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  1. Solving heterogeneous vehicle routing problems using decomposition and set covering

    Article • Computers & Operations Research, September 2026, Elsevier

    Dr. Stefan Minner

  2. Decompose-route-improve framework for solving large-scale vehicle routing problems with time windows

    Article • Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review, December 2025, Elsevier

    Dr. Stefan Minner

  3. Analysis of mutual benefit from information sharing and exchange between an online platform and a seller

    Article • European Journal of Operational Research, October 2025, Elsevier

    Dr. Stefan Minner

  4. Supply flexibility in two-echelon stochastic spare parts inventory systems with real-time pipeline information

    Article • European Journal of Operational Research, September 2025, Elsevier

    Dr. Stefan Minner

  5. The impact of initial inventory assumptions on cost performance in lot-sizing models

    Article • European Journal of Operational Research, August 2025, Elsevier

    Dr. Stefan Minner

  6. Auditing and training to incentivize sustainability in multi-tier supply chains: Substitutes or complements?

    Article • European Journal of Operational Research, August 2025, Elsevier

    Dr. Stefan Minner

  7. A data-driven approach for strategic inventory placement in multiechelon supply networks

    Article • European Journal of Operational Research, July 2025, Elsevier

    Dr. Stefan Minner

  8. Reduce-then-Optimize for the Fixed-Charge Transportation Problem

    Article • Transportation Science, April 2025, INFORMS

    Dr. Stefan Minner

  9. The more you buy, the more you pay? Commodity procurement under price uncertainty and market impact

    Article • Journal of the Operational Research Society, April 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Stefan Minner

  10. Understand your decision rather than your model prescription: Towards explainable deep learning approaches for commodity procurement

    Article • Computers & Operations Research, March 2025, Elsevier

    Dr. Stefan Minner

  11. Data-driven multi-location inventory placement in digital commerce

    Article • Computers & Industrial Engineering, February 2025, Elsevier

    Dr. Stefan Minner

  12. It’s All in the Mix: Technology choice between driverless and human-driven vehicles in sharing systems

    Article • European Journal of Operational Research, February 2025, Elsevier

    Dr. Stefan Minner

  13. From features to benefits: a data-driven approach for the economic design of adaptive quality control

    Article • International Journal of Production Research, December 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Stefan Minner

  14. Unveiling the supply chain: the interaction of sustainability, transparency and digital technologies

    Article • May 2024, Edward Elgar Publishing

    Dr. Stefan Minner

  15. How power structure and markup schemes impact supply chain channel efficiency under price-dependent stochastic demand

    Article • European Journal of Operational Research, May 2024, Elsevier

    Dr. Stefan Minner

  16. Paying Living Wages in Supply Chains: The Effects of Uncertainties, Coordination, and Competition

    Article • Production and Operations Management, February 2024, SAGE Publications

    Dr. Stefan Minner

  17. A data-driven approach for optimal operational and financial commodity hedging

    Article • European Journal of Operational Research, January 2024, Elsevier

    Dr. Stefan Minner

  18. Bilevel optimization for feature selection in the data-driven newsvendor problem

    Article • European Journal of Operational Research, January 2024, Elsevier

    Dr. Stefan Minner

  19. On the value of multi-echelon inventory management strategies for perishable items with on-/off-line channels

    Article • Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review, December 2023, Elsevier

    Dr. Stefan Minner

  20. Stochastic inventory routing with dynamic demands and intra-day depletion

    Article • Computers & Operations Research, December 2023, Elsevier

    Dr. Stefan Minner

  21. Inverse Optimization of Integer Programming Games for Parameter Estimation Arising from Competitive Retail Location Selection

    Article • European Journal of Operational Research, July 2023, Elsevier

    Dr. Stefan Minner

  22. Optimal Inventory Control with Cyclic Fixed Order Costs

    Article • Production and Operations Management, June 2023, Wiley

    Dr. Stefan Minner

  23. Equilibrium Identification and Selection in Finite Games

    Article • Operations Research, December 2022, INFORMS

    Dr. Stefan Minner

  24. Deep Learning for Commodity Procurement: Nonlinear Data-Driven Optimization of Hedging Decisions

    Article • INFORMS Journal on Optimization, December 2022, INFORMS

    Dr. Stefan Minner

  25. Recent Advances in Vehicle Routing with Stochastic Demands: Bayesian Learning for Correlated Demands and Elementary Branch-Price-and-Cut

    Article • European Journal of Operational Research, November 2022, Elsevier

    Dr. Stefan Minner

  26. A hedging policy for seaborne forward freight markets based on probabilistic forecasts

    Article • Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review, October 2022, Elsevier

    Dr. Stefan Minner

  27. A Branch-and-Repair Method for Three-Dimensional Bin Selection and Packing in E-Commerce

    Article • Operations Research, September 2022, INFORMS

    Dr. Stefan Minner

  28. Smart and Sustainable City Logistics: Design, Consolidation, and Regulation

    Article • European Journal of Operational Research, September 2022, Elsevier

    Dr. Stefan Minner

  29. The multi-manned joint assembly line balancing and feeding problem

    Article • International Journal of Production Research, July 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Stefan Minner

  30. Predictive and prescriptive performance of bike-sharing demand forecasts for inventory management

    Article • Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies, May 2022, Elsevier

    Dr. Stefan Minner

  31. Data‐driven storage operations: Cross‐commodity backtest and structured policies

    Article • Production and Operations Management, January 2022, Wiley

    Dr. Stefan Minner

  32. Empirical newsvendor biases: Are target service levels achieved effectively and efficiently?

    Article • Production and Operations Management, December 2021, Wiley

    Dr. Stefan Minner

  33. Location selection for hydrogen fuel stations under emerging provider competition

    Article • Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies, December 2021, Elsevier

    Dr. Stefan Minner

  34. Ambulance Dispatching during a Pandemic: Tradeoffs of Categorizing Patients and Allocating Ambulances

    Article • European Journal of Operational Research, December 2021, Elsevier

    Dr. Stefan Minner

  35. The Competitive Pickup and Delivery Orienteering Problem for Balancing Car-Sharing Systems

    Article • Transportation Science, October 2021, INFORMS

    Dr. Stefan Minner

  36. Tailoring inventory classification to industry applications: the benefits of understandable machine learning

    Article • International Journal of Production Research, August 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Stefan Minner

  37. Combating Copycats in the Supply Chain with Permissioned Blockchain Technology

    Article • Production and Operations Management, May 2021, Wiley

    Dr. Stefan Minner

  38. A supervised machine learning approach for the optimisation of the assembly line feeding mode selection

    Article • International Journal of Production Research, December 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Stefan Minner

  39. Dynamic compensation and contingent sourcing strategies for supply disruption

    Article • International Journal of Production Research, November 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Stefan Minner

  40. A Branch-and-Price Algorithm for the Vehicle Routing Problem with Stochastic Demands and Probabilistic Duration Constraints

    Article • Transportation Science, September 2020, INFORMS

    Prof Juan José Salazar González, Dr. Stefan Minner

  41. Data-Driven Optimization for Commodity Procurement Under Price Uncertainty

    Article • Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, August 2020, INFORMS

    Dr. Stefan Minner

  42. Human solution strategies for the vehicle routing problem: Experimental findings and a choice-based theory

    Article • Computers & Operations Research, August 2020, Elsevier

    Dr. Stefan Minner

  43. New Exact Algorithm for the Vehicle Routing Problem with Stochastic Demands

    Article • Transportation Science, June 2020, INFORMS

    Dr. Stefan Minner

  44. Planning approaches for stochastic capacitated lot-sizing with service level constraints

    Article • International Journal of Production Research, June 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Stefan Minner

  45. A linearisation approach to the stochastic dynamic capacitated lotsizing problem with sequence-dependent changeovers

    Article • International Journal of Production Research, March 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Stefan Minner

  46. Coordination Is Hard: Electronic Auction Mechanisms for Increased Efficiency in Transportation Logistics

    Article • Management Science, May 2019, INFORMS

    Dr. Stefan Minner

  47. A continuous approximation approach to the planar hub location-routing problem: Modeling and solution algorithms

    Article • Computers & Operations Research, December 2018, Elsevier

    Dr. Stefan Minner, Prof.dr. Tom Van Woensel

  48. Optimal a priori tour and restocking policy for the single-vehicle routing problem with stochastic demands

    Article • European Journal of Operational Research, October 2018, Elsevier

    Dr. Stefan Minner

  49. A typology and literature review on stochastic multi-echelon inventory models

    Article • European Journal of Operational Research, September 2018, Elsevier

    Dr. Stefan Minner

  50. Resequencing mixed-model assembly lines with restoration to customer orders

    Article • Omega, July 2018, Elsevier

    Dr. Stefan Minner

  51. Data-driven retail inventory management with backroom effect

    Article • OR Spectrum, February 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Stefan Minner

  52. Impact of priority sequencing decisions on on-time probability and expected tardiness of orders in make-to-order production systems with external due-dates

    Article • European Journal of Operational Research, December 2017, Elsevier

    Dr. Stefan Minner

  53. Dynamic pricing, leadtime quotation and due date based priority dispatching

    Article • International Journal of Production Research, November 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Stefan Minner

  54. Order variability in perishable product supply chains

    Article • European Journal of Operational Research, July 2017, Elsevier

    Dr. Stefan Minner

  55. Supplier selection under failure risk, quantity and business volume discounts

    Article • Computers & Industrial Engineering, February 2017, Elsevier

    Dr. Stefan Minner

  56. A coordinated multi-item inventory system for perishables with random lifetime

    Article • International Journal of Production Economics, November 2016, Elsevier

    Dr. Stefan Minner

  57. Mixed integer linear programming formulation for flexibility instruments in capacity planning problems

    Article • Computers & Industrial Engineering, July 2016, Elsevier

    Dr. Stefan Minner

  58. Benders decomposition for a strategic network design problem under NAFTA local content requirements

    Article • Omega, June 2016, Elsevier

    Dr. Stefan Minner

  59. Dual sourcing under disruption risk and cost improvement through learning

    Article • European Journal of Operational Research, April 2016, Elsevier

    Dr. Stefan Minner

  60. A dynamic discrete network design problem for maintenance planning in traffic networks

    Article • Annals of Operations Research, March 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Stefan Minner

  61. A VNS approach to multi-location inventory redistribution with vehicle routing

    Article • Computers & Operations Research, March 2016, Elsevier

    Dr. Stefan Minner

  62. Optimal capacity provision for service providers with subsequent auctioning of projects

    Article • International Journal of Production Economics, December 2015, Elsevier

    Dr. Stefan Minner

  63. Strategic capacity planning in automotive production networks under duties and duty drawbacks

    Article • International Journal of Production Economics, December 2015, Elsevier

    Dr. Stefan Minner

  64. A lost sales (r, Q) inventory control model for perishables with fixed lifetime and lead time

    Article • International Journal of Production Economics, October 2015, Elsevier

    Dr. Stefan Minner

  65. Stock-level dependent ordering of perishables: A comparison of hybrid base-stock and constant order policies

    Article • International Journal of Production Economics, October 2015, Elsevier

    Dr. Stefan Minner

  66. A contract for coordinating capacity decisions in a business-to-business (B2B) supply chain

    Article • International Journal of Production Economics, July 2015, Elsevier

    Dr. Stefan Minner

  67. Influence of order acceptance policies on optimal capacity investment with stochastic customer required lead times

    Article • European Journal of Operational Research, June 2015, Elsevier

    Dr. Stefan Minner

  68. Neuere Ansätze und Methoden zur Festlegung von Sicherheitsbeständen

    Article • January 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Stefan Minner

  69. Benders Decomposition for Discrete–Continuous Linear Bilevel Problems with application to traffic network design

    Article • Transportation Research Part B Methodological, December 2014, Elsevier

    Dr. Stefan Minner

  70. Simulation optimization for the stochastic economic lot scheduling problem with sequence-dependent setup times

    Article • International Journal of Production Economics, November 2014, Elsevier

    Dr. Stefan Minner

  71. First- and second-price sealed-bid auctions applied to push and pull supply contracts

    Article • European Journal of Operational Research, August 2014, Elsevier

    Dr. Stefan Minner

  72. Meta-heuristics for placing strategic safety stock in multi-echelon inventory with differentiated service times

    Article • Annals of Operations Research, July 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Stefan Minner

  73. Strategic Safety Stock Placement in Supply Networks with Static Dual Supply

    Article • Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, May 2014, INFORMS

    Dr. Stefan Minner

  74. A multiple sourcing inventory model under disruption risk

    Article • International Journal of Production Economics, March 2014, Elsevier

    Dr. Stefan Minner

  75. The data-driven newsvendor with censored demand observations

    Article • International Journal of Production Economics, March 2014, Elsevier

    Dr. Stefan Minner

  76. Time-phased safety stocks planning and its financial impacts: Empirical evidence based on European econometric data

    Article • International Journal of Production Economics, March 2014, Elsevier

    Dr. Stefan Minner

  77. A comparison of make-to-stock and make-to-order in multi-product manufacturing systems with variable due dates

    Article • IIE Transactions, December 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Stefan Minner

  78. An integrated guaranteed- and stochastic-service approach to inventory optimization in supply chains

    Article • European Journal of Operational Research, November 2013, Elsevier

    Dr. Stefan Minner

  79. On the Preference to Avoid Ex Post Inventory Errors

    Article • Production and Operations Management, October 2013, Wiley

    Dr. Stefan Minner

  80. A Semi-Markov decision problem for proactive and reactive transshipments between multiple warehouses

    Article • European Journal of Operational Research, October 2013, Elsevier

    Dr. Stefan Minner

  81. Optimizing Trading Decisions for Hydro Storage Systems Using Approximate Dual Dynamic Programming

    Article • Operations Research, August 2013, INFORMS

    Dr. Stefan Minner

  82. Simulation optimization for the stochastic economic lot scheduling problem

    Article • IIE Transactions, July 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Stefan Minner

  83. Modelling of Flexibility Costs in a Decision Support System for Mid-term Capacity Planning

    Article • Procedia CIRP, January 2013, Elsevier

    Dr. Stefan Minner

  84. Safety stock planning under causal demand forecasting

    Article • International Journal of Production Economics, December 2012, Elsevier

    Dr. Stefan Minner

  85. An (r, nQ) inventory model for packaged deteriorating products with compound Poisson demand

    Article • Journal of the Operational Research Society, November 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Stefan Minner

  86. Dynamic product acquisition in closed loop supply chains

    Article • International Journal of Production Research, June 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Stefan Minner

  87. Optimal composition of number and size of machines in a multi-stage make-to-order system with due dates

    Article • International Journal of Production Research, February 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Stefan Minner

  88. Economic lot-sizing and dynamic quantity competition

    Article • International Journal of Production Economics, September 2011, Elsevier

    Dr. Stefan Minner

  89. A comparison of the constant-order and dual-index policy for dual sourcing

    Article • International Journal of Production Economics, September 2011, Elsevier

    Dr. Stefan Minner

  90. Simultaneous optimization of capacity and planned lead time in a two-stage production system with different customer due dates

    Article • European Journal of Operational Research, August 2011, Elsevier

    Dr. Stefan Minner

  91. Financial and operational instruments for commodity procurement in quantity competition

    Article • International Journal of Production Economics, May 2011, Elsevier

    Dr. Stefan Minner

  92. Machine and labor flexibility in manufacturing networks

    Article • International Journal of Production Economics, May 2011, Elsevier

    Dr. Stefan Minner

  93. A hybrid general lot-sizing and scheduling formulation for a production process with a two-stage product structure

    Article • International Journal of Production Research, May 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Stefan Minner

  94. Incentive alignment at the manufacturing–marketing interface: Design and validation of a management game

    Article • Logistics Research, March 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Stefan Minner

  95. Forecasting and Inventory Management for Spare Parts: An Installed Base Approach

    Article • January 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Stefan Minner

  96. A continuous time dynamic optimal control manufacturing problem

    Article • International Journal of Inventory Research, January 2011, Inderscience Publishers

    Dr. Stefan Minner

  97. Manufacturing capacity planning and the value of multi-stage stochastic programming under Markovian demand

    Article • Flexible Services and Manufacturing Journal, December 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Stefan Minner

  98. Do Random Errors Explain Newsvendor Behavior?

    Article • Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, October 2010, INFORMS

    Dr. Stefan Minner

  99. Safety stock optimisation in distribution systems: a comparison of two competing approaches

    Article • International Journal of Logistics Research and Applications, March 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Stefan Minner

  100. Periodic review inventory-control for perishable products under service-level constraints

    Article • OR Spectrum, February 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Stefan Minner

  101. Optimal day-ahead trading and storage of renewable energies—an approximate dynamic programming approach

    Article • Energy Systems, January 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Stefan Minner

  102. The impact of dynamic pricing on the economic order decision

    Article • European Journal of Operational Research, November 2009, Elsevier

    Dr. Stefan Minner

  103. Raw material procurement with fluctuating prices

    Article • International Journal of Production Economics, October 2009, Elsevier

    Dr. Stefan Minner

  104. Strategic process flexibility under lifecycle demand

    Article • International Journal of Production Economics, October 2009, Elsevier

    Dr. Stefan Minner

  105. Manufacturing network configuration in supply chains with product recovery

    Article • Omega, August 2009, Elsevier

    Dr. Stefan Minner

  106. Dynamic pricing and replenishment in the warehouse scheduling problem—A common cycle approach

    Article • International Journal of Production Economics, March 2009, Elsevier

    Dr. Stefan Minner

  107. A comparison of simple heuristics for multi-product dynamic demand lot-sizing with limited warehouse capacity

    Article • International Journal of Production Economics, March 2009, Elsevier

    Dr. Stefan Minner

  108. Buyer–supplier cooperation and negotiation support with random yield consideration

    Article • International Journal of Production Economics, March 2009, Elsevier

    Dr. Stefan Minner

  109. Coordinated Lot-sizing and Dynamic Pricing under a Supplier All-units Quantity Discount

    Article • BuR - Business Research, May 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Stefan Minner

  110. Replenishment policies for multiple products with compound-Poisson demand that share a common warehouse

    Article • International Journal of Production Economics, July 2007, Elsevier

    Dr. Stefan Minner

  111. Bargaining for cooperative economic ordering

    Article • Decision Support Systems, March 2007, Elsevier

    Dr. Stefan Minner

  112. A note on how to compute economic order quantities without derivatives by cost comparisons

    Article • International Journal of Production Economics, January 2007, Elsevier

    Dr. Stefan Minner

  113. Convergence phases, variance trajectories, and runtime analysis of continuous EDAs

    Article • January 2007, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. Stefan Minner

  114. Multi-product batch replenishment strategies under stochastic demand and a joint capacity constraint

    Article • IIE Transactions, March 2005, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Stefan Minner

  115. Reverse logistics in a pharmaceutical company: the Schering case

    Article • January 2005, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Rainer Kleber, Dr. Stefan Minner

  116. A replenishment decision involving partial postponement

    Article • OR Spectrum, January 2005, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Stefan Minner

  117. Evaluation of two simple extreme transshipment strategies

    Article • International Journal of Production Economics, January 2005, Elsevier

    Dr. Stefan Minner

  118. Managing Dynamic Product Recovery: An Optimal Control Perspective

    Article • January 2004, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Rainer Kleber, Dr. Stefan Minner

  119. Modellgestützte Ermittlung und Verteilung von Kooperationsvorteilen in der Logistik

    Article • January 2004, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Stefan Minner

  120. Lot Sizing Decisions in Product Recovery Management

    Article • January 2004, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Stefan Minner

  121. Inventory Management in Closed Loop Supply Chains

    Article • January 2004, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Stefan Minner

  122. An improved heuristic for deciding on emergency transshipments

    Article • European Journal of Operational Research, July 2003, Elsevier

    Dr. Stefan Minner, Professor David Robb

  123. A two-echelon inventory system with supply lead time flexibility

    Article • IIE Transactions, February 2003, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Stefan Minner

  124. Multiple-supplier inventory models in supply chain management: A review

    Article • International Journal of Production Economics, January 2003, Elsevier

    Dr. Stefan Minner

  125. Simple expressions for finding recovery system inventory control parameter values

    Article • Journal of the Operational Research Society, January 2003, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Stefan Minner

  126. A continuous time inventory model for a product recovery system with multiple options

    Article • International Journal of Production Economics, September 2002, Elsevier

    Dr Rainer Kleber, Dr. Stefan Minner

  127. An environmental analysis of the reverse supply chain of SLI batteries

    Article • Resources Conservation and Recycling, August 2002, Elsevier

    Dr. Stefan Minner

  128. Book review

    Article • OR Spectrum, August 2001, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Stefan Minner

  129. Strategic safety stocks in reverse logistics supply chains

    Article • International Journal of Production Economics, May 2001, Elsevier

    Dr. Stefan Minner

  130. Optimal control of production and remanufacturing in a simple recovery model with linear cost functions

    Article • OR Spectrum, February 2001, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Rainer Kleber, Dr. Stefan Minner

  131. Optimal control of a one product recovery system with backlogging

    Article • IMA Journal of Management Mathematics, July 2000, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Rainer Kleber, Dr. Stefan Minner

  132. Strategic Safety Stocks in Supply Chains

    Article • January 2000

    Dr. Stefan Minner

  133. Optimierung strategischer Sicherheitsbestände in logistischen Ketten

    Article • January 1999, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Stefan Minner

  134. Safety stocks in multi-stage inventory systems under different service measures

    Article • European Journal of Operational Research, April 1998, Elsevier

    Dr. Stefan Minner

  135. Dynamic programming algorithms for multi-stage safety stock optimization

    Article • OR Spectrum, December 1997, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Stefan Minner

  136. Dynamic programming algorithms for multi-stage safety stock optimization

    Article • OR Spectrum, January 1997, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Stefan Minner

  137. Behavioral Decisions in Inventory Systems with Dual Sourcing Option: An Experiment

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Social Science Electronic Publishing

    Dr. Stefan Minner

  138. Fitness Landscape Analysis of Dynamic Multi-Product Lot-Sizing Problems with Limited Storage

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Stefan Minner

  139. Comparison of Stochastic- and Guaranteed-Service Approaches to Safety Stock Optimization in Supply Chains

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Stefan Minner

  140. Capacity Investment and Pricing Decisions in a Single-Period, Two-Product-Problem

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Stefan Minner

  141. Simultaneous Dynamic Pricing and Lot-sizing Decision for a Discrete Number of Price Variations

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Stefan Minner

  142. Decomposition of Dynamic Single-Product and Multi-product Lotsizing Problems and Scalability of EDAs

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Stefan Minner

  143. Learning Structure Illuminates Black Boxes – An Introduction to Estimation of Distribution Algorithms

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Stefan Minner