Christian VAN DELFT

Associate Professor

Information Systems and Operations Management

Biography

Christian Van Delft received a Ph.D. in Operations Management from HEC Genève (Switzerland)

His research interests include stochastical optimisation, stock planning and management. He has taught in a variety of institutions (HEC-Genève, Ecole Centrale Paris, HEC-Lausanne, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne).

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Scientific articles

Two-period production planning and inventory control

International Journal of Production Economics, July 2009, vol. 118, n° 1, pp 118-130, (in coll. with A. Cheaitou, Y. Dallery, Z. Jemai)

Analysis and Optimization of a Combined Make-to-Stock and Make-to-Order Multiproduct Manufacturing System

Journal of Applied Mathematics and Decision Sciences, 2009, vol. 2009, n° ID 716059, (in coll. with K. Hadj Youssef, Y. Dallery)

Automatic Formulation of Stochastic Programs Via an Algebraic Modeling Language

Computational Management Science, January 2007, vol. 4, n° 1, pp 17-40, (in coll. with J. Thénié, J. Vial)

A Practical Implementation of Stochastic Programming: an Application to the Evaluation of Option Contracts in Supply Chains

Automatica, 2 December 2004, vol. 40, n° 5, pp 743-756, (in coll. with J. Vial)

Efficient Scheduling RuleS in a Combined Make-to-Stock and Make-to-Order Manufacturing System

Annals of Operations Research, February 2004, vol. 126, n° 1-4, pp 103-134, (in coll. with K. Youssef, Y. Dallery)

Analyse des règles de priorités dans un système de pilotage mixte - production à la commande-production par anticipation

Journal Européen des Systèmes Automatisés, 2002, n° 36, pp 79-96, (in coll. with K. Youssef, Y. Dallery)

Some New Classroom Cases for Teaching Statistical Quality Control Methods

Quality Engineering, 2001, vol. 14, n° 1, pp 45-48,

Discounted costs, obsolescence and planned stockouts with EOQ formula

International Journal of Production Economics, 1996, vol. 44, pp 255-265, (in coll. with J. Vial)

Turnpikes in Flow Control Models of Unreliable Manufacturing Systems

European Journal of Operational Research, 20 April 1995, vol. 82, n° 2, pp 359-372, (in coll. with A. Haurie)

Boundedly Optimal Control of Piecewise Deterministic Systems

European Journal of Operational Research, 1994, vol. 73, pp 237-251, (in coll. with A. Haurie, A. Leizarowitz)

Books

Chapters in edited books

Proceedings

On implementing policy improvement algorithms in manufacturing flow control models

Proceedings of the 1991 American Control Conference , 1991 , Boston (A. Haurie)

Monte-Carlo optimization of parametrized policies in a class of piecewise deterministic control systems arising in manufacturing flow control models

Proceedings of th 29th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control , 1990 , Hawaii (P. L'Ecuyer, A. Haurie)

On turnpikes and hedging points for piecewise deterministic systems

Proceedings of the 1990 American Control Conference , 1990 , San Diego (A. Haurie)

Optimization by simulation in manufacturing flow control models

Proceedings of the Rensselaer's Second International Conference on Computer Intergrated Manufacturing , 1990 , Troy (A. Haurie, P. L'Ecuyer)

Working papers

Discounted costs, obsolescence and planned stockouts with the EOQ formula

Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC , 1993

Approximate solutions and bounds for a class of piecewise deterministic control systems

Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC , 1992

Approximate solutions for large-scale continuous-time stochastic manufacturing flow control problems

Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC , 1992

Optimal control and turnpikes for a class of piecewise deterministic systems

Les Cahiers de Recherche de l'Université de Genève , 1992

A turnpike improvement algorithm for piecewise deterministic control

Les Cahiers du GERAD, Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales, Montréal , 1990

Turnpike properties for a class of piecewise deterministic systems arising in manufacturing flow control

Les Cahiers du GERAD, Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales, Montréal , 1989

Customer lead-time / priority scheduling rule in a combined make-to-stock and make-to-order multi-product manufacturing system

Mimeo , 2026

Workforce Planning and cross-training

Mimeo , 2026

Scientific articles

Distributionally robust workforce scheduling in call centres with uncertain arrival rates

Optimization Methods and Software, June 2013, vol. 28, n° 3, pp 501-522, (in coll. with S. Liao, J. Vial)

Finite horizon stochastic inventory problem with dual sourcing: Near myopic and heuristics bounds

International Journal of Production Economics, June 2013, vol. 143, n° 2, pp 371-378, (in coll. with A. Cheaitou)

A generalized single product and single period problem with nonlinear parameters

International Transactions in Operational Research, 2 December 2012, vol. 19, n° 3, pp 421-433, (in coll. with K. Luo, L. KERBACHE, M. Menezes)

Staffing a call center with uncertain non-stationary arrival rate and flexibility

OR Spectrum, July 2012, vol. 34, n° 3, pp 691-721, (in coll. with O. Jouini, S. Liao, G. Koole)

Books

Management industriel et logistique

Editions Economica 1990 (in coll. with G. BAGLIN, O. BRUEL, L. KERBACHE, M. GREIF, A. GARREAU )

Management industriel et logistique

Editions Economica 1990 (in coll. with M. GREIF, G. Baglin, A. Garreau, O. Bruel )

Chapters in edited books

Gestion des stocks

Encyclopédie Du Management, Vuibert, 781-80