Prof. Dr. Andreas Klinkert

Personal profile

Management role

Head of Research/Focus Area, Operations Research & Operations Management

Position at the ZHAW

- Professor of Operations Management and Operations Research
- Project Manager Research & Development
- Head of Operations Research & Operations Management Group (OR/OM Group)
- Executive Board Member, Institute of Data Analysis and Process Design (IDP)

www.zhaw.ch/idp

Expertise and research interests

- Operations Management, Operations Research, Mathematical Optimization, Decision Support and Computer Science
- Optimization of Business Processes in Production, Logistics and Services
- Discrete Optimization, Optimization in Graphs, Scheduling Theory, Integer Programming, Metaheuristics

Special Topics of Interest:
- Complex Scheduling Problems in Production and Logistics
- Production Planning in Manufacturing and Process Industries
- Staff Scheduling and Rostering
- Combinatorial Optimization, Polyhedral Combinatorics, Discrete Mathematics

Educational background

- Dr. sc. inf., Dissertation at University of Fribourg
- Postgraduate Studies in Combinatorial Optimization, ETH Lausanne and University of Grenoble, France
- Dipl. Ing. Inf. ETH, Master of Science in Computer Science, ETH Zurich

Membership of networks

- Executive Board Member, Swiss Operations Research Society SVOR/ASRO

Projects

• The Fourth International Workshop on Dynamic Scheduling Problems / Team member / Project completed
• Extension SARS-CoV-2 Intervention modelling / Team member / Project completed
• Operational Staff Planning 2021 / Project leader / Project completed
• Automated Staff Scheduling 2020 / Project leader / Project completed
• Flight Network Simulation at Swiss International Air Lines / Deputy project leader / Project completed

Publications

• Gröflin, Heinz; Klinkert, Andreas,

  2009.

  A new neighborhood and tabu search for the blocking job shop.

  Discrete Applied Mathematics.

  157(17), pp. 3643-3655.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dam.2009.02.020

• Gröflin, Heinz; Klinkert, Andreas; Pham Dinh, Nguyen,

  2008.

  Feasible Job Insertions in the Multi-Processor-Task Job Shop.

  European Journal of Operational Research.

  185(3), pp. 1308-1318.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2005.10.077

• Pham, Dinh-Nguyen; Klinkert, Andreas,

  2008.

  Surgical case scheduling as a generalized job shop scheduling problem.

  European Journal of Operational Research.

  185(3), pp. 1011-1025.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2006.03.059

• Gröflin, Heinz; Klinkert, Andreas,

  2007.

  Feasible insertions in job shop scheduling, short cycles and stable sets.

  European Journal of Operational Research.

  177(2), pp. 763-785.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2005.12.025

• Füchslin, Rudolf Marcel; Ambühl, Jacques; Faggian, Alessia; Fellermann, Harold M.; Flumini, Dandolo; Geller, Armando; Hanczyc, Martin M.; Klinkert, Andreas; Krütli, Pius; Matuttis, Hans-Georg; Ott, Thomas; Scheidegger, Stephan; Schmid, Gary Bruno; Smieszek, Timo; Schneider, Johannes J.; Steiner, Albert; Weyland, Mathias S.,

  2023.

  Ethical aspects of computational modelling in science, decision support and communication [paper].

  In:

  Artificial Life and Evolutionary Computation.

  XV Italian Workshop on Artificial Life and Evolutionary Computation (WIVACE), Winterthur, Switzerland, 15-17 September 2021.

  Cham:

  Springer.

  Communications in Computer and Information Science ; 1722.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-23929-8_24

• Klinkert, Andreas,

  2008.

  Days-off scheduling in large-scale multi-skill staff rostering : an integer programming solution [paper].

  In:

  PATAT 2008 Proceedings.

  PATAT 2008, 7th International Conference on the Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling, Montreal, Canada, 2008.

• Klinkert, Andreas; Fusek, Peter; Riesen, Bruno; Berner, Roman,

  2019.

  Automated airport staff scheduling at Swissport International Ltd..

  IFORS News.

  13(4), pp. 2-4.

• Wichser, Heinz; Klinkert, Andreas,

  2012.

  AutoRostering : the ideal solution for efficient staff rostering.

  E-Professional: Swissport Switzerland's e-Magazine.

  2012(December), pp. 8.

• Züger, Armin; Klinkert, Andreas,

  2010.

  Am Montag möchte ich nicht arbeiten : Personaleinsatzplanung.

  Impact.

  (11), pp. 36-37.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-3529

• Klinkert, Andreas,

  2019.

  Workforce planning in airport logistics : a real-world business application.

  In:

  CMS-MMEI-2019 : collection of abstracts.

  16th Conference on Computational Management Science (CMS 2019), Chemnitz, Germany, 27-29 March 2019.

  European Working Group on Stochastic Programming and Applications.

• Fusek, Peter; Klinkert, Andreas,

  2019.

  Airport ground staff scheduling : a real-world business application.

  In:

  30th European Conference on Operational Research, Dublin, Ireland, 23-26 June 2019.

• Klinkert, Andreas,

  2017.

  Production planning and control 4.0 : smart integration of existing and new concepts.

  In:

  R&D Conference on Industry 4.0 - Industry 2025, Winterthur, 2017.

• Klinkert, Andreas,

  2016.

  Automated workforce scheduling in airport logistics.

  In:

  ICCL16 - 7th International Conference on Computational Logistics, Lisbon, Portugal, 2016.

• Klinkert, Andreas,

  2016.

  Demand-driven rostering at Swissport International.

  In:

  The 29th Conference of the European Chapter on Combinatorial Optimization (ECCO XXIX), Budapest, Hungary, 2016.

• Klinkert, Andreas,

  2016.

  Optimized staff scheduling at Swissport.

  In:

  Gurobi Optimization User Conference, Frankfurt, Germany, 2016.

• Klinkert, Andreas,

  2014.

  Large-scale rostering in the airport Industry.

  In:

  11th International Conference on Computational Management Science (CSM 2014), Lisbon, Portugal, 28-31 May 2014.

• Klinkert, Andreas,

  2014.

  Large-scale rostering in the airport Industry.

  In:

  PATAT 2014, 10th International Conference on the Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling, York, United Kingdom, 2014.

• Janner, Gabriele; Klinkert, Andreas,

  2013.

  Decomposition of large-scale crew rostering problems.

  In:

  18th Young OR Conference of the UK Operational Research Society, Exeter, United Kingdom, 2013.

• Klinkert, Andreas,

  2012.

  Airport staff scheduling : a large-scale real world application.

  In:

  The 25th Conference of the European Chapter on Combinatorial Optimization (ECCO XXV), Antalya, Turkey, 2012.

• Klinkert, Andreas,

  2011.

  Days-off planning in large-scale multi-skill staff rostering.

  In:

  The 24th Conference of the European Chapter on Combinatorial Optimization (ECCO XXIV), Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2011.

• Klinkert, Andreas,

  2010.

  Large-scale staff rostering in airport ground handling.

  In:

  24th European Conference on Operational Research (EURO XXIV), Lisbon, Portugal, 10-14 July 2010.

• Klinkert, Andreas,

  2009.

  Multi-skill staff rostering in airport ground handling.

  In:

  7th Joint IBM Operations Research Days, Lugano, 2009.

• Gröflin, Heinz; Klinkert, Andreas,

  2009.

  Production planning in the process industry : a highly flexible planning instrument based on combinatorial optimization.

  In:

  IT-Valley Fribourg Conference, Chambre of Commerce, Fribourg, 2009.

• Klinkert, Andreas,

  2008.

  A new neighborhood and tabu search for job shop scheduling with blocking constraints.

  In:

  The 21th Conference of the European Chapter on Combinatorial Optimization (ECCO XXI), Dubrovnik, Croatia, 2008.

• Toneatto, Sandro; Klinkert, Andreas,

  2008.

  New approaches to optimized staff scheduling and rostering in airport ground handling.

  In:

  5th International GroundStar Users Conference, Stockholm, Sweden, 2008.

Publications before appointment at the ZHAW

Klinkert, Andreas; Groeflin, Heinz, 2005. A Tabu Search for the Generalized Blocking Job Shop. In: MIC 2005 - 6th Metaheuristics International Conference, Vienna, Austria, 2005. Peer reviewed.

Klinkert, Andreas; Groeflin, Heinz, 2005. Feasible Insertions in Job Shop Scheduling, Short Cycles, and Stable Sets. In: Operations Research 2005 - International Scientific Annual Conference, Bremen, Germany, 2005. Peer reviewed.

Klinkert, Andreas; Groeflin, Heinz; Pham-Dinh, Nguyen, 2005. Surgical Case Scheduling in Integrated Hospitals. In: Operations Research 2005 - International Scientific Annual Conference, Bremen, Germany, 2005. Peer reviewed.

Klinkert, Andreas; Groeflin, Heinz, 2005. Insertions in Various Job Shop Scheduling Problems: Polyhedral Characterizations and Bounds. In: 3rd Joint IBM Operations Research Days, Fribourg, Switzerland, 2005. Peer reviewed.

Klinkert, Andreas; Groeflin, Heinz, 2005. A Tabu Search for the Generalized Blocking Job Shop. Internal Working Paper No. 05-13, University of Fribourg, Switzerland, 2005.

Klinkert, Andreas; Groeflin, Heinz; Pham-Dinh, Nguyen, 2004. Job Insertion Neighborhoods in Two Job Shop Problems. In: Francoro IV Conference, Fribourg, Switzerland, 2004. Peer reviewed.

Klinkert, Andreas; Groeflin, Heinz, 2004. Local Search in Job Shop Scheduling with Synchronization and Blocking Constraints. Internal Working Paper No. 04-06, University of Fribourg, Switzerland, 2004.

Klinkert, Andreas; Groeflin, Heinz, 2003. Job Shop Scheduling with Synchronization Constraints and Sequence-Dependent Set-up Times. In: 1st Joint IBM Operations Research Days, Switzerland, 2003. Peer reviewed.

Klinkert, Andreas; Groeflin, Heinz, 2002. Automated High-Density Warehouses: Performance Analysis with Large-Scale Linear Models. In: APMOD 2002 - International Conference on Applied Mathematical Programming and Modelling, Varenna, Italy, 2002. Peer reviewed.

Klinkert, Andreas; Groeflin, Heinz, 2002. Scheduling with Generalized Disjunctive Graphs: Feasibility Issues. In: ECCO XV - The 15th Conference of the European Chapter on Combinatorial Optimization, Lugano, Switzerland, 2002. Peer reviewed.

Klinkert, Andreas; Groeflin, Heinz, 2002. The Synchronized Job Shop Problem: Local Search in Generalized Disjunctive Graphs. In: Integer Programming, International Conference, Pittsburg, USA, 2002. Peer reviewed.

Klinkert, Andreas, 2001. Optimization in Design and Control of Automated High-Density Warehouses. Doctoral Thesis No. 1353. University of Fribourg, Switzerland, 2001. Peer reviewed.

Klinkert, Andreas; Groeflin, Heinz, 1997. Performance of Block Storage Systems. In: SPC-7 - IFORS International Specialized Conference, Goeteborg, Sweden, 1997. Peer reviewed.

Klinkert, Andreas; Maurer, Dieter, 1997. Fourier Spectra and Formant Patterns of German Vowels Produced at F0 of 70-850 Hz. In: Acoustical Society of America, ASA 133rd Meeting, 1997. Peer reviewed.

Klinkert, Andreas; Maurer, Dieter, 1997. The Spectral Difference of Different Vowels: Toward a New Acoustical Concept. In: Acoustical Society of America, ASA 133rd Meeting, 1997. Peer reviewed.

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