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Conferences > Past ORSSA Conferences > 38th Annual ORSSA Conference
Papers Delivered at the 38th Annual Concerence of ORSSA, held on 21-24 September 2009 at the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study:
Author(s) | Paper Title |
O ADETUNJI & S YADAVALLI | An estimate of optimal buffer size in the theory of constraints with deteriorating work in progress |
V ATUD | An application of linear programming in advertising |
JJ BARTHOLDI, III | How to stock the forward pick area of a distribution centre |
JJ BARTHOLDI, III | Self-organising logistics systems |
T BLAKE, TJ STEWART & FE VAN DYK | Decision support for FoodBank Cape Town on the allocation of food resources |
C CRONJE & S YADAVALLI | Coordinated production and distribution scheduling |
S CRONE | Forecasting index price changes of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange with artificial neural networks - An empirical evaluation |
S DAVIS & I DURBACH | A systems dynamics model of household energy consumption |
A DE VILLIERS, SE VISAGIE & I NIEUWOUDT | Comparisons between largest remainder methods in voting systems |
M DOWART | Infrastructure and governance as key elements to equity and economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa |
I DURBACH & TJ STEWART | Some empirical results on multicriteria decision making with uncertain outcomes |
MD EINHORN & CG JACOBS | Fleet composition for fuel distribution |
LP FATTI | The role of statistics in operations research |
M FICK & CJ SWANEPOEL | Recursive compound word decomposition |
P FOURIE | Transport demand planning: Microsimulation vs traditional systems |
H GOOSEN & T DU TOIT | Automated construction of generalised additive neural networks to detect spam |
R GOUWS & JH VAN VUUREN | A simulation approach towards solving a 2-echelon inventory control problem |
J GROBLER, A ENGELBRECHT & S YADAVALLI | Hyperheuristics for improved decision support |
MFP HARMSE | Organisational transformation |
J HAVENGA | Logistics cost measurement for South Africa: Understanding current realities and future risks |
J HENDRICKS, L VAN DYK & SA DU PLESSIS | Modelling students through a South African higher education institution |
C HUSTED & WR GEVERS | How many cars can you fit on an autocarrier? A decision support system for Auto Carrier Transport |
HW ITTMANN | A life in operations research |
J JANSE VAN RENSBURG, AP BURGER & JH VAN VUUREN | The exact-fit n-mino tiling problem |
D KABONGO-KANTU & TJ STEWART | Ranking of decision making units based on their robustness profiles |
MP KIDD, AP BURGER & JH VAN VUUREN | Tournament design using symmetric and self-orthogonal Latin squares |
BJ KOK, JN ROUX & JH VAN VUUREN | Evaluation of a threat evaluation and weapon assignment system in a ground-based air defence environment |
N KOURENTZES & S CRONE | Modelling neural networks for forecasting high frequency data - An empirical evaluation of input variable selection methodologies |
EJ LANZ & CG JACOBS | An investigation into the economic viability of utilising invasive plant material |
L LEENEN | Constraint programming: A powerful tool to solve combinatorial optimisation problems |
T LEONARD & L VAN DYK | An assignment model for passenger check-in counters in an airport terminal building |
JJ LOUW | Effective supply chain strategy formulation and implementation |
J MATTHEWS & SE VISAGIE | Single crane optimisation within a distribution centre |
C MLAMBO & S CRONE | The nonlinearity of African stock indices: An empirical investigation of linear and nonlinear models |
M MODISE | Operations research applications in deprived communities |
E MUNAPO | A strong bound for linear integer models |
J NAUDE & JH NEL | Data envelopment analysis: Integrating economic and sustainability factors in performance management |
O NCUBE & S YADAVALLI | Supply chain risks: Perspectives on private-public sector partnership for the benefit of SMMEs in South Africa |
Z NCUBE, JM HATTINGH & A HELBERG | An empirical study of factors that influence GDP growth with special reference to attributes like telecommunication proliferation |
JH NEL & MP KIDD | Selecting subsets of foods to measure nutrient exposure: A genetic algorithm for finding solutions via the max r method |
FG ORTMANN & JH VAN VUUREN | Finding good solutions to the multiple bin size bin packing problem by modifying strip packing heuristics |
W PELSER | Characteristics of high level military decision analysis |
C POTGIETER & JN ROUX | Real-time decision support for military operations other than war |
DN RAAD, A SINSKE & JH VAN VUUREN | Multiobjective auto-algorithms: Parameter-free self-adaptive multiobjective metaheuristics |
M SCOTT & SE VISAGIE | The optimisation of a single-aisle picking line |
S SIBIYA & M MODISE | Employing morphological analysis and system dynamics as complementary modelling methods for PSO planning in a military environment |
C SIGAUKE | A hybrid multi-risk model for asset pricing using regression analysis: A case study |
C SIGAUKE | Strategic supply chain planning under uncertainty: A literature review |
F SMUTS, SE VISAGIE & I NIEUWOUDT | The management of deferred revenue in the prepaid value channel of emerging market mobile phone networks |
TJ STEWART | Risk modelling and multicriteria decision analysis |
J STRAY, JH VAN VUUREN & C BEZUIDENHOUT | Tactical sugarcane harvest scheduling |
M VAN DER WESTHUIZEN, JM HATTIGH & HA KRUGER | Model development for robust regression with minimal assumptions: An \linebreak empirical study |
FE VAN DYK, M MULLINS & JJ LOUW | Thoughts on supply chain complexity |
L VAN ECK & SE VISAGIE | Exact solution approaches to concave knapsack problems |
J VAN EEDEN | Strategic market segmentation of the South African transport market |
L VENTER & SE VISAGIE | Heuristic and metaheuristic approaches to blending problems |
N VILJOEN | Applying fuzzy logic to humanitarian operations research problems |
G WESSELS, J ERWEE, DW STEENKAMP & MJ BESTER | A mixed integer optimisation solution to long rotation harvest scheduling |
G WESSELS, F DE VILLIERS & DW STEENKAMP | A linear programming model used in the log marketing process of a forestry company |
E WILLEMSE & JW JOUBERT | Residential waste collection routing optimisation |
S YADAVALLI | Stochastic models of manpower planning systems: An overview |