Models, Methods and Decision Support for Management : Essays in Honor of Paul Stähly

Research and Applied Projects at Paul Stähly’s Institute for Operations Research -- 1: Optimization -- Environmental Policy Design and the Economics of Crime: Some Analogies in Intertemporal Optimization -- On Cross Decomposition for Mixed-Integer Programming -- Optimal and Neuro-Dynamic Programming Solutions for a Stochastic Inventory Transportation Problem -- Modeling Approaches for Median Relations -- A Note on the “More-for-Less” Paradox -- Project Experiences and Some Principal Considerations Concerning Operations Research as an Interesting Branch of Science -- 2: Operations Research Models -- Concepts, Aims, and Problems which Modelling in OR and OOP Have in Common -- On the Use and Misuse of Holding Cost Models -- From the Publisher to the Wholesalers - Determination of the Number of Copies and Their Distribution among the Wholesalers -- Scheduling Scarce Resources in Chemical Engineering -- Short-Term Planning of Batch Plants in Process Industries -- Local Search for a Travelling Salesman Problem in Production Control: A Case Study -- Transportation Problems -- Operational Planning and Optimization of Hub-and Spoke Transportation Networks for Area Wide Groupage Services -- Stochastic Programming: Achievements and Open Problems -- 3: Decision Support and Management Systems -- Infrastructure for CRISIS-2000 A Distributed Disaster Management System -- Decision Making Based on Causal Graphs -- On the Effect of the Bargaining Context on Bargaining Behaviour -- Income Tax Rate: Properties and Implications -- Knowledge Management — Challenges and the “KNOWING”- Implementation Strategy -- Perturbation Heuristics for Unconstrained Quadratic 0–1 Programming and an Alternate Stopping and Comparison Criterium -- Solving Conflicts and Sanctions: Results of an Experimental Study.