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Accepted for publication
  • bulletEnhancing aggregate production planning with an integrated stochastic queuing model (forthcoming)
    Hahn G, Kaiser C, Kuhn H, Perdu L, Vandaele N, 2012, vol. accepted
  • bulletA multilevel integrative approach to hospital case mix and capacity planning (Forthcoming)
    Ma G, Demeulemeester E, 2012, Computers & Operations Research, vol. Accepted
  • bulletOn the interaction between roadrunner or railway scheduling and priority lists or resource flow (Forthcoming)
    Tian W, Demeulemeester E, 2012, Flexible Services and Manufacturing Journal, vol. accepted
  • bulletImproving workforce scheduling of aircraft line maintenance at Sabena Technics
    Beliën J, Demeulemeester E, Cardoen B, 2011, Interfaces, vol. accepted
  • bulletOperating room planning and scheduling problems: A classification scheme
    Cardoen B, Demeulemeester E, Beliën J, 2011, International Journal of Health Management and Information, vol. accepted
  • bulletDiscussion of 'Probabilistic estimation and allocation of project time contingency' by Gabriel A. Barraza
    Herroelen W, 2011, Journal of Construction Engineering & Management, vol. accepted
  • bulletExpected improvement in efficient global optimization through bootstrapped kriging
    Kleijnen J, van Beers W, Van Nieuwenhuyse I, 2011, Journal of Global Optimization, vol. accepted
  • bulletExtending the production dice game
    Lambrecht M, Creemers S, Boute R, Leus R, 2011, International Journal of Operations & Production Management, vol. accepted

Articles written in reviewed international journals

Article written in scientific journals
  • bulletOptimal pooling of inventories with substitution: a literature review
    Deflem Y, Van Nieuwenhuyse I, 2011, Review of Business and Economics, vol. 56, no. 3, pp. 345 - 374.
  • bulletSetting staffing levels in an emergency department: opportunities and limitations of stationary queuing models
    Defraeye M, Van Nieuwenhuyse I, 2011, Review of Business and Economics, vol. 56, no. 1, pp. 73 - 100.

Article or part of books, published by international oriented publishers.
  • bulletModeling a hospital queueing network
    Creemers S, Lambrecht M, 2011, Queueing networks: a fundamental approach, pp. 767 - 798.
  • bulletCoordination of converging material flows
    De Boeck L, Vandaele N, 2011, Supply Chains under Uncertainty
  • bulletIn the gallery of celebrities
    Lambrecht M, 2011, Liber Amicorum Will Bertrand, pp. 119 - 125.
  • bulletThe financial impact of a rapid modeling issue: the case of lot sizing
    Vandaele N, Perdu L, 2010, Rapid Modeling and Quick Response, pp. 163 - 174.
  • bulletSupplier managed inventory in the OEM supply chain: the impact of relationship types on total costs and cost distribution
    Van Nyen P, Bertrand W, Van Ooijen H, Vandaele N, 2009, Supply Chain Planning, pp. 219 - 246.
  • bulletRapid modelling in a lean context
    Vandaele N, Van Nieuwenhuyse I, 2009, Rapid modelling for increasing competitiveness: Tools and mindset, pp. 163 - 173.

Announcements made at an international conference, fully published in proceedings
  • bulletOptimization of a stochastic logistics network with refurbishment and exchange options
    Colen P, Lambrecht M, Lieckens K, 2011, Proceedings of the APMS 2011 Conference - Advances in Production Management Systems, APMS 2011 (Stavanger (Norway)).
  • bulletOptimal pooling of inventories with one-way substitution
    Deflem Y, Van Nieuwenhuyse I, 2011, Rapid Modeling For Sustainability, Proceedings of the 3th Rapid Modeling Conference, vol. e-pub, Rapid Modeling Conference (Leuven (Belgium)).
  • bulletSetting staffing levels in emergency departments whilst controlling excessive waiting times
    Defraeye M, Van Nieuwenhuyse I, 2011, Rapid Modeling For Sustainability. Proceedings of the 3th Rapid Modeling Conference, vol. e-pub, Rapid Modeling Conference (Leuven (Belgium)).
  • bulletSetting staffing levels in emergency departments to control excessive waiting times
    Defraeye M, Van Nieuwenhuyse I, 2011, OR Informing National Health Policy, Proceedings of the 37th ORAHS conference, pp. 48 - 61, ORAHS 2011 (Cardiff (UK)).
  • bulletCross training policies in a maintenance field service organization
    Colen P, Lambrecht M, 2010, APMS 2010 International Conference Advances in Production Management Systems, pp. 1 - 7, APMS 2010 International Conference : Advances in Production Management systems (Cernobbio, Como (Italy)).
  • bulletProject scheduling with alternative technologies: incorporating varying activity duration variability
    Creemers S, Leus R, De Reyck B, 2010, IEEM 2010, pp. 641 - 645, IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management (IEEM 2010) (Macau (China)).
  • bulletComparing league formats with respect to match (un)importance: a case study in Belgian soccer
    Goossens D, Beliën J, 2010, Progress in Industrial Mathematics at ECMI 2008, Mathematics in Industry, vol. 15, pp. 475 - 480, European Conference on Mathematics for Industry (ECMI) (London (United Kingdom)).
  • bulletThe operations-finance interface: an example from lot sizing
    Vandaele N, Perdu L, 2010, 2010 7th International Conference on Services Systems and Services Management : Proceedings of ICSSSM’10, pp. 532 - 537, International Conference on Service Systems and Service Management (IEEE - ICSSSM10) (Tokyo (Japan)).
  • bulletR&D project planning with multiple trials in uncertain environments
    Creemers S, De Reyck B, Leus R, 2009, Industrial engineering andengineering management, pp. 325 - 329, 2009 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management (IEEM 2009) (Hong Kong (China)).
  • bulletSolving the strategic case mix problem optimally by using branch-and-price algorithms
    Ma G, Beliën J, Demeulemeester E, Wang L, 2009, Rethinking health services management, International Conference on Operational Research Applied to Health Services (ORAHS) (Leuven (Belgium)).
  • bulletTurning lot sizing into the financials of the firm
    Vandaele N, Perdu L, 2009, Stochastic Models of Manufacturing and Service Operations (Brindisi (Italy)).

Announcements made at an international conference, whether the abstract is published or not
  • bulletA column generation approach for building tactical waste collection schemes
    Beliën J, 2011, ORBEL (Ghent (Belgium)).
  • bulletThe optimal allocation of safety time in a two-station serial production system
    Claerhout D, Vandaele N, 2011, Rapid Modeling Conference (Leuven (Belgium)).
  • bulletProject scheduling with alternative technologies: incorporating varying activity duration variability
    Creemers S, De Reyck B, Leus R, 2011, POMS 22nd Annual Conference (Reno (US)).
  • bulletA new approach for quantitative risk analysis
    Creemers S, Demeulemeester E, Van de Vonder S, 2011, ORBEL (Ghent (Belgium)).
  • bulletProject scheduling with alternative technologies: incorporating varying activity duration variability
    Creemers S, Leus R, De Reyck B, 2011, Triennial Conference of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies (IFORS2011) (Melbourne (Australia)).
  • bulletFactors influencing operating room throughput and idle time: a statistical analysis
    De Boeck L, Beliën J, Colpaert J, Meulders M, Sels A, Mulier J, 2011, Rapid Modeling Conference (Leuven (Belgium)).
  • bulletOptimal pooling of inventories with one-way substitution
    Deflem Y, Van Nieuwenhuyse I, 2011, ISIR 2011 (Istanbul (Turkey)).
  • bulletManaging inventories with one-way substitution: a newsvendor analysis
    Deflem Y, Van Nieuwenhuyse I, 2011, Transformation (Informs 2011) (Charlotte, North Carolina (US)).
  • bulletControlling excessive waiting times in an emergency department through personnel capacity
    Defraeye M, Van Nieuwenhuyse I, 2011, TransfORmation (Informs 2011) (Charlotte, North Carolina (US)).
  • bulletCase mix planning in the health care sector: an integrative approach
    Demeulemeester E, 2011, Workshop on Health Care Services (Karlsruhe (Germany)).
  • bulletOptimization of a stochastic reverse logistics network with refurbishment and exchange options
    Lieckens K, Colen P, Lambrecht M, 2011, The Manufacturing & Service Operations Management Conference (Ann Arbor, Michigan (US)).
  • bulletOptimization of a Stochastic remanufacturing network with an exchange option
    Lieckens K, Colen P, Lambrecht M, 2011, Rapid Modeling Conference (Leuven (Belgium)).
  • bulletDifferential evolution to solve the lot size problem in stochastic production systems
    Lieckens K, Vandaele N, 2011, Rapid Modeling Confence (Leuven (Belgium)).
  • bulletA multilevel integrative approach to hospital case mix and capacity planning
    Ma G, Demeulemeester E, 2011, ORBEL (Ghent (Belgium)).
  • bulletHospital case mix and capacity planning: a model-based integrative approach
    Ma G, Demeulemeester E, 2011, ORAHS 2011 (Cardiff (UK)).
  • bulletRapid modeling for integrated decision making
    Perdu L, Vandaele N, 2011, Rapid Modeling Conference (Leuven (Belgium)).
  • bulletAn integrated simulation approach for an aircraft line maintenance staffing and scheduling problem
    Van den Bergh J, Beliën J, Colpaert J, De Boeck L, Demeulemeester E, 2011, Rapid Modeling Conference (Leuven (Belgium)).
  • bulletA heuristic branch-and-bound approach for aircraft line maintenance staffing and scheduling
    Beliën J, Demeulemeester E, Cardoen B, 2010, European Conference on Operational Research (EURO XXIV) (Lisbon (Portugal)).
  • bulletProduct service systems as a vehicle for sustainability : exploring service operations strategies
    Colen P, Lambrecht M, 2010, Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Information Systems, Logistics and Supply Chain (ILS 2010), International Conference on Information Systems, Logistics and Supply Chain (ILS 2010) (Casablanca (Marocco)).
  • bulletCross training policy for a servitized company
    Colen P, Lambrecht M, 2010, International Workshop : Service Operations Management Forum (University of Bath School of Management (United Kingdom)).
  • bulletTactical risk management in the construction industry
    Creemers S, 2010, European Conference on Operational Research (EURO XXIV) (Lisbon (Portugal)).
  • bulletProject scheduling with alternative technologies and stochastic activity durations
    Creemers S, De Reyck B, Leus R, 2010, PMS'10 - International Workshop on Project Management and Scheduling (Tours (France)).
  • bulletA new approach for project risk analysis
    Creemers S, Demeulemeester E, Van de Vonder S, 2010, Energizing the future (INFORMS 2010) (Austin, Texas (US)).
  • bulletR&D project planning with multiple trials in uncertain environments
    Creemers S, Leus R, 2010, ORBEL 24 - annual conference of the Belgian Operational Research society (Liège (Belgium)).
  • bulletProactive execution policies for the stochastic RCPSP
    Deblaere F, Demeulemeester E, Herroelen W, 2010, Energizing the future (INFORMS 2010) (Austin, Texas (US)).
  • bulletOptimal risk pooling for raw material inventories: the use of substitution flexibility
    Deflem Y, Van Nieuwenhuyse I, 2010, Energizing the future (Informs 2010) (Austin, Texas (US)).
  • bulletSetting staffing levels under time-varying demand in the context of an emergency department
    Defraeye M, Van Nieuwenhuyse I, 2010, Energizing the future (INFORMS 2010) (Austin, Texas (US)).
  • bulletRailway scheduling reduces the expected project makespan
    Demeulemeester E, Tian W, 2010, International Conference on Project Management and Scheduling (Tours (France)).
  • bulletOn the interaction between railway scheduling and resource flow networks
    Demeulemeester E, Tian W, 2010, Energizing the future (INFORMS 2010) (Austin, Texas (US)).
  • bulletApplying critical chain scheduling and buffer management on the discrete time/resource trade-off problem
    Demeulemeester E, Tian W, 2010, European Conference on Operational Research (EURO XXIV) (Lisbon (Portugal)).
  • bulletReverse logistics network design: the impact of lead times and stochasticity
    Lieckens K, Vandaele N, 2010, International Conference on Information Systems, Logistics and Supply Chain (Casablanca (Morocco)).
  • bulletA multilevel integrated approach to case mix/capacity planning in the health care sector
    Ma G, Demeulemeester E, 2010, Energizing the future (INFORMS 2010) (Austin, Texas (US)).
  • bulletAssessing the performance of capacity planning through simulation analysis
    Ma G, Demeulemeester E, 2010, International Conference of the EURO Working Group on 'Operational Research Applied to Health Services' (ORAHS 2010) (Genova (Italy)).
  • bulletEvaluating the impact of case mix decisions on capacity utilizations through discrete-event simulation
    Ma G, Demeulemeester E, 2010, pp. 145 - 147, Annual Conference of the Belgian Operations Research Society (ORBEL 24) (Liège (Belgium)).
  • bulletThe Grouping of Customer Orders into Manufacturing Batches
    Vandaele N, Joye J, 2010, International Working Seminar on Production Economics (Innsbruck (Austria)).
  • bulletThe stochastic lot sizing problem from a financial perspective
    Vandaele N, Perdu L, 2010, International Conference on Information Systems, logistics and Supply Chain (Casablanca (Morocco)).
  • bulletLinking operations and finances: the stochastic lot sizing problem
    Vandaele N, Perdu L, 2010, INFORMS 2010 (Austin, Texas (US)).
  • bulletThe stochastic lot sizing problem from a financial perspective
    Vandaele N, Perdu L, 2010, CEMS (Riezlern (Austria)).
  • bulletThe stochastic lot sizing problem from a financial perspective
    Vandaele N, Perdu L, 2010, International Working Seminar on Production Economics (Innsbruck (Austria)).
  • bulletThe stochastic lot sizing problem from a financial perspective
    Vandaele N, Perdu L, 2010, International Workshop on Supply Chain Models for Shared Resource Management (Brussels (Belgium)).
  • bulletCoordinating a two-echelon supply chain with a flexible or an inflexible capacity structure
    Boute R, Lambrecht M, 2009, The Manufacturing & Service Operations Management Conference, MIT (Boston (US)).
  • bulletProject scheduling with alternative technologies and stochastic activity durations
    Creemers S, De Reyck B, Lambrecht M, Leus R, 2009, Proceedings of the 4th Multidisciplinary International Scheduling Conference: Theory and Applications (MISTA 2009), Multidisciplinary International Scheduling Conference (MISTA 2009) (Dublin (Ireland)).
  • bulletAn integrated risk analysis methodology for construction projects
    Creemers S, Deblaere F, Demeulemeester E, Herroelen W, Van de Vonder S, 2009, Informing the globe, INFORMS Annual Meeting (San Diego (US)).
  • bulletAppointment-driven queueing systems
    Creemers S, Lambrecht M, 2009, 35th Annual ORAHS (Operational Research Applied to Health Services) Conference, ORAHS 2009 (Leuven (Belgium)).
  • bulletAppointment-driven queueing systems
    Creemers S, Lambrecht M, 2009, Book of Abstracts, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 1 - 9, European Conference on Operational Research (Bonn (Germany)).
  • bulletResource allocation in the RCPSP when activity durations are uncertain
    Deblaere F, Demeulemeester E, Herroelen W, 2009, ORBEL ‘09 (Leuven (Belgium)).
  • bulletResource-constrained project scheduling under activity duration variability
    Deblaere F, Herroelen W, Demeulemeester E, 2009, Informing the globe, INFORMS Annual Meeting (San Diego (US)).
  • bulletThe operating room department: engine of the hospital
    Demeulemeester E, 2009, Beta conference (Eindhoven (The Netherlands)).
  • bulletOn the optimal choice of activity modes in robust project scheduling
    Demeulemeester E, Tian W, 2009, Informing the globe, INFORMS Annual Meeting (San Diego (US)).
  • bulletOrder acceptance and scheduling on a single machine
    Leus R, Talla Nobibon F, Herbots J, 2009, CORS-INFORMS International Meeting (Toronto).
  • bulletThe optimization of an airline check-In area
    Lieckens K, Vandaele N, 2009, EURO XXIII (Bonn (Germany)).
  • bulletReverse Logistics Network Design
    Lieckens K, Vandaele N, 2009, EURO XXIII (Bonn (Germany)).
  • bulletAn integrative approach to capacity planning in the health care sector
    Ma G, Demeulemeester E, Wang L, Beliën J, 2009, Informing the globe, INFORMS Annual Meeting (San Diego (US)).
  • bulletOrder acceptance and scheduling in a single-machine environment: exact and heuristic algorithms
    Talla Nobibon F, Herbots J, Leus R, 2009, Proceedings of the 4th Multidisciplinary International Scheduling Conference: Theory and Applications (MISTA 2009), Multidisciplinary International Scheduling Conference (MISTA 2009) (Dublin (Ireland)).
  • bulletUn algorithme exact pour la sélection et l'ordonnancement de tâches sur une machine
    Talla Nobibon F, Herbots J, Leus R, 2009, ROADEF'09, ROADEF'09 (Nancy (France)).
  • bulletOrder acceptance and scheduling in a single-machine environment: exact and heuristic algorithms
    Talla Nobibon F, Herbots J, Leus R, 2009, ORBEL'09 - the 23rd Belgian Conference on Operations Research, ORBEL'09 - the 23rd Belgian Conference on Operations Research (Leuven (Belgium)).
  • bulletTheory and practice of lean supply chains
    Vandaele N, 2009, CEMS (Riezlern (Austria)).
  • bulletAggregate planning in a laboratory environment
    Vandaele N, 2009, Annual ORAHS Conference (Leuven (Belgium)).
  • bulletThe stochastic lot sizing problem from a financial perspective
    Vandaele N, 2009, INFORMS 2009 (San Diego (US)).
  • bulletApproximations for departure processes when time-phased releases are set for M/M/1 queues in series
    Vandaele N, Claerhout D, 2009, INFORMS 2009 (San Diego (US)).
  • bulletThe stochastic lot sizing problem from a financial perspective
    Vandaele N, Perdu L, 2009, Conference on Stochastic Models of Manufacturing and Service Operations (SMMSO) (Ostuni (Italy)).

Announcements at national conferences, whether the abstract is published or not
  • bulletUsing mixed integer programming to win a cycling game
    Beliën J, Goossens D, Van Reeth D, De Boeck L, 2010, Belgian Conference on Operations Research (ORBEL’10) (Liège (Belgium)).
  • bulletRenewed emphasis on the finance-operations interface
    Vandaele N, 2010, Supply Chain World (Brussels (Belgium)).
  • bulletDe wetten van factory physics
    Vandaele N, 2010, Optimo Innovatiedag (Anderlecht (Belgium)).
  • bulletInnovative and sustainable resources planning
    Vandaele N, 2010, Innovatieve technologieën voor een duurzamere logistiek (Asse (Belgium)).
  • bulletThe enforced necessity of the finance-operations interface
    Vandaele N, 2010, PICS Seminar, Supply Chain Finance (Sint-Stevens Woluwe (Belgium)).
  • bulletReforming the national soccer league
    Goossens D, Beliën J, Spieksma F, 2009, Belgian Conference on Operations Research (ORBEL’09) (Leuven (Belgium)).
  • bulletRelative performance benchmarking
    Vandaele N, 2009, VALK seminar VKC (Leuven (Belgium)).
  • bulletThe quantification of lean
    Vandaele N, 2009, Supply Chain World (Brussels (Belgium)).

Thesis

Internal reports

External research reports

Various
  • bulletOrganizing for supply chain management
    Boute R, Van Dierdonck R, Vereecke A, 2011, International Journal of Logistics, vol. 14, no. 5, pp. 297 - 315.
  • bulletProduct en dienst worden één : servitization als duurzaam winstmodel (interview)
    Lambrecht M, Colen P, Roch F, 2010, Business Logistics, no. N°8&9, pp. 38 - 44.
  • bulletOptimaliseer uw werkkapitaal : gebruik uw voorraadbeheer als instrument bij uitstek (interview)
    Lambrecht M, Vandamme M, 2009, CFO Magazine, vol. 12, no. 7, pp. 14 - 15.
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