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

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)

Approximate Solutions for Large-Scale Piecewise Deterministic Control Systems Arising in Manufacturing Flow Control Models

IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, April 1994, vol. 10, n° 2,

Books

Chapters in edited books

Proceedings

Working papers

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

Education

1991
Doctorat en Sciences Economiques et Sociales (Ph.D. in Economics and Social Sciences), Université de Genève - Switzerland
1987
Programme complementaire en gestion d'entreprise (Complementary program in corporate management), Université de Genève - Switzerland
1986
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