Springer Advances in Operational Research in the Balkans: XIII Balkan Conference on Operational Research (Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics)

This proceedings volume presents recent theoretical and practical advances in operational research (OR). The papers focus on a number of key areas including combinatorial optimization, integer programming, heuristics, and mathematical programming. In addition, this volume highlights OR applications in different areas such as financial decision making, marketing, e-business, project management, scheduling, traffic and transportation. The chapters are based on papers presented at the 13th Balkan Conference on Operations Research (BALCOR). BALCOR is an established biennial conference. The selected papers promote international collaboration among researchers and practitioners, with a particular focus on the Balkan countries. From the Back Cover This proceedings volume presents recent theoretical and practical advances in operational research (OR). The papers focus on a number of key areas including combinatorial optimization, integer programming, heuristics, and mathematical programming. In addition, this volume highlights OR applications in different areas such as financial decision making, marketing, e-business, project management, scheduling, traffic and transportation. The chapters are based on papers presented at the 13th Balkan Conference on Operations Research (BALCOR). BALCOR is an established biennial conference. The selected papers promote international collaboration among researchers and practitioners, with a particular focus on the Balkan countries. About the Author Nenad Mladenović received his Ph.D in Operational Research at the University of Belgrade. His research interests and expertise lie in metaheuristic methods in combinatorial and global optimization, transportation, clustering data mining, and numerical algorithms and mathematical programming methods. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Yugoslav Journal of Operations Research and a member of European Academy of Sciences (Academia Europea) MAE. His H research index is 49 by Google scholar. Angelo Sifaleras is an Associate Professor of Mathematical Programming - Network Optimization at the University of Macedonia, Department of Applied Informatics, School of Information Sciences, Greece, Thessaloniki. His research focuses on algorithms and models for network optimization problems. Currently, he serves as a member of the Editorial Board of the Yugoslav Journal of Operations Research (YUJOR) and he is also a senior member of ACM. Marija Kuzmanovic is an Associate Professor at the University of Belgrade, Faculty of Organizational Sciences. She received her Ph.D in Operational Research at the University of Belgrade. Her research interests are operations research, mathematical modeling, game theory, and preference measurement methods. She is a member of the Editorial Board of the Yugoslav Journal of Operations Research (YUJOR).