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Our research focuses on all aspects of Business Analytics with a focus on methods from the area of prescriptive analytics/operations research.

Institut of Business Analytics and Technology Transformation

Address

Johannes Kepler Universität Linz
Altenberger Straße 69
4040 Linz

Location

House of Schools 1
2nd Floor

Office Hours (Secretary)

Mo-Thu: 08.00 AM - 01.00 PM

Telephone

+43 732 2468 5601

E-Mail

branka.zehetner(at)jku.at

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News & Events

News 07.10.2025

New publication by C. Brandstetter, M. Sinnl (BATT) in Networks (VHB A)

The paper "Mixed‐Integer Linear Programming Approaches for Nested p‐Center Problems With Absolute and Relative Regret Objectives" by Christof Brandstetter and Markus Sinnl (Institut für Business Analytics and Technology Transformation) appears in Networks (VHB A).

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News 30.09.2025

C. Brandstetter, M. Sinnl (BATT) @ EUCCO 2025

C. Brandstetter, M. Sinnl attended the European Conference on Computational Optimization 2025 in Klangenfurt and gave talks on "Peeking inside the epsilon-constraint method: A computational study for the Bi-objective Single-Row Facility Layout Problem" and "On solving certain classes of integer bilevel nonlinear problems via disjunctive cuts"

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News 25.09.2025

M. Sinnl (BATT) @ EWGLA 2025

M. Sinnl attended the 30th Meeting of the EURO Working Group on Locational Analysis in Jerez and gave a talk on "On integer programming models for the obnoxious p-median problem".

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News 11.08.2025

PhD Summer School in Krems

In July 2025, Christof Brandstetter attended the PhD Summer School at the University for Continuing Education Krems. The interdisciplinary event brought together doctoral students from various disciplines and offered an intensive program of lectures, workshops, and discussions. The lectures were given by:

Tobias Harks (University of Passau): Pricing in Resource Allocation Games
Christina Büsing (University of Aachen): Dealing with uncertainty: robustness in combinatorial optimization

The Summer School also provided a valuable platform for exchange with international colleagues and experts.

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„Analytics for a better world“

Markus Sinnl
Head of Institute

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