ORSNZ
Conference Program
Session
details, paper titles and presenters
Welcome
& Plenary 1 Sunday
0850-1000, Room 401.439
Andres
Weintraub, 'Plenary Address'
Andres Weintraub, University of Chile
Session
1A: Risk & Uncertainty Sunday
1030-1200, Room 401.439
Susan
M. Sanchez, R. Kevin Wood, 'The BEST Algorithm for Stochastic Mixed-Integer
Programs: Bootstrapping to
Make It Better'
Kevin Wood, Naval Postgraduate School
Fernando
Beltrán, Natalia Santamaría, 'A measure of the variability of revenue to an
auctioneer: a look at the
Revenue
Equivalence Theorem.'
Fernando Beltran, University of
Auckland
Han-Ying
Kao, 'Fuzzy Reasoning and Optimization Based on a Generalized Bayesian Network'
Han-Ying Kao, Department of Marketing
and Distribution, Hsuan Chuang University
Michael
Lauren, 'Applications of fractals to weather and electricity hedging decisions'
Michael Lauren, Defence Technology
Agency
Session
1B: Applications Sunday
1030-1200, Room 403.401
MA
Chik, Ibrahim Ahmad, Mohd Yusoff Jamaludin, 'Paradigm Shift in Manufacturing
Operation Through
Implementation of
Intelligent Dispatching'
Ibrahim Ahmad, Universiti Kebangsaan
Malaysia
Dan
Trietsch, 'Stochastic Economic Balance Principles for Project Planning: Feeding
Buffers, Crashing, and
Sequencing'
Dan Trietsch, University of Auckland
Michael
Ferris and Golbon Zakeri , 'Matlab splines utilized from GAMS'
Golbon Zakeri, University of Auckland
Lincoln
Wood and Jay Sankaran, 'The Impact of JIT Replenishment and Road Traffic
Congestion on Distribution
Costs'
Lincoln Wood, University of Auckland
YPP
Session 1: Young Practitioner Prize Sunday 1300-1430,
Room 401.439
Mohammad
Babul Hasan, 'Fishing Trawler Scheduling for Integrated Fisheries'
Mohammad Babul Hasan, Dept. of
Management, University of Canterbury
Sanjay
Patel, 'Locomotive Allocation for Toll NZ'
Sanjay Patel, Engineering Science,
University of Auckland
Kavinesh
Singh, 'Column Generation for Capacity-Expansion Planning of Electricity
Distribution Networks'
Kavinesh Singh, Dept of Engineering
Science, University of Auckland
Martin
Young, 'Improved Column Generation for the Air New Zealand Tours-of-Duty
Problem'
Martin Young, Engineering Science,
University of Auckland
YPP
Session 2: Young Practitioner Prize Sunday
1500-1610, Room 401.439
Matthew
Gordon, 'Determining Knot Points For Spline Regression Models'
Matthew Gordon, Engineering Science,
University of Auckland
Timothy
Thompson, 'Optimal Core-Edge Storage Area Network Design'
Timothy Thompson, Engineering Science,
University of Auckland
Sarah Kirkpatrick,
'Better Base Locations for the Melbourne Ambulance Service'
Sarah Kirkpatrick, University of
Auckland
Session 2A: Routing Monday
0850-1020, Room 401.439
John F.
Raffensperger, 'Application of column splitting to the travelling salesman
problem.'
John Raffensperger, University of
Canterbury
David
Galligan, 'Maritime Patrol Modelling and Planning'
David Galligan, Defence Technology
Agency
Geoff
Leyland, Andy Philpott, 'Stochastic Optimization: Rowing to Barbados'
Geoff Leyland, Stochastic Optimization
Limited
Session
2B: Forestry & Agriculture Monday
0850-1020, Room 403.401
Alastair
McNaughton, 'Recent progress on the area restriction problem of forest
harvesting'
Alastair McNaughton, University of
Auckland
Stuart
Mitchell and K. Kim, 'Yield Frontier Analysis of Forest Inventory'
Stuart Mitchell, Dept of Engineering
Science, University of Auckland
L R
Foulds, 'Hay Harvesting Operations Scheduling Subject to Probabilistic Activity
Duration and Machine Failure'
Les Foulds, UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO
Plenary 2 Monday
1050-1200, Room 401.439
Oli
Madsen, 'The Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows - Survey and Recent
Developments'
Oli Madsen, CTT- Centre for Traffic and Transport, Technical
University of Denmark
Session
3A: Scheduling Monday
1300-1430, Room 401.439
James
Priestley, 'Solution of the Airline ToD Problem using Severely Limited
Subsequence'
James Priestley, Auckland University
Bassy
Tam, 'Multi-Criteria Methods for Unit Crewing in the Airline Tour-of-Duty
Planning Problem'
Bassy Tam, Engineering Science,
University of Auckland
Andrew
Mason, 'Elastic Constraint Branching, the Wedelin Lagrangian Heuristic and
Staff Scheduling'
Andrew Mason, University of Auckland
H.
Waterer and D.M. Ryan, 'Solving the Classroom Assignment Problem Using Integer
Programming'
Hamish Waterer, Engineering Science,
University of Auckland
Session
3B: Truth, Lies and Influence Monday
1300-1430, Room 403.401
Jim
Sheffield, 'Cooking the Evidence - A Recipe for Discursive Truth'
Jim Sheffield, University of Auckland
Jim
Sheffield, 'Eating Your Own Cooking - Evaluating Discursive Truth'
Jim Sheffield, University of Auckland
Conor
J. Mills and John Paynter, 'Academic Plagiarism: An Analysis of Current
Technological Issues'
John Paynter, University of Auckland
Chia-Hui
Huang, Han-Lin Li, 'Influence Diagrams: A Rough Set Approach'
Chia-Hui Huang, Institute of
Information Management, NCTU
Session
4A: Multiple Objective & Location Monday
1500-1630, Room 401.439
Cameron
Walker and Michael O’Sullivan, 'Connecting Efficient Knapsacks: Experiments
with the Equally-Weighted
Bi-Criteria
Knapsack Problem'
Michael O'Sullivan, University of
Auckland
Ines
Winz, 'A decision support system for radiation therapy treatment planning'
Ines
Winz, Departrment of Engineering Science, UoA
R.
Velasquez and M. T. Melo, 'Solving a large-scale dynamic facility location
problem with variable neighbourhood
and token ring
search'
Rafael Velasquez, Technical University
of Kaiserslautern, Germany
Matthias
Ehrgott, Bassy Tam, 'A Heuristic for the Discrete Biobjective p-Median Location
Problem'
Matthias Ehrgott, The University of
Auckland
Session 4B: Electricity Monday
1500-1630, Room 403.401
E.
Grant Read, Deb Chattopadhyay, 'A Theoretical Framework for Zonal Electricity
Markets'
E Grant Read, Canterbury University
Bhujanga
B Chakrabarti and E Grant Read, 'Pricing Implications of Security Constrained
Dispatch'
Bhujanga Chakrabarti, Transpower NZ Ltd
G.
Pritchard, G. Zakeri, A. Philpott, 'HERO (Hydro-electric reservoir
optimization)'
Geoffrey Pritchard, University of
Auckland
Andy
Philpott, 'Single-Unit Commitment Problems in Electricity Pool Markets'
Andy Philpott, University of Auckland