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Stefan Creemers

UCLouvain

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1.

Modeling a Healthcare System as a Queueing Network: The Case of a Belgian Hospital

Number of pages: 55 Posted: 15 Feb 2008
Stefan Creemers and Marc Lambrecht
UCLouvain and KU Leuven, Research Center for Operations Management, Faculty of Economics and Business
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Belgium, Brownian motion, Capacity management, Decomposition, Health care, Healthcare, Impact, Model, Models, Performance, Performance measurement, Queueing, Queueing theory, Simulation, Stochastic processes, Structure, Studies, Systems, Time, Tool, Validation, Variability

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Speeding up Grover's algorithm

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 12 Jul 2024
Stefan Creemers
UCLouvain
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Quantum, computing, algorithm, Grover, serial, parallel

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Discrete optimization: A quantum revolution (Part I)

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 21 Sep 2022 Last Revised: 11 Dec 2023
Stefan Creemers and Luis Fernando Pérez Armas
UCLouvain and Catholic University of Lille - IÉSEG School of Management, Lille Campus
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Quantum, computing, algorithm, knapsack

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A New Approach for Quantitative Risk Analysis

KBI Working Paper No. 1029
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 05 Dec 2010
Stefan Creemers, Erik Demeulemeester and Stijn Van de Vonder
UCLouvain, Catholic University of Leuven (KUL) and KU Leuven - Faculty of Business and Economics (FEB)
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Extending the Production Dice Game

Number of pages: 16 Posted: 15 Apr 2010
Marc Lambrecht, Stefan Creemers, Robert Boute and R. Leus
KU Leuven, Research Center for Operations Management, Faculty of Economics and Business, UCLouvain, Catholic University of Leuven (KUL) - Department of Applied Economics and Catholic University of Leuven (KUL)
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Discrete Optimization: A Quantum Revolution?

Number of pages: 59 Posted: 15 Apr 2024
Stefan Creemers and Luis Fernando Pérez Armas
UCLouvain and Catholic University of Lille - IÉSEG School of Management, Lille Campus
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quantum, computing, algorithm, knapsack, Grover

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New Benchmark Results for the Stochastic Resource-Constrained Project Scheduling Problem

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 01 Feb 2016
Salim Rostami, Stefan Creemers and R. Leus
KU Leuven - Faculty of Business and Economics (FEB), UCLouvain and Catholic University of Leuven (KUL)
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project scheduling, uncertainty, stochastic activity durations, scheduling policies

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Evaluation of Appointment Scheduling Rules: A Multi-Performance Measures Approach

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 18 Jun 2012
Stefan Creemers, Pieter Colen and Marc Lambrecht
UCLouvain, Catholic University of Leuven (KUL); Faculty of Business and Economics (FBE) and KU Leuven, Research Center for Operations Management, Faculty of Economics and Business
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OR in health services, appointment scheduling rules, Markov Chain, data envelopment analysis

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Solving the Resource-Constrained Project Scheduling Problem (RCPSP) with Quantum Annealing

Number of pages: 51 Posted: 18 Jan 2024 Last Revised: 10 Aug 2025
Luis Fernando Pérez Armas, Stefan Creemers and Samuel Deleplanque
Catholic University of Lille - IÉSEG School of Management, Lille Campus, UCLouvain and Junia ISEN
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Quantum Computing, Resource Constrained Project Scheduling Problem, Quantum Optimization, Quantum Annealing, Combinatorial Optimization

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Breaking Truck Dominance in Supply Chains: Proactive Freight Consolidation and Modal Split Transport

International Journal of Production Economics, volume 257, 2023[10.1016/j.ijpe.2022.108764]
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 03 May 2022 Last Revised: 08 Nov 2024
Bram J. De Moor, Stefan Creemers and Robert N. Boute
Eindhoven University of Technology (TUE) - Department of Industrial Engineering and Innovation Sciences, UCLouvain and KU Leuven - Faculty of Business and Economics (FEB)
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Horizontal collaboration, Multi-modal transportation, Joint replenishment, Dual sourcing, Sustainable supply chains

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Discrete optimization: Limitations of existing quantum algorithms

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 02 Aug 2023 Last Revised: 11 Dec 2023
Stefan Creemers and Luis Fernando Pérez Armas
UCLouvain and Catholic University of Lille - IÉSEG School of Management, Lille Campus
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Quantum, computing, algorithm, counting, nested, amplification

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solQHealer: Quantum Procedures for Rendering Infeasible Solutions Feasible: A Proof of Concept with the Maximum Independent Set Problem and 3-SAT

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 21 Aug 2024 Last Revised: 10 Aug 2025
Samuel Deleplanque, Luis Fernando Pérez Armas and Stefan Creemers
Junia ISEN, Catholic University of Lille - IÉSEG School of Management, Lille Campus and UCLouvain
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Reverse Quantum Annealing, Quantum optimization, Maximum Independent Set, 3-SAT

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Moments and Distribution of the NPV of a Project

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 18 Nov 2016
Stefan Creemers
UCLouvain
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Net Present Value, NPV Distribution, Project Management, Project Evaluation, CPM, PERT

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Precedence Theorems and Dynamic Programming for the Single-Machine Weighted Tardiness Problem

KBI_1715
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 13 Nov 2017
Salim Rostami, Stefan Creemers and R. Leus
KU Leuven - Faculty of Business and Economics (FEB), UCLouvain and Catholic University of Leuven (KUL)
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single-machine scheduling; precedence constraints; weighted tardiness; precedence theorems; dynamic programming

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The Preemptive Stochastic Resource-Constrained Project Scheduling Problem: An Efficient Globally Optimal Solution Procedure

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 22 Nov 2016
Stefan Creemers
UCLouvain
Downloads 92 (730,864)
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project management, continuous-time Markov chain, PSRCPSP

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Project Planning with Alternative Technologies in Uncertain Environments

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 21 Jan 2014
Stefan Creemers, Bert De Reyck and R. Leus
UCLouvain, Singapore Management University - Lee Kong Chian School of Business and Catholic University of Leuven (KUL)
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Discrete optimization: A quantum revolution (Part II)

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 10 Jul 2023 Last Revised: 11 Dec 2023
Stefan Creemers and Luis Fernando Pérez Armas
UCLouvain and Catholic University of Lille - IÉSEG School of Management, Lille Campus
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Quantum, computing, algorithm, knapsack

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The Optimal Allocation of Server Time Slots Over Different Classes of Patients

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 05 Dec 2011
Stefan Creemers, Jeroen Belien and Marc Lambrecht
UCLouvain, Catholic University of Leuven (KUL) and KU Leuven, Research Center for Operations Management, Faculty of Economics and Business
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Markov processes, OR in health services, optimal capacity allocation, bulk service queue, patient waiting time

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Minimizing the Expected Makespan of a Project with Stochastic Activity Durations Under Resource Constraints

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 15 Mar 2015
Stefan Creemers
UCLouvain
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A Markov Model for Measuring Service Levels in Nonstationary G(t)/G(t)/s(t)+G(t) Queues

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 05 Jun 2013
Stefan Creemers, Mieke Defraeye and Inneke Van Nieuwenhuyse
UCLouvain, Catholic University of Leuven (KUL). Faculty of business and Economics (FBE) and KU Leuven - Faculty of Business and Economics (FEB)
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Nonstationary arrivals, Time-varying demand, Markov model, G(t)/G(t)/s(t)+G(t) queue, Performance measurement

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Project Scheduling, Project Management, NPV maximization, SNPV, Stochastic activity durations

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Two Sequencing Problems: Equivalence, Optimal Solution, and State-of-the-Art Results

Number of pages: 10 Posted: 09 Dec 2017
Stefan Creemers
UCLouvain
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Least cost fault detection problem, sequential testing problem, stochastic net present value maximization, project scheduling

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Discount Replenishment Opportunities with Limited Capacity: Optimal Policy and Pricing Dynamics

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 13 Feb 2026 Last Revised: 13 Apr 2026
Bram J. De Moor, Robert N. Boute, Stefan Creemers and Joren Gijsbrechts
Eindhoven University of Technology (TUE) - Department of Industrial Engineering and Innovation Sciences, KU Leuven - Faculty of Business and Economics (FEB), UCLouvain and ESADE Business School
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Inventory, Discount Opportunities, Capacity Constraints

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Special Cases of the Joint Replenishment Problem (JRP): A Mathematical Analysis

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 29 Apr 2026 Last Revised: 27 May 2026
Stefan Creemers and Tim Stephan
UCLouvain and UCLouvain
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operations research, inventory, reorder policy, joint replenishment problem