Der Aufbau von Teil 1 gestaltet sich wie folgt: Kapitel 2 beschäftigt sich sowohl mit Einordnung und Abgrenzung der Standortplanung unter Wettbewerb in den umfangreichen Korpus der Literatur zur Standortplanung allgemein als auch mit der Abgrenzung von diesem Bereich. Dabei werden die...

The sales force deployment problem is considered which arises in many selling organizations. As a solution a novel mixed-integer formulation is introduced which is specifically characterized by an infinite number of variables. A column generation approach is proposed to obtain upper and lower...

The staff scheduling problem in the retail business is considered for which a new mathematical model and new solution methods are introduced. The problem is formalized as a set covering type problem. Columns represent feasible weekly working time patterns of one sales clerk. Rows correspond to...

Airline rescheduling is a relatively new field in airline Operations Research but increasing amounts of traffic will make disturbances to the original schedule more frequent and more severe, and thus the need to address the various problems arising from this situation with systematic,...

Sales force deployment involves the concurrent resolution of four interrelated subproblems: sizing the sales force, salesman location, sales territory alignment, and sales resource allocation. The first subproblem addresses the topic of selecting the appropriate number of salesman. The salesman...