Ohne weitere Effizienzsteigerungen sind Krankenhäuser in Deutschland langfristig weder dem finanziellenDruck noch den Herausforderungen des demographischen Wandels gewachsen. Zur Unterstützung von Ressourcenkapazitätsentscheidungen auf strategischer, taktischer und operativer Ebene wird in...

This article presents a mathematical model for barge transport planning on the river Rhine, which is part of a decision support system (DSS) recently taken into use by the Swiss company Omya. The system is operated by Omya’s regional office in Cologne, Germany, responsible for distribution...

Chapter 1: A Two-Stage Stochastic Optimisation Model for Urban Same-Day Delivery with Micro-hubs -- Chapter 2: Computational Linear Bilevel Optimization -- Chapter 3: Faster Algorithms for Steiner Tree and Related Problems: From Theory to Practice -- Chapter 4: Prescriptive Analytics for...

Operations Management in the Sharing Economy: An Integrated Perspective of Item-sharing and Crowdshipping -- The Student-Project Allocation Problem as Part of Timetabling in Project-Oriented Schools -- Multi-start Heuristics for Unit-Capacity Orienteering Problems -- Scheduling a two stage...

This textbook is comprised of detailed case studies covering challenging real world applications of OR techniques. Among the overall goals of the book is to provide readers with descriptions of the history and other background information on a variety of industries, service or other...

This special issue of Business Systems Research (SI of the BSR) is co-published by the Slovenian Society INFORMATIKA - Section for Operational Research (SSI-SOR) and highlights recent advances in Operations Research and Management Science (OR /MS), with a focus on linking OR /MS with other areas...