Der Großteil der Arbeiten zu fortgeschrittener Planungssoftware (Advanced Planning and Scheduling Software, APS) wie SAP APO oder i2 Six.One befasst sich konstruktivistisch mit der Weiterentwicklung von Planungs- und Optimie-rungstechniken. Empirische Arbeiten zur Einführung und Nutzung von...

Of late, much progress has been made in developing Estimation of DistributionAlgorithms (EDA), algorithms that use probabilistic modelling of high quality solutionsto guide their search. While experimental results on EDA behaviour are widelyavailable, theoretical results are still rare. This is...

Estimation of distribution algorithms (EDAs) are population-basedheuristic search methods that use probabilistic models and which havebeen successfully applied to continuous optimization problems. When appliedto constrained optimization problems, most EDAs (as well as geneticalgorithms) handle...

Matching uncertain demand with capacities is notoriously hard. Operationsmanagers can use mix-flexible resources to shift excess demands to unused capacities.To find the optimal configuration of a mix-flexible production network, aflexibility design problem (FDP) is solved. Existing literature...