Prof. Teodor Gabriel Crainic (Université du Québec à Montréal): "Service Network Design and Planning Two-tier City Logistics Systems" – Freight transportation and logistics are vital for the economy in general and cities in particular. They also yield a number of negative impacts in terms of congestion, pollution, safety, etc. City Logistics proposes new concepts and operational and business models to alleviate these negative impacts and foster an… [read more]

Prof. Haldun Aytug (University of Florida): "Bidding in Keyword Auctions" – We study keyword auctions, and formulate an advertiser's bidding problem as a profit maximization problem in which the advertiser has to decide on how much to bid on each keyword. We consider models with budget and time constraints, as well as those when constraints are relaxed. We assume the advertiser can observe only her bid, her rank, the search frequency and the click… [read more]

Prof. Stefan Helber (Leibniz-Universität Hannover): "Pros and cons of service level metrics for stochastic lot sizing models" – Lot sizing decisions in a manufacturing context are often made for multiple products over multiple discrete periods. Very often, the different products compete for scarce production resources. When those decisions are made, the demand for the products is often uncertain, e.g., as it stems from the application of a forecasting… [read more]

Prof. Nils Boysen (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena): "E-commerce warehousing: Order fulfillment in modern retailing" – This talk addresses suited warehousing systems and important optimization problems in modern e-commerce retailing. E-commerce mainly processes low-volume-high-mix picking orders, because private households tend to order just a few pieces per order from a large assortment. This talk gives an overview on suited warehousing systems, which… [read more]

Prof. Bichler co-organizes the Workshop on Information Technology and Systems (WITS) on December 18-20. In a joint reception with the Workshop on Information Systems and Economics (WISE) in the Nymphenburg Palace on December 18, Professor Paul Milgrom (Department of Economics, Stanford University) will give an invited keynote. Professor Milgrom is among the most recognized and most highly cited game theorists world-wide. [read more]

Alexandros Tsigonias-Dimitriadis (TUM, AdONE): "Robust Revenue Maximization Under Minimal Statistical Information" – We study the problem of multi-dimensional revenue maximization when selling m items to a buyer that has additive valuations for them, drawn from a (possibly correlated) prior distribution. Unlike traditional Bayesian auction design, we assume that the seller has a very restricted knowledge of this prior: they only know the mean μj and an… [read more]

Layla Martin, research associate of the research training group the Advanced Optimization in a Networked Economy (RTG 2201), is visiting the Autonomous Systems Lab (Prof. Marco Pavone) at Stanford University, California, USA. Her work with Prof. Pavone focuses on Autonomous Mobility on Demand Systems, in particular the value of autonomous vehicles in mobility as a service solutions. Her six-month stay is supported by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft as part… [read more]

Dr. Thomas Lidbetter (Rutgers Business School): "A search game on a hypergraph with booby traps" – A set of n boxes, located on the vertices of a hypergraph G, contain known but different rewards. A Searcher opens all the boxes in some hyperedge of G with the objective of collecting the maximum possible total reward. Some of the boxes, however, are booby trapped. If the Searcher opens a booby trapped box, the search ends and she loses all her collected… [read more]

On Friday, 11th, nine AdONE PhD members participated in a full-day workshop on teamwork in an interdisciplinary framework. Guided by professional trainers Silvia and Carsten Rohr, the AdONE students received valuable insights into various methods of facilitating collaborations towards interdisciplinary research. The workshop kickstarted some research teams into cooperating on joint research topics as well as improved on general teamwork. We also received… [read more]

From October 7 to October 9, the AdONE group travelled to Kloster Benediktbeuern for our annual retreat. The focus of the three-day-retreat lay on interdisciplinary research, introducing new members as well as reviewing the current progress. TUM Professor Gudrun Kiesmüller was invited for a guest lecture. [read more]