Research
Research Groups
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Business Analytics
We develop data-driven decision support systems by combining descriptive and predictive analytics. Our work builds on applied operations research and business analytics, focusing on large real-world datasets and integrating them into dynamic and stochastic optimization models for transportation, mobility, and logistics.
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Market Design
We focus on understanding and improving the way markets allocate resources, with a particular emphasis on mechanism design and auction theory. Our work combines microeconomic theory, game theory, and management science to examine how participants behave under different rules and information structures and derive the optimal mechanisms.
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Personnel Management
We study the core concepts of organizational analysis and personnel management from an economic perspective, complemented by behavioral insights. Our research examines organizational design and modern developments in organization theory, translating theoretical foundations into practical solutions for real-world challenges.
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Prescriptive Business Analytics
We work on complex decision problems by combining different mathematical optimization techniques and algorithms in a broader term to compute high-quality, scalable solutions. Our research centers on exact and heuristic methods for routing and logistics applications, including how learning can improve classical operations research algorithms.
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Production and Logistics
We harness advanced machine learning methods to create powerful optimization-based decision support systems in the areas of production and logistics. Our research delivers optimization systems that find high‑quality solutions quickly, are easy for decision-makers to use, remain robust under uncertain inputs, and scale to real‑world‑sized problems.
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Public and Non-Profit Management
Public and Non-Profit Management examines the economic and strategic design of public sector enterprises, regulated industries, and non-profit organizations. Our research focus includes, for example, public economics and regulation, industrial organisation and liberalisation, finance topics such as investment timing and auctions, as well as disaster management, healthcare management, health economics, and operations research in public health.
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Supply Chain Management
The Supply Chain Management research group primarily focuses on developing decision support systems for integrated and multi-echelon problems in logistics and reverse logistics, particularly in inventory management and distribution (e.g., vendor managed inventory) at the tactical and operational levels. Special attention is also given to the efficient use of resources (e.g., energy and water consumption). The methods are based primarily on hybrid approaches, especially matheuristic concepts—combining exact solvers, heuristics, and adaptive, learning-based techniques.
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Research Topics
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AI and OR
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Collective Decision Making
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Decision making with incomplete information
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Logistics Decision Support, Transportation & Supply Chain Services
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Meta-, Matheuristics & Meta-Analytics
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Mobility and Transportation Analytics
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Scheduling and Packing
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Smart Manufacturing & Industry 4.0
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Strategy and Design of Interfirm Networks
Publications and other Activities
Publications
Heluo Y, Wang K, Robson CW, Zhou Z, Wang X, Fabel O. Public announcements and mask use during COVID-19 bridging regression and machine learning. Scientific Reports. 2026 Dec;16(1):25659. doi: 10.1038/s41598-026-55230-4
Lyu X, Tierney K, Schulte F. Collaborative maritime and port transportation: A literature review. European Journal of Operational Research. 2026 Sept 16;333(3):631-651. doi: 10.1016/j.ejor.2026.01.041
Engin A, Rauner M, Erbschwendtner B, Kaltenböck J. A Bayesian Analysis of Personality Types and Stress Coping Strategies of Austrian Red Cross Paramedics. Z'GuG Zeitschrift für Gemeinwirtschaft und Gemeinwohl. 2026 Sept 3.
Attar A, Ghasemi P, Ozkul S, Okorie O, Zhang L. Adaptive disaster relief logistics under uncertainty: a hybrid robust–fuzzy two‑stage mathematical model with inter‑regional sharing. Journal of the Operational Research Society. 2026 Sept 1.
Scherr N, Reed S, Campbell AM, Thomas BW. Policies for the dynamic same-day delivery problem with walking and parking. Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review . 2026 Aug;212:104898. doi: 10.1016/j.tre.2026.104898
Scherr YO, Gansterer M, Hartl RF. Collaborative vehicle routing with strategic request acceptance: The impact of profit sharing. European Journal of Operational Research. 2026 Jul 27. doi: 10.1016/j.ejor.2026.07.033
Scherr Y. Instances and Results for “Collaborative vehicle routing with strategic request acceptance: The impact of profit sharing”. 2026.
Baumgartner G, Kocatürk F, Scherr N, Ehmke JF. Energy Optimization Models for the Locomotive Assignment Problem. Networks. 2026 Jul 15. Epub 2026 Jul 15. doi: 10.1002/net.70058
Ahmedoglu M. Turning legacy into alliance relevance: Czechia’s defense-industrial imaginary and the politics of selective sovereignty. New Perspectives: interdisciplinary journal of Central & East European politics and international relations. 2026 Jul 6. doi: 10.1177/2336825X261466888
Haferkamp J, Bicher M, Ghasemi P, Ulmer MW, Popper N, Ehmke JF. Analytics for Resource Allocation in Pandemic Management. INFORMS Journal on Applied Analytics. 2026 Jun 8. doi: 10.1287/inte.2025.0275
Yu S, Campbell AM, Ehmke JF, Puchinger J. A hybrid urban delivery system with robots. European Journal of Operational Research. 2026 Jun 1;331(2):441-461. doi: 10.1016/j.ejor.2025.10.008
Taverna F, Tilk C. Enhancing Waste Collection: A Branch-and-Cut-and-Price approach for the Periodic Vehicle Routing Problem with Intermediate Facilities applied to a real-world case study. European Journal of Operational Research. 2026 Jun 1;331(2):601-614. doi: 10.1016/j.ejor.2025.09.039
Dragone D, Feichtinger G, Grass D, Hartl RF, Kort PM, Seidl A et al. Obesity, sedentary behavior and lifestyle: A lifecycle model of eating and physical activity. Journal of Health Economics. 2026 Mar;106:103114. doi: 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2026.103114
Ahadzadeh R, Dehghani E, Ghasemi P. Towards sustainable closed-loop photovoltaic supply chains: A hybrid framework integrating reinforcement learning and mathematical models. Expert systems with applications. 2026 Jan 15;296(D):129182. doi: 10.1016/j.eswa.2025.129182
Goodarzian F, Abraham A, Muñuzuri J, Taghipour A, Ghasemi P. A Benders decomposition approach for a new sustainable pharmaceutical supply chain network: a case study in France. Annals of Operations Research. 2026 Jan;356(2-3):881-919. doi: 10.1007/s10479-024-05936-3
Dehghan Chenary M, Tilk C, Hartl RF. An exact branch-price-and-cut algorithm for integrated waste collection system: Elementary shortest path and hop constraint Steiner Tree Problems. European Journal of Operational Research. 2026. doi: 10.1016/j.ejor.2026.07.027
Mlekusch J, Juvin C, Artigues C, Hartl R. A novel solution methods for the Flexible Job Shop Problem. 2026. Paper presented at 24th International Working Seminar on Production Economics, Innsbruck, Austria.
Windsperger J, (ed.), Raha A, (ed.). Handbook on the Theory of the Firm. In Handbook on the Theory of the Firm. Edward Elgar Publishing. 2026
Raha A, Sarbaz T, Windsperger J. International Market Entry Strategy of Digital Platform Firms Evidence from International Ride-Sharing Firms. Long Range Planning . 2026;59(6). doi: 10.1016/j.lrp.2026.102688
Bertazzi L, Dörner KF, Laganà D. Inventory routing problems. In Research Handbook on Transport Modeling . Edward Elgar Publishing. 2026. p. 448-467. (Research Handbooks in Transport Studies series).
Media
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Activities
Meeting of the Working Group Operations Research in Health Care and Disaster Management of the Austrian Society of Operations Research (ÖGOR)
European Management Review (Journal)
The Scheduled Service Network Design Problem with Terminal Resource Acquisition
Economics and Management of Networks Conference (EMNeT 2026)
Health economic evaluation: a taxonomy for cost categories of chronic pain and the effectiveness of auricular vagus nerve stimulation
The dynamic same-day delivery problem with walking, parking and stochastic customer requests
Collaborative Vehicle Routing with Strategic Request Acceptance
A Bayesian Analysis of Personality Types and Stress Coping Strategies of Austrian Red Cross Paramedics
Scheduling under multi-skill workforce constraints: A novel Logic-Based Benders Decomposition Approach
A novel solution methods for the Flexible Job Shop Problem
Do you forgive your AI? The role of confidence, perceived accuracy, and trust in AI advice utilization
Platforms’ Social Impact in Times of Disruptions: Cases of Uber and Airbnb During the War in Ukraine
Meeting of the Working Group Operations Research in Health Care and Disaster Management of the Austrian Society of Operations Research (ÖGOR)
Meeting of the Working Group Operations Research in Health Care and Disaster Management of the Austrian Society of Operations Research (ÖGOR)