I’m co-chairing the 15th International Conference on the Integration of Constraint Programming, Artificial Intelligence, and Operations Research (CPAIOR) with Willem-Jan van Hoeve. It will be will be held in Delft, The Netherlands, June 26-29, and co-located with the 28th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS). We have just sent out …
Last week I started at the Dutch Railways in Bob Huisman’s group on Maintenance Research and Development as a scientific advisor, for one day a week. My aim is to support and further increase the exchange of knowledge and experience between Dutch Railways and Delft University of Technology. I aim …
State-of-the-art in-car navigation systems contribute to preventing road congestion, because avoiding traffic jams helps dissolving it. Currently, the more advanced systems already are using both historic travel times as well as recently observed travel times to estimate future travel times for road segments, and base their route navigation advice upon …
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 …
Our master’s level course on Economics and Computation is given in the form of a seminar, using the principle of “learning by teaching“. We are quite happy with the current setup, so here I’d like to share some of the details. The objectives of the course are first, that students can recognize situations …
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 …
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 …
After my pitch at the AMS Summer Event, the AMSTERDAM INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED METROPOLITAN SOLUTIONS published a nice article about our research on algorithms for flexibly charging electric vehicles.