Operations Research Proceedings 2008 [electronic resource] : Selected Papers of the Annual International Conference of the German Operations Research Society (GOR) University of Augsburg, September 3-5, 2008 / edited by Bernhard Fleischmann, Karl-Heinz Borgwardt, Robert Klein, Axel Tuma.

Finance and Accounting -- Health Care and Environment -- Production and Service Management -- Scheduling and Project Management -- Supply Chain and Inventory Management -- Traffic and Transportation -- Applied Probability and Stochastic Programming -- Business Informatics, Decision Support and Artifical Intelligence -- Discrete and Combinatorial Optimization -- Forecasting, Econometrics and Game Theory -- Linear, Nonlinear and Vector Optimization -- Network Optimization.

This book contains 93 selected papers from the symposium "Operations Research 2008" which was held from September 3-5, 2008 at the University of Augsburg, Germany. The international conference, which also serves as the annual meeting of the German Operations Research Society (GOR), attracted 580 participants from more than thirty countries. The general theme "Operations Research and Global Business" stresses the important role of Operations Research in improving decisions in the increasingly complex global business environment. Operations Research represents one of the most successful instruments for organizing business processes, as many applications in areas like supply chain management or financial management show. The book gives a broad overview of the various facets of Operations Research: mathematical methods such as optimization, forecasting, data analysis or game theory and their applications in business, economics and social life.