Operations Research Proceedings 2016

Andreas Fink is professor and holds the Chair of Business Administration, in particular Information Systems Research, at the Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg, Germany. He holds diploma degrees in Business Administration and Computer Science from the University of Technology Darmstadt, a doctorate in Economics from the Braunschweig University of Technology and a habilitation degree from the University of Hamburg. His research is mainly concerned with the use of information technology to support decision-making. Armin Fügenschuh is professor for Applied Mathematics at Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg, Germany, since 2013. He graduated with a diploma in Mathematics in Oldenburg in 2000 and received a doctoral degree (Dr. rer. nat.) at the Technische Universität Darmstadt in 2005. Between 2005 and 2013 he worked on postdoc positions at the Technische Universität Darmstadt, the Zuse Institute Berlin, the Georgia Institute of Technology, and the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nuremberg. In 2011 he finished his habilitation and received a venia legendi from the Technische Universität Berlin. His area of research is mixed-integer linear and nonlinear optimization and its application to real-world and engineering problems.Martin Josef Geiger is professor and holds the chair of Business Administration/Logistics Management at Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg, Germany. His formal qualifications comprise a Doctoral degree (Dr. oec.) and a Habilitation, both from the University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart. Prof. Geiger is an active researcher in the area of multi criteria decision making and multi objective optimization, and has contributed to various recent optimization problems in scheduling, vehicle routing, and timetabling.