E-mail:

Kurt.Jornsten@nhh.no

Telephone:

+47 55 95 95 52

Fax:

+47 55 95 96 50

Title:

Professor, tekn. dr., Linköping Institute of Technology 1980

Date of birth:

17.05.48

Nationality:

Swedish

Teaching languages:

Swedish, English

Teaching areas:

Research:

Present:

Modem Production Management and Logistics
Computational Methods for Cooperative Games with Implicitly given Characteristic Functions
Application of Transfer Pricing and Joint Cost Allocation Pricing
Transmission Pricing
Market Design in Electricity Markets and E-Commerce

Former:

Selected publications:

• Benefits from Coordinating Congestion Management – the Nordic Power Market, forthcoming in Energy Policy (with Mette Bjørndal).

• Pricing in Combinatorial Auctions, forthcoming in Journal of Information and Optimization Sciences (with Mette Bjørndal).

• Investment Paradoxes in Electricity Networks, forthcoming in Migdalas, Athanasios, Panos Pardalos, and Leonidas Pitsoulis (eds.), Pareto Optimality, Game Theory and Equilibria, Kluwer Academic Publishers (with Mette Bjørndal).

• An Aumann-Shapley Approach to Cost Allocation and Pricing in a Supply Chain, in de Koster, René, and Werner Delfmann (eds.), Supply Chain Management – European Perspectives, Copenhagen Business School Press, 2005, pp. 182-198 (with Mette Bjørndal).

• Heuristics in the Multi-Location Inventory System with Transshipments, in Kotzab, Herbert, Stefan A. Seuring, Martin Müller and Gerald Reiner (eds.), Research Methodologies in Supply Chain Management, Physica-Verlag 2005, pp. 509-524 (with Lars Magne Nonås).

• The Deregulated Electricity Market Viewed as a Bilevel Programming Problem”, Journal of Global Optimization, 33, 2005, 465-475 (with Mette Bjørndal).

• Replication/Prediction Problems in the Journey to Work, Environment and Planning A, Vol. 36, No. 2, 2004, pp. 347-364 (with Inge Thorsen and Jan Ubøe).

• Congestion Management in the Nordic Power Market – Counter Purchases, Journal of Network Industries, vol. 4, 2003, pp. 273-296 (with Mette Bjørndal and Virginie Pignon).

• Prices in a Combinatorial Auction, Journal of Statistics & Management Systems, vol. 6, no. 2, 2003, pp. 281-293 (with Mette Bjørndal).

• Revenue Cap Regulation in a Deregulated Electricity Market - Effects on a Grid Company, Central European Journal of Operations Research, June 2003, vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 197-215 (with Mette Bjørndal).

• Zonal Pricing in a Deregulated Electricity Market, Energy Journal, vol. 22, no. 1, 2001, pp. 51-73 (with Mette Bjørndal).

• Convergence aspects of adaptive clustering in variable aggregation, Computers & Operations Research, New York, vol. 26, no. 10,11, Sep. 1999, pp. 955-966 (with Rainer Leisten and Sverre Storøy).

• Tabu search for weighted k-cardinality trees, Asia - Pacific Journal of Operational Research, Singapore, vol. 14, no. 2, Nov. 1997, pp. 9-26 (with Arne Løkketangen).

• Vehicle routing with time windows: Two optimization algorithms, Operations Research, Linthicum, vol. 45, no. 3, May/Jun 1997, pp. 488-492 (with Marshall L. Fisher and Oli B. G. Madsen).

• On bicriterion minimal spanning trees: An approximation, Computers & Operations Research, New York, vol. 23, no. 12, Dec 1996, pp. 1171-1182 (with Kim Allan Andersen and Mikael Lind).

• Linear programming aggregation: A heuristic for hierarchical production planning, Asia - Pacific Journal of Operational Research, Singapore, vol. 12, no. 2, Nov 1995, pp. 161-177 (with Rainer Leisten).

• Decomposition and iterative aggregation in hierarchical and decentralised planning structures, European Journal of Operational Research, Amsterdam, vol. 86, no. 1, Oct 5, 1995, pp. 120-141 (with Rainer Leisten).

• Computing the Nucleolus When the Characteristic Function Is Given Implicitly: A Constraint Generation Approach, International Journal of Game Theory, vol. 24, no. 4, 1995, pp. 357-372 (with Åsa Hallefjord and Reidun Helming).

• Traffic equilibrium paradoxes when travel demand is elastic, Asia-Pacific Journal Of Operational Research, Singapore, vol. 11, no. 1, May 1994, pp. 41-50 (with Åsa Hallefjord and Sverre Storøy).

• Aggregation and decomposition for multi-divisional linear programs, European Journal Of Operational Research, Amsterdam, vol. 72, no. 1, Jan 6, 1994, pp. 175-191 (with Rainer Leisten).

• Application of the scenario aggregation approach to a two-stage, stochastic, common component, inventory problem with a budget constraint, European Journal Of Operational Research, Amsterdam, vol. 68, no. 2, Jul 23, 1993, pp. 196-212 (with Henrik Jönsson and Edward A. Silver).

• Cooperative game theory: A note on an algorithm that has probably never been implemented, Asia-Pacific Journal Of Operational Research, Singapore, vol. 10, no. 1, May 1993, pp. 121-129 (with Åsa Hallefjord and Reidun Helming).

• Solving large scale generalized assignment problems - An aggregation/disaggregation approach, European Journal Of Operational Research, Amsterdam, vol. 64, no. 1, Jan 8, 1993, pp. 103-114 (with Åsa Hallefjord and Peter Värbrand).

• Enhancing an Algorithm for Set Covering Problems, European Journal Of Operational Research, Amsterdam, vol. 58, no. 2, Apr 27, 1992, pp. 293-300 (with John E. Beasley).

• Sequencing Offshore Oil and Gas Fields Under Uncertainty, European Journal Of Operational Research, Amsterdam, vol. 58, no. 2, Apr 27, 1992, pp. 191-201.

• Computational Results from a New Lagrangean Relaxation Algorithm for the Capacitated Plant Location Problem, European Journal Of Operational Research, Amsterdam, vol. 53, no. 1, Jul 5, 1991, pp. 38-43 (with Jaume Barceló and Elena Fernández).

• A Facet Generation and Relaxation Technique Applied to an Assignment Problem with Side Constraints, European Journal Of Operational Research, Amsterdam, vol. 50, no. 3, Feb 15, 1991, pp. 335-344 (with Ronny Aboudi and Åsa Hallefjord).

• Improved Lagrangean Decomposition: An Application to the Generalized Assignment Problem, European Journal Of Operational Research, Amsterdam, vol. 46, no. 1, May 4, 1990, pp. 84-92 (with Paulo Barcia).

• A Mathematical Programming Model for the Development of Petroleum Fields and Transport Systems, European Journal Of Operational Research, Amsterdam, vol. 43, no. 1, Nov 6, 1989, pp. 13-25 (with Ronny Aboudi, Åsa Hallefjord, Carsten Helgesen, Reidun Helming, Anne S. Pettersen, Tore Raum and Petter Spence).

• On the Merits and Demerits of Integer Goal Programming, The Journal Of The Operational Research Society, Oxford, vol. 40, no. 8, Aug 1989, pp. 781-785 (with James P. Ignizio).

• A Critical Comment on Integer Goal Programming, The Journal Of The Operational Research Society, Oxford, vol. 39, no. 1, Jan 1988, pp. 101-104 (with Åsa Hallefjord).

• A New Lagrangian Relaxation Approach to the Generalized Assignment Problem, European Journal Of Operational Research, Amsterdam, vol. 27, no. 3, Dec 1986, pp. 313-323 (with Mikael Näsberg).

• A Long Range Forestry Planning Problem with Multiple Objectives, European Journal Of Operational Research, Amsterdam, vol. 26, no. 1, Jul 1986, pp. 123-133 (with Åsa Hallefjord and Ola Eriksson).

• Cross Decomposition Applied to the Stochastic Transportation Problem, European Journal of Operational Research, Amsterdam, vol. 17, no. 3, Sep 1984, pp. 361-368 (with Kaj Holmberg).