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National Ranking
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Overview

Rainer Kolisch is affiliated with the Technical University of Munich in Germany. Their scholarly work focuses primarily on the field of Engineering, with a substantial emphasis on Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering as well as Management Science and Operations Research. Additional areas of specialization include Automotive Engineering, Management Information Systems, and Emergency Medical Services.

Their research encompasses a range of topics, notably:

  • Vehicle Routing Optimization Methods
  • Transportation and Mobility Innovations
  • Scheduling and Optimization Algorithms
  • Healthcare Operations and Scheduling Optimization
  • Transportation Planning and Optimization
  • Urban and Freight Transport Logistics
  • Supply Chain and Inventory Management

The following recent papers illustrate the scope of their contributions in various domains and publication venues:

  • The vehicle routing problem with time windows and flexible delivery locations, 2022, European Journal of Operational Research
  • Should We All Work in Sprints? How Agile Project Management Improves Performance, 2022, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management
  • The impact of flexibility on engineer-to-order production planning, 2021, International Journal of Production Economics
  • Strategic planning of new product introductions: Integrated planning of products and modules in the automotive industry, 2021, Omega
  • Maximization of Open Hospital Capacity under Shortage of SARS-CoV-2 Vaccines-An Open Access, Stochastic Simulation Tool, 2021, Vaccines

Collaborations with other researchers form a notable aspect of their academic profile. Frequent co-authors include:

  • S. Schiffels
  • Maximilian Schiffer
  • Alexander Jungwirth
  • Markus Frey
  • Christian Ruf

Their research has been published across several respected venues. Notable frequent publication venues include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • European Journal of Operational Research
  • International Journal of Production Research
  • Transportation Science
  • Omega

Best Publications

  • PSPLIB - A project scheduling problem library

    Rainer Kolisch;Arno Sprecher

  • Serial and parallel resource-constrained project scheduling methods revisited: Theory and computation

    Rainer Kolisch

  • Experimental investigation of heuristics for resource-constrained project scheduling: An update

    Rainer Kolisch;Sönke Hartmann

  • Characterization and generation of a general class of resource-constrained project scheduling problems

    Rainer Kolisch;Arno Sprecher;Andreas Drexl

  • Heuristic algorithms for the resource-constrained project scheduling problem: classification and computational analysis

    Rainer Kolisch;Sönke Hartmann

  • Experimental evaluation of state-of-the-art heuristics for the resource-constrained project scheduling problem

    Sönke Hartmann;R. Kolisch

  • An integrated survey of deterministic project scheduling

    Rainer Kolisch;R. Padman

  • Efficient priority rules for the resource-constrained project scheduling problem

    Rainer Kolisch

  • Project Scheduling under Resource Constraints: Efficient Heuristics for Several Problem Classes

    Rainer Kolisch

  • Semi-active, active, and non-delay schedules for the resource-constrained project scheduling problem

    Arno Sprecher;Rainer Kolisch;Andreas Drexl

  • Local search for nonpreemptive multi-mode resource-constrained project scheduling

    Rainer Kolisch;Andreas Drexl

  • Scheduling and staffing multiple projects with a multi-skilled workforce

    Christian Heimerl;Rainer Kolisch

  • Adaptive search for solving hard project scheduling problems

    Rainer Kolisch;Andreas Drexl

  • Benchmark instances for project scheduling problems

    Rainer Kolisch;Christoph Schwindt;Arno Sprecher

  • Project Scheduling under Resource Constraints

    Rainer Kolisch

  • Flexible shift scheduling of physicians

    Jens O. Brunner;Jonathan F. Bard;Rainer Kolisch

  • Project Scheduling Under Partially Renewable Resource Constraints

    Jan Böttcher;Andreas Drexl;Rainer Kolisch;Frank Salewski

  • Master surgery scheduling with consideration of multiple downstream units

    Andreas Fügener;Erwin W. Hans;Rainer Kolisch;Nikky Kortbeek

  • MIP models for resource-constrained project scheduling with flexible resource profiles

    Anulark Naber;Rainer Kolisch

  • Providing radiology health care services to stochastic demand of different customer classes

    Rainer Kolisch;Sabine Sickinger

  • Characterization and generation of a general class of resource-constrained project scheduling problems: Easy and hard instances

    Rainer Kolisch;Arno Sprecher;Andreas Drexl

Frequent Co-Authors

Jonathan F. Bard
Jonathan F. Bard The University of Texas at Austin
Guy Desaulniers
Guy Desaulniers Polytechnique Montréal
François Soumis
François Soumis Polytechnique Montréal
Felix Brandt
Felix Brandt Technical University of Munich
Ling Wang
Ling Wang Tsinghua University
Jan Weglarz
Jan Weglarz Poznań University of Technology
Ahti Salo
Ahti Salo Aalto University
Martin Bichler
Martin Bichler Technical University of Munich
Andreas T. Ernst
Andreas T. Ernst Monash University

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