About

Here at TU Clausthal, we view business research as model-based planning.

Planning means the mental anticipation of future actions. In particular, decision alternatives are to be thought through, their effects determined and the influences of the various possible environmental developments analyzed. Finally, the decision alternatives are to be evaluated with regard to the objective or the various objectives of the decision maker.

A model is a generally simplified representation of reality obtained through abstraction. The model describes the essential relationships between decision variables in an adequate manner, so that the effects of alternative decisions can be examined on the model.

Current research and teaching focuses

Operations research is at the center of our teaching and research activities. Focus points of our research activities are

• Resource-restricted project planning
• Distribution planning
• Personnel deployment planning

Our teaching curriculum comprises lectures in the fields of

• Operations research
• Project and resource management
• Optimization heuristics
• Computer-aided modeling and optimization

as well as seminars and thesis supervision on a regular basis.