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dhr. prof. dr. N.M. van Dijk


  • Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde
    Sectie Econometrie & Statistiek
  • Valckenierstraat  65
    1018 XE  Amsterdam
  • N.M.vanDijk@uva.nl
    T:  0205254215
    T:  0205254252

Positions

Professor Operational Research and Management

Research programme

Operations Research

Research interests

He has a strong research background with over ninety papers in scientific journals in the field of stochastic operations research, most notably queueing.

Generally his aim is to promote and execute analytic and quantitative tools for a wide variety of practical fields in industry, transportation and service environments.

Curriculum Vitae

2010

2009

2008

2007

2006

  • R. Haijema, C.W. Duin & N.M. van Dijk (2006). Train shunting: A practical heuristic inspired by Dynamic Programming. In R.J. Jorna, W. van Wezel & A. Meystel (Eds.), Planning in Intelligent Systems: Aspects, Motivations and Methods (pp. 437-476). New York: Wiley.
  • N.M. van Dijk & K. Sladky (2006). On Total reward variance for Continous-Time markov Reward Chains. Journal of Applied Probability, 43 (4), 1044-1052.
  • N.M. van Dijk & K. Sladky (2006). Monotonicity and Error Bounds for Nonnegative Dynamic Structures. Part I: Discrete Case. Kybernetika, 42, 37-56.
  • N.M. van Dijk & K. Sladky (2006). Monotonicity and Error Bounds for Nonnegative Dynamic Structures. Part II: Continuous Case. Kybernetika, 42, 161-180.
  • N.M. van Dijk & E. van der Sluis (2006). Check-In Computation and Optimization by Stimulation and IP in Combination. European Journal of Operational Research, 171, 1152-1168.
  • N.M. van Dijk (2006). On State Space Truncation of Finite Jackson Networks. In H-D. Haasis, H. Kopfer & J. Schönberger (Eds.), Operations Research Proceedings 2005: Selected Papers of the Annual International Conference of the German Operations Research Society (pp. 805-810). Bremen: Springer.

2005

  • N. van Dijk, E. van der Sluis, R. Haijema, A. Al-Ibrahim & J. van der Wal (2005). Simulation and OR (operations research) in combination for practical optimization. In M.E. Kuhl, N.M. Steiger, F.B. Armstrong & J.A. Joines (Eds.), Proceedings of 2005 Winter Simulation Conference: Hilton at the Walt Disney World Resort, Orlando, Florida, U.S.A., Dec 4-7, 2005 Vol. 2005. The winter simulation conference (pp. 274-284). New York, NY: Association for Computing Machinery.
  • K. Sladky & N.M. van Dijk (2005). On Total Reward Variance in Markov Chains. In Operations Research Proceedings 2004 Vol. 2004. operations research proceedings (pp. 319-326). Berlijn: Springer-Verlag.
  • N.M. van Dijk (2005). On Product Form Tandem Structures. Mathematical Methods of Operations Research, 62 (3), 429-436.
  • R. Haijema, J. van der Wal & N.M. van Dijk (2005). Blood Platelet Production: a Multi-type Perishable Inventory Problem. In operations research proceedings 2004 Vol. 2004. operations research proceedings (pp. 84-92). Berlijn: Springer-Verlag.

2004

2002

  • N.M. van Dijk (2002). To Pool or Not to Pool? The Benefits of Combining of Combining Queuing and Simulation. In Proceedings of the 2002 Winter Simulation Conference (pp. 1469-1472).
  • T Huisman, R.J. Boucherie & N.M. van Dijk (2002). A solvable queueing network model for railway networks and its validation and application for the Netherlands. European Journal of Operational Research, 142, 30-51.
  • N.M. van Dijk & H.J. van der Sluis (2002). Simple Product-Form Bounds for Queueing Networks with Finite Clusters. Annals of Operations Research, 113, 175-195. doi: 10.1023/A:1020922315539

2001

  • E. Yücesan, L.N. Wassenhoven, K. Papanikas & N.M. van Dijk (2001). On-line error bounds for steady-state approximations: a potential solution to the initialization bias problem. In Proceedings of the 2001 Winter Simulation Conference (pp. 460-467).
  • N.M. van Dijk & P.E. Joustra (2001). Simulation of check-in at airports. In Proceedings of the 2001 Winter Simulation Conference (pp. 1023-1028).
  • N.M. van Dijk (2001). Monotonicity and Error Bound Results. In B.R. Haverkort, R. Marie, G. Rubino & K. Trividi (Eds.), Performability Modelling (pp. 107-138). John Wiley & Sons.

2000

  • N.M. van Dijk & K. Sladkey (2000). A note on uniformizing for dynamic nonnegative systems. Journal of Applied Probability, 37 (2), 329-334.
  • N.M. van Dijk & K. Sladky (2000). Monotonocity and Comparison Results for Nonnegative Dynamic Systems. Operations Research.
  • N.M. van Dijk & H. Korezlioglu (2000). Sensitivity Analisis for Markov Reward Structures until Entrance Times. Journal of Applied Probability, 37 (1), 45-63.
  • N.M. van Dijk & R.J. Boucherie (2000). On a queueing network model for cellular mobile telecommunications networks. Operations Research, 48 (1), 38-49.

1999

  • N.M. van Dijk & W.K. Grassmann (1999). The production form tool for queueing networks. In W.K. Grassmann (Ed.), Computational Probability (pp. 409-444). Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
  • N.M. van Dijk & K. Sladky (1999). Error bounds for nonnegative dynamic models. Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, 449-474.

1998

  • N.M. van Dijk (1998). Analytic comparison results for communication networks. Computer Communications, 21, 1495-1508.
  • N.M. van Dijk, M.T. Claessens & P.J. Zwaneveld (1998). Cost optimal allocation of mail passenger times. European Journal of Operational Research, 110, 474-489.
  • N.M. van Dijk, S. Balsamo & S. Donatiello (1998). Performance Models Of Hetereogeneous Parallel Processing Systems. Parallel and Distributed Systems, 9, 1041-1056.
  • N.M. van Dijk & P.G. Taylor (1998). Strong stochastic bounds for the stationary distribution of a class of multicomponent performability models. Operations Research, 46, 665-674.
  • N.M. van Dijk (1998). Bounds and error bounds for queueing networks. Annals of Operations Research, 79, 295-319.

1997

  • N.M. van Dijk (1997). Error Bounds for Arbitrary Approximations of "Nearly Reversible" Markov Chains and a Communications Example. Kybernetika, 33 (2), 171-184.
  • N.M. van Dijk (1997). On Hybrid QCombination of Queueing and Simulation. In P. Gerill (Ed.), 9th European Simulation Symposium "Simulation in Industry" (pp. 373-377). Ghent, Belgie: SCS (Society for Computer Simulation International).
  • N.M. van Dijk (1997). Why queueing never vanishes. European Journal of Operational Research, 99, 463-476.
  • R.J. Boucherie & N.M. van Dijk (1997). On the arrival Theorem for Product form queueing Networks with Blocking. Performance Evaluation, 29, 155-176.
  • N.M. van Dijk (1997). Call Centers: Het maken en optimaliseren van prestatie. Tijdschrift Management & Informatie, 3 (1), 33-40.
  • N.M. van Dijk (1997). Error Bounds on a Practical Approximation for Finit Tandem Queues. Operations Research Letters, 21, 201-208.
  • N.M. van Dijk & M. Miyazawa (1997). A Note on Bounds and Error Bounds for nonexponential Batch Arrival Systems. Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences, 11, 189-201.

1996

  • N.M. van Dijk (1996). Simple performance bounds for production lines with finite capacities. Production Planning and Control, 20-24.
  • N.M. van Dijk & A. Hordijk (1996). Time discretization for controlled Markov processes. Part II: A jump and diffusion application. Kybernetika, 32 (2), 139-158.
  • N.M. van Dijk & A. Hordijk (1996). Time discretization for controlled Markov processes. Part I: General approximation results. Kybernetika, 32 (1), 1-16.
  • N.M. van Dijk, R.P.A. Nuyens, L.N. Wassenhove & E. Yucesan (1996). An experimental analysis of steady state convergence in simple queueing systems: Implications for flexible manufacturing system models. Simulation Practice and Theory, 4, 1-29.
  • N.M. van Dijk (1996). A note on monotonicity for performability models. Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences, 96 (10), 299-310.
  • N.M. van Dijk (1996). An approximate solution and error bound for a discrete time queue with simultaneous servicing. European Journal of Operational Research, 96 (2), 289-298.

1995

  • N.M. van Dijk & K. Sladky (1995). Continuous-time dynamic reward structures. In . et al & A. Kleinschmidt (Eds.), Operations Research 1995. Proceedings SOR '95, Passau, Germany (pp. 96-101). Berlijn: Springer.
  • N.M. van Dijk (1995). A simple performability estimate for Jackson networks with an unreliable output channel. Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences, 9, 603-614.
  • N.M. van Dijk & -. ea (1995). Insensitivity in discrete-time generalized semi-Markov processes allowing multiple events and probabilistic service scheduling. The Annals of Applied Probability, 5 (1), 78-96.
  • N.M. van Dijk (1995). Sensitivity error bounds for non-exponential stochastic networks. Kybernetika, 31 (2), 175-188.

2009

  • N.M. van Dijk, E. van der Sluis, R. Haijema, A. Al-Ibrahim & J. van der Wal (2009). OR and simulation in combination for optimization. In L. Zadnik Stim, J. Ž̌erovnik, S. Drobne & A. Lisec (Eds.), SOR '09 proceedings: the 10th International Symposium on Operational Research in Slovenia, Nova Gorica, Slovenia, September 23-25, 2009 (pp. 393-403). Ljubljana: Slovenian Society Informatika (SDI), Section for Operational Research (SOR).
  • N.M. van Dijk & N. Kortbeek (2009). Erlang Loss Bounds for OT-ICU systems. In The Erlang Centennial: 100 years of Queueing (pp. 163-185). Copenhagen.

2008

  • N. Kortbeek, J. van der Wal, N.M. van Dijk, R. Haijema & W. de Kort (2008). Bloodbank production and issuing optimization: Strategies for younger platelets. (intern rapport, AE-Report, no 3/2008). Amsterdam: Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde.
  • P.E. Joustra, R. Kolfin, N.M. van Dijk, C.C.E. Koning & P.J.M. Bakker (2008). Efficiency improvement by capacity variability reduction: A case study for a radiotherapy process. (intern rapport, AE-Report, no 2/2008). Amsterdam: Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde.
  • N.M. van Dijk (2008). Error bounds and comparison results: The Markov Reward Approach for queueing networks. Part I Motivation and general results; Part II Applications. (intern rapport, AE-Report, no 5/2008). Amsterdam: Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde.
  • N.M. van Dijk (2008). On practical product form characterization. Part I product forms: Single station hierarchy; Part II product forms:Tandem and cluster structures. (intern rapport, AE-Report, no 4/2008). Amsterdam: Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde.

2007

  • N.M. van Dijk & E. van der Sluis (2007). Practical Optimization by OR and Simulation. In B. Zupancic, R. Karba & S. Blazic (Eds.), Proceedings of the 6th EUROSIM Congress on Modelling and Simulation. Vienna: ARGESIM/ASIM-Verlag.

2006

  • N.M. van Dijk, R. Haijema, J. van der Wal & C.T. Smit Sibinga (2006). Blood Platelet Production: A formal approach for practical optimization. (intern rapport, AE-Report, no 2/2006). Amsterdam: Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde.
  • N.M. van Dijk & N. Kortbeek (2006). On the Interaction between the OT and ICU. (intern rapport, AE-report, no 6/2006). Amsterdam: Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde.
  • N.M. van Dijk & K. Sladky (2006). On Error Bounds for Continuous-Time Nonnegative Dynamic Systems. (intern rapport, AE-Report, no 5/2006). Amsterdam: Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde.
  • N.M. van Dijk & R.J. Boucherie (2006). Monotonicity and Error Bounds for Networks of Erlang Loss Queues. (intern rapport, AE-Report, no 3/2006). Amsterdam: Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde.
  • N.M. van Dijk & E. van der Sluis (2006). Two basic problems in communications. In Proceedings Second Korea-Netherlands Conference on Queueing Theory and its Applications to Telecommunication System. Amsterdam: Tinbergen Institute.
  • R. Haijema, N.M. van Dijk, J. van der Wal & C.T. Smit Sibinga (2006). Blood Platelet Production with Breaks: Optimization by SDP and Simulation. In 14 th International Seminar on Production Economics. Austria.
  • R. Haijema, N.M. van Dijk & J. van der Wal (2006). Blood Platelet Optimization by SDP and Simulation. In POMS Database.
  • C.T. Smit Sibinga, N.M. van Dijk, J. van der Wal & R. Haijema (2006). A novel approach to optimal blood platelet logistics. In International Society of Blood Transfusion (Cape Town, South Africa) Vol. 91. Vox Sanguinis (pp. 13-13).
  • C.T. Smit Sibinga, N.M. van Dijk, J. van der Wal & R. Haijema (2006). A novel approach to optimal blood platelet logistics. In AABB Annual Meeting and TXPO (Miami Beach, Florida, USA) Vol. 46. Transfusion.

2004

  • N.M. van Dijk, L.C. Heemskerk, R.L. Diercks & M.P.H.M. Andriessen (2004). Het halve werk is een goed begin: wachttijdtheorie en simulatie illustreren de perspectieven voor deeltijdwerk. Medisch Contact, 59 (11), 409-411.
  • N.M. van Dijk, L.C. Heemskerk, R.L. Diercks & M.P.H.M. Andriessen (2004). Heersen over de golven: het verkorten van wachtlijsten met wachttijden theorie en simulatie. Medisch Contact, 59 (11), 406-408.

2001

  • N.M. van Dijk & P.E. Joustra (2001). Wachten geanalyseerd. Verkeerskunde, 5, 42-47.

1999

  • N.M. van Dijk, M.D. Hermans, M.J.G. Teunisse & M. Schuurman (1999). Designing the Westerscheldetunnel toll plaza using a combination of queueing and simulation. In H.B. Nembhard, D.T. Sturrock, P.A. Farrington & G.W. Evans (Eds.), Proceedings 1999 Winter Simulation Conference.

1998

  • T. Huisman, R.J. Boucherie & N.M. van Dijk (1998). A stochastic model for railway networks. AE-report, 7/98.

1997

  • N.M. van Dijk (1997). General queueing insights for reengineering. Journal of Operations Research Society of Japan, 4, 227-232.
  • N.M. van Dijk (1997). To Wait or Not to Wait: That is the question. CHANCE, 10 (1), 26-30.
  • N.M. van Dijk & K. Sladky (1997). On discrete-form expressions for time-inhomogeneous cumulative reward structures. AE-report, 18/97.
  • N.M. van Dijk & M. Miyazawa (1997). An error bound for the troughput of M/G/S/N-systems on the effect of different service distributions. AE-report, 14/97.
  • N.M. van Dijk & M. Miyazawa (1997). A simple solution for a dynamic routing problem and its error bound. AE-report, 15/97.
  • N.M. van Dijk & K. Sladky (1997). Monotonicity and Comparison Results for Nonnegative Dynamic Systems. AE-report, 16/97.
  • N.M. van Dijk & K. Sladky (1997). A Note on perturbation formulas for finite Markov Chains. AE-report, 17/97.

1996

  • N.M. van Dijk (1996). Simple performance bounds for production lines with finite capacities. Report AE, 96 (18).
  • N.M. van Dijk (1996). Why queueing never vanishes. Report AE, 96 (19).
  • N.M. van Dijk & R.J. Boucherie (1996). On a queueing network model for cellular mobile telecommunications networks. Report AE, 96 (21).
  • N.M. van Dijk & M. Miyazawa (1996). A note on bounds and error bounds for non-exponential batch arrival systems. Report AE, 96 (13).
  • N.M. van Dijk & M. Miyazawa (1996). On an extended use of an error bound theorem for comparing Markov chains. Report AE, 96 (14).
  • N.M. van Dijk & K. Sladky (1996). On uniformization for reducible nonnegative dynamic systems. Report AE, 96 (15).
  • N.M. van Dijk (1996). Analytic comparison results for communication networks. Report AE, 96 (16).
  • N.M. van Dijk (1996). Prestatie-evaluatie van 'Call Centra'. Report AE, 96 (17).

1995

  • N.M. van Dijk (1995). General queueing insights for reengeneering of administrative processes. (intern rapport, AE Report, no 16/95). : .
  • N.M. van Dijk (1995). Service performance measurement and queueing analysis: A case study at TNT. (intern rapport, Ae Report, no 17/95). : .
  • N.M. van Dijk (1995). An approximate solution and error bound for a discrete time queue with simultaneous servicing. (intern rapport, AE Report, no 18/95). : .
  • N.M. van Dijk & K. Sladky (1995). Continuous-time dynamic reward structures. (intern rapport, AE Report, no 15/95). : .
  • N.M. van Dijk (1995). A note on steady-state monotonicity for Markov chains. (intern rapport, AE Report, no 19/95). : .
  • N.M. van Dijk (1995). A note on time monotonicity for performability models. (intern rapport, AE Report, no 20/95). : .
  • N.M. van Dijk, U. Rieder & K. Sladky (1995). On uniformization for dynamic nonnegative systems. (intern rapport, AE report, no 21/95). : .
  • N.M. van Dijk (1995). Don't you also hate having to wait? (intern rapport, AE Report, no 22/95). : .
  • N.M. van Dijk (1995). Error bound and comparison results for queueing networks. In Y. Dallery & D. Kouvatsos (Eds.), Third International Workshop on queueing networks with blocking (pp. 15/1-15/40). Ilkley, Verenigd Koninkrijk.
  • N.M. van Dijk (1995). Doorlooptijdverkorting in dienstverlenende administratieve processen. Tijdschrift Management & Informatie, 3 (1), 20-28.
  • W.J. Bastiaan & N.M. van Dijk (1995). De OR-techniek als onderdeel van de integrale logistiek. Amsterdam: Universiteit van Amsterdam.
  • N.M. van Dijk (1995). Service performance measurement and queueing analysis: A case study at TNT. In C. Armistead & R. Teare (Eds.), Services Management (Proceedings of the International Research Symposium, Bournemouth, UK). Bournemouth, Verenigd Koninkrijk: Cassell.

2005

2004

  • N.M. van Dijk & H.J. van der Sluis (2004). Check-In optimalisatie door Computer Simulatie en Wiskunde in Combinatie. Euclides, 8, 340-346.

1998

  • N.M. van Dijk (1998). Met wiskundig modelleren uw Call Center optimaliseren. Call Center Magazine, 9, 16-20.
  • N.M. van Dijk (1998). Wachttijdtheorie. Call Center Magazine, 2, 10-13.

2011

  • P.E. Joustra, J. de Wit, N.M. van Dijk & P.J.M. Bakker (2011). How to juggle with priorities? An interactive tool to quantitatively support medical management with strategic patient-mix decisions. (Preprints, AE Report, no 4/2010). Amsterdam: Universiteit van Amsterdam.
  • P.E. Joustra, N.M. van Dijk & P.J.M. Bakker (2011). Reduce fluctuations in capacity to improve the accessibility of radiotherapy treatment cost-effectively. (Preprints, AE Report, no 3/2010). Amsterdam: Universiteit van Amsterdam.

2010

  • W. de Kort, M. Janssen, N. Kortbeek, M. Jansen, J. van der Wal & N.M. van Dijk (2010). Platelet Pool Inventory Management: theory meets practice. (intern rapport, AE Report, no 6/2010). Amsterdam: Universiteit van Amsterdam.
  • N.M. van Dijk & N. Kortbeek (2010). On the rejection probability in OT-ICU systems. (intern rapport, AE Report, no 1/2010). Amsterdam: Universiteit van Amsterdam.

2007

  • N.M. van Dijk (2007). Error Bounds and Comparison results: The Markov reward Approach for Queueing Networks. (intern rapport, AE-Report, no 2/2007). Amsterdam: Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde.
  • P.E. Joustra, E. van der Sluis & N.M. van Dijk (2007). To pool or not to pool in hospitals: a theoretical and practical comparison for a radiotherapy outpatient departement. (intern rapport, AE-Report, no 3/2007). Amsterdam: Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde.
  • P.E. Joustra, R. Kolfin, N.M. van Dijk & P.J.M. Bakker (2007). Reduction in throughput times of a multi-step radiotherapy process by using discrete event simulation. (intern rapport, AE-Report, no 4/2007). Amsterdam: Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde.

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