Curriculum Vitae Gernot Tragler - orcos - Technische Universität Wien

Curriculum Vitae
Gernot Tragler
Associate Professor
(Ao.Univ.Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn.)
Argentinierstr. 8/105-4, A-1040 Wien, Austria
Email: tragler@eos.tuwien.ac.at
Phone: +43-1-58801-11920
Fax: +43-1-58801-11999
www: www.eos.tuwien.ac.at/OR/Tragler
Abbreviations used in this CV:
TU Wien (for Vienna University of Technology)
IWM (for Institute for Mathematical Methods in Economics)
ORDYS (for Research Unit for Operations Research and Nonlinear Dynamical Systems)
ORCOS (for Research Unit for Operations Research and Control Systems)
Personal Data
Date of birth: 2 September 1969
Place of birth: Klagenfurt, Austria
Citizenship: Austrian
Marital status: married,
3 daughters (born 1993, 2002,
2008)

Education and Academic Degrees
1975 – 1977 Elementary school: Öffentliche Volksschule 9
(Theodor-Körner-Schule), Klagenfurt
1977 – 1979 Elementary school: Pädagogische Akademie des Bundes in
Kärnten – Übungsvolksschule, Klagenfurt
1979 – 1987 Comprehensive secondary school: Bundesgymnasium
Völkermarkter Ring 27 (former 1. BG), Klagenfurt
24 June 1987 School leaving examination (Matura) with distinction
1987 – 1993 Studies of Technical Mathematics (Business Mathematics), TU Wien
1 July 1993 Master’s Degree (Diplomingenieur / Dipl.-Ing.) with distinction
1993 – 1998 PhD studies, TU Wien
18 June 1998 PhD (Doktor der technischen Wissenschaften / Dr.techn.)
with distinction
2005 Habilitation in Operations Research, Faculty of Mathematics and
Geoinformation, TU Wien
2 September 2005 Venia Docendi for Operations Research (Privatdozent / Priv.Doz.)
Professional Experience
1985 – 1991 Book-Keeper at tax consultant Dkfm. Heinz Österreicher,
(summer holidays)
Völkermarkter Ring 1, 9020 Klagenfurt
1992 – 1996 Course Professor for mathematics at Kolpingkurs in St. Pölten
(summer holidays)
1 October 1993 – Assistant Professor (half time), Institute for Econometrics,
31 August 1999 Operations Research and Systems Theory, TU Wien
1 November 1996 – Research Assistant (half time) for the FWF-project
31 August 1999 P11711-OEK, “Dynamic Law Enforcement”, Institute
for Econometrics, Operations Research and Systems
Theory, TU Wien
1 September 1999 – Assistant Professor (full time), Institute for Econometrics,
31 December 2003 Operations Research and Systems Theory, TU Wien
1 January 2004 – Assistant Professor (full time), IWM, TU Wien
30 September 2005
1 October 2008 – Head of ORDYS
12 March 2009
1 November 2008 – Deputy Head of IWM
12 March 2009
Since 1 October 2005 Associate Professor (full time), IWM, TU Wien
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Teaching Experience at the Vienna University of Technology
Exercises
• Methoden der Optimierung (Methods of Optimization) (SS 96, SS 97, SS 99, SS 00,
SS 01, SS 02)
• Einführung in die Planungsmathematik (Introduction into Operations Research
Methods and Applications) (WS 96/97, WS 98/99)
• Operations Research 1 (Static Optimization) (WS 96/97, WS 99/00)
• Operations Research 2 (Dynamic Optimization) (SS 97, SS 01, SS 02, SS 04)
• AKOR Mathematische Optimierung – Nichtlineare Programmierung (Nonlinear
Programming) (SS 00, WS 00/01, WS 01/02, WS 02/03, WS 03/04, WS 04/05,
WS 05/06, WS 06/07, WS 07/08, WS 08/09)
• Angewandtes Operations Research, Uebung (Applied Operations Research) (SS
05, SS 06, SS 07, SS 08, SS 09, SS 10)
• Nichtlineare Optimierung (Nonlinear Optimization) (WS 09/10)
Courses
• Operations Research 1 (Static Optimization) (WS 97/98, WS 98/99, WS 99/00)
• Operations Research 2 (Dynamic Optimization) (SS 98, SS 01, SS 02, SS 03, SS 04)
• AKOR Mathematische Optimierung – Nichtlineare Programmierung (Nonlinear
Programming) (SS 00, WS 00/01, WS 01/02, WS 02/03, WS 03/04, WS 04/05,
WS 05/06, WS 06/07, WS 07/08, WS 08/09)
• Gebiete der Technischen Mathematik (Fields of Technical Mathematics) (WS
02/03, WS 03/04, WS 04/05, WS 05/06, SS 07, SS 08, SS 09, SS 10)
• AKOR Mathematische Drogenmodelle - Initiation, Prävention, Therapie
(Mathematical Drug Models – Initiation, Prevention, Treatment) (SS 03, SS 04, SS
05, SS 06, SS 07, SS 08, SS 09, SS 10)
• Angewandtes Operations Research (Applied Operations Research) (SS 05, SS 06,
SS 07, SS 08, SS 09, SS 10)
• Nichtlineare Optimierung (Nonlinear Optimization) (WS 09/10)
Practical Courses
• Informatik und Operations Research (Informatics and Operations Research) (WS
98/99)
• AKOR Projektpraktikum aus Technischer Mathematik (Practical Course on
Technical Mathematics) (WS 01/02, WS 02/03, WS 03/04, WS 04/05, WS 05/06,
WS 06/07, WS 07/08, WS 08/09, WS 09/10)
Seminars
• Privatissimum für Diplomanden und Dissertanten (Seminar for Master’s and Ph.D.
Students) (WS 05/06, WS 06/07, WS 07/08, WS 08/09, WS 09/10)
• Seminar für DiplomandInnen und DissertantInnen (Seminar for Master’s and Ph.D.
Students) (SS 06, SS 07, SS 08, SS 09, SS 10)
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Co-Supervision of Master’s Theses (Assistant to Gustav Feichtinger)
at the Institute for Econometrics, Operations Research and Systems
Theory (as of January 1 st , 2004: IWM), TU Wien
• Martina Scheirer, 1995:
Modellierung, Regelung und Analyse von Verkehr mit Hilfe von zellulären Automaten
• Maria Dworak, 1999:
A Dynamic Model of Drug Enforcement and Property Crime
ÖGOR – Diplomarbeitspreis 2000 (Austrian OR Society Master’s Theses Award 2000)
• Milica Jankovic, 2000:
Optimal Mix of Drug Enforcement in Light and Heavy Users’ Networks
• Julia Balta, 2002:
Optimal Control of Methadone Treatment in Preventing Blood-Borne Disease
GOR – Diplomarbeitspreis 2002 (German OR Society Master’s Theses Award 2002)
• Claudia Knoll, 2002:
Modeling the US Cocaine Epidemic: Dynamic Trajectories of Initiation and Demand I
• Karin Mautner, 2002:
A Dynamic One-State Two-Control Optimization Model of the Current Australian
Heroin Problem
• Doris Winkler, 2002:
Controlling the US Cocaine Epidemic: Estimating the Relative Efficiency of Six Types of
Prevention Programs
• Doris Zuba, 2002:
Modeling the US Cocaine Epidemic: Dynamic Trajectories of Initiation and Demand II
• Florian Großlicht, 2003:
Optimal Dynamic Allocation of Prevention and Treatment in a Model of the Australian
Heroin Epidemic
• Joachim Morawetz, 2003:
Sensitivity Analysis in an Optimal Control Model of the Australian Heroin Epidemic
• Florian Moyzisch, 2003:
Sensitivity Analysis in a One-State Three-Control Model of the U.S. Cocaine Epidemic
• Irmgard Zeiler, 2004:
Prevention, Treatment and Law Enforcement in an Optimal Control Model of Cocaine
Use in the USA
• Nina Swaton, 2005:
Optimal Dynamic Allocation of Prevention, Treatment and Law Enforcement in a One-
State Model of the U.S. Cocaine Epidemic
• Dagmar Wallner, 2005:
Optimal Control of the U.S. Cocaine Epidemic: Traditional Approach vs. Harm
Reduction
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Co-Supervision of PhD Theses (Assistant to Gustav Feichtinger) at the
IWM, TU Wien
• Dieter Graß, 2004:
DNS Points, DNS Thresholds and Regions of Multiple Optimal Solutions in the Light of
Global and Local Optimality
• Claudia Knoll & Doris Zuba, 2004:
Dynamic Models of the US Cocaine Epidemic: Modeling Initiation and Demand and
Computing Optimal Controls
Supervision of Master’s Theses at the IWM, TU Wien
• Stefanie Rudel, 2006:
Optimal Dynamic Harm Reduction in Models of Illicit Drug Consumption
• Roswitha Bultmann, 2007:
The Impact of Supply Shocks on Optimal Dynamic Drug Policies
Bank Austria Creditanstalt Preis für Operations Research 2007
• Johannes Klinglmayr, 2007:
Verfahren zur Verschnittoptimierung
• Christian Gerstgrasser, 2008:
RatioAddict - Ein experimentelles Werkzeug zur Theorie der rationalen Abhängigkeit
• Angela Holzhacker, 2008:
An Analysis of Initiation in a Two-Stage Optimal Control Model of Illicit Drug
Consumption
• Andrea Ranner, 2009:
Supply and Demand in Three-State Dynamic Models of Australian IDU and U.S.
Cocaine Use
• Lena Silbermayr, 2009:
A Three-State Dynamic Model of Injection Drug Supply and Demand in Australia
• Lukas Singer, 2009:
Optimal Controls in Multi-Stage Models of Terrorism
• Hannes Demel, 2010:
Robust Project Portfolio Management and Optimal Budget Allocation between
Subportfolios
• Markus Bauchinger, 2010:
Optimierung der Ablaufplanung in Flexiblen Fertigungssystemen mit Anwendung des
Simulated Annealing Algorithmus
• Maria Huka, 2010:
Policy Implications in Dynamic Models of Drug Supply and Demand
• Stefanie Stiermaier, 2010:
Facility Location and Allocation Problems with Stochastic Customer Demand and
Immobile Servers
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Supervision of PhD Theses at the IWM, TU Wien
• Irmgard Zeiler, 2008:
Optimal Dynamic Control with DNSS Curves: Multiple Equilibria in Epidemic Models of
HIV/AIDS and Illicit Drug Use
• Dagmar Wallner, 2009:
Dynamic Models of Drug Users and Susceptibles: Optimal Mix of Use Reduction and
Harm Reduction in Australia and the U.S.A.
Current Master’s Students at the IWM, TU Wien
• Ida Bindea (topic to be specified)
• Reka Horvath (Optimal Control of Immigration)
• Elke Moser (Optimal Control of Pollution)
• Florian Müller (Queueing Models)
• Roman Wanek (Optimal Crew Assignment)
Current PhD Students at the IWM, TU Wien
• Roswitha Bultmann (Stochastic Skiba/DNSS Sets)
• Christoph Lanz (Passenger-Oriented Airport Operations Management)
External referee for PhD thesis by M.R. Agrawal on Dynamics and Control of
Drug User Populations, University of South Australia, School of Mathematics and
Statistics, Division of Information Technology Engineering and the Technology,
Adelaide, Australia (Defense on June 2, 2006)
Guest Professorships
• At the Academia Istropolitana Nova, Svätý Jur, Slovak Republic:
Lecture on Operations Research: Techniques and Applications (Spring 99)
• At the Institute for Advanced Studies (IHS), Vienna, Austria:
Lecture on Mathematics (Winter Term 2006)
• At the University of Applied Sciences (FH St. Pölten), St. Pölten, Austria:
Lecture and Exercises on Optimization (Winter Term 2009/10)
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Invited Visits for Research Purposes
• 1997 (May 14-28), 1998 (June 21 – July 5), and 1999 (May 23 – June 6): H. John Heinz
III School of Public Policy and Management, Carnegie Mellon University (CMU),
Pittsburgh, U.S.A. (Prof. Jonathan P. Caulkins)
• February 6-23, 2001: School of Mathematics, University of South Australia (UNISA),
Adelaide, Australia (Prof. Jerzy Filar and Dr. C. Yalcin Kaya)
(Co-)Organization of Conferences and Workshops
• “Dynamic drug policy: Understanding and controling drug epidemics“,Vienna
International Centre (UNDCP) (May 22-24, 2000); jointly with Prof. Jonathan P.
Caulkins and Prof. Gustav Feichtinger
• „2 nd Workshop on Dynamic Drug Policy“,Vienna International Centre (UNDCP)
(May 27-29, 2002)
• Section “Control Theory, Systems Dynamics, Dynamic Games” at the International
Conference on Operations Research “Operations Research 2002”, Klagenfurt
(September 2-5, 2002); jointly with Prof. Markus Schwaninger (University of St.
Gallen, Switzerland)
• „The Mathematics of Public Security“, Austrian Academy of Sciences (April 7,
2006); jointly with Prof. Gustav Feichtinger
• Section “Systems Dynamics and Dynamic Modelling” at the International
Conference on Operations Research “Operations Research 2006”, Karlsruhe
(September 6-8, 2006); jointly with Prof. Erich Zahn (University of Stuttgart,
Germany)
• „The Mathematics of Public Security 2“, Austrian Academy of Sciences and Institute
for Advanced Studies (November 19-20, 2007); jointly with Prof. Gustav Feichtinger
• “Workshop on Drug Policy Modeling” to be held in conjunction with the “3 rd Annual
Meeting of the International Society for the Study of Drug Policy (ISSDP)”, UN Office
of Drugs and Crime, Vienna, Austria (March 4, 2009); jointly with Prof. Jonathan P.
Caulkins
• “11 th Workshop on Optimal Control, Dynamic Games and Nonlinear Dynamics”,
CeNDEF, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands (March 31 - June 2, 2010);
member of the program committee
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Selected Presentations
(list does not include presentations by co-authors)
21/03/96 Conference „Complex Modeling for Socio-Economic Systems“, Institute
for Advanced Studies, Vienna (March 21-23, 1996):
Socio-Economic Interactions in a Spatial Pollution Model
27/05/97 Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), H. John Heinz III School of Public
Policy and Management, Pittsburgh, U.S.A.:
How Does the Optimal Mix of Drug Control Interventions Vary Over the
Course of an Epidemic?
11/06/97 RAND, Drug Policy Research Center (DPRC), Santa Monica, U.S.A.:
Optimal Control of Illicit Drug Consumption
07/05/98 Workshop „Drug Use Research, Policy and Dynamic Modelling“,
European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA),
Lisbon, Portugal (May 7-9, 1998):
Optimal Control of Illicit Drug Consumption
15/04/99 Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany:
Dynamic models of illicit drug consumption
08/10/99 ÖGOR-Jahrestagung und Generalversammlung 1999, Institut für Statistik
und Operations Research, Universität Graz:
Optimal Control of Illicit Drug Consumption: Treatment versus Enforcement
19/10/99 Workshop „Social Interaction and Demographic Behavior“, Max Planck
Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany:
Modeling the Contagious Spread of Drug Initiation in Social Networks
22/05/00 Workshop „Dynamic drug policy: Understanding and controling drug
epidemics“,Vienna International Centre (UNDCP) (May 22-24, 2000):
Dynamic models of drug control resource allocation
23/05/00 Workshop „Dynamic drug policy: Understanding and controling drug
epidemics“,Vienna International Centre (UNDCP) (May 22-24, 2000):
Open research questions: conclusions from past dynamic drug models
24/05/00 „Seventh Viennese Workshop on Optimal Control, Dynamic Games and
Nonlinear Dynamics: Theory and Applications in Economics and OR/MS“,
Vienna (May 24-26, 2000):
Dynamic Drug Policy
25/05/00 „Seventh Viennese Workshop on Optimal Control, Dynamic Games and
Nonlinear Dynamics: Theory and Applications in Economics and OR/MS“,
Vienna (May 24-26, 2000):
Dechert-Nishimura-Skiba Thresholds and Curves in Applied Optimal
Control
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24/10/00 „Expert Meeting on Drug Markets and Modelling“, European Monitoring
Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA), Lisbon, Portugal
(October 23-24, 2000):
Dynamics and Control of Illicit Drug Consumption: Past, Actual, and Future
Research Work from the “Vienna Group”
15/02/01 Drug and Alcohol Services Council (DASC), Adelaide, South Australia:
Some Experiences from Analyzing the Current U.S. Cocaine Epidemic and
Possible Future Research Work for the „UNISA Group“
21/02/01 University of South Australia (UNISA), School of Mathematics, Adelaide,
South Australia:
Nonlinear Dynamical Systems and Optimal Control: Applications to Illicit
Drugs and a Few Techniques
31/01/02 „Tag der offenen Tür der Institute für Mathematik”, Vienna University of
Technology:
Mathematische Modelle zur Drogenbekämpfung
05/03/02 “13th International Conference on the Reduction of Drug Related Harm”,
Ljubljana, Slovenia, (March 3-7, 2002):
Dynamic Drug Policy: The Optimal Treatment and Prevention Mix
13/03/02 “Workshop on Optimal Vaccination Policies and Related Issues”, Vienna
University of Technology (March 12-13, 2002):
Dynamic Drug Policy: The Optimal Treatment and Prevention Mix
27/05/02 „2 nd Workshop on Dynamic Drug Policy“, Vienna International Centre
(UNDCP) (May 27-29, 2002):
Seven Years of Dynamic Drug Models and What’s Coming Next
03/09/02 “Operations Research 2002”, Klagenfurt (September 2-5, 2002):
DNS Thresholds in Optimal Control of Illicit Drug Use
13/05/03 “Workshop on Skiba Problems”, Vienna University of Technology:
Multiple Steady States and DNS Thresholds in One-State Optimal Control
Models
14/05/03 “Eighth Viennese Workshop on Optimal Control, Dynamic Games and
Nonlinear Dynamics: Theory and Applications in Economics and OR/MS”,
Vienna (May 14-16, 2003):
DNS-Thresholds in a One-State Three-Control Model of the U.S. Cocaine
Epidemic
27/10/03 “Viennese Vintage Workshop”, Vienna (October 27-28, 2003):
Optimal Prevention Programs in an Age-Structured Drug Initiation Model
03/12/03 “Modellbildung mit zellulären Automaten”, Seminar über Modellbildung
und Simulation, Vienna:
Zelluläre Automaten: Theorie und Anwendungen
24/08/05 Habilitationskolloquium, Vienna University of Technology:
Multiple Equilibria in Optimal Control Models of Socio-Economic Processes
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09/01/06 „Wissenswertes aus der Mathematik”, Vienna (Vortragsreihe im
Wintersemester 2005/06):
Sozio-ökonomische Anwendungen der optimalen Kontrolltheorie
07/04/06 „The Mathematics of Public Security (MAPUSE)”, Austrian Academy of
Sciences, Vienna (April 7, 2006):
For Saud or Sand? Modeling the Implications of (Mis)Understanding
Objectives in the War on Terror
08/09/06 „Operations Research 2006”, Karlsruhe, Germany (September 6-8, 2006):
Optimal Dynamic Harm Reduction in Models of Illicit Drug Consumption
23/03/07 „First Annual Conference of the International Society for the Study of Drug
Policy, ISSDP”, Oslo, Norway (March 22-23, 2007):
How Should Drug Policy Respond to Market Disruptions?
31/05/07 „Research Seminar in Economic Theory”, University of Vienna, Austria:
Drug Prices, Elasticities, and Supply Shocks: An Optimal Control Approach
07/06/07 „6th International Conference on Large-Scale Scientific Computing”,
Sozopol, Bulgaria (June 5-9, 2007):
Modeling Supply Shocks in Optimal Control Models of Illicit Drug
Consumption
10/07/07 „22nd European Conference on Operational Research (EURO XXII)”,
Prague, Czech Republic (July 8-11, 2007):
Multiple Steady States and DNS(S) Curves in an Optimal Control Model of
Two Interacting Drug User Populations
03/04/08 „Second Annual Conference of the International Society for the Study of
Drug Policy, ISSDP”, Lisbon, Portugal (April 3-4, 2008):
Optimal use and harm reduction in drug epidemics
05/06/09 „7th International Conference on Large-Scale Scientific Computations”,
Sozopol, Bulgaria (June 4-8, 2009):
Stochastic Skiba Sets: An Example from Models of Illicit Drug
Consumption
06/07/09 „23nd European Conference on Operational Research (EURO XXIII)”,
Bonn, Germany (July 5-8, 2009):
A Dynamic Model of Drug Supply and Demand
01/06/10 „11 th Workshop on Optimal Control, Dynamic Games and Nonlinear
Dynamics”, Amsterdam, Netherlands (May 31 – June 2, 2010):
Multiple Equilibria and DNSS Curves in an Environmental Economic Growth
Model
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Research Projects Funded by the
• Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG)
• Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
• Austrian National Bank (ÖNB)
• Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF)
• Vienna Science and Technology Fund (WWTF)
Co-worker of Project funded by the FWF, Project No. P11711-OEK
„Dynamic Law Enforcement“
€ 164,636
Project start: November 1, 1996; Project end: April 30, 2001
Project leader: Prof. Gustav Feichtinger
Co-leader of Project funded by the FWF, Project No. P14060-G05
„Dynamics and Control of Illicit Drug Consumption“
€ 193,177
Project start: September 1, 2000; Project end: August 31, 2004
Project leader: Prof. Gustav Feichtinger
Deputy leader of Project funded by the ÖNB, Project No. 8466
„Optimal Control of Age-Structured Economic Models“
€ 58,138
Project start: December 1, 2000; Project end: May 31, 2002
Project leader: Prof. Gustav Feichtinger
Leader of Project funded by the ÖNB, Project No. 9414
„Path-Dependence in Relative Adjustment Cost Models“
€ 87,207
Project start: May 1, 2002; Project end: April 30, 2004
Assistant to Project funded by the FWF, Project No. P15618-G05
„A Vintage Capital Approach with Technological Progress in the Dynamics of the
Firm“
€ 226,156
Project start: October 1, 2002; Project end: September 30, 2006
Project leader: Prof. Gustav Feichtinger
Assistant to Project funded by the ÖNB, Project No. 10107
„Optimal Marketing Mix in New-Product Diffusion with Positive and Negative Word-of-
Mouth“
€ 80,000
Project start: April 1, 2003; Project end: March 31, 2005
Project leader: Prof. Gustav Feichtinger
Leader of Project funded by the FWF, Project No. P18161-N13
“Control of Heterogeneous Systems”
€ 227.808,00
Project start: September 1, 2005; Project end: August 31, 2009
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Assistant to Project funded by the FWF, Project No. P18527-G14
“Optimal Control of Illicit Drug Epidemics”
€ 261.272,00
Project start: January 1, 2006; Project end: December 31, 2009
Project leader: Prof. Gustav Feichtinger
Leader of Project funded by the ÖNB, Project No. 11712
„Optimal Dynamic Management of the Population Mix“
€ 70,000
Project start: January 1, 2006; Project end: March 31, 2009
Assistant to Project funded by the ÖNB, Project No. 12138
„Optimal Design of Counter-Terror Operations“
€ 80,000
Project start: August 1, 2006; Project end: January 31, 2009
Project leader: Prof. Gustav Feichtinger
Partner of Project funded by the QNRF
„Modeling Control of Infectious Disease“
Project total: $ 132,153.91
Project start: January 1, 2008; Project end: June 30, 2008
Project leader: Prof. Jonathan P. Caulkins
Partner of Project funded by the WWTF, Mathematik und … Call 2007
„Agglomeration Processes in Ageing Societies“
€ 280,700 (Project total: € 517,700)
Project start: January 1, 2008; Project end: June 30, 2011
Project leader: Prof. Alexia Fürnkranz-Prskawetz
Partner of Project funded by the FFG, TAKE OFF Call 2007
„Passenger Oriented Airport Operations Management“
€ 66,998 (Project total: € 371,889)
Project start: April 1, 2008; Project end: June 30, 2010
Project leader: Univ.Doz. Dietmar Bauer
Assistant to Project funded by the FWF, Project No. P21410-G16
“Multi-Stage Modelling of Market Disruptions”
€ 289.339,56
Project start: March 1, 2009; Project end: February 29, 2012
Project leader: Prof. Gustav Feichtinger
Assistant to Project funded by the FWF, Project No. I 476-N13
“Endogenous Heterogeneity and Periodicity in Dynamic Optimization Problems”
€ 293.492
Project start: July 1, 2010; Project end: June 30, 2013
Project leader: Prof. Vladimir Veliov
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Board Memberships and Commissions
• October 8, 1999 – November 10, 2006: Executive board member of the Austrian
Society for Operations Research (ÖGOR)
• January 2001 – December 2003: Member of the “Fachkommission Mathematik”
(faculty council) of the Faculty of Science and Informatics at the TU Wien
• January 2004 – December 2007: Deputy member of the “Fakultätsrat für
Mathematik und Geoinformation” (faculty council) of the Faculty of Mathematics
and Geoinformation at the TU Wien
• December 2004 – December 2008: Deputy member of the “Betriebsrat für das
wissenschaftliche Universitätspersonal“ (scientific staff association) at the TU Wien
• December 2005 – June 2006: Deputy member of the board of review for a
professorship in “Mathematical Analysis”, Faculty of Mathematics and
Geoinformation at the TU Wien [Berufungskommission]
• December 2006 – January 2007: Scientific member of the development team for
the program of study entitled “Communications & Simulation Engineering” at the
University of Applied Sciences (FH St. Pölten)
• December 2006 – June 2007: Member of the board of review for a professorship in
“Mathematical Economics”, Faculty of Mathematics and Geoinformation at the TU
Wien [Berufungskommission]
• May 16, 2007: Jury member for the high school computer simulation competition
“SimCon07” awarded by the University of Applied Sciences (FH St. Pölten)
(http://www.fhstp.ac.at/studium/technologie/computersimulation/newsstg/simcon
07-siegerinnen-ermittelt)
• Since September 28, 2007: Advisory board member of the Austrian Society for
Operations Research (ÖGOR)
• October 2007 – June 2008: Member of the board of review for a professorship in
“Operations Research”, Faculty of Mathematics and Geoinformation at the TU Wien
[Berufungskommission]
• Since January 2008: Member of the “Fakultätsrat für Mathematik und
Geoinformation” (faculty council) of the Faculty of Mathematics and Geoinformation
at the TU Wien
• April 2008 – October 2008: Member of the board of review for a venia docendi in
“Operations Research” for Doris A. Behrens, Faculty of Mathematics and
Geoinformation at the TU Wien [Habilitationskommission]
• December 2008 – June 2009: Member of the board of review for a professorship in
“Computational Partial Differential Equations”, Faculty of Mathematics and
Geoinformation at the TU Wien [Berufungskommission]
• As of October 2010: Deputy member of the Senate at the TU Wien
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In the Media
• Ungerboeck, L., 1998, “Mathematische Formeln gegen den Drogentod”, WOZU
(Journal für die wissenschaftliche Forschung), Nr. 12/6.98, 30-33.
• (author unknown), 2002, „Dynamik und Kontrolle des Drogenkonsums“, FWF
Jahresbericht 2001, 21.
• Report by the Austrian television under public law (ORF):
http://science.orf.at/science/news/9805
• Press release by the Institute for Operations Research and the Management
Sciences (INFORMS): http://www.informs.org/Press/drugwar02a.htm
• Report at the science section of the TU Wien homepage:
http://www.tuwien.ac.at/aktuelles/news_detail/article/3447/
• Report at the news section of the TU Wien homepage:
http://www.tuwien.ac.at/aktuelles/news_detail/article/2893/
• Press release by the TU Wien on the research project “Agglomeration processes in
ageing societies”: http://www.tuwien.ac.at/aktuelles/news_detail/article/5964/
Referee
• for the publishers
o Elsevier
o Kluwer
o RAND
• for the journals
o AIP Conference Proceedings
o Automatica
o Central European Journal of Operations Research
o Environmental Modeling and Assessment
o European Journal of Operational Research
o Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control
o Journal of Health Economics
o Management Science
o Mathematical Biosciences
o Mathematical and Computer Modelling of Dynamical Systems
o Operations Research
o OR Spectrum
o Socio-Economic Planning Sciences
Assoc.Prof.Dr. Gernot Tragler Vienna, June 2010
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List of Publications
Gernot Tragler
Associate Professor
(Ao.Univ.Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn.)
Argentinierstr. 8/105-4, A-1040 Wien, Austria
Email: tragler@eos.tuwien.ac.at
Phone: +43-1-58801-11920
Fax: +43-1-58801-11999
www: www.eos.tuwien.ac.at/OR/Tragler
Status: June 2010
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Monographs
Grass, D., J.P. Caulkins, G. Feichtinger, G. Tragler and D.A. Behrens, 2008, Optimal
Control of Nonlinear Processes – With Applications in Drugs, Corruption, and Terror
(Springer, Heidelberg), ISBN: 978-3-540-77646-8.
Edited Volumes
Caulkins, J.P., G. Feichtinger and G. Tragler (Eds.), 2001, “Dynamic Drug Policy:
Understanding and Controlling Drug Epidemics”, Special Issue of Bulletin on Narcotics
LIII(1-2).
Caulkins, J.P. and G. Tragler (Guest Editors), 2004, “Dynamic Drug Policy”, Special
Issue of Socio-Economic Planning Sciences 38(1).
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Journals (peer-reviewed)
Tragler, G., G. Feichtinger and H. Dawid, 1994-1995, „Optimal resource exploitation
may be chaotic“, Central European Journal for Operations Research and Economics 3(2),
111-122.
Behrens, D.A., J.P. Caulkins, G. Tragler, G. Feichtinger and J.L. Haunschmied, 1999, „A
dynamic model of drug initiation: implications for treatment and drug control“,
Mathematical Biosciences 159, 1-20.
Behrens, D.A., J.P. Caulkins, G. Tragler and G. Feichtinger, 2000, „Optimal control of
drug epidemics: prevent and treat - but not at the same time?“, Management Science
46(3), 333-347. [Reprinted in: Mangai Natarajan (ed.), 2010, Drug Abuse: Prevention
and Treatment (Ashgate Publishing Group, Farnham).]
Caulkins, J.P., M. Dworak, G. Feichtinger and G. Tragler, 2000, „Price-Raising Drug
Enforcement and Property Crime: a Dynamic Model”, Journal of Economics 71(3), 227-
253.
Almeder, C., J.P. Caulkins, G. Feichtinger and G. Tragler, 2001, „Age-Specific Multi-
State Initiation Models: Insights from Considering Heterogeneity“, Bulletin on Narcotics
LIII(1-2), 105-118.
Behrens, D.A. and G. Tragler, 2001, „The Dynamic Process of Dynamic Modeling: The
Cocaine Epidemic in the United States of America”, Bulletin on Narcotics LIII(1-2), 65-
78.
Caulkins, J.P., R.F. Hartl, G. Tragler and G. Feichtinger, 2001, „Why politics makes
strange bedfellows: a dynamic model with DNS curves“, Journal of Optimization Theory
and Applications 111(2), 237-254.
Tragler, G., J.P. Caulkins and G. Feichtinger, 2001, „Optimal dynamic allocation of
treatment and enforcement in illicit drug control“, Operations Research 49(3), 352-362.
Behrens, D.A., J.P. Caulkins, G. Tragler and G. Feichtinger, 2002, „Why presentoriented
societies undergo cycles of drug epidemics“, Journal of Economic Dynamics
and Control 26, 919-936.
Feichtinger, G., W. Grienauer and G. Tragler, 2002, „Optimal dynamic law
enforcement“, European Journal of Operational Research 141, 58-69.
Feichtinger, G. and G. Tragler, 2002, „Multiple Equilibria in an Optimal Control Model
for Law Enforcement“, Proceedings of the Steklov Institute of Mathematics 236, 449-460.
Fent, T., G. Feichtinger and G. Tragler, 2002, „A Dynamic Game of Offending and Law
Enforcement“, International Game Theory Review 4(1), 71-89.
Feichtinger, G., G. Tragler and V.M. Veliov, 2003, „Optimality Conditions for Age-
Structured Control Systems“, Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications 288, 47-
68.
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Almeder, C., J.P. Caulkins, G. Feichtinger and G. Tragler, 2004, „An age-structured
single-state drug initiation model – cycles of drug epidemics and optimal prevention
programs“, Socio-Economic Planning Sciences 38(1), 91-109.
Caulkins, J.P., D.A. Behrens, C. Knoll, G. Tragler and D. Zuba, 2004, “Markov Chain
Modeling of Initiation and Demand: The Case of the US Cocaine Epidemic”, Health
Care Management Science 7(4), 319-329.
Caulkins, J.P. and G. Tragler, 2004, „Dynamic drug policy: an introduction and
overview“, Socio-Economic Planning Sciences 38(1), 1-6.
Winkler, D., J.P. Caulkins, D.A. Behrens and G. Tragler, 2004, „Estimating the Relative
Efficiency of Various Forms of Prevention at Different Stages of a Drug Epidemic“,
Socio-Economic Planning Sciences 38(1), 43-56.
Caulkins, J.P., G. Feichtinger, D. Grass, M. Johnson, G. Tragler and Y. Yegorov, 2005,
„Placing the Poor While Keeping the Rich in Their Place: Separating Strategies for
Optimally Managing Residential Mobility and Assimilation“, Demographic Research 13,
1-34.
Caulkins, J.P., G. Feichtinger, D. Grass and G. Tragler, 2005, „A model of moderation:
Finding Skiba points on a slippery slope“, Central European Journal of Operations
Research 13(1), 45-64.
Caulkins, J.P., G. Feichtinger, M. Johnson, G. Tragler and Y. Yegorov, 2005, „Skiba
thresholds in a model of controlled migration“, Journal of Economic Behavior &
Organization 57, 490-508.
Gavrila, C., J.P. Caulkins, G. Feichtinger, G. Tragler and R.F. Hartl, 2005, “Managing
the reputation of an award to motivate performance”, Mathematical Methods of
Operations Research 61, 1-22.
Gavrila, C., G. Feichtinger, G. Tragler, R.F. Hartl and P.M. Kort, 2005, “Historydependence
in a rational addiction model”, Mathematical Social Sciences 49(3), 273-
293.
Caulkins, J.P., G. Feichtinger, C. Gavrila, A. Greiner, J.L. Haunschmied, P.M. Kort and
G. Tragler, 2006, “Dynamic Cost-Benefit Analysis of Drug Substitution Programs”,
Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications 128 (2), 279-294.
Caulkins, J.P., G. Feichtinger, J.L. Haunschmied and G. Tragler, 2006, “Quality Cycles
and the Strategic Manipulation of Value”, Operations Research 54 (4), 666 - 677.
Caulkins, J.P., A. Gragnani, G. Feichtinger and G. Tragler, 2006, “High and low
frequency oscillations in drug epidemics”, International Journal of Bifurcation and
Chaos 16(11), 3275-3289.
Caulkins, J.P., G. Feichtinger, D. Grass and G. Tragler, 2007, “Bifurcating DNS
Thresholds in a Model of Organizational Bridge Building”, Journal of Optimization
Theory and Applications 133 (1), 19-35.
Caulkins, J.P., G. Feichtinger, G. Tragler and V.M. Veliov, 2007, “Cycles of violence: A
dynamic control analysis”, European Journal of Operational Research 181(1), 350-361.
Bultmann, R., J.P. Caulkins, G. Feichtinger and G. Tragler, 2008, “How Should Drug
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Policy Respond to Market Disruptions?”, Contemporary Drug Problems 35(Summer-
Fall), 371-395.
Caulkins, J.P., D. Grass, G. Feichtinger and G. Tragler, 2008, “Optimizing counterterror
operations: Should one fight fire with “fire” or “water”?”, Computers &
Operations Research 35, 1874-1885.
Caulkins, J.P., G. Feichtinger, D. Grass and G. Tragler, 2009, “Optimal control of
terrorism and global reputation: A case study with novel threshold behavior”,
Operations Research Letters 37(6), 387-391.
Caulkins, J.P., G. Tragler and D. Wallner, 2009, “Optimal timing of use reduction vs.
harm reduction in a drug epidemic model”, International Journal of Drug Policy 20(6),
480-487.
Caulkins, J.P., G. Feichtinger, G. Tragler and D. Wallner, 2010, “When in a drug
epidemic should the policy objective switch from use reduction to harm reduction?”,
European Journal of Operational Research, 201(1), 308-318.
Zeiler, I., J.P. Caulkins, D. Grass and G. Tragler, 2010, “Keeping Options Open: An
Optimal Control Model with Trajectories that Reach a DNSS Point in Positive Time”,
SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization 48(6), 3698-3707.
Submissions to Peer-Reviewed Journals
Behrens, D.A., J.P. Caulkins, G. Tragler and G. Feichtinger, „Memory, contagion, and
capture rates: Characterizing the types of addictive behaviour that are prone to
repeated epidemics“ [status: 1 st revision resubmitted].
Zeiler, I., J.P. Caulkins and G. Tragler, “Optimal Control of Interacting Systems with a
DNSS property: The Case of Illicit Drug Use” [status: 1 st revision].
Zeiler, I., J.P. Caulkins and G. Tragler, „When Two Become One: Optimal Control of
Interacting Drug Epidemics“ [status: submitted].
Theses
Tragler, G., 1993, Zelluläre Automaten in der Ökologie und Epidemiologie, Master
Thesis, Abteilung für Algebra and Diskrete Mathematik, Technische Universität Wien.
Supervisor: Dietmar Dorninger.
Tragler, G., 1998, Optimal Control of Illicit Drug Consumption: Treatment versus
Enforcement, PhD Thesis, Institut für Ökonometrie, Operations Research und
Systemtheorie, Technische Universität Wien. Supervisor: Gustav Feichtinger.
[Austrian Society for Operations Research (ÖGOR) – 1999 Theory Award]
Tragler, G., 2005, Multiple Equilibria in Optimal Control Models of Socio-Economic
Processes, Habilitation Thesis, Faculty of Mathematics and Geoinformation, Vienna
University of Technology.
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Contributions in Multiauthor Books (peer-reviewed)
Tragler, G., 2000, „Optimal Controls in Spatial Advertising Diffusion Models“, in
Dockner, E., R.F. Hartl, M. Luptacik and G. Sorger (eds.), Optimization, Dynamics and
Economic Analysis: Essays in Honour of Gustav Feichtinger (Physica, Berlin), 288-297.
Feichtinger, G. and G. Tragler, 2002, „Skiba Thresholds in Optimal Control of Illicit
Drug Use“, in Zaccour, G. (ed.), Optimal Control and Differential Games. Essays in honor
of Steffen Jorgensen (Kluwer, Boston), 3-21.
Feichtinger, G. and G. Tragler, 2004, „Ein dynamischer Kosten-Nutzen-Ansatz zur
Drogenabhängigkeit“, in F. Tretter, B. Erbas and G. Sonntag (Hrsg.), Ökonomie der
Sucht und Suchttherapie (Pabst Science Publishers, Lengerich), 373-394.
Tragler, G., 2004, “Modelling policy options to control problem drug use”, in Jager, J.,
W. Limburg, M. Kretzschmar, M. Postma and L. Wiessing (eds.), EMCDDA Scientific
Monograph Series No. 7: Hepatitis C and injecting drug use: impact, costs and policy
options (Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, Luxembourg),
179-195.
Behrens, D.A., J.P. Caulkins, G. Feichtinger and G. Tragler, 2007, „Incentive
Stackelberg Strategies for a Dynamic Game on Terrorism“, in Jorgensen, S., M.
Quincampoix and T.L. Vincent (eds.), Advances in Dynamic Game Theory: Numerical
Methods, Algorithms, and Applications to Ecology and Economics (Birkhäuser, Basel),
459-486.
Bultmann, R., J.P. Caulkins, G. Feichtinger and G. Tragler, 2008, “Modeling Supply
Shocks in Optimal Control Models of Illicit Drug Consumption”, in Lirkov, I., S.
Margenov and J. Wasniewski (eds.), Large-Scale Scientific Computing (Springer,
Heidelberg), 285-292.
Bultmann, R., G. Feichtinger and G. Tragler, 2010, “Stochastic Skiba Sets: An Example
from Models of Illicit Drug Consumption”, in Lirkov, I., S. Margenov and J. Wasniewski
(eds.), Large-Scale Scientific Computing (Springer, Heidelberg), 239-246.
Other Publications
Feichtinger, G., G. Tragler and D.A. Behrens, 1998, „Optimale Kontrolle des
Drogenkonsums“, OR News Juli(3), 6-12.
Behrens, D.A., G. Feichtinger and G. Tragler, 2001, „Wer nicht lernen will, muß
fühlen!“, OR News November(13), 5-9.
Feichtinger, G., G. Tragler and D.A. Behrens, 2006, „Optimale Kontrolle des
Drogenkonsums“, OR News, Sonderausgabe, 105-110.
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Selected Research Reports and Working Papers
(list does neither include submissions nor working papers that have meanwhile
resulted in a journal publication)
Tragler, G. and P. Baumann, 1992, „Chaos im Bierzelt“, Research Report 159, Institut für
Ökonometrie, Operations Research und Systemtheorie, Technische Universität Wien.
Tragler, G., 1995, „Chaos in a cellular automaton advertising model“, Research Report
182, Institut für Ökonometrie, Operations Research und Systemtheorie, Technische
Universität Wien.
Tragler, G., 1995, „A simple economic cellular automaton model exhibiting chaotic
behaviour“, Research Report 185, Institut für Ökonometrie, Operations Research und
Systemtheorie, Technische Universität Wien.
Mehlmann, A. and G. Tragler, 1996, „Socio-economic interactions in a spatial pollution
model“, Research Report 202, Institut für Ökonometrie, Operations Research und
Systemtheorie, Technische Universität Wien.
Tragler, G., 1996, „Chaotic behaviour in spatial advertising diffusion models“,
Research Report 205, Institut für Ökonometrie, Operations Research und
Systemtheorie, Technische Universität Wien.
Popovic, N., T. Ribarits and G. Tragler, 1998, „On drug enforcement and property
crime: an incapacitation model“, Research Report 218, Institut für Ökonometrie,
Operations Research und Systemtheorie, Technische Universität Wien.
Caulkins, J.P. and G. Tragler, 1999, „Modeling the spread of drugs within a social
network“, Research Report 241, Institut für Ökonometrie, Operations Research und
Systemtheorie, Technische Universität Wien.
Caulkins, J.P., G. Feichtinger, M.P. Johnson, G. Tragler and Y. Yegorov, 2004, “Hidden
Strategic Challenges Posed by Housing Mobility Policy: An Application of Dynamic
Policy Modeling”, Working Paper 2004-9, H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and
Management, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA. (Presented at Association of
Public Policy Analysis and Management Fall Conference, Atlanta, GA, October 28,
2004.)
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