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Learning to Approximate Industrial Problems by Operations Research Classic Problems

Operational Research, 2021
Operations research (OR) practitioners are accustomed to dealing with variants of classic OR problems. Indeed, an industrial problem often looks like a traveling salesman problem, a vehicle routing problem, a shortest path problem, etc., but has an ...
Axel Parmentier
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Soft OR and Practice: The Contribution of the Founders of Operations Research

Operational Research, 2021
“Soft Operation Research and Practice: The Contribution of the Founders of Operations Research” explores two themes relating to the 43 people whose profiles constitute the Assad and Gass book referred to in the article.
R. Dyson, F. O'Brien, Devan B. Shah
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Inventory Routing Analysis for Maritime LNG Supply of German Ports

Transport and Telecommunication, 2021
After the implementation of Emission Control Areas (ECA) in Northern Europe in 2015, ship operators have to decide for new compliance methods. Among different abatement technologies, also the use of LNG as maritime fuel is one option.
Prause Felix, Prause Gunnar
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Machine Learning-Guided Dual Heuristics and New Lower Bounds for the Refueling and Maintenance Planning Problem of Nuclear Power Plants

Algorithms, 2020
This paper studies the hybridization of Mixed Integer Programming (MIP) with dual heuristics and machine learning techniques, to provide dual bounds for a large scale optimization problem from an industrial application.
Nicolas Dupin, El-Ghazali Talbi
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Approaches for the Prediction of Lead Times in an Engineer to Order Environment—A Systematic Review

IEEE Access, 2020
The interest of manufacturing companies in a sufficient prediction of lead times is continuously increasing - especially in engineer to order environments with typically a large number of individual parts and complex production processes.
Peter Burggraf, Johannes Wagner, Benjamin Koke, Fabian Steinberg   +3 more
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Is operations research really research?

ORiON, 2006
This paper takes a philosophical look at the Research in Operations Research. First, the questions "What is Research?" and "What is Operations Research?" are discussed. Next, the paper discusses why it is important to have a clear definition of research,
NJ Manson
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Operational Research: methods and applications [PDF]

Journal of the Operational Research Society, 2023
Throughout its history, Operational Research has evolved to include a variety of methods, models and algorithms that have been applied to a diverse and wide range of contexts. This encyclopedic article consists of two main sections: methods and applications.
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Synchromodality in the Physical Internet – dual sourcing and real-time switching between transport modes

European Transport Research Review, 2019
Synchromodality, also referred to as “synchronized intermodality”, employs multiple transport modes in a flexible, dynamic way in order to induce a modal shift towards more environmentally friendly transport modes like rail or inland waterways, without ...
Nina Lemmens, Joren Gijsbrechts, Robert Boute   +2 more
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Modeling and simulation for supply chain finance under uncertain environment

Technological and Economic Development of Economy, 2020
This paper studies the role of factoring in a bilateral supply chain, where both the supplier and retailer are financially constrained. Applying the stylized Stackelberg game, we analytically present that the supplier’s capital shortage limits the ...
Wei Jin, Chengfu Wang
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Operations research - future perspectives

ORiON, 2003
Many of the current exciting developments in operations Research (OR) will have a major impact on its future. Advances in computer technology and the resulting creation of opportunities for making these technologies available to decision-makers are ...
H.W. Ittmann
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