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ORBEL 22

Thursday January 17, 2008

09:00-
10:00
Registration
10:00-
10:15
Welcome Address by the Conference Chairman
10:15-
11:15
Plenary session I
(Conference Room)
“Assignment Problems: the first 50 years”, S.Martello
Chair M. Despontin
11:15-
11:30
Coffee break
11:30-
13:00
T1A: OR in sheet metalworking
(Conference Room)
Chair D.Cattrysse
T1A-1Sequencing and scheduling in the sheet metal shop, K.Sörensen et al.
T1A-2Production planning for the sheet metal shop with multiple machines, B.Verlinden et al.
T1A-3Neighbourhood search for sheet-metal shop production planning: multiple laser cutting and air bending machines, H.Crauwels et al.
T1B: Mathematical Programming I
(Symposium Room)
Chair D. Van den Poel
T1B-1A Branch-and-Refine Method for Mixed Integer Nonlinear and Nonconvex Global Optimization Problems, S.Leyffer et al.
T1B-2Sample aspects of Kriging global optimization, W.Jacquet
T1B-3Teaching OR and Solving Business Problems with AIMMS, F.de Rooij
13:00-
14:00
Standing Lunch / ORBEL Board Meeting
14:00-
15:30
T2A: Production and multi agent systems
(Conference Room)
Chair P.De Causmaecker
T2A-1A decision model for line feeding, V.Limère et al.
T2A-2 Global Constraints for the Mean Absolute Deviation and the Variance: Application to the Vertical Line Balancing, P.Schaus et al.
T2A-3 Distributed breakout algorithm for the distributed propositional satisfiability problem, T.Messelis et al.
T2B: Graph Theory
(Symposium Room)
Chair R. Bisdorff
T2B-1 The K-Edge 3-Hop Constrained Network Design Polyhedron, Q.Botton et al.
T2B-2 Transforming Hop-limited Node-disjoint paths into numbers, V.Ho
T2B-3 Tight Parameterized Approximation Ratios for the Connected Vertex Cover Problem, J.Cardinal et al.
15:30-
16:00
Coffee break
16:00-
17:30
T3A: Transport and Distribution
(Symposium Room)
Chair K.Ramaekers
T3A-1 A Local Search Heuristic for Road Haulage in Intermodal Freight Transport, A.Caris et al.
T3A-2 Traffic assignment based on activity travel data: a case study, K.Ramaekers et al.
T3A-3 Robust cyclic distribution planning, Birger Raa
T3B: Stochastic Problems
(Symposium Room)
Chair El-Houssaine Aghezzaf
T3B-1 A Coupling Plan for a Two-Stage Lot Sizing Problem with Stochastic Demands, C.Sitompul et al.
T3B-2 Extinction probability of branching processes with catastrophes, S.Hautphenne et al.
T3B-3 Generating a multivariate random sample, using a pdf model based on a piecewise multilinear approximation, E.Nyssen et al.
T3C: Medical Applications
(Studio2)
Chair G.Vanden Berghe
T3C-1 Applying a local search algorithm to automatically assign patients to beds, P.Demeester et al.
T3C-2 Constrained Decompositions of Integer Matrices and their Applications to Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy, C.Engelbeen et al.
T3C-3 The Problem Description and a Solution Method for the Nurse Rostering Problem in Belgian Hospitals, B.Bilgin et al.