| Ten invited lectures |
| Bruce Golden (University of Maryland, USA) |
The Split Delivery Vehicle Routing Problem: Using Integer
Programming within a Heuristic Framework |
| Bruce Golden (University of Maryland, USA) |
The Minimum Label Spanning Tree Problem: Some Genetic
Algorithm Approaches |
| Shane Henderson (Cornell University, Ithaca, USA) |
Call Centers and Poisson's Equation |
| Shane Henderson (Cornell University, Ithaca, USA) |
Variance Reduction for Markov Processes and Poisson's
Equation |
| Pablo Parrilo (MIT, Cambridge, USA) |
Sum of Squares Programs: What are They Good For, and How
To Solve
Them |
| Pablo Parrilo (MIT, Cambridge, USA) |
SOS/SDP methods: from optimization to games |
| Philippe Robert (INRIA, Rocquencourt, France) |
Tree Algorithms, Communication Networks and Data Structures |
| Philippe Robert (INRIA, Rocquencourt, France) |
Scaling Methods for Communication Networks |
| Lex Schrijver (Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science
& University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) |
Matchings, Colourings, Dimers |
| Lex Schrijver (Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science
& University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) |
Exploiting Symmetry in Optimization |
Presentation of the GIJS DE LEVE PRIZE for the best
PhD thesis in 2003, 2004 and 2005 (Tuesday 17.15 - 18.00)
Presentations by PhD students (Tuesday
14.00 - 15.00 and Wednesday 14.30 - 16.00) |
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: |
Marco Bijvank (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
|
Heuristics for Car Stock Management |
Umut Corbacioglu (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
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Setting the holding cost rates in a multi-product system
with remanufacturing |
Guido Diepen (University of Utrecht)
|
Minimizing total weighted tardiness on a single machine
with release dates and equal-length jobs |
| Menno Dobber (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) |
An effective prediction method for running times of jobs
on shared processors |
Regina Egorova (CWI, Amsterdam)
|
Sojourn time tails in the M/D/1 processor sharing queue
|
Gamal Elabwabi (Delft University of Technology)
|
Nonnegative bilinear functions on the Cartesian product of
Lorentz cones
|
| Nebosja Gvozdenovic (CWI, Amsterdam) |
Approximating the chromatic number of a graph by
semidefinite programming |
| René Haijema (University of Amsterdam) |
Blood platelet production: optimization by dynamic
programming and
simulation |
| Wilco van den Heuvel (Erasmus University Rotterdam) |
Lower bounds on the worst case ratio for a class of
heuristics for the economic lot-sizing problem |
| Birgit Heydenreich (Maastricht University) |
Mechanisms for decentralized online scheduling
|
| Pascal Lieshout (CWI, Amsterdam) |
Tandem Brownian queues |
| Joyce van Loon (Maastricht University) |
How to sell a graph: some guidelines for the graph retailer
|
| Hossein Mansouri (Delft University of Technology) |
A simplified O(nL) infeasible interior-point algorithm for
linear
optimization using full Newton steps |
| Martijn Mes (University of Twente) |
Opportunity costs calculation in agent-based vehicle
routing and
scheduling |
Gergely Mincsovics (Eindhoven University of Technology)
|
Workload-dependent capacity controlitle |
| Bas Verheijen (Erasmus University Rotterdam) |
Workload-dependent capacity control |
Manual Vieira (Delft University of Technology)
|
Interior Point Methods for symmetric optimization based on
kernel
functions |
Maria Vlasiou (EURANDOM, Eindhoven)
|
Exact solution to a Lindley-type equation on a bounded
support |
Wemke van der Weij CWI, Amsterdam)
|
Stability and throughput in a two-node queueing network
with a shared resource |
Seminar "Operations Research and Health Care" (Thursday) |
On the last day of the conference,
Thursday
January 19 there is a one-day special seminar on "Operations Research (OR) and Health Care",
organized in cooperation with the
"Nederlands
Genootschap voor Besliskunde" (NGB). For a special announcement
(including registration form) of this
seminar click here.
Chairman:
Anne Jonkman, program director "Sneller Beter".
Themes:
1. OR and logistics in health care
2. OR and medical treatment
3. OR and decision making in health care
|
| Speakers Theme 1: |
| Michael Carter (Healthcare Resource Modeling Laboratory,
Toronto, Canada) |
Operations Research in the health care or Who let the
engineer into the hospital? |
| Mark van Houdenhoven (Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam) |
Hospital process optimization: where to start? |
| Gerhard Wullink ((Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam) |
Health care process optimization: mathematics is the easy
part! |
| Erwin Hans (University of Twente, Enschede) |
Operations research based process optimization at Erasmus
MC |
| Speakers Theme 2: |
| Dick den Hertog |
Introduction |
| Eva Lee (Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA) |
Operations
Research Challenges in Medicine and
HealthCare |
| Aswin Hoffmann (Radboud University, Nijmegen) |
Multi-objective fluence map optimization for
intensity-modulated radiotherapy |
| Marjolein van Ballegooijen & Dik Habbema (Erasmus Medical
Center, Rotterdam) |
Health care efficiency improvement in action: the case of
cervical cancer screening in the Netherlands |
| Speakers Theme 3: |
| Joris van de Klundert (Maastricht University) |
Introduction |
| Maarten Rutgers (Wilhelmina Hospital, Assen) |
Integral improvement of the orthopaedic chain |
| Etienne Rouwette (Radboud University, Nijmegen) |
System dynamics modeling on health care: supply and demand
of dementia care |
