On May 07, 2018, Stefan Heinz, formerly at ZIB’s Mathematical Optimization Methods group, and now with FICO, a partner in MODAL’s SynLab, defended his thesis “Presolving Techniques and linear relaxations for cumulative scheduling” at Technical University of Berlin in front of a very large audience of collaborators, colleagues, and friends. The thesis develops a hybird constraint integer programming approach to a large class of cumulative scheduling problems. The approach unifies and significantly extends the hitherto known theory, the resulting general...Read More
The German Association of OP Management (VOPM) convenes every year for its annual meeting in Bremen to present and discuss the latest developments on the interface of medicine, organization, and human resource management. In this year, VOPM invited the project “IBOSS – Information-Based Optimization of Surgery Schedules” to give a talk about the “Optimization of Surgery Schedules”. IBOSS is a collaborative research project in the Mathematics Research Program of the German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), associated with the...Read More
A new “Handbook of Optimization in the Railway Industry” is available in the International Series in Operations Research & Management Science by Springer. Edited by Ralf Borndörfer, Torsten Klug, Leonardo Lamorgese, Carlo Mannino, Markus Reuther and Thomas Schlechte, the book provides an overview of the state-of-the art in railway optimization. With thirteen contributions from leading scholars, the book presents a unified view on the topic with a focus on the use of mathematical programming and operations research methods in rail...Read More
