Dr. Andreas Fink

in German

 

New Position: Professor at Helmut-Schmidt-University Hamburg

Please see my new webpage: http://ifi.hsu-hh.de/fink

Call for Papers: HICSS-41 Minitrack on Intelligent Decision Support for Logistics and Supply Chain Management

Research areas include quantitative modeling and methods for solving operational planning problems, software reuse, coordination within multi-agent systems, collaborative planning within supply chains, process modelling, and online collaboration processing.

The main topic of the doctoral work was the integration of quantitative solution procedures into practical decision support systems. To facilitate this task an application framework was developed in C++ (called HotFrame), which provides diverse metaheuristics as reusable software components. These components can be used in arbitrary application domains. In diverse case studies, the adaptation and implementation of quantitative solution methods for practical decision problems is being pursued and evaluated. The main application domains are production planning and logistics.

Publications:

  • Looking Ahead with the Pilot Method (with S. Voß and C. Duin). Annals of Operations Research 136 (2005), 285-302.
  • Metaheuristics Comparison for the Minimum Labelling Spanning Tree Problem (with R. Cerulli, M. Gentili and S. Voß). In: B.L. Golden, R. Raghavan, E.A. Wasil (Hrsg.), The Next Wave in Computing, Optimization, and Decision Technologies (Interfaces in Computer Science and Operations Research), Springer, New York (2005), 93-106.
  • Modeling and Solving the Short-term Car Rental Logistics Problem (with T. Reiners). Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, in print.
  • Supply Chain Coordination by Means of Automated Negotiations. Proceedings of the 37th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-37), IEEE, 2004. [pdf]
  • Automatisierte Koordinationsmechanismen zur Ausgestaltung komplexer Verträge im Rahmen mediatisierter Verhandlungsprozesse (in German). In: W. Uhr, W. Esswein, E. Schoop (eds.), Wirtschaftsinformatik 2003 / Band I, Medien - Märkte - Mobilität, Springer, Berlin Heidelberg, 2003, 281-301.
  • Solving the Continuous Flow-Shop Scheduling Problem by Metaheuristics (mit S. Voß). European Journal of Operational Research 151 (2003), S. 400-414. [ext. link]
  • Anwendung von Metaheuristiken zur Lösung betrieblicher Planungsprobleme: Potenziale und Grenzen einer softwaretechnischen Unterstützung (mit Voß, in German). Wirtschaftsinformatik 45 (2003), 395-407. [ext. link]
  • Metaheuristic Class Libraries (with S. Voß and D.L. Woodruff). In: F. Glover und G.A. Kochenberger (Eds.), Handbook of Metaheuristics, Kluwer, Boston, 2002, 515-535. [ext. link]
  • Grenzen des Einsatzes einer agentenbasierten Produktionsplanung mit marktorientierten Koordinationsmechanismen (in German). PPS Management 7 (2002), 47-50.
  • HotFrame: A Heuristic Optimization Framework (with S. Voß). In: S. Voß and D.L. Woodruff (Eds.), Optimization Software Class Libraries, Kluwer, Boston (2002), 81-154. [pdf, ext. link]
  • Architektur von Anwendungssystemen (in German). WISU - Das Wirtschaftsstudium 31 (2002), 655-657.
  • Optimization Software Libraries (with S. Voß and D.L. Woodruff). In: P.P. Pardalos und M.G.C. Resende (Eds.), Handbook of Applied Optimization, Oxford University Press, New York (2002), 1016-1024. [ext. Link]
  • Object-Oriented Programming (with S. Voß and D.L. Woodruff). In: P.P. Pardalos und M.G.C. Resende (Hrsg.), Handbook of Applied Optimization, Oxford University Press, New York (2002), 1053-1062. [ext. Link]
  • Book: Grundlagen der Wirtschaftsinformatik (in German, with G. Schneidereit and S. Voß). Physica, Heidelberg (2001). [ext. link]
  • Software-Projektmanagement (with K. Gutenschwager). WISU - Das Wirtschaftsstudium 30 (2001), 1488-1490.
  • Konfiguration von Distributionslogistiknetzwerken unter Berücksichtigung kundenorientierter Lieferserviceanforderungen (in German, with J. Böse, K. Gutenschwager, T. Reiners and G. Schneidereit). In: H.-J. Sebastian and T. Grünert (Eds.), Logistik Management - Supply Chain Management und e-Business, Teubner, Stuttgart (2001), 337-350.
  • Informationssysteme (in German). WISU - Das Wirtschaftsstudium 30 (2001), 812-814.
  • Grundlagen der Datenmodellierung (in German). WISU - Das Wirtschaftsstudium 30 (2001), 1097-1099.
  • Efficient Metaheuristics Approaches for the Ring Load Balancing Problem (with S. Voß). Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Telecommunication Systems, Southern Methodist University, Dallas (2001), 243-250.
  • Book: Software-Wiederverwendung bei der Lösung von Planungsproblemen mittels Meta-Heuristiken (in German). Shaker, Aachen (2000) (is based on Ph.D. Thesis, Braunschweig University of Technology (2000)). ext. link
  • Solving General Ring Network Design Problems by Meta-Heuristics  (with G. Schneidereit and S. Voß). In: M. Laguna, J.L. González Velarde (Eds.), Computing Tools for Modeling, Optimization and Simulation (Interfaces in Computer Science and Operations Research), Kluwer, Boston (2000), 91–113. [pdf]
  • Generic Metaheuristics Application to Industrial Engineering Problems (with S. Voß). Computers & Industrial Engineering 37 (1999), 81-284.
  • An Adoption Path for Intelligent Heuristic Search Componentware (with S. Voß and D.L. Woodruff), In: E. Rolland, N.S. Umanath (Eds.), Proceedings of the 4th Informs Conference on Information Systems and Technology, May 1-2, Cincinnati (1999), 53-168.
  • Building Reusable Software Components for Heuristic Search (with S. Voß und D.L. Woodruff). In: P. Kall, H.-J. Lüthi (Eds.), Operations Research Proceedings 1998, Springer, Berlin (1999), 210-219. [pdf]
  • Applications of Modern Heuristic Search Methods to Pattern Sequencing Problems (with S. Voß). Computers & Operations Research 26 (1999), 17-34. [pdf]
  • Berechenbarkeits- und Komplexitätstheorie (in German, with S. Voß). Das Wirtschaftsstudium (WISU) 27 (1998), 322-1327, 1357.
  • HotFrame - Heuristische Lösung diskreter Planungsprobleme mittels wiederverwendbarer Software-Komponenten (in German, with S. Voß). OR News 4/98, 18-24. [pdf]
  • Generic Application of Tabu Search Methods to Manufacturing Problems (with S. Voß). Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC '98), IEEE, Piscataway (1998), 2385-2390.
  • Software-Wiederverwendung mittels Frameworks (in German, with S. Voß). Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Studium (WiSt) 27 (1998), No. 10, 35-538.
  • Software-Review Maynard Assembly Manager (with S. Voß). OR Spektrum 20 (1998), 143-145.
  • Yet Another Note on "An Efficient Zero-One Formulation of the Multilevel Lot-Sizing Problem" (with M.R.Bussieck and M.E. Lübbecke). Working Paper, 1998. [pdf]
  • Untersuchungen zur effizienten Lösbarkeit dynamischer, unkapazitierter, mehrstufiger Mehrprodukt-Losgrößenprobleme (in German)). Bericht des Instituts für Wirtschaftswissenschaften der TU Braunschweig, AP-Nr. 97/11 (1997). [pdf]
  • Algorithmische Methoden zur Kartierung von DNA-Sequenzen (in German). In: U. Zimmermann, U. Derigs, W. Gaul, R.H. Möhring, K.P. Schuster (eds.), Operations Research Proceedings, Springer (1996), 66-71. [pdf]
    is based on: Algorithmische Methoden zur Kartierung von DNA-Sequenzen. Master Thesis, University of Technology Darmstadt (1995). [Short Version without program code as two parts: ps (1) / ps (2)]
  • A note on the rectilinear Steiner arborescence problem (with S. Voß). Working Paper, University of Technology Darmstadt (1994).

Professional Career:

  • Diploma Degree in Business Administration and Computer Science (Wirtschaftsinformatik) at the University of Technology Darmstadt
  • Doctoral Degree at the University of Technology Braunschweig
  • Professor (deputyship) at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Munich
  • Research Assistant and Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at the University of Hamburg
  • Full Professor at Helmut-Schmidt-University Hamburg

 

 
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