For some NP-hard lotsizing problems, many different heuristics exist, but they have different solution qualities and computation times depending on the characteristics of the instance. The computation times of the individual heuristics increase significantly with the problem size, so that...

Einleitung -- Künstliche neuronale Netze (KNN) -- Einführung in die Losgrößenplanung -- Ein maschineller Lernansatz zur Auswahl der besten Lösungsheuristik -- Zusammenfassung und Ausblick -- Literaturverzeichnis.

This contribution presents the application of a portfolio of forecasters to the problem of wind speed forecasting. This portfolio is created using a single time series and it is based on a number of time series characteristics, previously proposed, and a set of novel time series features. The...