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Willem van Jaarsveld

Eindhoven University of Technology (TUE)

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Eindhoven, 5600 MB

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1.

Managing Outpatient Service with Strategic Walk-ins

Management Science (forthcoming)
Number of pages: 77 Posted: 27 Apr 2020 Last Revised: 07 Jul 2022
Nan Liu, Willem van Jaarsveld, Shan Wang and Guanlian Xiao
Boston College - Carroll School of Management, Eindhoven University of Technology (TUE), Sun Yat-sen University and VU Amsterdam
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customer strategic behavior, appointment scheduling, walk-ins, queueing models

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Deep Reinforcement Learning for Inventory Control: A Roadmap

European Journal of Operational Research
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 08 Jun 2021 Last Revised: 24 Nov 2021
KU Leuven - Faculty of Business and Economics (FEB), ESADE Business School, Eindhoven University of Technology (TUE) and KU Leuven
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inventory management, machine learning, reinforcement learning, neural networks

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Industrializing Deep Reinforcement Learning for Operational Spare Parts Inventory Management

European Journal of Operational Research, 2026[10.1016/j.ejor.2026.04.006]
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 04 Nov 2024 Last Revised: 15 Apr 2026
KU Leuven - Faculty of Economics and Business, Eindhoven University of Technology (TUE), Eindhoven University of Technology (TUE) and KU Leuven - Faculty of Business and Economics (FEB)
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Deep Reinforcement Learning, Inventory Management, Service Logistics, Reward Smoothing, Action Space Decomposition, Global Learning

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Inventory Planning in Capacitated High-Tech Assembly Systems Under Non-Stationary Demand

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 28 May 2024 Last Revised: 06 Jun 2025
Tilburg University - Department of Econometrics & Operations Research, Tilburg University - Department of Econometrics & Operations Research, Eindhoven University of Technology (TUE), Tilburg University - Department of Econometrics & Operations Research, ASML and Eindhoven University of Technology (TUE)
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multi-echelon inventory planning, high-tech assembly system, capacity constraints, non-stationary demand, deep reinforcement learning, base-stock policies

5.

A Reference Model for Hinterland Transport

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 12 Mar 2020
Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven University of Technology (TUE), Eindhoven University of Technology, affiliation not provided to SSRN and Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR)
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hinterland transport, multimodal transport, containers, barge, freight transport

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Scalable Deep Reinforcement Learning in the Non-Stationary Capacitated Lot Sizing Problem

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 28 May 2024
Lotte van Hezewijk, Nico Dellaert and Willem van Jaarsveld
Eindhoven University of Technology (TUE), affiliation not provided to SSRN and Eindhoven University of Technology (TUE)
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deep reinforcement learning, capacitated lot sizing, non-stationary demand

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Can AI Bridge the Experience Gap in Supply Chain Planning? Experimental Evidence from a Complex Decision Task with a Tailored Support Tool

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 25 Aug 2025
Lijia Tan, Eirini Spiliotopoulou and Willem van Jaarsveld
Eindhoven University of Technology (TUE), Tilburg University - Tilburg University School of Economics and Management and Eindhoven University of Technology (TUE)
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AI tool, supply chain planning, experience, time pressure, human behavior

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The Efficiency Paradox in Agentic AI Workflows: When Optimization Increases the Electricity Bill

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 23 Feb 2026 Last Revised: 10 Mar 2026
Joren Gijsbrechts and Willem van Jaarsveld
ESADE Business School and Eindhoven University of Technology (TUE)
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Large Language Models, AI Workflows, Optimization, Analytical Modeling, Sustainable Operations

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Production-Inventory Planning in High-Tech Supply Chains: One Policy to Rule Them All?

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 08 May 2026 Last Revised: 11 May 2026
Tilburg University - Department of Econometrics & Operations Research, Technische Universität München (TUM) - TUM School of Management, Tilburg University - Department of Econometrics & Operations Research, Eindhoven University of Technology (TUE) and Eindhoven University of Technology (TUE)
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multi-echelon production-inventory planning, high-tech supply chains, capacity constraints, non-stationary demand, base-stock policies

10.

Automated Decision-Making for Dynamic Task Assignment at Scale

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 06 May 2025
affiliation not provided to SSRN, Eindhoven University of Technology (TUE), affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN and Eindhoven University of Technology
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Task Assignment Problem, Deep Reinforcement Learning, Business Process Optimization, Graph Neural Network

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How To Ace Your Next Service Level Contract Review?

Number of pages: 55 Posted: 27 Jan 2026
Eindhoven University of Technology (TUE), Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven University of Technology (TUE) - Department of Industrial Engineering and Innovation Sciences and Eindhoven University of Technology (TUE)
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Multi-Item Service Level Agreements, Finite Review Horizon, Deep Reinforcement Learning, Aggregate Fill Rate, Linear Penalty Costs

12.

Projected Inventory-Level Policies for Lost Sales Inventory Systems: Asymptotic Optimality in Two Regimes

MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics Research Paper No. 2024/069, Operations Research, volume 72, issue 5, 2024[10.1287/opre.2021.0032]
Posted: 29 Apr 2025
Willem van Jaarsveld and Joachim Arts
Eindhoven University of Technology (TUE) and University of Luxembourg

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asymptotic optimality, inventory, lost sales, Markov decision process

13.

The Impact of Committing to Customer Orders in Online Retail

Posted: 07 Jul 2020 Last Revised: 03 Jun 2024
Gonçalo Figueira, Willem van Jaarsveld, Pedro Amorim and Jan C. Fransoo
affiliation not provided to SSRN, Eindhoven University of Technology (TUE), Universidade do Porto and Tilburg University - Tilburg University School of Economics and Management

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online retail, inventory control, allocation policies, back-ordering