This book contains a selection of refereed papers presented at the "International Conference on Operations Research (OR 2014)", which took place at RWTH Aachen University, Germany, September 2-5, 2014. More than 800 scientists and students from 47 countries attended OR 2014 and presented more than 500 papers in parallel topical streams, as well as special award sessions. The theme of the conference and its proceedings is "Business Analytics and Optimization".

Presents latest findings from research in OR Introduces selected papers from a leading OR conference Provides a special focus on business analytics and optimization Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Experimental Validation of an Enhanced System Synthesis Approach.- Stochastic Dynamic Programming Solution of a Risk-Adjusted Disaster Preparedness and Relief Distribution Problem.- Solution Approaches for the Double-Row Equidistant Facility Layout Problem.- Simulation of the System-Wide Impact of Power-to-Gas Energy Storages by Multi-Stage Optimization.- An Approximation Result for Matchings in Partitioned Hypergraphs.- On Class Imbalancy Correction for Classification Algorithms in Credit Scoring.- The Exact Solution of Multi-Period Portfolio Choice Problem with Exponential Utility.- On the Discriminative Power of Tournament Solutions.- An actor-oriented approach to evaluate climate policies with regard to resource intensive industries.- Upper Bounds for Heuristic Approaches to the Strip Packing Problem.- An Approximative Lexicographic Min-Max Approach to the Discrete Facility Location Problem.- Effects of Profit Taxes in Matrix Games.- Extension and application of a general pickup and delivery model for evaluating the impact of bundling goods in an urban environment.- Optimizing time slot allocation in single operator home delivery problems.- Robust Scheduling with Logic-Based Benders Decomposition.- Optimal Adaptation Process of Emergency Medical Services Systems in a Changing Environment.- Strategic network planning of recycling of photovoltaic modules.- Designing a Feedback Control System via Mixed-Integer Programming.- Fair Cyclic Roster Planning - A Case Study for a Large European Airport.- Why Does a Railway Infrastructure Company Need an Optimized Train Path Assignment for Industrialized Timetabling?.- A Polyhedral Study of the Quadratic Traveling Salesman Problem.- New inequalities for 1D relaxations of the 2D rectangular strip packing problem.- Representing Production Scheduling with Constraint Answer Set Programming.- Day-ahead versus Intraday Valuation of Flexibility for Photovoltaic and Wind Power Systems.- A Real Options Model for the Disinvestment in Conventional Power Plants.- Political Districting for Elections to the German Bundestag: An Optimization-Based Multi-Stage Heuristic Respecting Administrative Boundaries.- Duality for multiobjective semidefinite optimization problems.- Algorithms for Controlling Palletizers.- Capital Budgeting Problems: A parameterized point of view.- How to increase robustness of capable-to-promise - A numerical analysis of preventive measures.- A Variable Neighborhood Search for a Re-entrant Flow Shop Scheduling Problem.- Selecting delivery patterns for grocery chains.- Towards a Customer-oriented Queuing in Service Incident Management.- A Lagrangian Relaxation Algorithm for Modularity Maximization Problem.- Row and Column Generation Algorithm for Maximization of Minimum Margin for Ranking Problems.- Dual sourcing inventory model with uncertain supply and advance capacity information.- Integrated Line Planning and Passenger Routing: Connectivity and Transfers.- Robust discrete optimization problems with the WOWA criterion.- Robust single machine scheduling problem with weighted number of late jobs criterion.- Price of Anarchy in the Link Destruction (Adversary) Model.- Decision support system for week programm planning.- On Multi-Product Lot-Sizing and Scheduling with Multi-Machine Technologies.- Condition-Based Maintenance Policies for Modular Monotic Multi-State Systems.- An Optimization Model and a Decision Support System to Optimize Car Sharing Stations with Electric Vehicles.- Optimising energy procurement for small and medium-sized enterprises.- Approximation Schemes for Robust Makespan Scheduling Problems.- The price of fairness for a small number of indivisible items.- Robustness Concepts for Knapsack and Network Design Problems under Data Uncertainty.- An Insight to Aviation: Rostering Ground Personnel in Practice.- Consensus Information and Consensus Rating - A Note on Methodological Problems of Rating Aggregation.- Integration of Prospect Theory into the outranking approach PROMETHEE.- Multistage Optimization with the help of Quantified Linear Programming.- Analysis of Ambulance Location Models Using Discrete Event Simulation.- Tight upper bounds on the cardinality constrained mean-variance portfolio optimization problem using truncated eigendecomposition.- Scheduling identical parallel machines with a fixed number of delivery dates.- Kinetic Models For Assembly Lines In Automotive Industries.- Optimization of Vehicle Routes with Delivery and Pickup for a Rental Business: A Case Study.- An Ant Colony System Adaptation to Deal with Accessibility Issues after a Disaster.- Modelling and Solving a Train Path Assignment Model.- A New Approach to Freight Consolidation For a Real-World Pickup-and-Delivery Problem.- High Multiplicity Scheduling with Switching Costs for few Products.- Sampling-based objective function evaluation techniques for the Orienteering Problem with Stochastic Travel and Service Times.- Optimized Pattern Design for Photovoltaic Power Stations.- What Are New Insights Using Optimized Train Path Assignment for the Development of Railway Infrastructure?.- The Cycle Embedding Problem.- Dispatch of a wind farm with a battery storage.- Exact algorithms for the vehicle routing problem with soft time windows.- Impact of heat storage capacity on CHP unit commitment under power price uncertainties.- Optimizing Information Security Investments With Limited Budget.- Cut-first Branch-and-Price second for the Capacitated Arc-Routing Problem.- Solving a rich position-based model for dairy products.- A European Investment and Dispatch Model for Determining Cost Minimal Power Systems with High Shares of Renewable Energy.- Pre-selection Strategies for Dynamic Collaborative Transportation Planning Problems.- Optimal operation of a CHP plant for the energy balancing market.- Gas network extension planning for multiple demand scenarios.- Impacts of electricity consumers' unit commitment on low voltage networks.- Congestion Games with Multi-Dimensional Demands.- Unit Commitment by Column Generation.- Parallel Algorithm Portfolio with Market Trading-based Time Allocation.- Global Solution of Bilevel Programming Problems.- Robustness to Time Discretization Errors in Water Network Optimization.- Forecasting intermittent demand with generalized state-space model.- Optimal Renewal and Electrification Strategy for Commercial Car Fleets in Germany.- A Time-Indexed Generalized Vehicle Routing Model for Military Aircraft Mission Planning.- Adapting exact and heuristic procedures in solving an NP-hard sequencing problem.- Strategic deterrence of terrorist attacks.- Optimal Airline Networks, Flight Volumes, and the Number of Crafts for New Low-cost Carrier in Japan.- Variable Speed in Vertical Flight Planning.- A Fast Greedy Algorithm for the Relocation Problem.- Multicriteria Group Choice via Majority Preference Relation Based on Cone Individual Preference Relations.