Prof. Dr. Stefan Voß

Lifetime Achievement Award der INFORMS Society

Prof. Voß holds degrees in Mathematics (diploma) and Economics from the University of Hamburg and a Ph.D. and the habilitation from the University of Technology Darmstadt. Previous positions include full professor and head of the department of Business Administration, Information Systems and Information Management at the University of Technology Braunschweig (Germany), 1995-2002.

The main focus of Prof. Voß´ interests is located in the fields of Information Systems, Supply Chain Management and Logistics as well as Intelligent Search. He has an international reputation as a result of numerous publications in these fields.

Current research projects are, among others, considering problem formulations in the field of Information Systems in Transport, Supply Chain Management as well as Meta-Heuristics and Intelligent Search Algorithms in practical applications.

Prof. Voß participates in advisory boards and editorships, respectively, for academic journals such as INFORMS Journal on Computing, Public Transport Journal, and Journal of Heuristics.

The Institute`s university coursework focuses on all levels of students from business administration, economics, mathematics, computer science, and industrial engineering.

Besides Introduction to Information Systems, further courses deepen the information systems education with classical as well as modern topics as well as project management, planning, and decision analysis.

The goal of the education is to develop the ability to work analytically through complex interrelations in appropriate areas, and the skill to generate creative solution approaches through sound knowledge in methodology.

Selection of Publications below (here you can find an almost complete list):

Books:   

Computational Logistics (Lecture Notes in Computer Science 10572/Ed.; with T. Bektas, S. Coniglio, A. Martinez-Sykora). Springer, Berlin (2017). [DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-68496-3]

Computational Logistics (Lecture Notes in Computer Science 9855/Ed.; with A. Paias and M. Ruthmair). Springer, Berlin (2016).

Computational Logistics (Lecture Notes in Computer Science 9335/Ed.; with F. Corman and R.R. Negenborn). Springer, Berlin (2015).

Computational Logistics (Lecture Notes in Computer Science 8760/Ed.; with R. Gonzalez, F. Schulte and J. Ceroni). Springer, Berlin (2014).

Hybrid Metaheuristics (Lecture Notes in Computer Science 8457/Ed.; with M.J. Blesa and C. Blum). Springer, Berlin (2014).

Computational Logistics (Lecture Notes in Computer Science 8197/Ed.; with D. Pacino and R.M. Jensen). Springer, Berlin (2013).

Computational Logistics (Lecture Notes in Computer Science 7555/Ed.; with H. Hu, X. Shi and R. Stahlbock). Springer, Berlin (2012).

Network Optimization (Lecture Notes in Computer Science 6701/Ed.; with J. Pahl and T. Reiners). Springer, Berlin (2011). [ISBN: 978-3-642-21526-1] [DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-21527-8]

Computational Logistics (Lecture Notes in Computer Science 6971/Ed.; with J. Böse, H. Hu, C. Jahn, X. Shi, R. Stahlbock). Springer, Berlin (2011). [ISBN: 978-3-642-24263-2] [DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-24264-9]

Papers in Journals and Anthologies:  

Decomposition based matheuristic for airline crew rostering problems with fair working time (with T. Doi and T. Nishi). European Journal of Operational Research, online available. [DOI 10.1016/j.ejor.2017.11.046]

A dynamic programming-based matheuristic for the dynamic berth allocation problem (with T. Nishi, T. Okura and E. Lalla-Ruiz). Annals of Operations Research, online available. [DOI 10.1007/s10479-017-2715-9]

Generalized local branching heuristics and the capacitated ring tree problem (with A. Hill). Discrete Applied Mathematics, online available. [DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dam.2017.09.010]

A POPMUSIC-based approach for the berth allocation problem under time-dependent limitations (with E. Lalla-Ruiz, C. Exposito-Izquierdo, B. Melian-Batista and J. M. Moreno-Vega). Annals of Operations Research 253 (2017), 871 - 897.

Modeling the parallel machine scheduling problem with step deteriorating jobs (with E. Lalla-Ruiz). European Journal of Operational Research  255 (2016), 21 - 33.

An improved formulation for the multi-depot open vehicle routing problem (with E. Lalla-Ruiz, C. Exposito-Izquierdo and S. Taheripour). OR Spectrum 38 (2016) 175 - 187.

Activities as Doctoral Supervisor

Activities as Post-Doctoral Supervisor

Counselor of Alexander von Humboldt-Fellows

• Several consulting projects     
• Guest professorships (e.g., in Graz, Austria, and Valenciennes, France)   
• Co-founder of the ICCL Conference (International Conference on Computational Logistics: www.computational-logistics.de)
• Conference organization (e.g. of the 8th INFORMS Telecom Conference, Dallas, March 2006, Metaheuristics International Conference, Hamburg, 2009 International Network Optimization Conference, Hamburg, 2011) and board member of numerous international conferences (e.g. of HICSS).
• Member of the Board of Officers of the Telecommunications Section of INFORMS    
• Book Series Editor Operations Research / Computer Science Interfaces and Integrated Series in Information Systems IS2 (Springer)