Workgroup PARALOR

Paralor (Parallel Algorithms for Large Operations Research Problems) is a joint project of Lufthansa Systems, Profi.L (Gesellschaft für logistische Softwareentwicklung und Operations Research mbH, Remscheid), the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, the University of Cologne, and the University Paderborn. It is funded by the German BMBF (Federal Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Technology).

Research areas are parallel algorithms for

Integrated warehouse optimization (Prof. Bachem, Cologne; Prof. Monien, Paderborn; Profi.L.)
Airline flight scheduling and airline crew assignment (Prof. Monien, Paderborn; Prof. Prömel, Berlin; Prof. Schrader, Cologne; Lufthansa Systems)

Shortest Path Problems in warehouses
Packing of goods with complex geometries
PACKLIB: A library of packing problems (german)
ViPP3D: Visualisation of 3D packing patterns
New algorithms for three-dimensional packing
Exact algorithms for packing and cutting problems
Integration of Packing- and Vehicle Routing Algorithms (german)

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