Operations Research Proceedings 2005 Selected Papers of the Annual International Conference of the German Operations Research Society (GOR)
Bremen, September 7−9, 2005
Hans-Dietrich Haasis · Herbert Kopfer Jörn Schönberger (Editors)
Operations Research Proceedings 2005 Selected Papers of the Annual International Conference of the German Operations Research Society (GOR), Bremen, September 7−9, 2005
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Prof. Dr. Hans-Dietrich Haasis University of Bremen Institute of Shipping Economics and Logistics Dept. Logistics Systems Universitätsallee GW1 Block A 28359 Bremen Germany e-mail:
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Prof. Dr.-Ing. Herbert Kopfer University of Bremen Faculty of Business Studies and Economics Chair of Logistics PO Box 33 04 40 28334 Bremen Germany e-mail:
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Dr. Jörn Schönberger University of Bremen Faculty of Business Studies and Economics Chair of Logistics PO Box 33 04 40 28334 Bremen Germany e-mail:
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Preface of the Conference Chairs
From September 7-9, 2005 the international scientific annual conference Operations Research 2005 of the Gesellschaft f¨ ur Operations Research (GOR) took place at the Bremen U