1. Preface

   • R. Burkard
   • T. Ibaraki
   • M. Queyranne

   EditorialNotes Pages: ix - x

2. Lot streaming in the two-machine flow shop with setup times

   • Kenneth R. Baker

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1 - 11

3. Shop scheduling problems with multiprocessor tasks on dedicated processors

   • Peter Brucker
   • Andreas Krämer

   OriginalPaper Pages: 13 - 27

4. Vehicle routing in an automated warehouse: Analysis and optimization

   • Rainer E. Burkard
   • Bernd Fruhwirth
   • Günter Rote

   OriginalPaper Pages: 29 - 44

5. Discrete-event dynamic systems: The strictly convex case

   • R. A. Cuninghame-Green
   • P. Butkovič

   OriginalPaper Pages: 45 - 63

6. A note onK best network flows

   • Horst W. Hamacher

   OriginalPaper Pages: 65 - 72

7. Sequencing inputs to multi-commodity pipelines

   • Christopher A. Hane
   • H. Donald Ratliff

   OriginalPaper Pages: 73 - 101

8. A simulated annealing approach to the nesting problem in the textile manufacturing industry

   • Ralf Heckmann
   • Thomas Lengauer

   OriginalPaper Pages: 103 - 133

9. A constrained matching problem

   • Andreas Hefner
   • Peter Kleinschmidt

   OriginalPaper Pages: 135 - 145

10. The nesting problem in the leather manufacturing industry

    • Jörg Heistermann
    • Thomas Lengauer

    OriginalPaper Pages: 147 - 173

11. Cutting aluminium coils with high length variabilities

    • Christoph Helmberg

    OriginalPaper Pages: 175 - 189

12. Single machine group scheduling with ordered criteria

    • Adam Janiak
    • Mikhail Y. Kovalyov

    OriginalPaper Pages: 191 - 201

13. An efficient algorithm for a job shop problem

    • Wieslaw Kubiak
    • Suresh Sethi
    • Chelliah Sriskandarajah

    OriginalPaper Pages: 203 - 216

14. Scheduling a two-machine robotic cell: A solvable case

    • Eugene Levner
    • Konstantin Kogan
    • Ilya Levin

    OriginalPaper Pages: 217 - 232

15. On the core of the minimum cost steiner tree game in networks

    • Darko Skorin-Kapov

    OriginalPaper Pages: 233 - 249

16. Scheduling with safety distances

    • Frits C. R. Spieksma
    • Gerhard J. Woeginger
    • Zhongliang Yu

    OriginalPaper Pages: 251 - 264

17. A neural network system for solving an assortment problem in the steel industry

    • Tomoharu Takada
    • Katuaki Sanou
    • Satoshi Fukumara

    OriginalPaper Pages: 265 - 281

18. An algorithm for large scale 0–1 integer programming with application to airline crew scheduling

    • Dag Wedelin

    OriginalPaper Pages: 283 - 301