Prof. Dr. Robert Klein

Professor

Prof. Dr. Robert Klein: Analytics & Optimization

Phone:	+49 821 598-4150
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Room:	2314 (J)
Open hours:	by arrangement
Address:	Universitätsstraße 16, 86159 Augsburg

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Short Bio

After studying business administration and information systems and working as a research assistant at the Technical University of Darmstadt, Robert Klein became a full professor at the University of Augsburg in 2006. There he holds the Chair for Analytics & Optimization.

Robert Klein has been involved in research and development in the areas of pricing and revenue management, last-mile logistics, and operations research. He is excited about solving real-world problems by analytics and, therefore, is very much interested in transferring the results of his team’s research to industry. In recent years, he has done projects in cooperation with Daimler, GLS, IBM, Lufthansa Systems, Sixt, and TUI, with most of the projects having a strong emphasis on analytical pricing. He has published in journals such as Computers & Operations Research, European Journal of Operational Research, INFORMS Journal on Computing, Omega, OR Spectrum, or Transportation Science. Furthermore, he is the co-author of several textbooks on business mathematics, operations research, and revenue management. From October 2015 to October 2019, he was also the dean of the Faculty of Business & Economics at the University of Augsburg. Since July 2021, he has been appointed department editor „Data-Driven Services and Operations“ for the journal OR Spectrum (jointly with Jan-Fabian Ehmke, University of Vienna).

Publications

Monographs and textbooks

2017 | 2015 | 2014 | 2011 | 2008 | 2005 | 2000 | 1999

2017
Otto Opitz, Stefan Etschberger, Wolfgang Burkart and Robert Klein Mathematik–Lehrbuch für das Studium der Wirtschaftswissenschaften 12., vollständig überarbeitete Auflage (De Gruyter Oldenbourg: Berlin, 2017) BibTeX \| RIS
2015
Wolfgang Domschke, Andreas Drexl, Robert Klein and Armin Scholl Einführung in Operations Research 9., überarbeitete und verbesserte Auflage (Springer Gabler: Berlin ; Heidelberg, 2015) BibTeX \| RIS \| DOI
Wolfgang Domschke, Andreas Drexl, Robert Klein, Armin Scholl and Stefan Voß Übungen und Fallbeispiele zum Operations Research 8., überarb. Aufl. (Springer-Lehrbuch) (Springer: Berlin u.a., 2015) BibTeX \| RIS \| DOI
2014
Otto Opitz, Robert Klein and Wolfgang Burkart Mathematik-Übungsbuch: für das Studium der Wirtschaftswissenschaften; 150 Verständnisfragen und 250 Rechenaufgaben mit ausführlichen Lösungen 8., wesentlich erweiterte Auflage (De Gruyter Oldenbourg: Berlin, 2014) BibTeX \| RIS
2011
Otto Opitz and Robert Klein Mathematik: Lehrbuch für Ökonomen 10., völlig überarb. Aufl. (Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag: München, 2011) BibTeX \| RIS \| DOI
Robert Klein and Armin Scholl Planung und Entscheidung: Konzepte, Modelle und Methoden einer modernen betriebswirtschaftlichen Entscheidungsanalyse [unserem akademischen Lehrer Wolfgang Domschke] 2. Aufl. (Vahlens Handbücher der Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften) (Vahlen: München, 2011) BibTeX \| RIS
2008
Robert Klein and Claudius Steinhardt Revenue-Management: Grundlagen und mathematische Methoden (Springer-Lehrbuch) (Springer: Berlin [u.a.], 2008) BibTeX \| RIS
2005
Robert Klein Revenue Management: Grundlagen und Methoden der Kapazitätssteuerung (TU Darmstadt: Darmstadt, 2005) BibTeX \| RIS Habilitationsschrift, TU Darmstadt
2000
Robert Klein Scheduling of resource-constrained projects (Operations Research - Computer Science Interfaces Series ; 10) (Kluwer Acad. Publ.: Boston [u.a.], 2000) BibTeX \| RIS
1999
Robert Klein Project scheduling under time varying resource constraints (Schriften zur quantitativen Betriebswirtschaftslehre ; 1999,8) (Inst. für Betriebswirtschaftslehre: Darmstadt, 1999) BibTeX \| RIS

Articles in reviewed journals

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2024

Lukas Janinhoff, Robert Klein, Daniela Sailer and Jim Morten Schoppa
Out-of-home delivery in last-mile logistics: a review
Computers & Operations Research 168, 106686 (2024)
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2023

Sebastian Spindler, Claudius Steinhardt and Robert Klein
Exact solution approaches for order acceptance and scheduling decisions in m-machine open shops
Computers & Industrial Engineering 176, 108952 (2023)
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Lukas Janinhoff, Robert Klein and Daniel Scholz
Multitrip vehicle routing with delivery options: a data-driven application to the parcel industry
OR Spectrum , (in print)
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David Fleckenstein, Robert Klein and Claudius Steinhardt
Recent advances in integrating demand management and vehicle routing: a methodological review
European Journal of Operational Research 306, 499-518 (2023)
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2022

Fabian Anzenhofer and Robert Klein
On-Demand-Plattformen für den Öffentlichen Personennahverkehr
WiSt - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Studium 51, 10-17 (2022)
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2021

Georg Bechler, Claudius Steinhardt, Jochen Mackert and Robert Klein
Product line optimization in the presence of preferences for compromise alternatives
European Journal of Operational Research 288, 902-917 (2021)
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2020

Robert Klein, Sebastian Koch, Claudius Steinhardt and Arne K. Strauss
A review of revenue management: recent generalizations and advances in industry applications
European Journal of Operational Research 284, 397-412 (2020)
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Sebastian Koch and Robert Klein
Route-based approximate dynamic programming for dynamic pricing in attended home delivery
European Journal of Operational Research 287, 633-652 (2020)
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2019

Robert Klein, Michael Neugebauer, Dimitri Ratkovitch and Claudius Steinhardt
Differentiated time slot pricing under routing considerations in attended home delivery
Transportation Science 53, 236-255 (2019)
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Jochen Mackert, Claudius Steinhardt and Robert Klein
Integrating customer choice in differentiated slotting for last-mile logistics
Logistics Research 12, 5 (2019)
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Robert Klein, Jochen Mackert and Claudius Steinhardt
Nachfragesteuerung im Online-Lebensmittelhandel
WiSt - Wirtschaftschaftswissenschaftliches Studium 48, 12-18 (2019)
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2018

Robert Klein, Jochen Mackert, Michael Neugebauer and Claudius Steinhardt
A model-based approximation of opportunity cost for dynamic pricing in attended home delivery
OR Spectrum 40, 969-996 (2018)
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Arne K. Strauss, Robert Klein and Claudius Steinhardt
A review of choice-based revenue management: theory and methods
European Journal of Operational Research 271, 375-387 (2018)
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Kristina Bayer, Sebastian Koch and Robert Klein
Monte Carlo tree search - ein Lösungsverfahren für dynamische Optimierungsprobleme an der Schnittstelle von Operations Research und Informatik
WiSt - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Studium 47, 11-18 (2018)
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2017

Oliver Faust, Jochen Gönsch and Robert Klein
Demand-oriented integrated scheduling for point-to-point airlines
Transportation Science 51, 196-213 (2017)
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2016

Dominic Bühler, Robert Klein and Michael Neugebauer
Model-based delivery cost approximation in attended home services
Computers & Industrial Engineering 98, 78-90 (2016)
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Sebastian Koch, Jochen Gönsch, Michael Hassler and Robert Klein
Practical decision rules for risk-averse revenue management using simulation-based optimization
Journal of Revenue and Pricing Management 15, 468-487 (2016)
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2015

Robert Klein and Johannes Kolb
Maximizing customer equity subject to capacity constraints
Omega 55, 111-125 (2015)
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2014

Alexander Baur, Robert Klein and Claudius Steinhardt
Model-based decision support for optimal brochure pricing: applying advanced analytics in the tour operating industry
OR Spectrum 36, 557-584 (2014)
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Andreas Deckert and Robert Klein
Simulation-based optimization of an agent-based simulation
NETNOMICS: Economic Research and Electronic Networking 15, 33-56 (2014)
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2013

Stefan Mayer, Robert Klein and Stephanie Seiermann
A simulation-based approach to price optimisation of the mixed bundling problem with capacity constraints
International Journal of Production Economics 145, 584-598 (2013)
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Jochen Gönsch, Robert Klein, Michael Neugebauer and Claudius Steinhardt
Dynamic pricing with strategic customers
Journal of Business Economics 83, 505-549 (2013)
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2012

Wolfgang Burkart, Robert Klein and Stefan Mayer
Product line pricing for services with capacity constraints and dynamic substitution
European Journal of Operational Research 219, 347-359 (2012)
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Anita Petrick, Claudius Steinhardt, Jochen Gönsch and Robert Klein
Using flexible products to cope with demand uncertainty in revenue management
OR Spectrum 34, 215-242 (2012)
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2011

Hans Ulrich Buhl, Robert Klein, Johannes Kolb and Andrea Landherr
CR2M — an approach for capacity control considering long-term effects on the value of a customer for the company
Journal of Management Control 22, 187-204 (2011)
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Robert Klein, Michael Neugebauer and Armin Scholl
Software zur Entscheidungsanalyse - eine Marktübersicht
WiSt - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Studium 40, 513-519 (2011)
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2010

Andreas Deckert and Robert Klein
Agentenbasierte Simulation zur Analyse und Lösung betriebswirtschaftlicher Entscheidungsprobleme
Journal für Betriebswirtschaft 60, 89-125 (2010)
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Anita Petrick, Jochen Gönsch, Claudius Steinhardt and Robert Klein
Dynamic control mechanisms for revenue management with flexible products
Computers & Operations Research 37, 2027-2039 (2010)
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2009

Jochen Gönsch, Robert Klein and Claudius Steinhardt
Dynamic pricing – state-of-the-art
Zeitschrift für Betriebswirtschaft 79, 1-40 (2009)
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Operations Research Proceedings 2008: Selected Papers of the Annual International Conference of the German Operations Research Society (GOR) University of Augsburg, September 3-5, 2008
in: , ed. by Bernhard Fleischmann, Karl-Heinz Borgwardt, Robert Klein, Axel Tuma, (Springer: Berlin [u.a.], 2009)
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2008

Jochen Gönsch, Robert Klein and Claudius Steinhardt
Discrete Choice Modelling (Teil I)
WiSt - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Studium 37, 356-362 (2008)
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Jochen Gönsch, Robert Klein and Claudius Steinhardt
Discrete Choice Modelling (Teil II)
WiSt - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Studium 37, 412-418 (2008)
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2007

Robert Klein
Network capacity control using self-adjusting bid-prices
OR Spectrum 29, 39-60 (2007)
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Alf Kimms and Robert Klein
Revenue management [Editorial]
29, 1-3 (2007)
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2005

Wolfgang Domschke, Robert Klein and Anita Petrick
Revenue Management - Instrumente zur Erlösmaximierung im Luftverkehr
Forschungsmagazin der TU Darmstadt 2005, 46-50 (2005)
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2004

Wolfgang Domschke and Robert Klein
Bestimmung von Opportunitätskosten am Beispiel des Produktionscontrolling
Zeitschrift für Planung & Unternehmenssteuerung 15, 275-294 (2004)
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Armin Scholl, Robert Klein and Lutz Häselbarth
Planung im Spannungsfeld zwischen Informationsdynamik und zeitlichen Interdependenzen
WiSt - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Studium 33, 153-160 (2004)
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2003

Robert Klein and Anita Petrick
Revenue Management - eine weitere Erfolgsstory des Operations Research
GOR News 2003, 5-9 (2003)
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2001

Robert Klein
Revenue Management: quantitative Methoden zur Erlösmaximierung in der Dienstleistungsproduktion
Betriebswirtschaftliche Forschung und Praxis 53, 245-259 (2001)
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2000

Robert Klein
Bidirectional planning: improving priority rule-based heuristics for scheduling resource-constrained projects
European Journal of Operational Research 127, 619-638 (2000)
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Robert Klein and Armin Scholl
PROGRESS: Optimally solving the generalized resource-constrained project scheduling problem
Mathematical Methods of Operations Research (ZOR) 52, 467-488 (2000)
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Wolfgang Domschke and Robert Klein
Produktionsprogrammplanung bei nichtlinearen Deckungsbeitragsfunktionen
WISU - das Wirtschaftsstudium 2000, 1649-1655 (2000)
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Robert Klein and Armin Scholl
Scattered branch and bound - an adaptive search strategy applied to resource-constrained project scheduling
Central European Journal of Operations Research 7, 177-201 (2000)
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1999

Armin Scholl and Robert Klein
Balancing assembly lines effectively – a computational comparison
European Journal of Operational Research 114, 50-58 (1999)
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Robert Klein and Armin Scholl
Computing lower bounds by destructive improvement: an application to resource-constrained project scheduling
European Journal of Operational Research 112, 322-346 (1999)
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A. Scholl and Robert Klein
ULINO: Optimally balancing U-shaped JIT assembly lines
International Journal of Production Research 37, 721-736 (1999)
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1998

Armin Scholl, Robert Klein and Wolfgang Domschke
Logistik: Aufgaben der Tourenplanung
WISU - das Wirtschaftsstudium 1998, 62-67 (1998)
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Armin Scholl, Robert Klein and Wolfgang Domschke
Logistik: Methoden der Tourenplanung
WISU - das Wirtschaftsstudium 1998, 163-168 (1998)
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Armin Scholl, Robert Klein and Wolfgang Domschke
Pattern based vocabulary building for effectively sequencing mixed-model assembly lines
Journal of Heuristics 4, 359-381 (1998)
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1997

Armin Scholl, Gabriela Krispin, Robert Klein and Wolfgang Domschke
Besser beschränkt: clever optimieren mit Branch and Bound
c't - Magazin für Computer Technik 1997, 336-345 (1997)
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Armin Scholl, Robert Klein and Christian Jürgens
Bison: a fast hybrid procedure for exactly solving the one-dimensional bin packing problem
Computers & Operations Research 24, 627-645 (1997)
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Armin Scholl and Robert Klein
Investitionsprogrammplanung bei Obelix GmbH & Co. KG
WISU - das Wirtschaftsstudium 1997, 1039-1040 (1997)
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Armin Scholl and Robert Klein
SALOME: A Bidirectional Branch-and-Bound Procedure for Assembly Line Balancing
INFORMS Journal on Computing 9, 319-334 (1997)
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1996

Wolfgang Domschke, Robert Klein and Armin Scholl
Antizipative Leistungsabstimmung bei moderner Variantenfließfertigung
Zeitschrift für Betriebswirtschaft 66, 1465-1490 (1996)
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Robert Klein and Armin Scholl
Maximizing the production rate in simple assembly line balancing - a branch and bound procedure
European Journal of Operational Research 91, 367-385 (1996)
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Armin Scholl, Wolfgang Domschke and Robert Klein
Tabu Search - durch Verbote schneller optimieren
c't - Magazin für Computer Technik 1996, 326-332 (1996)
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Wolfgang Domschke, Robert Klein and Armin Scholl
Tabu Search - eine intelligente Lösungsstrategie für komplexe Optimierungsprobleme
WiSt - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Studium 25, 606-610 (1996)
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Contributions to textbooks

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2020

Robert Klein
Die Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät: wir eröffnen Welten
in: Wissenschaft, Kreativität, Verantwortung - 50 Jahre Universität Augsburg, ed. by Hubert Zapf, 98-113 (Schnell & Steiner: Regensburg, 2020)
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2010

Robert Klein and Oliver Faust
Constraint Programming
in: Supply Chain Management und Advanced Planning: Konzepte, Modelle und Software, ed. by Christoph Kilger, Hartmut Stadtler and Herbert Meyr, 451-459 (Springer: Berlin [u.a.], 2010)
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Robert Klein and Oliver Faust
Genetische Algorithmen
in: Supply Chain Management und Advanced Planning: Konzepte, Modelle und Software, ed. by Hartmut Stadtler, Christoph Kilger and Herbert Meyr, 441-449 (Springer: Berlin [u.a.], 2010)
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2008

Robert Klein
Constraint programming
in: Supply Chain Management and Advanced Planning: Concepts, Models, Software and Case Studies, ed. by Hartmut Stadtler and Christoph Kilger, 537-544 (Springer: Berlin [u.a.], 2008)
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Robert Klein
Genetic algorithms
in: Supply Chain Management and Advanced Planning: Concepts, Models, Software and Case Studies, ed. by Hartmut Stadtler and Christoph Kilger, 529-536 (Springer: Berlin [u.a.], 2008)
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2005

Wolfgang Domschke, Robert Klein and Anita Petrick
Preisdifferenzierung im Revenue Management
in: Technologiemanagement & Marketing: Herausforderungen eines integrierten Innovationsmanagements, ed. by Jenny Amelingmeyer and Peter E. Harland, 507-517 (Deutscher Universitätsverlag: Wiesbaden, 2005)
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A. Kimms and Robert Klein
Revenue Management im Branchenvergleich
in: Revenue-Management, ed. by Günter Fandel, (Zeitschrift für Betriebswirtschaft : Special issue ; 2005,1) 1-30 (Gabler: Wiesbaden, 2005)
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2003

Robert Klein
Multikriterielle Unternehmensbewertung mit dem Analytic Hierarchy Process
in: Industrielles Beteiligungscontrolling, ed. by Hans-Jürgen Wurl, 127-149 (Schäffer-Poeschel: Stuttgart, 2003)
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2001

Wolfgang Domschke, Robert Klein and Armin Scholl
Netzplantechnik
in: Lexikon der Wirtschaftsinformatik, ed. by Peter Mertens, Hans Robert Hansen, Hermann Krallmann, August-Wilhelm Scheer, Dietrich Seibt, Peter Stahlknecht, Horst Strunz, Rainer Thome and Hartmut Wedekind, 324-325 (Springer: Berlin [u.a.], 2001)
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Wolfgang Domschke, Robert Klein and Armin Scholl
Stochastische Systeme
in: Lexikon der Wirtschaftsinformatik, ed. by Peter Mertens, 439-440 (Springer: Berlin [u.a.], 2001)
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Working papers

Fleckenstein, D.; R. Klein, V. Klein und C. Steinhardt: On the Concept of Opportunity Cost in Integrated Demand Management and Vehicle Routing. 04/2024, Universität Augsburg.
Anzenhofer, F.; D. Fleckenstein, R. Klein und C. Steinhardt: Analyzing the Impact of Demand Management in Rural Shared Mobility-on-Demand Systems. 01/2024, Universität Augsburg

Faculty of Business and Economics