej Osicka, Mario Guajardo

HD-17: Distributed stochastic optimization and information processing
Stream: Nonlinear optimization with uncertainties
Room: 309A
Chair(s): Dusan Jakovetic, Dragana Bajovic

• Mitigating the complexity of fictitious play in large games: A stochastic approximation approach
  Brian Swenson, Soummya Kar, Xavier João
• Accelerated consensus over stochastic networks through distributed filter design
  Stephen Kruzick, Jose Moura
• Distributed composite hypothesis testing: A consensus+innovations approach
  Anit Kumar Sahu, Soummya Kar
• Distributed Newton-like methods with variable number of working nodes
  Dusan Jakovetic, Natasa Krejic, Nataša Krklec Jerinkić, Dragana Bajovic

HD-18: Continuous multiobjective optimization and applications
Stream: Multiobjective optimization
Room: 2101
Chair(s): Christiane Tammer, Petra Weidner

• Necessary optimality conditions for some nonconvex facility location problems
  Marcus Hillmann
• Decision making with variable domination structures and vector optimization
  Petra Weidner
• Optimality conditions in generalized-convex constrained multi-objective optimization
  Christian Günther

HD-19: Empirical studies in airline operations
Stream: Data driven modeling in operations management
Room: 2102AB
Chair(s): Jiyin Liu, Soheil Sibdari

• A constraint programming approach for the airport gate assignment problem considering regular and disrupted operations
  Daniel Guimarans
• A disjunctive approach to solve the hub management optimization problem
  Gianmaria Leo, Joshua Hirschheimer, Mauro Piacentini
• Heuristic solutions to the flexible airport gate assignment problem
  Jiyin Liu, Shuo Liu, Wen-Hua Chen
• Airfare dynamics in the U.S. market: A big data analytics of competitiveness
  Soheil Sibdari, Farbod Farhadi

HD-20: Dynamical models in sustainable development 2
Stream: Dynamical models in sustainable development
Room: 2103
Chair(s): Beatriz Beyer, Beatriz Beyer

• DEA model with future performance for regional eco-efficiency analysis
  Wendi Ouyang, Jian-Bo Yang
• The joint impact of environmental awareness and system infrastructure on e-waste collection
  Wenyi Chen, Jianmai Shi, Vedat Verter
• Agent-based simulation of a heating market
  Beatriz Beyer, Jutta Geldermann, Lars-Peter Lauven

HD-21: Cutting and Packing 4
Stream: Cutting and packing
Room: 2104A
Chair(s): Ramon Alvarez-Valdes

• Approximate packing of circular-like objects in a rectangular container
  Rafael Torres Escobar, Antonio Marmolejo, Igor Litvinchev, Daniel Mosquera, Edith Lucero Ozuna Espinosa
• A hybrid metaheuristic approach for the two-dimensional loading vehicle routing problem with heterogeneous fleet
  David Álvarez-Martínez, Luis Miguel Escobar Falcón, John Willmer Escobar
• Studying different models for truck loading process
  Maria Teresa Alonso Martínez, Ramon Alvarez-Valdes, Manuel Iori, Francisco Parreño

HD-22: Routing and reliability problems
Stream: Discrete optimization, mixed integer programming (contributed)
Room: 2104B
Chair(s): Yousef Maknoon, Tonguc Ünlüyurt

• Planning of feeding station installment for a full electric large capacity urban bus system
  Virginie Lurkin, Yousef Maknoon, Shadi Sharif Azadeh, Michel Bierlaire
• Formulation for the asymmetric traveling salesman problem using mixed integer programming
  Gabriel Solari Carbajal
• Branch-and-Benders-cut algorithm for the network repair crew scheduling and routing problem
  Alfredo Moreno, Pedro Munari, Douglas Alem
• Fault localization for series systems when tests are unreliable
  Tonguc Ünlüyurt, Zahed Shahmoradi

HD-23: Timetabling and rescheduling
Stream: Optimization for public transport
Room: 2105
Chair(s): Ángel Marín

• Timetabling with integrated passenger distribution
  Johann Hartleb, Marie Schmidt, Markus Friedrich
• The passenger-centric train timetabling problem: A Stackelberg equilibrium game
  Ricardo Garcia-Rodenas, Maria Luz Lopez
• Integrate macro-micro real-time railway traffic management
  Ángel Marín, Luis Cadarso, Ricardo Garcia-Rodenas, Paola Pellegrini, Joaquin Rodriguez

HD-24: Internet of things in healthcare
Stream: CORS SIG on healthcare
Room: 301A
Chair(s): Michael Carter, Andrew Leung

• Quantifying the impact of ‘Internet of Healthcare Things (IoHT)’: Addressing domains of care quality
  Tahera Yesmin, Michael Carter
• Mackenzie health: An analysis of a “smart” Internet of Things approach to healthcare
  Chris Stewart
• Quantitative analysis of volume and scan time impact with dedicated ambulatory site in medical imaging
  Andrew Leung

HD-25: OR application in forest resources management
Stream: CORS SIG on forestry
Room: 301B
Chair(s): Marc-André Carle

• Studying the impact of harvest volume uncertainty on optimal policies: Comparison between Monte Carlo simulation and stochastic programming
  Jules Comeau
• Aligning forest management and industrial demand using a large-scale linear programming model
  Corinne MacDonald, Evelyn Richards, Eldon Gunn
• A new model for spatial harvest planning including adjacency
  Marc-André Carle, Chourouk Gharbi

HD-26: OR in agriculture 1
Stream: OR in agriculture
Room: 302A
Chair(s): Concepción Maroto

• An aggregate linear programming model to estimate the pollutant and greenhouse gases emissions from livestock
  Concepción Maroto, Marina Segura, Concepción Ginestar, Baldomero Segura
• Modeling of a new hybrid feeding system in pig industry
  Émilie Joannopoulos, François Dubeau, Jean-Pierre Dussault, Mounir Haddou, Candido Pomar

HD-27: Optimization in renewable energy systems 2
Stream: Optimization in renewable energy systems
Room: 302B
Chair(s): Jesse O'Hanley, Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber

• A hybrid stochastic dynamic programming - Tabu search approach for long-term energy planning
  Yves Mbeutcha, Michel Gendreau, Grégory Emiel
• MIP models for optimizing jacket foundations for offshore wind turbines
  Martina Fischetti
• Optimal location of small hydropower dams: Balancing renewable energy gains and river connectivity impacts
  Jesse O'Hanley, Christina Ioannidou

HD-28: Applications of OR 4
Stream: Applications of OR (contributed)
Room: 303A
Chair(s): Narasimhan Ravichandran

• Combinatorial auction mechanism for allocation of transportation in collaborative networks
  Daniel Nicola
• Chinese postman problem approach for waste collection operations in the city of Erzurum in Turkey
  Mustafa Yilmaz, Merve Kayacı Çodur, Erdem Aksakal
• Efficient anomaly detection using unsupervised cooperative machine learning
  Rasha kashef
• Managing the world's largest dance festival in India: An operational framework
  Narasimhan Ravichandran

HD-29: Models for energy and environmental issues
Stream: Long term planning in energy, environment and climate
Room: 303B
Chair(s): Olivier Bahn, Salvador Sandoval

• Cross-border pollution and environmental quota
  Salvador Sandoval, Pedro Luis Celso Arellano
• Exploring deep decarbonization pathways to 2050 for Canada using an optimization energy model framework
  Olivier Bahn, Kathleen Vaillancourt, Erik Frenette, Oskar Sigvaldason
• Assessing butanol from integrated forest biorefinery: A combined techno-economic and life cycle approach
  Annie Levasseur, Olivier Bahn, Didier Beloin-Saint-Pierre, Mariya Marinova, Kathleen Vaillancourt
• Long-term energy modeling for a decarbonized world: An assessment of the Paris agreement with an optimization bottom-up model
  Sandrine Selosse, Seungwoo Kang, Nadia Maïzi

HD-30: Advances in health care management
Stream: Health care management
Room: 304A
Chair(s): Inês Marques, Erik Demeulemeester

• Optimal branch-and-check approaches to bi-linear mixed-integer nonlinear programming with an application to caseload balanced distributed operating room scheduling
  Vahid Roshanaei, Curtiss Luong, Dionne Aleman, David Urbach
• What you should know about models in operating room scheduling
  Carla Van Riet, Erik Demeulemeester, Michael Samudra
• Using buffer capacity in the operating room planning: A good idea?
  Erik Demeulemeester, Carla Van Riet
• Staff scheduling at an emergency medical service
  Inês Marques, Joana N Rosa, Hendrik Vermuyten, Ana Barbosa-Povoa

HD-31: Managing student projects
Stream: Initiatives for OR education
Room: 304B
Chair(s): Peter Bell

• Student projects: Opportunites and challenges
  Peter Bell
• Managing student projects: Over 40 years of experience
  Graham Rand
• Learning lessons in managing student projects
  Mehmet Begen

HE-01: Advances in network design
Stream: Telecommunications and network optimization
Room: 307B
Chair(s): Eric Gourdin, Brigitte Jaumard

• Optimizing optical fiber networks
  Matthieu Chardy, Vincent Angilella, Walid Ben-Ameur
• Layered graph approaches for the directed network design problem with relays
  Martin Riedler, Markus Leitner, Ivana Ljubic, Mario Ruthmair
• Robust and reliable virtualised network infrastructures
  Varun S Reddy, Andreas Baumgartner, Thomas Bauschert
• Minimum network migration cost and duration
  Brigitte Jaumard, Hamed Pouya, Catherine Preston-Thomas

HE-02: Applications of queueing theory
Stream: CORS SIG on queueing theory
Room: 308B
Chair(s): Steve Drekic

• Exact analysis of the (R,Q) inventory policy in a two-echelon production-inventory system
  Ata G.Zare, Hossein Abouee-Mehrizi , Oded Berman
• A better model for job redundancy: Decoupling server slowdown and job size
  Kristen Gardner, Mor Harchol-Balter, Alan Scheller-Wolf
• Asymptotic performance of energy-aware multiserver queueing systems with setup times
  Vincent Maccio, Douglas Down
• Performance approximation of emergency service systems with multiple priorities and partial backups: An extension of the approximate hypercube queueing model
  Akbar Karimi, Michel Gendreau, Vedat Verter

HE-04: Job and flow shop scheduling
Stream: Scheduling in job shops, flow shops, and healthcare
Room: 202
Chair(s): Julia Lange

• GPU parallel computing for job shop scheduling in manufacturing
  Radoslaw Rudek, Izabela Heppner
• On job shop scheduling with convex costs and its application to just-in-time scheduling
  Reinhard Bürgy, Kerem Bulbul
• A homogenous parallel lines scheduling problem
  Arshad Ali, Tarek ElMekkawy, Yuvraj Gajpal
• A simulated annealing approach to solve job-shop scheduling problems with blocking constraints
  Julia Lange, Frank Werner

HE-05: Dynamic programming 2
Stream: Dynamic programming
Room: 203
Chair(s): Lishun Zeng

• Primal adjacency-based algorithm for solving the shortest path problem with resource constraints
  Ilyas Himmich
• A stochastic decision making model of emergency response to mass casualty incidents in multi-disaster areas
  Yunzhu Lin
• Accelerating strategies in label setting algorithms for the resource constrained shortest path problems
  Lishun Zeng, Mingyu Zhao

HE-06: Case studies in problem structuring methods
Stream: Problem structuring interventions
Room: 204A
Chair(s): Robert Dyson

• Evaluating the use of problem structuring methods to guide anticipatory intervention within the United Kingdom ministry of defence
  David Lowe, Karen Clark, Gerald Midgley, Mike Yearworth
• Waste remediation at an industrial legacy site: Combining PSMs with boundary critique
  Amanda Gregory, Jonathan Atkins, Gerald Midgley
• Combinatorial scenario spaces: A framework for morphological analysis and similar methods
  Christian Carling
• Health and safety factors that impact worker´s productivity in the construction industry in Brazil
  Fabio Henrique Cordeiro, Mischel Carmen N. Belderrain, Alberto Paucar-Caceres

HE-07: Routing with time windows
Stream: Vehicle routing
Room: 204B
Chair(s): Diego Cattaruzza

• Pickup and delivery problem with time windows and transfers
  Afonso Sampaio, Lucas Veelenturf, Tom van Woensel
• Analyzing the traveling salesman problem with time windows using dependency graphs
  Christian Truden, Philipp Hungerländer
• A branch&cut algorithm for the multi-trip vehicle routing problem with time windows
  Diego Cattaruzza, Paolo Gianessi

HE-08: Advances in modelling incomplete preference information
Stream: Decision analysis
Room: 205A
Chair(s): Juuso Liesiö

• Spatial multiattribute decision analysis with incomplete preference information
  Mikko Harju, Juuso Liesiö, Kai Virtanen
• The efficient frontier implied by the second-order stochastic dominance
  Juuso Liesiö, Markku Kallio
• A new correlation coefficient for aggregating incomplete rankings equitably
  Adolfo R. Escobedo

HE-09: Quantitative approaches in management and economics
Stream: Simulation in management accounting and control
Room: 205B
Chair(s): Eleonora Fendekova

• Microeconomics models of quantitative analysis the degree of concentration in the Slovak banking sector
  Eleonora Fendekova, Michal Fendek
• Objective functions in empirical asset pricing: An economic analysis
  Thomas Otto

HE-10: Location
Stream: Location
Room: 205C
Chair(s): Yolanda Hinojosa

• Interactive evolutionary multiobjective optimization for facility location problems
  Maria Barbati, Salvatore Corrente, Salvatore Greco
• A Lagrange relaxation based approach to solve an undesirable bi-level location model
  Zaida Estefanía Alarcón-Bernal, Ricardo Aceves-García
• Locating hyperplanes to fitting set of points
  Yolanda Hinojosa, Víctor Blanco, Diego Ponce

HE-11: Production and distribution
Stream: Supply chain management
Room: 206A
Chair(s): Maryam Darvish

• Simulation-based approach for supply chain optimisation under uncertainty
  Songsong Liu, Lazaros Papageorgiou
• Solving the grocery backroom sizing problem
  Maria Pires, Pedro Amorim
• A heuristic for the integrated order picking-vehicle routing problem in a B2C e-commerce context
  Stef Moons, Katrien Ramaekers, An Caris, Kris Braekers, Yasemin Arda
• Sequential versus integrated supply chain optimization
  Maryam Darvish, Leandro Coelho

HE-12: Project management and scheduling
Stream: Timetabling and project management
Room: 206B
Chair(s): James Freeman

• The use of decision-dependent uncertainty sets in robust optimization: Modeling capabilities and solution approaches
  Nikolaos H. Lappas, Anirudh Subramanyam, Chrysanthos E. Gounaris
• Prioritisation of project management capabilities: A software development application
  James Freeman

HE-13: Copositive and completely positive optimization
Stream: Copositive and conic optimization
Room: 207
Chair(s): Peter Dickinson

• Considering copositivity locally
  Peter Dickinson, Roland Hildebrand
• SPN graphs: When copositive = SPN
  Naomi Shaked-Monderer
• New upper bounds on the kissing number via copositive programming
  Olga Kuryatnikova, Juan Vera

HE-14: Combinatorial optimization 1
Stream: Combinatorial optimisation
Room: 305
Chair(s): Rosiane deFreitas

• The 0-1 integer linearization property may be a powerful tool for Lagrangean relaxation
  Monique Guignard-Spielberg, Renato de Matta, Jongwoo Park
• The effect of metrics selection into solutions to the heterogeneous sector routing problem
  Marcos José Negreiros, Augusto Palhano, Pablo Luis Fernandes, Nelson Maculan
• A multiobjective model to prevent and control child and adolescent obesity
  Lorena Pradenas, Paul Bello
• Specialized algorithms for the binary knapsack problem
  Víctor Parada

HE-15: Dynamic models and industrial organisation 2
Stream: Applications of dynamical models
Room: 307A
Chair(s): Frank Steffen, Vladimir Shikhman

• A Value-at-Risk (VaR)/Conditional Value-at-Risk (CVaR) approach to optimal train configuration and routing of hazardous materials (hazmat) shipments
  S. Davod Hosseini, Manish Verma
• Tatonnements for Cobb-Douglas economy based on the power method
  Vladimir Shikhman, Victor Ginsburgh, Yurii Nesterov
• Iterated sequential stability in the graph model for conflict resolution
  Leandro Rêgo, France Oliveira
• An efficient and truthful algorithm for fair scheduling on related machines
  Ruini Qu, Bo Chen

HE-16: Optimal control applications 1
Stream: Optimal control applications
Room: 308A
Chair(s): Richard Hartl

• Decisions on pricing, capacity investment, and introduction timing of new product generations in a durable-good monopoly
  Andrea Seidl, Richard Hartl, Peter M. Kort
• Capacity optimization for innovating firms
  Rita Pimentel, Verena Hagspiel, Kuno Huisman, Peter M. Kort, Cláudia Nunes
• Optimal control and the value of information for a stochastic epidemiological SIS-model
  Vladimir Veliov, Peter Grandits, Raimund Kovacevic

HE-17: Nonlinear optimization in the presence of uncertanties and parameters
Stream: Nonlinear optimization with uncertainties
Room: 309A
Chair(s): Wil Schilders

• Nonlinear optimization with parameters and parasitic effects
  Wil Schilders
• Robust optimization in nanoelectronics: A survey on results obtained in the NanoCOPS project.
  Piotr Putek, Michael Günther, Evert Jan Willem ter Maten
• Exploitation of random noise in simulated annealing
  Fabian Bastin, Clément Bouttier, Clément Bouttier

HE-18: Solution approaches in multiobjective optimization and application
Stream: Multiobjective optimization
Room: 2101
Chair(s): Refail Kasimbeyli, Zehra Kamisli Ozturk

• A two-objective aircraft maintenance routing problem
  Gulnaz Bulbul, Refail Kasimbeyli
• Smoothing of the conic scalarization method
  Gurkan Ozturk, Refail Kasimbeyli
• Comparison of scalarization methods by solving a two-objective two-dimensional cutting stock and assortment problem
  Banu İçmen, Refail Kasimbeyli
• Novel solution approaches for multiobjective parallel machine scheduling
  Zehra Kamisli Ozturk, Aseel Sabti

HE-19: Solving complex problems using data
Stream: Data driven modeling in operations management
Room: 2102AB
Chair(s): Ola Eriksson, Hussein Danish, Soheil Sibdari

• A data-driven optimization approach for three dimensional bin packing and mixed-case palletization
  Paulo Carvalho, Samir Elhedhli
• A data analytics based approach to select input/output variables in DEA for predicting bank efficiency change
  Imad Bou-Hamad, Abdel Latef ANOUZE
• Machine learning delay predictors in multi-skill call center using real data
  Mamadou Thiongane, Wyean Chan, Pierre L'Ecuyer
• Parallel computing of logical analysis of data: A discrete optimization approach for pattern generation
  Hussein Danish, Soumaya Yacout, Mohamed Ibrahim

HE-20: Dynamical models in sustainable development 3
Stream: Dynamical models in sustainable development
Room: 2103
Chair(s): Chang Won Lee

• Integration of MS / OR and GIS in smart cities
  María del Mar Pino, José L. Pino
• Humanitarian supply chain management: Concepts, current trends, and emerging paradigms
  Chang Won Lee, Gary Gaukler

HE-21: Cutting and Packing 5
Stream: Cutting and packing
Room: 2104A
Chair(s): Carlos Lamas-Fernandez

• A fit-degree based greedy scheduling for the 4D space-time optimization problem
  Yan Jin, Yue Yang, Kun He
• Globally optimized finite packings of arbitrary size spheres in R^d
  Janos D. Pinter, Frank Kampas, Ignacio Castillo
• A meta-heuristic technique for the packing of three-dimensional irregular pieces
  Carlos Lamas-Fernandez, Julia Bennell, Antonio Martinez Sykora

HE-22: Applications in telecommunications, energy and biology
Stream: Discrete optimization, mixed integer programming (contributed)
Room: 2104B
Chair(s): Agnès Plateau

• A mixed-integer linear programming model for biomass terminal operations
  Ioannis Dafnomilis, Dingena Schott, Mark Duinkerken, Gabriel Lodewijks
• MILP formulations and branch & cut for the min-up/min-down unit commitment problem
  Cécile Rottner, Pascale Bendotti, Pierre Fouilhoux
• An integer programming approach to stem cell culture problem
  Jongyoon Park, Kyungsik Lee
• Comparison of mixed integer programming fromulations for the minimum connected coverage problem
  Agnès Plateau, Sourour Elloumi

HE-23: Transit optimization
Stream: Optimization for public transport
Room: 2105
Chair(s): Ka Yu Lee

• The limited-stop bus service design problem with stochastic passenger assignment
  Homero Larrain, Juan Carlos Muñoz
• New results of a technology choice model for a transit line
  Luigi Moccia, Duncan W. Allen, Eric C. Bruun
• An analytical model for comparison of demand responsive and fixed route transit systems
  Daisuke Hasegawa, Tsutomu Suzuki
• Spatial-temporal speed analysis for the estimation of origin-destination matrix
  Ka Yu Lee, Jean-Marie Freche, Pascale Kuntz, Fabien Lehuédé

HE-24: Optimisation and simulation for patient scheduling
Stream: CORS SIG on healthcare
Room: 301A
Chair(s): Louis-Martin Rousseau, Nadia Lahrichi

• Chemotherapy outpatient scheduling problem - A practical case
  Menel Benzaid, Nadia Lahrichi, Louis-Martin Rousseau
• Modeling and optimization of patient flows in radiotherapy centers
  Yosra El Abed , Louis-Martin Rousseau, Nadia Lahrichi
• Patient classification for appointment scheduling in ambulatory clinics.
  Dina ben tayeb, Nadia Lahrichi, Louis-Martin Rousseau

HE-26: OR in agriculture 2
Stream: OR in agriculture
Room: 302A
Chair(s): Marina Segura

• Market imperfections and income concentration: Global and regional perspectives on Brazilian agricultural production performance
  Geraldo Souza, Eliane Gomes, Eliseu Alves
• Information quality value under a real option planning approach: The case of wine grape harvesting
  Elbio Avanzini, Alejandro Mac Cawley, Jorge Vera, Sergio Maturana

HE-27: Advances in mine planning 1
Stream: OR in mining
Room: 302B
Chair(s): Michel Gamache

• A two-stage stochastic model for open pit mine planning under geological uncertainty
  Eduardo Moreno, Xavier Emery, Marcos Goycoolea, Nelson Morales, Gonzalo Nelis
• Investigating a new hyper-heuristic method for mine production scheduling under uncertainty
  Amina Lamghari, Roussos Dimitrakopoulos
• A mixed-integer programming model for an in-pit crusher conveyor location problem
  Carlos Andres Jimenez Builes, Michel Gamache
• Optimizing truck dispatching decisions in open-pit mining using integer programming
  Amanda G Smith, Jeff Linderoth, James Luedtke

HE-28: Applications of OR 5
Stream: Applications of OR (contributed)
Room: 303A
Chair(s): Gang Du

• On the optimization of broadband beamformer configurations
  Cedric Yiu
• A joint optimization model for coordinated value activities configuration and decisions of cold chain logistics
  Gang Du, Shanshan Meng, Yixuan Xiong
• Incorporating frequency response into unit commitment formulation and non-convex pricing of inertia service
  Ehsan Davari Nejad, Mohammad Reza Hesamzadeh

HE-29: Behavioural economics for energy and environmental challenges
Stream: Long term planning in energy, environment and climate
Room: 303B
Chair(s): Sandrine Selosse, Ankinée Kirakozian, Christophe Charlier

• Nudging electricity consumption within firms. Feedbacks from a field experiment
  Christophe Charlier, Ankinée Kirakozian, Gilles Guerassimoff, Sandrine Selosse
• Bad, for the greater (public) good: Third-party monitoring and sanction on pro-environmental behavior
  Ankinée Kirakozian, Agrès Festre , Pierre Garrouste, Mira Toumi
• Tools for the improvement of households energy management
  Gilles Guerassimoff

HE-30: OR on migration and refugee issues
Stream: Sustainable living: Cognitive, social, economical, ecological and world view
Room: 304A
Chair(s): Ulrike Reisach, Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber

• Information media and migration: Channels, content and culture
  Ulrike Reisach
• Labor market inclusion: Experiences and case studies from Germany 2016
  Ulrike Reisach

HE-31: Sports scheduling
Stream: OR in sports
Room: 304B
Chair(s): Mario Guajardo

• Referee assignment in the Argentinean basketball league
  Mario Guajardo, Guillermo Durán, Facundo Gutiérrez
• Professional football tournament scheduling in Norway
  Lukas Bach, Tomas Eric Nordlander

FA-01: Analysis of complex and social networks
Stream: Telecommunications and network optimization
Room: 307B
Chair(s): Derya Dinler

• Evolutionary computing for high complexity networked systems: Study cases, issues and challenges
  Cristian Duran-Faundez
• Network analysis of food security
  Natalia Meshcheryakova, Sergey Shvydun, Fuad Aleskerov
• Faster computation of successive bounds on the group betweenness centrality
  Derya Dinler, Mustafa Kemal Tural

FA-02: Queueing systems
Stream: CORS SIG on queueing theory
Room: 308B
Chair(s): Steve Drekic

• Achieving service-level differentiation in a time-varying queue network
  Xu Sun
• Equilibrium customer strategies in an M/M/1 vacation queue with Bernoulli schedule
  Qingqing Ma, Yiqiang Zhao
• A short note on the bulk-arrival multi-server queues involving heavy-tailed distributions
  James Kim, Mohan Chaudhry
• A 2-class maintenance model with a finite population and competing exponential failure rates
  Kevin Granville, Steve Drekic

FA-03: Keynote speaker: Sophie D’Amours
Stream: Keynote sessions
Room: 200AB
Chair(s): Richard Hartl

• Value chain modelling and optimisation in the forest sector
  Sophie D'Amours

FA-04: New trends in healthcare supply chains
Stream: Scheduling in job shops, flow shops, and healthcare
Room: 202
Chair(s): Vahid Kayvanfar, Luciana Buriol

• Access to medicines supply chain design: A stakeholder framework
  Nico Vandaele, Catherine Decouttere, Stef Lemmens, Mauro Bernuzzi, Amir Reichman, Sherif Hassane
• Evaluating flexible task and personnel scheduling in the home care sector
  Federico Mosquera, Pieter Smet, Greet Vanden Berghe
• A fix-and-optimize matheuristic for the nurse rostering problem
  Luciana Buriol, Toni Wickert, Carlo Sartori

FA-05: Regularity of equilibria
Stream: Mathematical economics
Room: 203
Chair(s): Julio Dávila

• Regularity of a general equilibrium in a model with infinite past and future
  Anna Rubinchik
• Generic determinacy for overlapping-generations models
  Jonathan Burke
• OPTIMAL HUMAN CAPITAL BEQUEATHING
  Julio Dávila

FA-06: Soft OR and problem structuring methods
Stream: Problem structuring interventions
Room: 204A
Chair(s): Joaquim Heck

• Conceptualizing career success in Nepal: Gender differences
  Sunity Shrestha Hada, Gyan Bahadur Tamang, Santosh Raj Poudyal
• Workers' remittances and economic growth: Evidences from Nepal
  Gyan Mani Adhikari
• Re-examining the ‘value’ of a PSM engagement
  Patrick Tully, Mike Yearworth, Leroy White
• Problem structuring methods: Mapping the literature, 1954-1989
  Joaquim Heck, Ion Georgiou

FA-07: Electric vehicle routing
Stream: Vehicle routing
Room: 204B
Chair(s): David Cortes

• How to employ mobile electric platforms for drone-based parcel deliveries
  Hagen Salewski, Dominik Goeke
• Route design for mixed fleet of hydrogen and conventional vehicles
  MD ANISUL ISLAM, Tarek ElMekkawy, Yuvraj Gajpal
• Formulation of the traveling salesman problem with multiple drones and its solution
  Youta Ueda, Hiroyuki Ebara
• Electric vehicle routing problem with satellite customers and time windows
  David Cortes, Caroline Prodhon, H. Murat Afsar

FA-08: Decision analysis applications
Stream: Decision analysis
Room: 205A
Chair(s): Eeva Vilkkumaa

• Multi-period procurement decisions under piecewise-linear shortage costs and fixed capacity commitments: Application to gas procurement
  Ville Sillanpää, Juuso Liesiö, Anssi Käki
• Advanced medical decision support using fuzzy cognitive maps: A review of recent applications
  Afshin Jamshidi, Angel Ruiz, Daoud AIT-KADI
• A decision-analytic approach for the optimal design of population-wide diagnostic testing strategies
  Eeva Vilkkumaa, Yrjänä Hynninen, Ahti Salo