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dr. ir. Rene Sitters


Associate Professor, School of Business and Economics, Operations Analytics

Associate Professor, Amsterdam Business Research Institute

Personal information

Rene Sitters is associate professor at the department of Supply Chain Analytics at the Vrije Universiteit.  One day per week he is researcher at the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI). (My CWI page)

He obtained his PhD at Eindhoven University of Technology in 2004.

Research

Main research topics:

  • Combinatorial Optimization problems: algorithms and complexity

Current research:

  • The traveling repairman problem [.pdf]
  • There are some intriguing open problems in online optimization. Here is a report on one of these. A discussion on open problems is given in the last section. [.pdf]
  • A fundamental problem in combinatorial optimization is the Traveling Salesman Problem. Recently, important progress has been made on the approximability of the TSP problem. Here is our contribution. [.pdf]
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