31th conference on
The
mathematics of
operations research
Organized by LNMB
(Landelijk Netwerk Mathematische Besliskunde)
January 17 - 19, 2006
Conference Center "De
Werelt", Lunteren, The Netherlands
Annual meeting of Dutch senior
and junior
researchers
in the Mathematics of Operations Research.
The program offers high-quality research
and
applications
and should appeal to both academic researchers
and to management consultants in trade and industry.
The conference is sponsored by the
Gebiedsbestuur
Exacte
Wetenschappen (NWO),
the Thomas Stieltjes Institute for Mathematics and
the Mathematical Research Institute (MRI).
For a special announcement (including registration
form) of click here.
| Program | Invited Speakers | Abstracts Invited Presentations |
| Seminar | Abstracts Presentations Seminar | Registration Seminar |
| Parallel Sessions PhD Students | Abstracts Presentations PhD Students |
| Registration | Registered Participants | How to get there | Conference Secretariat |
Ingredients
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)
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