Operations Research Proceedings 2006

This volume contains a selection of papers referring to lectures presented at the symposium "Operations Research 2006" (OR 2006) held at the University of Karlsruhe, September 6 â 8, 2006. This international conference took place under the auspices of the Operations Research Societies of Germany (GOR), Austria (ÖGOR), and Switzerland (SVOR).

The symposium was attended by more than 600 academics and practitioners from 35 countries. It presented the state of the art in Operations Research and related areas in Economics, Mathematics, and Computer Science and demonstrated the broad applicability of its core themes, placing particular emphasis on Basel II, one of the most topical challenges of Operations Research.