Operations Research Proceedings 2014 : Selected Papers of the Annual International Conference of the German Operations Research Society (GOR), RWTH Aachen University, Germany, September 2-5, 2014

Experimental Validation of an Enhanced System Synthesis Approach -- Stochastic Dynamic Programming Solution of a Risk-Adjusted Disaster Preparedness and Relief Distribution Problem -- Solution Approaches for the Double-Row Equidistant Facility Layout Problem -- Simulation of the System-Wide Impact of Power-to-Gas Energy Storages by Multi-Stage Optimization -- An Approximation Result for Matchings in Partitioned Hypergraphs -- On Class Imbalancy Correction for Classification Algorithms in Credit Scoring -- The Exact Solution of Multi-Period Portfolio Choice Problem with Exponential Utility -- On the Discriminative Power of Tournament Solutions -- An actor-oriented approach to evaluate climate policies with regard to resource intensive industries -- Upper Bounds for Heuristic Approaches to the Strip Packing Problem -- An Approximative Lexicographic Min-Max Approach to the Discrete Facility Location Problem -- Effects of Profit Taxes in Matrix Games -- Extension and application of a general pickup and delivery model for evaluating the impact of bundling goods in an urban environment -- Optimizing time slot allocation in single operator home delivery problems -- Robust Scheduling with Logic-Based Benders Decomposition -- Optimal Adaptation Process of Emergency Medical Services Systems in a Changing Environment -- Strategic network planning of recycling of photovoltaic modules -- Designing a Feedback Control System via Mixed-Integer Programming -- Fair Cyclic Roster Planning - A Case Study for a Large European Airport -- Why Does a Railway Infrastructure Company Need an Optimized Train Path Assignment for Industrialized Timetabling? -- A Polyhedral Study of the Quadratic Traveling Salesman Problem -- New inequalities for 1D relaxations of the 2D rectangular strip packing problem -- Representing Production Scheduling with Constraint Answer Set Programming -- Day-ahead versus Intraday Valuation of Flexibility for Photovoltaic and Wind Power Systems -- A Real Options Model for the Disinvestment in Conventional Power Plants -- Political Districting for Elections to the German Bundestag: An Optimization-Based Multi-Stage Heuristic Respecting Administrative Boundaries -- Duality for multiobjective semidefinite optimization problems -- Algorithms for Controlling Palletizers -- Capital Budgeting Problems: A parameterized point of view -- How to increase robustness of capable-to-promise - A numerical analysis of preventive measures -- A Variable Neighborhood Search for a Re-entrant Flow Shop Scheduling Problem -- Selecting delivery patterns for grocery chains -- Towards a Customer-oriented Queuing in Service Incident Management -- A Lagrangian Relaxation Algorithm for Modularity Maximization Problem -- Row and Column Generation Algorithm for Maximization of Minimum Margin for Ranking Problems -- Dual sourcing inventory model with uncertain supply and advance capacity information -- Integrated Line Planning and Passenger Routing: Connectivity and Transfers -- Robust discrete optimization problems with the WOWA criterion -- Robust single machine scheduling problem with weighted number of late jobs criterion -- Price of Anarchy in the Link Destruction (Adversary) Model -- Decision support system for week programm planning -- On Multi-Product Lot-Sizing and Scheduling with Multi-Machine Technologies -- Condition-Based Maintenance Policies for Modular Monotic Multi-State Systems -- An Optimization Model and a Decision Support System to Optimize Car Sharing Stations with Electric Vehicles -- Optimising energy procurement for small and medium-sized enterprises -- Approximation Schemes for Robust Makespan Scheduling Problems -- The price of fairness for a small number of indivisible items -- Robustness Concepts for Knapsack and Network Design Problems under Data Uncertainty -- An Insight to Aviation: Rostering Ground Personnel in Practice -- Consensus Information and Consensus Rating - A Note on Methodological Problems of Rating Aggregation -- Integration of Prospect Theory into the outranking approach PROMETHEE -- Multistage Optimization with the help of Quantified Linear Programming -- Analysis of Ambulance Location Models Using Discrete Event Simulation -- Tight upper bounds on the cardinality constrained mean-variance portfolio optimization problem using truncated eigendecomposition -- Scheduling identical parallel machines with a fixed number of delivery dates -- Kinetic Models For Assembly Lines In Automotive Industries -- Optimization of Vehicle Routes with Delivery and Pickup for a Rental Business: A Case Study -- An Ant Colony System Adaptation to Deal with Accessibility Issues after a Disaster -- Modelling and Solving a Train Path Assignment Model -- A New Approach to Freight Consolidation For a Real-World Pickup-and-Delivery Problem -- High Multiplicity Scheduling with Switching Costs for few Products -- Sampling-based objective function evaluation techniques for the Orienteering Problem with Stochastic Travel and Service Times -- Optimized Pattern Design for Photovoltaic Power Stations -- What Are New Insights Using Optimized Train Path Assignment for the Development of Railway Infrastructure? -- The Cycle Embedding Problem -- Dispatch of a wind farm with a battery storage -- Exact algorithms for the vehicle routing problem with soft time windows -- Impact of heat storage capacity on CHP unit commitment under power price uncertainties -- Optimizing Information Security Investments With Limited Budget -- Cut-first Branch-and-Price second for the Capacitated Arc-Routing Problem -- Solving a rich position-based model for dairy products -- A European Investment and Dispatch Model for Determining Cost Minimal Power Systems with High Shares of Renewable Energy -- Pre-selection Strategies for Dynamic Collaborative Transportation Planning Problems -- Optimal operation of a CHP plant for the energy balancing market -- Gas network extension planning for multiple demand scenarios -- Impacts of electricity consumers' unit commitment on low voltage networks -- Congestion Games with Multi-Dimensional Demands -- Unit Commitment by Column Generation -- Parallel Algorithm Portfolio with Market Trading-based Time Allocation -- Global Solution of Bilevel Programming Problems -- Robustness to Time Discretization Errors in Water Network Optimization -- Forecasting intermittent demand with generalized state-space model -- Optimal Renewal and Electrification Strategy for Commercial Car Fleets in Germany -- A Time-Indexed Generalized Vehicle Routing Model for Military Aircraft Mission Planning -- Adapting exact and heuristic procedures in solving an NP-hard sequencing problem -- Strategic deterrence of terrorist attacks -- Optimal Airline Networks, Flight Volumes, and the Number of Crafts for New Low-cost Carrier in Japan -- Variable Speed in Vertical Flight Planning -- A Fast Greedy Algorithm for the Relocation Problem -- Multicriteria Group Choice via Majority Preference Relation Based on Cone Individual Preference Relations. .