LUNTEREN 2002
Twenty-seventh conference on
The mathematics of operations research
Organized by LNMB
(Landelijk Netwerk Mathematische Besliskunde)
January 15-17, 2002
Conference Center "De Werelt", Lunteren,
The Netherlands
The annual meeting of Dutch senior and junior researchers
in the Mathematics of Operations Research.
The program offers high-quality research and applications
and should appeal to both academic researchers
and to management consultants in trade and industry.
The conference is sponsored by the Gebiedsbestuur Exacte Wetenschappen
(NWO),
the Thomas Stieltjes Institute for Mathematics and the
Mathematical Research Institute (MRI).
Ingredients
| Ten invited lectures |
| William J. Cook (Princeton University, USA) |
The
Traveling Salesman Problem |
| William J. Cook (Princeton University, USA) |
Optimization
via Branch Decomposition |
| Lisa K. Fleischer (Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA) |
Network
connectivity: approximation algorithms via iterative rounding, part I
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| Lisa K. Fleischer (Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA) |
Network
connectivity: approximation algorithms via iterative rounding, part II,
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| Theodore P. Hill (Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA) |
Recent
applications of Benford's law |
| Theodore P. Hill (Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA) |
Constructions
of random probability distributions |
| Martin I. Reiman (Bell Labs, Lucent Technology, Murray Hill, USA) |
A
Comparison of Two Heavy Traffic Regimes; part I: Multiserver Queues |
| Martin I. Reiman (Bell Labs, Lucent Technology, Murray Hill, USA) |
A
Comparison of Two Heavy Traffic Regimes; part II: Multiserver Queueing Networks
|
| Philippe L. Toint (University of Namur, Belgium) |
Derivative
free optimization : without and with constraints |
| Philippe L. Toint (University of Namur, Belgium) |
Presolving
in quadratic and linear programming |
Special session with short presentations by the following Dutch researchers:
(Tuesday 17.15 - 18.15)
Chairman: Rommert Dekker (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
Erik Balder (Utrecht University)
Richard Boucherie (University of Twente)
Hein Fleuren (Tilburg University)
Eligius Hendrix (Wageningen University)
Dick den Hertog (Tilburg university)
Han Hoogeveen (Utrecht University)
Etienne de Klerk (Delft University of Technology)
Ger Koole (Free University Amsterdam)
Henk Norde (Tilburg University)
Ad Ridder (Free University Amsterdam)
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| Presentations by PhD students (Tuesday 14.00 - 15.00 and Wednesday 14.30 - 15.30)
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For each contributed paper by a PhD student a senior member of the
society will act as discussant.
The following PhD students of the LNMB will present a paper at the meeting:
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| Andreea Dragut (Eindhoven University of Technology) |
Optimal design task allocation with workload constraints |
| Dennis Huisman (Erasmus University Rotterdam) |
A dynamic approach to vehicle scheduling |
| Virginia Ivanescu (Eindhoven University of Technology) |
Makespan estimation in batch process industries when processing times are uncertain |
| Bart Kuijpers (Maastricht University) |
Branch-and-bound type method for lattice based mortgage valuation with partial prepayments |
| Quentin Louveaux (UCL Louvain-la-Neu / Eindhoven University of Technology) |
Combining problem structure and basis reduction to solve a class of hard integer programs |
| Marisela Mainegra Hing (University of Twente) |
Order acceptance under uncertainty with AI techniques |
| Marc Meertens (Catholic University Nijmegen) |
Envy-free and Pareto efficient allocations in economies with indivisible goods and memory |
| Linda van Norden (Erasmus University Rotterdam) |
Minimizing total completion time in a two-machine flowshop |
| René Sitters (Eindhoven University of Technology |
The complexity of the traveling repairman problem |
| Loucif Zerguini (Eindhoven University of Technology |
Computation of response time distribution in workflows |
| Seminar Capacity Management - How Operations Research models support decision makers (Thursday)
|
On the last day of the conference, Thursday
January 17, there is a one-day special seminar on "Capacity Management -
How Operations Research models support decision makers
", organized in cooperation with the "Nederlands Genootschap voor
Besliskunde" (NGB).
Chairman:
Marc Salomon (McKinsey & Company / Tilburg University)
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| Speakers:
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| Henk van Zuylen (AVV / Delft University of Technology) |
Capacity management in road transport, |
| Ben Jansen (ATOS b.v.) |
On the complexity of labor capacity management |
| Jos van Deursen (Police organization Gelderland-Midden) |
Capacity management when every second counts ... |
| Pieter Wartenhorst (McKinsey & Company) |
Aligning the workforce with Human Resource capacity requirements |
| Leo Kroon (NS Reizigers / Erasmus University) |
Capacity management at the Dutch Railways |
| Henk Post (Future Technology b.v.) |
Public transport planning for elderly and handicapped people |
| Marianne van Genugten (RIVM, Department Health Services Research) |
Pandemic influenza: impact on health care resource use |
| Joost Warners (KPN Valley) |
Network planning and capacity management in telecommunication |
| Maurits van Schuylenburg (Gemeentelijk Havenbedrijf Rotterdam) |
Timing of the second Maasvlakte in the Port of Rotterdam |
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