Team Deutsche Bahn has advanced to the finals of the 2020 INFORMS Franz Edelman Award Competition, the most prestigious international Operations Research Competition. The final winner will be chosen from the six finalists Amazon, Carnival, Deutsche Bahn, IBM, Intel, and Walmar at the INFORMS Conference on Business Analytics and Operations Research in Denver, CO on April 26-28. Deutsche Bahn’s contribution is about the planning system FEO (FahrzeugEinsatzOptimierung). FEO contains the train rotation optimizer RotOR, which has been developed at ZIB in...Read More
Within the MODAL research campus, ZIB together with 1000shapes participated at the Large Scale Vertebrae Segmentation Challenge VerSe 2019. A combined approach of machine learning using CNNs and shape modeling led to a promising result for automated segmentation and classification of vertebral bodies from CT data. Picture: Presenters and organizers of the challenge, from left to right: Dalong Cheng (iFLYTEK Research), Tamaz Amiranashvili (ZIB), Amir Hossein Bayat (TU München), Martin Urschler (University of Auckland), Jan Kirschke (TU München) and Anjany Sekuboyina (TU...Read More
The German Operations Research Society (GOR) awards every year a price for outstanding dissertations in the field of Operations Research. The prize is sponsored by Siemens AG, and handed over at the society’s annual meeting, which in this year was organized by the Faculty of Transport and Traffic Science and the Faculty of Business and Economics at TU Dresden. One of the four theses that were selected by this year’s prize committee was “Presolving techniques and linear relaxations for cumulative scheduling” Stefan Heinz...Read More
