Operations Research Proceedings 2007

This book contains selected papers from the symposium Operations Research 2007 which was held from September 5-7, 2007 at Saarland University in Saarbrücken, Germany. This international conference, which also serves as the annual meeting of the German Operations Research Society (GOR), attracted over 450 participants from more than thirty countries.In Germany as in other countries, the transition from a production orientation to a service society, combined with a continuous demographic change, has generated a need for intensified Operations Research activities in this area. Consequently, this conference was devoted to the role of Operations Research in the service industry. TOC:Part I: Dissertation Award Winners.- Part II: Diploma Award Winners.- Part III: Applied Probability and Stochastic Programming.- Part IV: Artificial Intelligence, Business Intelligence and Decision Support.- Part V: Continuous Optimization.- Part VI: Discrete and Combinatorial Optimization.- Part VII: Econometrics, Game Theory and Mathematical Economics.- Part VIII: Energy, Environment and Life Sciences.- Part IX: Entrepreneurship and Innovation.- Part X: Finance, Banking and Insurance.- Part XI: Forecasting and Marketing.- Part XII: Health Care Management.- Part XIII Managerial Accounting and Auditing.- Part XIV: Multi Criteria Decision Making.- Part XV: Production and Service Operations Management.- Part XVI Retail, Revenue and Pricing Management.- Part XVII: Scheduling and Project Management.- Part XVIII: Simulation, System Dynamics and Dynamic Modelling.- Part XIX: Supply Chain Management and Traffic.