Program

HE-01: Scheduling and Rescheduling: Passenger Focus
Stream: Railway and Metro Transportation
Room: Room 118
Chair(s): Leo Kroon

• Ideal Train Timetabling Problem
  
• Shuttle Planning for Link Closures in Urban Public Transport Networks
  
• Controlling Passenger Flows in Networks
  Marie Schmidt, Lisa Thom
• Minimization of Passengers’ Travel Time in Railway Traffic Control
  

HE-03: Discrete Location
Stream: Location
Room: Room 001
Chair(s): Mozart Menezes, Oded Berman

• Practical Benchmarks for Location-Routing Decisions via Approximation Algorithms
  Mozart Menezes, Vedat Verter
• On Covering Location Problems on Networks with Edge
  Oded Berman, Jörg Kalcsics, Dmitry Krass
• Partitioning a Graph into Connected Components with Fixed Centers and Optimizing Different Criteria
  Isabella Lari, Justo Puerto, Federica Ricca, Andrea Scozzari
• Component Commonality: The p-Median Solution to a Product Design Problem
  Renato Guimaraes, Mozart Menezes

HE-04: O-D Estimation
Stream: Traffic Flow Theory and Traffic Control
Room: Room 119
Chair(s):

• OD-Matrix Estimation Based on Plate Scanning
  Alexander Krylatov, Victor Zakharov
• A Practical Proposal for Dynamic OD Matrix Estimation in Terms of a Bilevel Approach
  
• Information Provision for Passengers in Underground Railways Using Smart Card Data
  
• Estimation of Dynamic O-D Matrices using Synthetic Time-Dependent Static O-D Estimators and Microscopic Traffic Simulation
  

HE-05: Port Operations - Miscellaneous
Stream: Port Operations
Room: Room 002
Chair(s):

• Solving the Pre-Marshalling Problem to Optimality with A* and IDA*
  Kevin Tierney, Dario Pacino, Stefan Voss
• Hybrid Heuristic Approaches for Tactical Berth Allocation Problem
  Cagatay Iris, Allan Larsen, Dario Pacino, Stefan Ropke
• Optimal Sequencing of Parking Operations at an Automotive Maritime Terminal
  
• Stochastic Bi-Objective Berth Allocation and Quay Crane Assignment for Quayside Operations
  

HE-06: Learning, Resilience, Competition and Congestion
Stream: Social and Economic Networks
Room: Room 211
Chair(s): Alexander Teytelboym

• Dynamic Congestion Games: The Price of Seasonality
  
• Learning what Matters
  
• Network Resilience Against Epidemic Spread
  
• Knowledge Leadership: A Systems Approach
  

HE-07: Fuzzy Optimization in Supply Chain Management, Production and Logistics
Stream: Fuzzy Optimization - Systems, Networks and Applications
Room: Room 003
Chair(s): Ozlem Defterli, Silja Meyer-Nieberg, Erik Kropat, Mehmet Burak Şenol

• Modified FCM Method to Explore Variations in a Multi-Variable Field
  
• Decision Making in Interface Selection
  
• Team-Oriented Assembly Line Balancing Problem: A Fuzzy Approach
  

HE-08: Case Teaching
Stream: Teaching OR/MS
Room: Room 120
Chair(s): Peter Bell

• The Perspective of an Instructor New to "Case Teaching"
  Mehmet Begen
• OR/MS Case Teaching in Engineering Programs
  Fredrik Odegaard
• A Review of some of the many Ways to Include Cases in the OR Course
  Peter Bell

HE-09: Energy Markets
Stream: Technical and Financial Aspects of Energy Problems
Room: Room 121
Chair(s): Angelica Gianfreda

• A Two-Step Day-Ahead Electricity Market Model for the Market Coupling between Central Southern, Central Western and Northern Europe
  
• A Leader-Followers Model of Power Transmission Capacity Expansion in a Market Driven Environment
  Paolo Pisciella, Marida Bertocchi, Maria Teresa Vespucci
• Comparative Analysis of Pricing Schemes in Markets with Non-Convex Costs
  
• Power Price Forecasting with Wind Effects
  

HE-10: Workforce Optimization
Stream: Timetabling and Rostering
Room: Room 122
Chair(s): Mike Wright

• Near-Optimal MIP Solutions for Preference Based Self-Scheduling
  
• Optimal Sequencing of Unpunctual Patients: Provider’s Wait-Preempt Dilemma
  
• Call Centers with a Callback Option
  Benjamin Legros, Oualid Jouini, Ger Koole
• Optimizing Television Programming and Scheduling
  

HE-11: Topics in Linear Programming and Combinatorial Optimization
Stream: Combinatorial Optimization
Room: Room 113
Chair(s):

• Dual-Guided Pivots Rules for Linear Programming
  Jean-Bertrand Gauthier, Jacques Desrosiers, Marco Lübbecke
• The Size Robust Multiple Knapsack Problem
  Denise Tönissen, Marjan van den Akker, Han Hoogeveen
• A Benders Decomposition Approach for the Minimum Weight Maximal Matching Problem
  Z. Caner Taşkın, Tinaz Ekim, Merve Bodur
• Solving Mixed-Integer Programming with Unconstrained Optimization and Hyperbolic Penalty
  

HE-12: Project Scheduling and Scheduling
Stream: Project Management and Scheduling
Room: Room 004
Chair(s): Meral Azizoglu, Safia Kedad-Sidhoum

• A Project Payment Scheduling Problem with Discounted Cash Flows
  
• Optimal Bid Unbalancing for Projects with Unit Price Contracts: Time Preferences, Risk Preferences, and the Client’s Perspective
  
• Reinforcement Learning Strategy for Solving the Multi-Mode Resource-Constrained Project Scheduling Problem by a Team of Agents
  Ewa Ratajczak-Ropel, Piotr Jedrzejowicz
• Single-Machine Earliness-Tardiness Scheduling with Periods of Machine Unavailability
  Safia Kedad-Sidhoum, Kerem Bulbul, Halil Şen

HE-13: Balancing and Sequencing of Assembly Lines 2
Stream: Scheduling
Room: Room 123
Chair(s): Alexandre Dolgui, Alberto García-Villoria, Xavier Delorme

• Mixed Model Sequencing Procedure in Case of Paced Assembly Line and Jolly Operators
  
• An Enumeration Procedure for the Assembly Line Balancing Problem with Resource Constraints
  Mariona Vila Bonilla, Jordi Pereira
• Disassembly Line Balancing Problems with Resource Dependent Task Times
  
• A Multi-Objective Algorithm for Balancing Reconfigurable Transfer Lines
  

HE-14: Advances in Nonlinear Optimization: Theory and Applications IV (contributed)
Stream: Nonlinear Programming
Room: Room 124
Chair(s): Rohollah Garmanjani

• A Partially Observable Markov Decision Process under Stochastic Convexity as an Optimal Maintenance Problem
  
• A Stochastic PDE-Constrained Optimization Approach to Vibration Control of a Composite Plate subjected to Mechanical and Electromagnetic Loads
  
• AAR-Based Decomposition Algorithm for Nonlinear Convex Optimization
  

HE-15: Experimental Research in Management Accounting and Management Control 1
Stream: Experimental Perspectives and Challenges in Management Accounting and Management Control
Room: Room 125
Chair(s): Stephan Leitner

• Coordination and Learning in an Experimental Queuing System
  Ann van Ackere, Guro Larsen, Santiago Arango
• The Impact of Queue Features on Customers’ Queue Joining and Reneging Behavior: A Laboratory Experiment
  Busra Gencer, Zeynep Aksin, Evrim Didem Gunes, Ozge Pala
• The Influence of Corporate Norms and Misconduct on Employee Decision Making
  
• Honesty and Reciprocity in Capital Budgeting: An Experimental Investigation
  

HE-16: Combinatorial Methods for Data Analysis
Stream: Intelligent Optimization in Machine Learning and Data Analysis
Room: Room 127
Chair(s):

• Fast Logical Predictors for Genotype-Phenotype Mapping
  Galina Iofina, Yury Maximov, Andrey Minaev, Yury Polyakov
• Laplacian Matrixes Based Graph's b-Coloring for Clustering
  
• A Density and Connectivity Based Decision Rule for Pattern Classification
  Tulin Inkaya

HE-17: Enumeration of Combinatorial Structures
Stream: Graph Searching
Room: Room 005
Chair(s): Jan van Vuuren

• Edge Stability and Edge Criticality in Secure Graph Domination
  
• Using Volunteer Computing for the Enumeration of Mutually Orthogonal Latin Squares
  
• On a Two-Phase Approach to Enumerating Sets of Mutually Orthogonal Latin Squares
  Martin Kidd
• On the Minimum Number of Moves for Solving the WrapSlide Puzzle
  

HE-18: Interactive MCDM
Stream: Multiobjective Optimization - Theory, Methods and Applications
Room: Room 112
Chair(s): Murat Koksalan

• The Layouts of Supported and Unsupported Nondominated Solutions in Multi-Objective Integer Programs
  Gökhan Ceyhan, Murat Koksalan, Banu Lokman
• Probabilistic Sorting under Multiple Criteria
  
• Bi-Objective Route Planning for Unmanned Air Vehicles in Continuous Space
  Murat Koksalan, Diclehan Tezcaner Ozturk
• Exploiting Robustness Analysis for Triggering Interactive Feedbacks in Multicriteria Disaggregation - Aggregation Approaches
  

HE-19: Demand Planning and Pricing
Stream: Demand and Supply Planning in Consumer Goods and Retailing
Room: Room 128
Chair(s): Argon Chen

• Determining an Optimal Hierarchical Forecasting Model Based on the Characteristics of the Data Set
  
• Agricultural Cooperative Pricing of Premium Product
  
• Optimal Demand Planning Hierarchy and Its Applications
  Argon Chen
• Advance Selling in a Supply Chain
  

HE-20: Controlling Electric Vehicles and Battery Storage
Stream: Stochastic Optimization in Energy
Room: Room 129
Chair(s): Valerie Thomas

• Scheduling and Long-Term Pricing of Electric Vehicle Charging in Parking Lots with Shared Resources
  Ajay Deshpande, Pavankumar Murali
• Battery Storage Bidding with Battery-Life Effects
  
• Grid Integration of Wind and Electric Vehicles
  

HE-21: Cutting and Packing 4
Stream: Cutting and Packing
Room: Room 006
Chair(s): José Fernando Gonçalves

• Exact Resolution of the Cover Printing Problem with a Branch and Bound Algorithm
  Arnaud Vandaele, Daniel Tuyttens
• A Dominance Criterion for Packing Problems
  
• An Integrated Facility Layout and Product Range Planning Problem
  Bernd Hillebrand, Grigory Pishchulov
• A Biased Random Key Genetic Algorithm for the Facility Layout Problem
  José Fernando Gonçalves

HE-22: Agent Behavior in Markets and Related Subjects
Stream: Algorithmic Game Theory
Room: Room 007
Chair(s):

• Characterization of SMON Mechanisms with Additive Valuations over the Real Domain
  
• Information Aggregation in Exponential Family Markets
  
• On Manipulation in Prediction Markets when Participants Influence Outcomes Directly
  

HE-23: Genetic and Population Based Algorithms
Stream: Metaheuristics
Room: Room 008
Chair(s): Miguel Mujica Mota

• A Modified Selection Scheme in Memetic Algorithm for a Nurse Scheduling Problem with Positive Rhythmic Cycle
  
• Firefly Algorithm for Continuous and Combinatorial Dynamic Optimization Problems
  Fehmi Burcin Ozsoydan, Adil Baykasoğlu
• Coordinate Strategy to Reduce Computational Effort for Supernova
  
• An Evolutionary Algorithm for Check-In Desk Allocation
  Miguel Mujica Mota

HE-24: Algorithms for Stochastic Games
Stream: Dynamic and Repeated Games
Room: Room 212
Chair(s): Hugo Gimbert

• Combinatorial Simplex Algorithms Can Solve Mean Payoff Games
  
• Analysis of Stochastic Systems Based on Approximation
  
• Two-Player Perfect-Information Shift-Invariant Submixing Stochastic Games Are Half-Positional
  Hugo Gimbert
• Exact Algorithms for Stochastic Games and Real Algebraic Geometry
  

HE-25: Metaheuristics in Autonomous Search
Stream: Applications of Heuristics
Room: Room 009
Chair(s): Ricardo Soto, Broderick Crawford

• The Role of Metaheuristics in Constraint Programming with Autonomous Search
  Ricardo Soto, Broderick Crawford, Fernando Paredes
• Self-adaptive Systems: Towards Usable Combinatorial Problem Solvers
  
• Software Project Scheduling Problem using Metaheuristics with Autonomous Search
  
• A New Algorithmic Approach for Solving an Inventory Optimization Model
  

HE-26: Nonsmooth Optimization for Learning and Classification
Stream: Nonsmooth Optimization and Variational Analysis
Room: Room 010
Chair(s): Antonio Fuduli

• Illumination by Cones and Outliers Detection
  
• A New Incremental Piecewise Linear Classifier based on PCFs
  Gurkan Ozturk, Adil Bagirov, Refail Kasimbeyli
• Projecting onto Lines Using the L-1 Norm
  José Dulá, James Brooks
• A Robust Approach for Spherical Separation
  Antonio Fuduli, Annabella Astorino, Immanuel Bomze, Manlio Gaudioso

HE-27: Decision Analysis for Risk Management
Stream: Decision Analysis, Decision Support Systems
Room: Room 213
Chair(s): Martin Waitz

• Design of a Mobile Spatial Decision Support System for Group Decision-Making on the Analysis of Changing Risk
  
• Applying Stochastic Analytical Network Process in Strategic Decisions of Portfolio Management
  
• A Methodology for the Integration of Risk Management in R&D Project Selection
  
• Overcoming the Inability of Private Lenders to Set Proper Interest Rates on Unsecured Peer-to-Peer Lending Markets
  Martin Waitz, Andreas Mild

HE-28: Applied Aspects of MINLP
Stream: Mixed-Integer Nonlinear Programming
Room: Room 130
Chair(s): Inken Gamrath

• A Multi-Objective Mixed Integer Nonlinear Optimization Model for the Aircraft Collision Avoidance
  F. Javier Martin-Campo, Antonio Alonso-Ayuso, Laureano F. Escudero
• e-OA for the Solution of Bi-Objective Generalized Disjunctive Programming Problems in the Synthesis of Nonlinear Process Networks
  Metin Turkay, Ali Fattahi
• Optimizing Battery Load Schedules
  Inken Gamrath
• Preconditioning of Linear Systems Arising from Interior Point Methods
  Luciana Casacio, Aurelio Oliveira, Christiano Lyra Filho

HE-29: Logistics and Blending in Natural Gas and Mining
Stream: OR in Petrochemicals and Mining
Room: Room 011
Chair(s): Natashia Boland, Asgeir Tomasgard

• Dynamic Blending with Penalties and Bonuses
  
• Simulation Models for Planning an Iron Ore Mine
  Jim Everett
• Adding Flexibility in a Natural Gas Transportation Network Using Interruptible Transportation Services
  Asgeir Tomasgard, Marte Fodstad, Kjetil Midthun
• Constraint Programming for LNG Ship Scheduling and Inventory Management
  

HE-30: Open Source & COIN-OR Optimisation
Stream: Open Source Optimisation
Room: Room 012
Chair(s): Ted Ralphs, Mike Steglich

• Better Excel Optimisation using OpenSolver & SolverStudio
  Andrew J Mason
• Dip and DipPy: A Decomposition-based Modeling System and Solver
  Theodore Ralphs
• CmplServer - An Open Source Approach for Distributed and Grid Optimization
  Mike Steglich
• Extensions to the OSiL schema: Matrix and cone programming
  

HE-31: Location Problems in Networks
Stream: Telecommunications and Networks
Room: Room 013
Chair(s): Ivana Ljubic

• A Column Generation Approach for Modelling Deployment of Multi-Tier Cloud Services
  Anders N. Gullhav, Bjørn Nygreen
• The Cycle Hub Location Problem
  Moayad Tanash, Ivan Contreras, Navneet Vidyarthi
• Exact Approach for the Generalized Regenerator Location Problem
  Xiangyong Li, Yash Aneja
• The Recoverable Robust Facility Location Problem
  Ivana Ljubic, Eduardo Álvarez-Miranda, Elena Fernandez

HE-32: Supply Chain Optimization
Stream: Production Management & Supply Chain Management
Room: Room 014
Chair(s): Danny Segev

• Factory-Crane-Scheduling and Online Optimization with Lookahead
  Jan Necil, Stefan Nickel
• Improving the Production Decision Making Process of Frozen Foods Using Mathematical Modelling
  
• A Quasi-PTAS for Assortment Planning with Nested Preference Lists
  Danny Segev

HE-33: Hyperheuristics: General; and Related Topics
Stream: Hyperheuristics
Room: Room 015
Chair(s): Andrew J. Parkes, Patrick De Causmaecker, Daniel Karapetyan, Shahriar Asta

• Parameter Sweep for the Simplex Method
  
• Competition Winning Hybrid Heuristic for an Extension of the Resource-Constrained Project Scheduling Problem
  
• A Simulation Approach to Analyse Rail Capacity at Sydney’s Port Botany
  Pascal Van Hentenryck, Daniel Guimarans, Daniel Harabor

HE-34: Decision Making in Finance
Stream: Decision Making Modeling and Risk Assessment in the Financial Sector
Room: Room 016
Chair(s): Tomáš Tichý, Maria Garbuzova-Schlifter

• Average Time Until First Income Protection Claim
  
• Analysis of integer programming approaches for index tracking
  
• Efficiency Measurement of investment profiles of Savings Funds using DEA
  Arik Sadeh
• Risk Assessment of Energy Performance Contracting (EPC) projects of the Russian Energy Service Companies
  Maria Garbuzova-Schlifter, Reinhard Madlener

HE-35: Planning and Control
Stream: Stochastic Modeling and Simulation in Engineering, Management and Science
Room: Room 131
Chair(s): Erik Kropat, Silja Meyer-Nieberg, Rudi Verago

• Power-Aware Routing Algorithms in Software-Defined Networks
  Wenguo Yang
• An Extreme-Case Scenario Approach for Data Uncertainty
  Rudi Verago, Chungmok Lee, Martin Mevissen, Nicole Taheri
• A Study on Dual-Command Operations in a Mobile Rack (AS/RS)
  
• Maintenance Policies for A System Subject to Continuous Time Markovian Deterioration with Non-Self-Announcing Failures
  

HE-36: Forest Value Chain Optimization
Stream: OR in Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries
Room: Room 132
Chair(s):

• Routing and Transportation at the Forest Industry
  Mikael Rönnqvist, Patrik Flisberg, Marc-André Carle
• Role of Optimization in Medium to Short-Term Planning of Forest Operations
  Bruno Oliveira, Alexandra Marques, Mikael Rönnqvist, Sophie D'Amours
• "More than the Sum of its Parts?" – Enhancing Optimisation for the Forest Based Value Chains by Integrating Process Specific Optimisation Solutions
  

HE-37: Advances on Recovery Inventory Management Policies II
Stream: Recovery Inventory Management Policies
Room: Room 017
Chair(s):

• Optimal Ordering Policies and Sourcing Strategies with Supply Disruption
  Ke Liu
• A Multi-Criteria Collaborative Model for Flood Preparedness
  Oscar Rodriguez-Espindola, Pavel Albores, Christopher Brewster
• Production Planning with Perishable Raw Material Considerations
  
• Optimizing the Collection Period of Product Returns in a Closed-Loop Supply Chain
  Nizar Zaarour, Emanuel Melachrinoudis, George Kozanidis

HE-38: Multi-Criteria Performance of Funds and Banks
Stream: Operational Research and Quantitative Models in Banking
Room: Room 214
Chair(s):

• Multicriteria Approach to Bank Credit Scoring
  
• Ranking Spanish Banks from Stress Tests: A Multicriteria Model of Moderate Pessimism
  Mila Bravo, Antonio Benito, Germán Benito-Sarriá
• Compromise Programming Approach to Performance of Bank Funds
  David Pla-Santamaria, Javier Reig
• Multicriteria Approach to Socially Responsible Funds Managed by Banks
  Ana Garcia-Bernabeu, Blanca Pérez-Gladish

HE-39: Discrete Optimization I
Stream: Discrete and Global Optimization
Room: Room 018
Chair(s): Imke Joormann

• Piecewise Relaxation of Fractional Powers of Linear Fractional Terms
  
• Branch Decomposition Techniques for some Matroidal Problems
  Illya Hicks
• On the Relation of Flow Cuts and Irreducible Infeasible Subsystems
  Imke Joormann, Marc Pfetsch
• A Problem Related to the Integer Partitions
  

HE-40: Prescriptive Analytics: Smart Solutions to Real-World Problems II
Stream: Meta-Analytics: A Marriage of Metaheuristics and Analytics
Room: Room 019
Chair(s): Stefan Voss, Stefan Lessmann

• Loan Recovery Modelling: Challenges for Predictive and Prescriptive Analytics
  Christophe Mues, Lyn Thomas, Mee Chi SO
• Matheuristics Applications in Maritime Shipping
  Stefan Voss
• Multicriteria Optimization for Cost-Sensitive Ensemble Selection in Business Failure Prediction
  Koen W. De Bock, Stefan Lessmann, Kristof Coussement
• Adaptive Hypermedia Model for Generation of Interactive Interfaces Applied to Digital TV
  Arthur Gomez, Luan Carlos Nesi

HE-41: Stochastic Vehicle Routing
Stream: Stochastic Models for Service Operations
Room: Room 216
Chair(s): Michel Gendreau

• Single-VRP with Simultaneous Delivery and Uncertain Pickup Data
  
• The Vehicle Routing Problem with Stochastic Two-Dimensional Items
  Jean-François Côté, Michel Gendreau, Jean-Yves Potvin
• A Priori Optimization with Recourse for the Vehicle Routing Problem with Hard Time Windows and Stochastic Service Times
  Fausto Errico, Guy Desaulniers, Michel Gendreau, Louis-Martin Rousseau

HE-42: Decision Analysis & Decision Making Approaches
Stream: Decision Support Systems
Room: Room 215
Chair(s): Shaofeng Liu, Isabelle Linden

• Use of Contabilometria as a Decision Making in the Sector Accounting in VL Technology Company LTDA the Municipalities Princesa Isabel - PB
  José Jefferson Marques de Sousa
• Using the Analytic Hierarchy Process Decision Analysis to Better Understand Consumers Intentions to Revisit a Green Hotel
  Chiao-Chen Chang
• Timing and decision making
  Gil Greenstein
• Decision Making and the Big Data Era
  Fatima Dargam

HE-43: Scheduling Problems in Water Distribution System Management
Stream: OR in Water Management
Room: Room 217
Chair(s): Maddalena Nonato

• A Practical Approach for Large Scale Optimal Pump Scheduling with Operational Constraints
  David Raz, Ariel Daliot
• The Operational Costs Minimization in Water Supply Systems (WSS) Using Cascade Optimization Techniques
  
• Path Relinking and MILP Hybridized Genetic Algorithms for Scheduling Countermeasures to Contamination Events
  
• Simulation Optimization Approach for Pump Scheduling in Water Networks
  Joe Naoum-Sawaya

HE-44: Optimization Practices for Sustainable Community Development
Stream: Quality and Performance Measurement in Humanitarian Relief Chains
Room: Room 218
Chair(s): Sadia Samar Ali, Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber

• Energy: Environmental Impact and Economic Growth in Developing Economies (Nigerian experience); An Operational Research Approach
  Aniefiok Udo, Kingsley Imoh
• Industrial Heritage and Educational Polygon for Development Strategies
  Vladimir Hain
• Closed-Loop Supply Chain Decision Models with Trade-in
  Zhaowei Miao
• Carbon Footprint Calculation and Monitoring in Freight Transport Operations: A Systemic Approach
  

HE-45: Location Problems / Supply Chain
Stream: Hybrid Heuristics
Room: Room 219
Chair(s): Nader Azizi

• A Comparison of Heuristics Approaches to the Reliability Redundancy Allocation Problem
  
• A Hybrid Genetic-Simulated Annealing Algorithm for the Supply Chain Network Design
  
• A Hybrid Particle Swarm Optimization with Genetic Mutation for the Supply Chain Network Design
  
• Hub-and-Spoke Network Design with Reliability Consideration: A Particle Swarm Optimization Approach
  Nader Azizi, Said Salhi