Share a ride… with a parcel
We just received the nice news that our paper “The Share-a-Ride Problem: People and Parcels Sharing Taxis” is accepted for publication in European Journal of Operational Research. This joint work […]
Manage your hinterland!
On February 24, 2014, Kristina Sharypova, one of my PhD students (which I jointly advised with my colleague Jan Fransoo) will present her PhD work. Her thesis is entitled: Optimization […]
Optimize your manufacturing system
Our paper with Frederico Cruz (see here for his homepage) is accepted for publication in the Journal of Applied Mathematics. This paper has been lying around for quite some time, […]
Can Students Handle Video?
Originally posted on Kevin Gue:
Last year I offered my undergraduate Stochastic Operations Research course both in live and video formats. Students could attend the lecture, view a video stream in real time, or choose to watch it later. I wrote about the results here. This year I offered the…
Leadership is not important
Nowadays, workshops, seminars and masterclasses in Logistics, Supply Chain Management, etc. are very often about Leadership. I think that is a very good evolution, as in the past focus was […]
Same day delivery, really needed?
More and more, I see e-stores advertising with next day delivery, and even same day delivery. Numerous examples coming from a fast search on the web are: A 90-minutes processing […]
The TomTom of the Future
On January 21, 2014, one of my PhD students, Derya Sever, will defend her thesis: Routing in Stochastic Networks (see here for the full version, available after 22/1/2014) This thesis […]
