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Funding awarded for project with Eindhoven in program Big Data: real time ICT for logistics

Geert-Jan van Houtum, Onno Boxma, Uzay Kaymak, Alp Akcay, Rik Eshuis, Willem van Jaarsveld, Stella Kapodistria, and Yingqan Zhang from Eindhoven University and Sicco Verwer and me from Delft have been awarded a grant for our research proposal on Real-time data-driven maintenance logistics with support from Philips, Fokker, and Nederlandse Spoorwegen. Sicco and I will work with a …

Economics and Computation

Computer Science (CS) students need to learn about more than just pure CS. With the advancement of electronic markets, game theory turns out to be relevant for CS in many real-life situations. Where before, the matching of residents to hospitals and of kidney donors to patients through a nation-wide program were …

Scheduling on Board a Navy Vessel

On board of a navy vessel there many activities need to be performed by the crew. When assigning these activities to crew members certain constraints have to be taken into account, such as that crew members can only perform one activity at a time, some activities can be carried out only by a subset …