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