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Session TC1- Tutorial 8: Modelling and Analysis of Warranties

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• Presenter:
  D.N. Pra Murthy, The University of Queensland, Australia
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Session TC2: Networks F

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• ID # 110
  Presentation: TC2.1
  Nonconvex Network Optimisation: Applications and Algorithms
  Author(s): Gavin J. Bell and Bruce W. Lamar
  Abstract (number 110)
  

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• ID # 124
  Presentation: TC2.2
  Comparison of road network patterns with respect to travel distance
  Author(s): Takeshi Koshizuka
  Abstract (number 124)
  

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• ID # 132
  Presentation: TC2.3
  A Network Optimization for Relief Problems from Congestion
  Author(s): Tamaki Tanaka and Toshiyuki Shimizu
  Abstract (number 132)
  

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• ID # 511
  Presentation: TC2.4
  Dynamic reconfiguration in multi-service networks
  Author(s): Sergei A. Berezner and Anthony E. Krzesinski
  Abstract (number 511)
  

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• ID # 334
  Session: TC2.5
  An Evaluation Method for Computer Network Reliability
  Author(s): Takeshi Koide, Shuichi Shinmori and Hiroaki Ishii
  Abstract (number 334)
  

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Session TC3: Packing Problems

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• ID # 239
  Presentation: TC3.1
  Exact and Heuristic Algorithms for the 2-Dimensional Vector Packing Problem
  Author(s): Alberto Caprara and Paolo Toth
  Abstract (number 239)
  

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• ID # 144
  Presentation: TC3.2
  A solution of the 3-D packing problem with weight constraint
  Author(s): Toyokazu Sakamoto
  Abstract (number 144)
  

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• ID # 146
  Presentation: TC3.3
  2-D local optimization packing CAD system
  Author(s): Toyokazu Sakamoto
  Abstract (number 146)
  

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• ID # 325
  Presentation: TC3.4
  Packing a Manufacturing Schedule
  Author(s): Patrick Tobin, Alan Brown and Simon Dunstall
  Abstract (number 325)
  

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Session TC4*: Military Applications B

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• ID # 354
  Presentation: TC4.1
  Markovian Queuing Network Model for the Officers Career Structure in Defence Manpower Systems
  Author(s): Rio M. Thalieb, Charles S. Newton and David Hoffman
  Abstract (number 354)
  

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• ID # 355
  Presentation: TC4.2
  Using Dynamic Programming to Optimise a Military Project Life Cycle Cost in Different Phases
  Author(s): Chi-Wu Chou, Charles S. Newton and David Hoffman
  Abstract (number 355)
  

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• ID # 356
  Presentation: TC4.3
  Base Closure - An Application of the Modified Analytic Hierarchy Process
  Author(s): Shinn Sun, Charles S. Newton and David Hoffman
  Abstract (number 356)
  

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• ID # 357
  Presentation: TC4.4
  The Data Envelopment Analysis Approach to the Resource Allocation Problem in Downsizing of Military Organisations
  Author(s): Meta Suntronsaratoon, Charles S. Newton and David Hoffman
  Abstract (number 357)
  

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• ID # 515
  Presentation: TC4.5
  Optimal Employment of Asymmetric Situational Awareness
  Author(s): Brian Hanlon
  Abstract (number 515)
  

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Session TC5: Urban Problems

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• ID # 310
  Presentation: TC5.1
  The Effects of A Parking Lots' Information Board in Central Business District
  Author(s): Yasuhiro TAKEDA and Masanori OZAWA
  Abstract (number 310)
  

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• ID # 480
  Presentation: TC5.2
  The Letters of Dwellers to City Administration: Software for Decision Making
  Author(s): Mikhail Alexandrov and P. Makagonov
  Abstract (number 480)
  

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• ID # 106
  Presentation: TC5.3
  Operations Research in Urban Snow Removal and Disposal
  Author(s): James F. Campbell and Andre Langevin
  Abstract (number 106)
  

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Session TC6: Supply Chain Management

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• ID # 450
  Presentation: TC6.2
  Performance Measurement in Hospital Supply Management
  Author(s): Sophie D. Lapierre, Ivan Dacosta Claro, Michael W. Carter and Claire Schaffnit
  Abstract (number 450)
  

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• ID # 493
  Presentation: TC6.3
  Decision Support Systems for Supply Chain Mangement
  Author(s): Gordon Erens and Jay Horton
  Abstract (number 493)
  

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• ID # 489
  Presentation: TC6.4
  Computer modelling and the logistics manager - A laboratory test of the use of the Computer Aided Strategy and tactics (CAST) model to improve the quality of logistics decision making
  Author(s): Geoff Christopherson and David I. Wilson
  Abstract (number 489)
  

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Session TC7*: Theory of Constraints C

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• ID # 457
  Presentation: TC7.1
  The TIE Rule for Vetting Capital Expenditure Proposals
  Author(s): Bryce England
  Abstract (number 457)
  

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• ID # 291
  Presentation: TC7.2
  The use of the "Theory of Constraints Thinking Processes" at Courtaulds Coatings NZ
  Author(s): Bryce Peach
  Abstract (number 291)
  

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• ID # 510
  Presentation: TC7.3
  The Theory of Constraints and LP use in the Oil Industry
  Author(s): John Godfrey
  Abstract (number 510)
  

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Session TC8*: Scheduling F

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• ID # 365
  Presentation: TC8.1
  Bi-Criteria Scheduling Hybrid Flowshop Problems
  Author(s): Fouad Riane, Nadine Meskens-Artiba and Abdelhakim Artiba
  Abstract (number 365)
  

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• ID # 366
  Presentation: TC8.2
  Local Search Heuristics in Scheduling Hybrid Flowshop Organizations
  Author(s): Houdart Houdart, Fouad Riane and Abdelhakim Artiba
  Abstract (number 366)
  

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• ID # 367
  Presentation: TC8.3
  Hybrid Flowshop Scheduling with Genetic Algorithms
  Author(s): Come Raczy and Abdelhakim Artiba
  Abstract (number 367)
  

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Session TC9*: Problem Structuring Methods B

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• ID # 175
  Presentation: TC9.1
  Team Syntegrity as a Problem Structuring Method
  Author(s): Leroy White
  Abstract (number 175)
  

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• ID # 176
  Presentation: TC9.2
  The Use of Framing as a Pedagogical Strategy in the Teaching of OR/MS
  Author(s): John Davies and Victoria J. Mabin
  Abstract (number 176)
  

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• ID # 177
  Presentation: TC9.3
  Multimethodology - The Practice of Mixing Methodologies
  Author(s): John Mingers
  Abstract (number 177)
  

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• ID # 180
  Presentation: TC9.4
  Problem Structuring Methods and Multicriteria Decision Aid Approaches
  Author(s): Hans G. Daellenbach
  Abstract (number 180)
  

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Session TC10: Queueing and Applied Probability E

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• ID # 391
  Presentation: TC10.1
  Queues with Service Times Depending on the Arrivals and Modified Boundary Conditions
  Author(s): Fumiaki Machihara
  Abstract (number 391)
  

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• ID # 441
  Presentation: TC10.2
  Asymptotic Behavior of Parallel Queues with Heterogeneous Phase-Type Servers
  Author(s): Yukio Takahashi and Kou Fujimoto
  Abstract (number 441)
  

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• ID # 442
  Presentation: TC10.3
  Matrix-Geometric Invariant Measures for G/M/1 Type Markov Chains
  Author(s): H. Richard Gail, Sidney L. Hantler and B. Alan Taylor
  Abstract (number 442)
  

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• ID # 394
  Presentation: TC10.4
  Resource Renegotiation Strategy in Telecommunication Networks
  Author(s): Steven H. Low
  Abstract (number 394)
  

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• ID # 443
  Presentation: TC10.5
  Mean Waiting Times in the Alternating Traffic with Starting Delays
  Author(s): Hideaki Yamashita and Shigemichi Suzuki
  Abstract (number 443)
  

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Session TC11*: Combinatorial Optimization D

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• ID # 465
  Presentation: TC11.1
  Scheduling across two power stations with some shared personnel
  Author(s): Guy E Eitzen
  Abstract (number 465)
  

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• ID # 466
  Presentation: TC11.2
  Production Scheduling for Wool Tops
  Author(s): Andreas Ernst and Graham Mills
  Abstract (number 466)
  

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• ID # 471
  Presentation: TC11.3
  Developing a Production/Scheduling Model for an Australian Grain Crop
  Author(s): David Sier
  Abstract (number 471)
  

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• ID # 483
  Presentation: TC11.4
  A Combinatorial Optimization approach for modelling Stochastic Production Yield
  Author(s): Kurt Brinschwitz and Graham Mills
  Abstract (number 483)
  

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