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Abstract ID Numbers and Their Respective Program Codes

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• ID # 401
  Code: TB6.2
  Future Development of the Journal of the OR SOCIETY/OR Society Services to Remote Members
  Author(s): John C. Ranyard
  Abstract (number 401)
  

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• ID # 403
  Code: TD7.1
  Single machine scheduling under fuzzy constraints and fuzzy criteria
  Author(s): Milan Vlach
  Abstract (number 403)
  

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• ID # 405
  Code: WA11.3
  DORIS: A Simulation and Optimisation Package for rostering NZ Customs Staff at Auckland Airport
  Author(s): Andrew Mason
  Abstract (number 405)
  

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• ID # 408
  Code: TA3.1
  An asymptotic simplex method for singularly perturbed linear programs
  Author(s): Jerzy A. Filar and Konstantin E. Avrachenkov
  Abstract (number 408)
  

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• ID # 409
  Code: MB9.4
  Complex Investment Decisions Supported by AHP Method
  Author(s): Biljana A. Stosic, Dejan C. Petrovic and Bojan J. Ilic
  Abstract (number 409)
  

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• ID # 410
  Code: MC4.5
  Multi-Criteria Methods in Different Industry Applications
  Author(s): Fatemeh Ghotb
  Abstract (number 410)
  

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• ID # 412
  Code: TA2.2
  Topological Design of A Two-level Centralized Network with Service Survivability
  Author(s): Moon-gil Moon-gil Yoon, Yonh-ho Baek and Dong-wan Tcha
  Abstract (number 412)
  

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• ID # 413
  Code: MC2.2
  An integrated approach for hub location and network design problem
  Author(s): Moon-gil Yoon and John R. Current
  Abstract (number 413)
  

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• ID # 414
  Code: MC7.2
  Optimal Decision Making Based On Financial Indicators
  Author(s): Nevenka Zarkic-Joksimovic and Petar Jovanovic
  Abstract (number 414)
  

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• ID # 415
  Code: HC8.4
  Simulation Analysis for Evaluation of the Technology and Capacity in Marshalling Yards
  Author(s): Milos Ivic, Zivorsd Lazic , Mira Laiovic and Branislav Boskovic
  Abstract (number 415)
  

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• ID # 416
  Code: TD11.3
  A Distributed-Parallel Solution Approach for the Container Loading Problem
  Author(s): Hermann Gehring and Andreas Bortfeldt
  Abstract (number 416)
  

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• ID # 417
  Code: HC8.3
  REmarshaling Export Containers in Port Container Terminals
  Author(s): Kap Hwan Kim and Jong Wook Jong Wook Bae
  Abstract (number 417)
  

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• ID # 418
  Code: WB5.2
  OR as the Ultimate Enabler for BPR
  Author(s): Dudley N. Foster
  Abstract (number 418)
  

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• ID # 419
  Code: HA7.2
  An Overflow Model for Network Routing Problems
  Author(s): Franz J. M. Salzborn and Saeedeh Ketabi
  Abstract (number 419)
  

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• ID # 420
  Code: HC8.1
  Applications of OR Methods to Transportation Problems
  Author(s): Meigu Guan
  Abstract (number 420)
  

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• ID # 423
  Code: TD6.2
  A strongly polynomial algorithm for a concave production-transportation problem with a fixed number of nonlinear variables
  Author(s): Sakis Migdalas , S. Ghannadan and H. Tuy and P. Varbrand
  Abstract (number 423)
  

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• ID # 424
  Code: HB1.5
  Hyper Sensitivity Analysis and its Application to Soft Constraints and Portfolio Optimization Problems
  Author(s): Angelina Byrne, Leonid Churil and Moshe Sniedovich
  Abstract (number 424)
  

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• ID # 426
  Code: HB7.5
  Data Envelopment Analysis Based on Triangular Fuzzy Numbers
  Author(s): Tohru UDEA and Tetsushi MAMIMURA
  Abstract (number 426)
  

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• ID # 427
  Code: MB7.2
  Independent Learning in OR Education
  Author(s): Steve Weal
  Abstract (number 427)
  

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• ID # 428
  Code: HB6.2
  Principle of Dynamic Satisficing and Suboptimality
  Author(s): Cang-Pu Wu
  Abstract (number 428)
  

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• ID # 430
  Code: TD11.1
  Improved Cutting Schedules in the Paper Industry
  Author(s): Robert E. Johnston and Lutfar R. Khan
  Abstract (number 430)
  

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• ID # 431
  Code: WA11.1
  Tours Of Duty Optimisation at Air New Zealand
  Author(s): Paul Day
  Abstract (number 431)
  

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• ID # 432
  Code: WA11.2
  An Optimisation model and solution method for Standby Crew Selection at Air New Zealand
  Author(s): Jeff Meyer
  Abstract (number 432)
  

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• ID # 433
  Code: TD6.1
  Just In Time Implementation Productivity Changes at a Textile Company as Productive Resources Management Tool
  Author(s): Marcelo Farid Pereira, Joao Serafim Tusi Silveira and Edgar Augusto Lanzer
  Abstract (number 433)
  

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• ID # 434
  Code: TA4.2
  Component Failure Rate Estimation for Small Sample Sizes, A Bayesian Approach
  Author(s): Kyoumars Bahrami
  Abstract (number 434)
  

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• ID # 435
  Code: MC10.2
  An Optimal Maintenance Policy for a Server with Decreasing Service Rate
  Author(s): Junji KOYANAGI and Hajime KAWAI
  Abstract (number 435)
  

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• ID # 436
  Code: MC10.3
  An Overall Cycle Time in a U-shaped Production Line with Multi-function Workers
  Author(s): Koichi Nakade and Katsuhisa Katsuhisa Ohno
  Abstract (number 436)
  

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• ID # 437
  Code: MD10.2
  A Queueing Model Where Each Customer Makes the Server Tired
  Author(s): Nobuko Igaki and Masashi Kowada
  Abstract (number 437)
  

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• ID # 438
  Code: MD10.3
  Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for Global Geometric Convergence of Block Gauss Seidel Iteration Algorithm Applied to Markov Chains
  Author(s): Ushio Sumita and Nobuko Igaki
  Abstract (number 438)
  

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• ID # 439
  Code: TA10.1
  An M/SM/1 Recovering Model with Vacation Time
  Author(s): Shoichi NISHIMURA, Alexander N. DUDIN and Naoko YAMADA
  Abstract (number 439)
  

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• ID # 440
  Code: TA10.2
  Geometric Decays of Stationary Probabilities in Two- and Three-Stage Tandem Queueing Systems
  Author(s): Kou Fujimoto, Yukio Takahashi and Naoki Makimoto
  Abstract (number 440)
  

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• ID # 441
  Code: 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
  Code: 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 # 443
  Code: 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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• ID # 444
  Code: TB10.1
  Analysis of the Steady State Tail Probability of Long-Range-Dependent Queueing Processes
  Author(s): Naoki Makimoto, Masanobu Kouchi and Kazutomo Kobayashi
  Abstract (number 444)
  

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• ID # 445
  Code: TD10.1
  Output Process of Shaper and Switch with Self-Similar Input Traffic in ATM Networks
  Author(s): Chikara Ohta and Fumio Ishizaki
  Abstract (number 445)
  

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• ID # 446
  Code: TD10.2
  A Study on Stability Analysis for High-Speed Networks Based on Statistical Physics
  Author(s): Masaki Aida and Kenji Horikawa
  Abstract (number 446)
  

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• ID # 447
  Code: WA10.1
  Queueing Modeling the SVC Mechanism for IP over ATM Networks
  Author(s): Hideo Kitazume and Yoshitaka Takahashi
  Abstract (number 447)
  

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• ID # 449
  Code: TB7.2
  Use of Theory of Constraints to improve academic results
  Author(s): Bryce England
  Abstract (number 449)
  

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• ID # 450
  Code: 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 # 451
  Code: MC6.2
  Order pickup and storage system with dual command cycle in a warehouse -single bin case
  Author(s): Ashok K Mittal and K.C. Jha
  Abstract (number 451)
  

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• ID # 453
  Code: HA7.3
  Simultaneous Location - Routing Problems for Stock Assignments in a Warehouse
  Author(s): Ashok Kumar Mittal and Raj Kumar Jain
  Abstract (number 453)
  

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• ID # 454
  Code: HC9.1
  Developing a System Dynamics Based Simulator for Policy Testing in Quality Management
  Author(s): Purnendu Mandal
  Abstract (number 454)
  

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• ID # 455
  Code: HC9.4
  A system dynamics modelling of sulfide production in sewer pipes
  Author(s): Pankaj K. Sinha, M. Sripada, Purnendu Mandal and I.G. Prince
  Abstract (number 455)
  

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• ID # 456
  Code: TA1.1
  Overview of the Theory of Constraints
  Author(s): James Powell
  Abstract (number 456)
  

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• ID # 456
  Code: TA1.2
  Overview of the Theory of Constraints
  Author(s): James Powell
  Abstract (number 456)
  

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• ID # 456
  Code: TA1.3
  Overview of the Theory of Constraints
  Author(s): James Powell
  Abstract (number 456)
  

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

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• ID # 458
  Code: HB9.3
  The effects of R&D on economic growth: Case studies
  Author(s): Jinho Yoo and Moonsik Bae
  Abstract (number 458)
  

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• ID # 459
  Code: TD5.4
  Hospital Productivity Measurement as Management Tool of Productive Resources Without Loss of Quality
  Author(s): Joao S. T. da Silveira, Marcelo F. Pereira and Edgar A. Lanzer
  Abstract (number 459)
  

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• ID # 460
  Code: MB11.2
  Applying Nonsmooth Techniques in Solving Integer Programming Problems
  Author(s): Philip Neame, Natashia Boland and Danny Ralph
  Abstract (number 460)
  

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• ID # 462
  Code: MB11.3
  Variable Fixing Branches
  Author(s): Bruce Davey, Natashia Boland and Peter Stuckey
  Abstract (number 462)
  

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• ID # 463
  Code: MC11.1
  Airport Congestion and Effect of Scheduling in Air Traffic Control
  Author(s): Hong Chen and Yiyuan Zhao
  Abstract (number 463)
  

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• ID # 464
  Code: MD11.1
  Hub Location and Network Design
  Author(s): James F. Campbell
  Abstract (number 464)
  

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• ID # 465
  Code: 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
  Code: TC11.2
  Production Scheduling for Wool Tops
  Author(s): Andreas Ernst and Graham Mills
  Abstract (number 466)
  

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• ID # 467
  Code: TA11.1
  A Meta-heuristic based general solver for combinatorial optimisation problems
  Author(s): Marcus Randall and David Abramson
  Abstract (number 467)
  

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• ID # 468
  Code: TA11.3
  Application Specific Computers for High Speed Optimisation
  Author(s): David Abramson
  Abstract (number 468)
  

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• ID # 469
  Code: MD11.2
  Exact and Heuristic Algorithms for the Capacitated Multiple Allocation Hub Location Problem
  Author(s): Jamie Ebery , Andreas Ernst , Mohan Krishnamoorthy and Natashia Boland
  Abstract (number 469)
  

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• ID # 470
  Code: MD11.3
  A solution algorithm for p-hub median problems based on shortest-paths
  Author(s): Andreas Ernst and Mohan Krishnamoorthy
  Abstract (number 470)
  

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

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• ID # 472
  Code: MC11.3
  Heuristic and exact algorithms for scheduling aircraft landings
  Author(s): Andreas T. Ernst , Mohan Krishnamoorthy and R.H. Storer
  Abstract (number 472)
  

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• ID # 473
  Code: HB6.3
  Toward Sensitivity Analysis of Sequential Decision Processes via Dynamic Programming
  Author(s): Susanne Irvine and Moshe Sniedovich
  Abstract (number 473)
  

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• ID # 474
  Code: WB11.5
  Travelling Salesman Problems with Side Constraints and Refreshment Arcs
  Author(s): Natashia Boland, L.W. Clarke and George L. Nemhauser
  Abstract (number 474)
  

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• ID # 477
  Code: MB7.3
  Some Realities of a Student-Centered Approach to Teaching
  Author(s): John Buchanan
  Abstract (number 477)
  

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• ID # 478
  Code: TB5.1
  On Cycles without Chords in a Graph
  Author(s): Cyriel van Nuffelen
  Abstract (number 478)
  

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• ID # 479
  Code: HC11.5
  Knowledge Discovery in Non-structural Data: System 'Expert Assistant' and some of its Applications in Biology
  Author(s): P. Makagonov, Mikhail Alexandrov, Vladimir Denisov and George Lozovoy
  Abstract (number 479)
  

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• ID # 480
  Code: 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 # 481
  Code: WA9.2
  Analysis on Market Entrance of Korea's Regional Jets
  Author(s): Seung-Ri Lee and Hee Young Hurr
  Abstract (number 481)
  

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• ID # 482
  Code: MC2.3
  Optimal Deployment of Optical Network with Ring/Ring Topology
  Author(s): Dong-Wan Tcha, Byung-Suk Min and Dong-Hyuk Ahn
  Abstract (number 482)
  

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• ID # 483
  Code: 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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• ID # 486
  Code: HC3.3
  An Unbalanced Assignment Problem
  Author(s): S. Das and Monisha Borthakur
  Abstract (number 486)
  

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• ID # 489
  Code: 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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• ID # 490
  Code: HC11.4
  Using a Model of the Field Service Repair Problem To Explain Fundamental Issues
  Author(s): James H. R. Youngman
  Abstract (number 490)
  

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• ID # 491
  Code: TA7.2
  A framework for building spreadsheet based decision models
  Author(s): Dineli Mather
  Abstract (number 491)
  

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• ID # 492
  Code: TD5.3
  A risk analysis model for performance based bonuses for contractors
  Author(s): Dineli Mather
  Abstract (number 492)
  

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

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• ID # 495
  Code: HA10.4
  Optimum Simple Ramp Tests for the Lognormal Distribution
  Author(s): Guangping Ge and Xuefeng Ma
  Abstract (number 495)
  

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• ID # 496
  Code: HA1.1
  A Tool for Client/Server Modeling and Optimization
  Author(s): Thomas R. Elken
  Abstract (number 496)
  

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• ID # 497
  Code: TA3.3
  Computational Experience with an Out-Of-Core Interior Point Algorithm
  Author(s): Thomas R. Elken and Edward E. Rothberg
  Abstract (number 497)
  

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• ID # 498
  Code: HB5.5
  Player Assignment Problem in Australian Rules Football
  Author(s): Jerzy Filar and Nikoleta Tomecko
  Abstract (number 498)
  

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• ID # 500
  Code: HA5.1
  GIS Network Reduction for Improved Performance in Practical Applications
  Author(s): Meigu Guan and Francis J. McGinley
  Abstract (number 500)
  

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• ID # 503
  Code: HA5.2
  Transforming Locational Data to Suite an Evolving GIS-based Road Network
  Author(s): Meigu Guan and Francis J. McGinley
  Abstract (number 503)
  

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• ID # 504
  Code: MD5.2
  Comparison of Performance of Agriculture Planning Units
  Author(s): Professor A. Tripathy
  Abstract (number 504)
  

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• ID # 505
  Code: MC6.3
  A Simple Heuristic for Multi-Product Dynamic Lot Sizing Problems
  Author(s): Gin Hor CHAN
  Abstract (number 505)
  

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• ID # 506
  Code: HC10.3
  Univariate and Multivariate Process control Procedures in a Steel Plant
  Author(s): Mali Abdollahian and Sanjeev Narayan
  Abstract (number 506)
  

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• ID # 507
  Code: MC11.4
  Optimised Stand Allocation at International Airports
  Author(s): Denis Dowling
  Abstract (number 507)
  

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• ID # 508
  Code: TA3.2
  A parallel Interior Point Algorithm for Large Block Structured Linear Programs
  Author(s): Amal De Silva
  Abstract (number 508)
  

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• ID # 509
  Code: WB5.4
  Strategic Operations Research
  Author(s): Peter C. Bell
  Abstract (number 509)
  

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

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• ID # 511
  Code: 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 # 512
  Code: MC3.4
  Pseudomonotone Variational Inequality Problems : Existence of Solutions
  Author(s): Jean-Pierre Crouzeix
  Abstract (number 513)
  

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• ID # 514
  Code: MC3.5
  Approximation methods for Lipschitz functions
  Author(s): Igor Proudnikov
  Abstract (number 514)
  

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

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• ID# 516
  Code: HB6.4
  Decentralised coordination of power system operation using dual evolutionary programming
  Author(s): Iain F. MacGill and R. John Kaye
  Abstract (number 516)