Christian VAN DELFT

Associate Professor

Information Systems and Operations Management

vandelft@hec.fr
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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).

Scientific articles

Books

Chapters in edited books

Proceedings

Working papers

Scientific articles

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)

Books

Chapters in edited books

Proceedings

Working papers

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

Education

  • Doctorat en Sciences Economiques et Sociales (Ph.D. in Economics and Social Sciences), Université de Genève - Switzerland
  • Programme complementaire en gestion d'entreprise (Complementary program in corporate management), Université de Genève - Switzerland
  • Ingenieur Civil en Mathematiques Appliquees (Civil Engineering Degree in Applied Mathematics), Center for Operation Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain - Belgium

Scientific Activities

Editorial activities

  • Reviewer, Management Science

    • Conference organisation

  • 1991- Organization of the Journée de séminaire de recherche en gestion de production intégrée - Seminar for research into integrated production management, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

    • Awards & honors

    • 2007 CMS Best Paper Award - "Automatic formulation of stochastic programs via an algebraic modeling language", Computational Management Science, V4 N1, 17-40
    • 1992 Awarded the 1992 Universal Prize (Universite de Geneve) for best doctorate dissertation