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In an experimental study we examine a variant of the ‘minimum effort game’, acoordination game with Pareto ranked equilibria, and risk considerations pointing to theleast efficient equilibrium. We focus on the question whether simple cues such as smiles,winks and handshakes could be...

Trust games are employed to investigate the effect of heterogeneity in income and5 race on cooperation in South Africa. The amount of socio-economic informationavailable to the subjects about their counterparts is varied. No significantbehavioural differences are observed when no such...

The economic literature on online auctions is rapidly growing because of theenormous amount of freely available field data, moreover the emergence ofnumerous innovative auction design features on auction platforms such aseBay have created excellent research opportunities. In this article, we...

River floods are part of the natural hydrologic cycle and mayoccur several times per year, caused by heavy downpours andsnowmelt. However, in recent years, often attributed to globalwarming, an increasing number of extreme flood events couldbe observed in central Europe. Moreover, these events...

In manual order picking systems, order pickers walk or drive through a distribution warehouse inorder to collect items which are requested by (internal or external) customers. In order to performthese operations efficiently, it is usually required that customer orders are combined into (more...

In this paper the authors present a case study from the woodprocessingindustry. It focuses on a cutting process in which material fromstock is cut down in order to provide the items required by the customersin the desired qualities, sizes, and quantities. In particular, two aspectsmake this...

The number of publications in the area of Cutting and Packing (C&P) has increased considerably over the last two decades.The typology of C&P problems introduced by Dyckhoff [Dyckhoff, H., 1990. A typology of cutting and packingproblems. European Journal of Operational Research 44, 145–159]...

The EURO/INFORMS Joint InternationalMeeting 2003, which was held at the Conrad Hotelin Istanbul from 6–10 July, was a remarkable conferencein many respects. It was remarkable interms of the excellent facilities and the perfectorganisation which were offered at the conferencesite, the high...

Institutional Operations Research in Germany can look back at a remarkably long history,which started with the Arbeitskreis Operations Research (AKOR, founded in 1956) and theDeutsche Gesellschaft für Unternehmensforschung (DGU, 1961). In 1972 AKOR and DGUwere merged to form the Deutsche...