32nd conference on
The
mathematics of
operations research
Organized by LNMB
(Landelijk Netwerk Mathematische Besliskunde)
January 16 - 18, 2007
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 |
Ten invited lectures
Peter Glynn (Stanford University, USA)
Rare-event Simulation via State-dependent
Importance
Sampling
Peter Glynn (Stanford University, USA)
Initial Transient Problem for Steady - state Output
Analysis
Mor Harchol – Balter (Carnegie Mellon University,
Pittsburgh, USA)
Scheduling in Multiserver Systems: Approaches and Open
Problems (Part I)
Mor Harchol – Balter (Carnegie Mellon
University, Pittsburgh,
USA)
Scheduling in Multiserver Systems: Approaches and Open
Problems (Part II)
Tim Roughgarden (Stanford University, USA)
Potential Functions and Routing Games
Tim Roughgarden (Stanford University, USA)
Potential Functions and Network Formulation Games
Moshe Tennenholtz (Technion, Haifa, Israel)
Ranking Systems
Moshe Tennenholtz (Technion, Haifa, Israel)
Pre-Bayesian Games
Shuzhong Zhang (The Chinese University of
Hong Kong)
Conic Optimization, Randomization, and
Combinatorial
Problems
Shuzhong Zhang (The Chinese University of
Hong Kong)
Ambiguity, Uncertainty, and Robust
Optimization
Presentations by PhD students (Tuesday
14.00 - 16.00 and Wednesday
14.15 - 15.45)
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:
Seminar "Operations Research and Public Transport" (Thursday)
On the last day of the conference,
Thursday
January 18 there is a one-day special seminar on Operations Research Public Transportation,
organized in cooperation with the
"Nederlands
Genootschap voor Besliskunde" (NGB). For a special announcement
(including registration form) of this
seminar click here.
Chairmen: Alexander Rinnooy
Kan (SER) and Goos Kant
(ORTEC/Tilburg University)
Guido Diepen (Utrecht University)
Planning of busses and gates at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol
Dennis Huisman (Erasmus University Rotterdam; NS, the
Netherlands Railways)
Timetable 2007: why and how?
Gerard Kindervater (KLM Royal Dutch Airlines)
Revenue Management in the Airline Passenger Industry
Marieke de Koning (Pointlogic, Rotterdam)
Making money out of public transportation: performance
measurement of bus and tram advertising
Leo Kroon (NS Reizigers, Utrecht; Erasmus University,
Rotterdam)
A survey of OR models and techniques for the planning of
Public Transportation
Ramon Lentink (ORTEC, Gouda)
Where do train units stay when they're off duty?
Michiel Odijk (ORTEC, Gouda)
Application of OR to settle a major HRM conflict at Dutch
Railways
Niels van Oort (HTM Personenvervoer N.V., Den Haag; TU Delft)
The moment of execution: real-life monitoring and control
of public transport operations in major urban areas