Environmental emergency situations can differ in many ways, for instance according to their causes and the dimension of their impacts. Yet, they share the characteristic of sudden onset and the necessity for a coherent and effective emergency management. In this paper we consider decision...

We point out the need for Behavioral Operational Research (BOR) in advancing the practice of OR. So far, in OR behavioral phenomena have been acknowledged only in behavioral decision theory but behavioral issues are always present when supporting human problem solving by modeling. Behavioral...

In the development of new tariffs, customer diversity should be taken into account to achieve more efficient demand-side management goals. This means that customers' reactions to rate changes need to be analysed at an individual customer level. We use daily consumption pattern (DCP) models for...