Focus on The Netherlands

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Welcome to INFORMS special Netherlands articles collection entitled "Focus on The Netherlands". Each of the 15 articles represent our very best coverage of business problems taking place in The Netherlands and how principles of operations research help solve them. Each article is selected from INFORMS suite of highly authoritative journals.

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Transportation

— Efficient Circulation of Railway Rolling Stock (Alfieri, Groot, Kroon, Schrijver), Transportation Science 40 (3) (2006), pp. 378–391
A real-life case study based on the timetable of NS Reizigers, the main Dutch operator of passenger trains

— Shunting of Passenger Train Units in a Railway Station (Freling, Lentink, Kroon, Huisman), Transportation Science 39 (2) (2005), pp. 261–272
Problem of shunting passenger train units based on real-life instances from Netherlands Railways

— Interactive Optimization of Bulk Sugar Deliveries (van Vliet, Boender, Rinnooy Kan), Interfaces 22 (3) (1992), pp. 4–14
An interactive optimization system for planning bulk deliveries implemented by Suiker Unie

— Ship Congestion at a Scheduled Draw Bridge (van Daal, van Doeland), Transportation Science 8 (1) (1974), pp. 24–34
Monte Carlo simulation procedure applied to the timetable of the railway draw bridge in Dordrecht

Royal Dutch Mail

— Conditions That Shape the Learning Curve: Factors That Increase the Ability and Opportunity to Learn (Wiersma), Management Science 53(12) (2007), pp. 1903–1915
Case study of the Royal Dutch Mail that provide insight into strategies to maintain a positive learning curve

Budget and Finance

— Competitive Implications of Interfirm Mobility (Wezel, Cattani, Pennings), Organization Science 17 (6) (2006), pp. 691–709
Competitive implications of interfirm mobility in the case of the Dutch accounting industry

— High-Performance Computing for Asset-Liability Management (Gondzio, Kouwenberg), Operations Research 49 (6) (2001), pp. 879–891
Dedicated model generation to tackle large-scale financial planning problems in the case of a Dutch pension fund

— The Missing Link in Budget Models of Nonprofit Institutions: Two Practical Dutch Applications (Verheyen), Management Science 44 (6) (1998), pp. 787–800
Resolving budgeting tensions by the Dutch government to allocate funds for hospitals and universities

Waterways and Water Resources

— A Policy Analysis of Dutch River Dike Improvements: Trading Off Safety, Cost, and Environmental Impacts (Walker, Abrahamse, Bolten, Kahan, van de Riet, Kok, den Braber), Operations Research 42 (5) (1994), pp. 823–836
Estimating the flood damage under alternative safety standards on the Rijn and Maas rivers

— Planning the Netherlands’ Water Resources (Goeller, The PAWN Team), Interfaces 15 (1) (1985), pp. 3–33
New national water management policy adopted by the Dutch government

Groceries and Retail

— A Neurocognitive Model of Advertisement Content and Brand Name Recall (Chessa, Murre), Marketing Science 26 (1) (2007), pp. 130–141
A model of learning applied to advertising and brand name recall in a Dutch study of 40 TV commercial campaigns

— A Periodic Inventory Routing Problem at a Supermarket Chain (Gaur, Fisher), Operations Research 52 (6) (2004), pp. 813–822
Vehicle routing and delivery scheduling problem at Albert Heijn, BV, a supermarket chain in the Netherlands

— The Category-Demand Effects of Price Promotions (Nijs, Dekimpe, Steenkamps, Hanssens), Marketing Science 20 (1) (2001), pp. 1–22
Category-demand effects of consumer price promotions studied on national sales in Dutch supermarkets

Entertainment

— MOVIEMOD: An Implementable Decision-Support System for Prerelease Market Evaluation of Motion Pictures (Eliashberg, Jonker, Sawhney, Wierenga), Marketing Science 19 (3) (2000), pp. 226–243
A prerelease market evaluation model for the motion pictures tested with a movie’s distributor in the Netherlands

Multinationals

— Interunit Communications in Multinational Corporations (Ghoshal, Korine, Szulanski), Management Science 40 (1) (1994), pp. 96–110
Organizational factors that influence internal communication in multinationals; case of Philips and Matsushita