Part I: Awards -- Part II: Business Analytics, Artificial Intelligence and Forecasting -- Part III: Control Theory and Continuous Optimization -- Part IV: Decision Theory and Multiple Criteria Decision Making -- Part V: Discrete and Integer Optimization -- Part VI: Energy and Environment -- Part...

In ride-sharing systems, platform providers aim to distribute the drivers in the city to meet current and potential future demand and to avoid service cancellations. Ensuring such distribution is particularly challenging in the case of a crowdsourced fleet, as drivers are not centrally...

Introduction -- City Logistics -- Attended Home Delivery -- Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining -- Analysis of Floating Car Data -- Provision of Distance Matrices -- Evaluation of Information Models -- Routing in City Logistics -- Evaluation of Optimization Models -- Conclusions and Outlook

Travelers expect integrated and multimodal itinerary planning while addressing their individual expectations. Besides common preferences such as travel time and price, further criteria such as walking and waiting times are of importance as well. The competing features of these preferences yield...

For attended home deliveries, customers expect narrow delivery time slots that fit their personal schedules. This severely limits the solution space for delivery planning and thereby makes attended home deliveries costly and complex for retailers. As one remedy, dynamic slotting lets the firm...