Computational Management Science: State of the Art 2014

Front Matter....Pages i-xxi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Evaluating Price Risk Mitigation Strategies for an Oil and Gas Company....Pages 3-8
Load Shifting, Interrupting or Both? Customer Portfolio Composition in Demand Side Management....Pages 9-15
Stress-Testing for Portfolios of Commodity Futures with Extreme Value Theory and Copula Functions....Pages 17-22
Integrating Consumption and Reserve Strategies for Large Consumers in Electricity Markets....Pages 23-30
Controlled Approximation of the Stochastic Dynamic Programming Value Function for Multi-Reservoir Systems....Pages 31-37
A Computational Method for Predicting the Entropy of Energy Market Time Series....Pages 39-44
Front Matter....Pages 45-45
Demand Uncertainty for the Location-Routing Problem with Two-dimensional Loading Constraints....Pages 47-53
Location Game and Applications in Transportation Networks....Pages 55-61
A GRASP Algorithm for the Vehicle-Reservation Assignment Problem....Pages 63-71
A Heuristic for the Time-Dependent Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows....Pages 73-78
Integer Programming Based Approaches for Multi-Trip Location Routing....Pages 79-90
An Agent-Based Approach to Schedule Crane Operations in Rail-Rail Transshipment Terminals....Pages 91-97
Vertical and Horizontal Collaboration in Inventory and Transportation....Pages 99-104
Front Matter....Pages 105-105
Experimental Study and Statistical Analysis of Human Factors’ Impact in Cell Production System....Pages 107-113
Planning Production and Workforce in a Discrete-Time Financial Model: Optimizing Cash-Flows Released....Pages 115-121
Evaluating Supply Chain Resilience Under Different Types of Disruption....Pages 123-129
Exact Solution of Combined Cutting Stock and Scheduling Problems....Pages 131-139
Fair Transfer Prices of Global Supply Chains in the Process Industry....Pages 141-149
The Influence of Corporate Social Responsibility on Economic Performance Within Supply Chain Planning....Pages 151-156
A MIP Model for Production Planning in the Roasting Coffee Industry....Pages 157-163
Front Matter....Pages 105-105
Optimization of Production Scheduling in the Mould Making Industry....Pages 165-174
Constraint Aggregation in Non-linear Programming Models for Nesting Problems....Pages 175-180
Front Matter....Pages 181-181
A Hybrid Genetic Algorithm for the One-Dimensional Minimax Bin-Packing Problem with Assignment Constraints....Pages 183-188
The Partial Choice Recoverable Knapsack Problem....Pages 189-194
Stopping Times for Fractional Brownian Motion....Pages 195-200
An Empirical Design of a Column Generation Algorithm Applied to a Management Zone Delineation Problem....Pages 201-208
Modeling Multi-Stage Decision Optimization Problems....Pages 209-214
A New and Innovative Approach to Assess and Quantify the Value for the Customer....Pages 215-223
Bus Driver Rostering by Column Generation Metaheuristics....Pages 225-231
A Matheuristic Based on Column Generation for Parallel Machine Scheduling with Sequence Dependent Setup Times....Pages 233-238
Population Games with Vector Payoff and Approachability....Pages 239-245