In order to allocate limited resources in emergency medical services (EMS) networks, mathematical models are used to select sites and their capacities. Many existing standard models are based on simplifying assumptions, including site independency and a similar system-wide busyness of...

In the chemical industry, shortened product life cycles and greater differentiation of customer demand increase challenges to efficiently meet specific customer requirements. Thus, production systems with high flexibility are required. One innovative production concept that meets this...

In Germany, a large number of volunteer fire departments (VFD) exist that have been founded in order to provide regional support for professional firefighters. The current locations of these volunteer fire departments might be suboptimal with respect to costs and availability. Due to historical...

Operating room (OR) schedules are regularly influenced by uncertain demands such as surgery durations or randomly arriving emergency patients. The performance of these schedules depend on the information about these uncertainties when designing the schedules. We focus on an offline operational...

Current results of revenue management and pricing policy research enable suppliers to identify and realize optimal sales strategies and decisions. In response, a corporation which has to deal with results of pricing policies is compelled to optimize its purchase. New developments in the aviation...