Operations Research Proceedings 2006: Selected Papers of the Annual International Conference of the German Operations Research Society (GOR), Jointly Organized with the Austrian Society of Operations Research (�GOR) and the Swiss Society of Operations R

by Karl-Heinz Waldmann (Editor), Ulrike M. Stocker (Editor)

Overview

This volume contains a selection of papers referring to lectures presented at the symposium ”OperationsResearch 2006” (OR 2006) held at the university of Karlsruhe, September 6 - 8, 2006. This international conference took place under the auspices of the Operations Research Societies of Germany (GOR), ¨ Austria (OGOR), and Switzerland (SVOR). The symposiumwas attended by morethan 600academicsand practiti- ers from 35 countries. It presented the state of the art in Operations Research and related areas in Economics, Mathematics, and Computer Science and demonstrated the broad applicability of its core themes, placing particular emphasis on Basel II, one of the most topical challenges of Operations - search. The scientific program consisted of two plenary talks, eleven semi-plenary talks and more than 400 contributed papers, selected by the program c- mittee and arranged in 19 sections. These presentations were complemented by the lectures of the GOR prize winners including the Unternehmenspreis, which has been awarded for the first time. Firstofallwethankallparticipantsof theconference,whosubmittedtheir paper for publication. However, due to a limited number of pages available for the proceedings volume, the total number of accepted papers had to be restricted. Moreover, we want to express our thanks to the program committee and the section chairs for their support in acquiring interesting contributions and acting as a referee. Finally, we thank Anna Palej for gathering and editing the accepted papers as well as Dr. Werner A. Muller ¨ and Barbara Feß from Springer for their support in publishing this volume.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783540699941
Publisher:	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publication date:	06/12/2007
Series:	Operations Research Proceedings , #2006
Edition description:	2007
Pages:	616
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.06(d)

Table of Contents

GOR Unternehmenspreis 2006.- GOR Dissertationspreis 2006.- GOR Diplomarbeitspreis 2006.- Plenary and Semi-Plenary Talks.- Business Intelligence, Forecasting and Marketing.- Discrete and Combinatorial Optimization.- Econometrics, Game Theory and Mathematical Economics.- Energy and Environment.- Finance, Banking and Insurance.- Health and Life Science.- Logistics and Transport.- Managerial Accounting and Auditing.- Metaheuristics and Decision Support Systems.- Multi Criteria Decision Theory.- Network Optimization, Graphs and Traffic.- Operational and Credit Risk.- Production and Supply Chain Management.- Scheduling and Project Management.- Simulation and Applied Probability.- Shastic Programming.- System Dynamics and Dynamic Modelling.

Editorial Reviews

From the reviews:

“‘Operations Research Proceedings 2006’ is a collection of selected papers that have been presented at the 2006 joint conference of the Austrian, German and Swiss Operational Research Societies (OGOR, GOR, SVOR) in Karlsruhe, Germany. … could be valuable for researchers who have been unable to participate in the event but still want to grasp some of its material. In my opinion, it is … recommended for students.” (M. J. Geiger, Journal of the Operational Research Society, Vol. 61 (12), 2010)

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