• The Minimum Shift Design Problem / L. Di Gaspero, J. Gärtner, G. Kortsarz, N. Musliu, A. Schaerf, W. Slany / Annals of Operations Research, 155 (2007), 1; 79 - 105
• Theory and Practice of the Minimum Shift Design Problem / L. Di Gaspero, J. Gärtner, G. Kortsarz, N. Musliu, A. Schaerf, W. Slany / in: "In Metaheuristics: Progress as Real Problem Solvers, Ibaraki, Toshihide; Nonobe, Koji; Yagiura, Mutsunori (Eds.)", Springer, 2005, ISBN: 978-0-387-25382-4, 159 - 180
• A Heuristic Based System for Generation of Shifts with Breaks / J. Gärtner, N. Musliu, W. Slany / Talk: Twenty-fourth SGAI International Conference on Innovative Techniques and Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Cambridge, United Kingdom; 2004-12-13 - 2004-12-15; in: "Proceedings of the Twenty-fourth SGAI International Conference on Innovative Techniques and Applications of Artificial Intelligence", Springer, (2004), ISBN: 1-85233-908-x; 95 - 106
• Annotating the Legacy Web with Lixto / R. Baumgartner, G. Gottlob, M. Herzog, W. Slany / Talk: ISWC 2004, Hiroshima, Japan; 2004-11-09 - 2004-11-11
• Interactively Adding Web Service Interfaces to Existing Web Applications / R. Baumgartner, G. Gottlob, M. Herzog, W. Slany / Talk: International Symposium on Applications and the Internet, Tokyo, Japan; 2004-01-26 - 2004-01-31; in: "Proceedings of the 2004 International Symposium on Applications and the Internet (SAINT 2004)", IEEE, (2004), ISBN: 0-7695-2068-5; 74 - 80
• Local search for shift design / N. Musliu, A. Schaerf, W. Slany / European Journal of Operational Research, 153 (2004), 1; 51 - 64
• The MinimumShift Design problem: Theory and Pratice / L. Di Gaspero, J. Gärtner, G. Kortsarz, N. Musliu, A. Schärf, W. Slany / Talk: 11th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2003), Budapest, Ungarn; 2003-09-16 - 2003-09-19; in: "Proceedings of the 11th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms", Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2832 (2003), ISBN: 3-540-20064-9; 593 - 604
• A Hybrid Network flow Tabu Search for the Miimum Shift Design Poblem / L. Di Gaspero, J. Gärtner, G. Kortsarz, N. Musliu, A. Schärf, W. Slany / Talk: The 5th Metaheuristics International Conference, Kyoto, Japan; 2003-08-25 - 2003-08-28; in: "Proceedings ot The Fifth Metaheuristics International Conference", A. Schärf (ed.); (2003), 6 pages
• Theory and practice of the shift design problem / W. Slany / Talk: 4th international conference on the Practice And Theory of Automated Timetabling, Gent, Belgium (invited); 2002-08-21 - 2002-08-23; in: "Proc. of the 4th international conference on the Practice And Theory of Automated Timetabling (PATAT 2002)", E. Burke, P. DeCausmaecker (ed.); Kaho, Gent, Belgien (2002), ISBN: 90-806096-1-7; 53 - 56
• On Network Design Problems: Fixed Cost Flows and the Covering Steiner Problem / G. Even, G. Kortsarz, W. Slany / Talk: 8th Scandinavian Workshop on Algorithm Theory, Turku, Finland; 2002-07-03 - 2002-07-05; in: "8th Scandinavian Workshop on Algorithm Theory (SWAT), Lecture Notes in Computer Science", M. Pentonnen, E. Meineche Schmitt (ed.); Springer LNCS, 2368 (2002), ISBN: 3-540-43866-1; 318 - 329
• A Symmetric Strategy in Graph Avoidance Games / F. Harary, W. Slany, O. Verbitsky / in: "More Games of No Chance, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute Publications 42", R. Nowakowski (ed.); Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2002, ISBN: 0521808324, 369 - 381
• Efficient generation of rotating workforce schedules / N. Musliu, J. Gärtner, W. Slany / Discrete Applied Mathematics, 118 (2002), 1-2; 85 - 98
• Endgame Problems of Sim-like graph Ramsey avoidance games are PSPACE-complete / W. Slany / Theoretical Computer Science, Vol. 289 (2002), 1; 829 - 843
• Zyklische Schichtplanung / R. Fingerlos, J. Gärtner, N. Musliu, W. Slany / KI - Künstliche Intelligenz, 2 (2001), 1; 31 - 34
• Rota: A research project on algorithms for workforce scheduling and shift design optimisation / J. Gärtner, N. Musliu, W. Slany / AI Communications, 14 (2001), 2; 83 - 92
• Comparison of Iterative Improvement Techniques for Schedule Optimization / J. Dorn, M. Girsch, G. Skele, W. Slany / European Journal of Operational Research, (1996), 349 - 361

• Evolution of grid computing / Master Thesis by J. Hirtenfelder / Supervisor: W. Slany; Institut für Informationssysteme, Arbeitsbereich Datenbanken & Artificial Intelligence, 2006
• Problematik der nachträglichen Dokumentation einer Datenbankanwendung unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Unified Modeling Language / Master Thesis by M. Kummerer / Supervisor: W. Slany; Institut für Informationssysteme, 2003
• Erweiterung einer Webserver-Scriptingsprache um XQL - MetaHTML, XML und XQL / Master Thesis by M. Liehmann / Supervisor: G. Pfeifer, W. Slany; Institut für Informationssysteme, 2002
• Aspekte der IT-Security als technisches Gestaltungsziel aus Perspektive der Organisation / Master Thesis by O. Jorns / Supervisor: W. Slany; Institut für Informationssysteme, 2002
• Intelligent Search Methods for Workforce Scheduling: New Ideas and Practical Applications / Doctoral Thesis by N. Musliu / Supervisor, Reviewer: W. Slany; Institut für Informationssysteme, 2001
• Informations-Visualisierung bei der Personalplanung im Operating Hours Assistant / Master Thesis by B. Neziri / Supervisor: W. Slany; Institut für Informationssysteme, 2001
• Darstellung des Party-Problems der Ramsey Theory in Form eines Spieles / Master Thesis by C. Chavez-Niquen / Supervisor: W. Slany; Institut für Informationssysteme, 2001
• GLOF: A Collaborative Distributed Database - Design and Implementation / Master Thesis by R. Bihlmeyer / Supervisor: W. Slany, G. Pfeifer; Institut für Informationssysteme, 2001

• Heinz Zemanek Award from Austrian Computer Society
  1996 / Austria

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