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Frank van der Duyn Schouten

Date of birth:
September 17, 1949

Address:
Office:
Tilburg University
Dept. of Econometrics
P.O. Box 90153
5000 LE Tilburg, The Netherlands.Tel.: +31-13-4662109
Fax: +31-13-4663394
Email: f.a.vdrduynschouten@uvt.nl

Home:
Lagendijk 273
2988 AA Ridderkerk, The Netherlands.
Tel.: +31-180- 490184.

Civil status:
Married to Christina Schneider. Children: Kees (1974), Corrie (1976), Jacob (1979), Lona (1981), Arie-Jan (1988) and Kathleen (1990).

Education:
1979, Ph.D. in Operations Research from Leiden University.
1973, MA in Mathematics and Physics from Free University of Amsterdam (cum laude).
1970, BA in Mathematics and Physics from Free University of Amsterdam (cum laude).

Academic appointments:
1987-present : Professor of Operations Research, Tilburg University, Department of Econometrics
1991-present : Research fellow CentER for Economic Research, Tilburg University
1987-1999 : Senior research fellow CentER for Mathematics and Computer Science, Amsterdam (0.2)
1982-1987 : Associate Professor, Free University Amsterdam, Department of Econometrics
1979-1982 : Assistant Professor, Free University Amsterdam, Department of Econometrics

Visiting positions:
1980 (5 months) :Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, New Jersey, USA.
1986 (1 month) :Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
1998 (3 months) :Walter Haas Business school, University of Berkeley, U.S.A.
1999 (2 months) :INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France.
1999 (2 months) :University of Haifa, Israel.

Research interests:
Optimization under uncertainty, Inventory control modeling, Reliability and maintenance optimization, Queueing theory, Markov decision theory, Optimization in distribution and logistics.

Refereeing:
Mathematics of Operations Research
Management Science
Operations Research
European Journal of Operational Research
Naval Research Logistics
Mathematical Methods of Operations Research
Advances of Applied Probability
Journal of Applied Probability
IMA Journal of Mathematics Applied in Business and Industry
Dutch National Science Foundation (NWO)

Editorships:
Management Science (Associate Editor).
European Journal of Operational Research (guest editor 1995 and 1997).
IMA Journal of Mathematics Applied in Business and Industry (guest editor 1998).

Administrative positions:
1989-1991 : Head Department of Econometrics, Tilburg University
1992-1994 : Member Board CentER, Tilburg University
1994-1998 : Dean Faculty of Economics, Tilbury University
1997-1998 : Director CentER for Economic Research, Tilburg University
1999- : Vice Chancellor, Tilburg University

Supervision of Ph.D. dissertations:
[1] "Maintenance policies for complex systems", Stephan G. Vanneste, December 1992.
[2] "Performance analysis of repairable systems", Pieter Wartenhorst, July 1993.
[3] "Coordinated replenishment systems", Marc J.G. van Eijs, October 1993.
[4] "Service and inventory models subject to a delay limit", Jorg Jansen, September 1998.
[5] "Inventory management systems: control and information issues", Fred Janssen, September 1998.
[6] "Stochastic models in risk theory and management accounting", Ruud Brekelmans, June 2000

Grants:
1993: HCM-grant of 400.000 Ecu from the EU for foundation of European Consortium on Maintenance Management and Quality Control (together with Charles Tapiero).
1998: Fulbright award by Netherlands America Commission for Educational Exchange.

Membership of professional societies:
The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)
Production and Operations Management Society (POMS)
International Society for Inventory Research (ISIR)
Dutch Mathematical Society
Dutch Society for Statistics and Operations Research

Teaching:
Introduction to Probability Theory
Introduction to Operations Research
Mathematical Programming
Combinatorial Optimisation
Stochastic Optimisation
Reliabilty theory
Markov Decision Processes
Mathematical model building in Econometrics and Operations Research

Societal service:
1979-1987: Elder Netherlands Reformed Church, Harmelen.
1993- present: Member Board Elementary School, Ridderkerk (ca. 400 pupils).
1992- present: Member Board highschool "Wartburg College", Rotterdam (4.000 students).

Publications:
Books:
[1] (1983) Van der Duyn Schouten, F.A. Markov Decision Processes with Continuous Time Parameter. Mathematical Center Tract 164. Amsterdam: Mathematical Center ISBN 90 6196 261 7, pp 1-194.

Journals:
[1] (1978) Van der Duyn Schouten, F.A. Inventory control with two switch-over levels for a class of M/G/1 queueing systems with variable arrival and service rate. Stochastic Processes and their Applications, 6, 213-222.
[2] (1978) Van der Duyn Schouten, F.A. An M/G/1 queueing model with vacation times. Zeitschrift für Operations Research, 22, 95-105.
[3] (1978) Doshi, B.T., Van der Duyn Schouten, F.A., & Talman, A.J.J. A production-inventory control model with a mixture of backorders and lost sales. Management Science, 24, 1078-1086.
[4] (1983) Hordijk, A., & Van der Duyn Schouten, F.A. Average optimal policies in Markov decision drift processes with applications to a queueing and a replacement model. Advances of Applied Probability, 15, 274-303.
[5] (1984) Hordijk, A., & Van der Duyn Schouten, F.A. Discretization and weak convergence in Markov decision drift processes. Mathematics of Operations Research, 9, 112-141.
[6] (1984) De Kok, A.G., Tijms, H.C., & Van der Duyn Schouten, F.A. Approximations for the single product production-inventory problem with compound Poisson demand and service level constraints. Advances of Applied Probability, 16, 378-401.
[7] (1985) Hordijk, A., & Van der Duyn Schouten, F.A. Markov decision drift processes; conditions for optimality obtained bij discretization. Mathematics of Operations Research, 10, 160-173.
[8] (1985) De Kok, A.G., Tijms, H.C., & Van der Duyn Schouten, F.A. Inventory levels to stop and restart a single machine producing one product. European Journal of Operational Research, 20, 239-247.
[9] (1985) Tijms, H.C., & Van der Duyn Schouten, F.A. A Markov decision algorithm for optimal inspections and revisions in a maintenance system with partial information. European Journal of Operational Research, 21, 245-253.
[10] (1986) Hordijk, A., & Van der Duyn Schouten, F.A. On the optimality of (s,S)-policies in continuous review inventory models. SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics, 46, 912-929.
[11] (1989) Van der Duyn Schouten, F.A., & Ronner, T. Calculation of the availability of a two-unit parallel system with cold standby: an illustration of the embedding technique. Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences, 3, 341-353.
[12] (1990) Van der Duyn Schouten, F.A., & Vanneste, S.G. Analysis and computation of (n,N)- strategies for maintenance of a two component system. European Journal of Operational Research, 48, 260-274.
[13] (1990) Van der Duyn Schouten, F.A. Struktuur in het beslissingsproces (structure in the decision process). Inaugural lecture Tilburg University. Kwantitatieve Methoden, 33,5-28 (in Dutch).
[14] (1990) Bollen, M.H.J., Van der Duyn Schouten, F.A., & Van den Heuvel, W.M.C. Betrouwbaarheidsoptimalisatie industriële electriciteitsvoorziening: stand van zaken en punten van aandacht (Reliability optimization of the industrial electricity supply: state-of-the-art and points of interest). Electrotechniek, 68, 775-784 (in Dutch).
[15] (1993) Van der Duyn Schouten, F.A., & Wartenhorst, P. A two-machine repair model with variable repair rate. Naval Research Logistics, 40, 495-524.
[16] (1993) Van der Duyn Schouten, F.A., & Vanneste, S.G. Two simple control policies for a multi-component maintenance system. Operations Research, 41 (6), 1125-1136.
[17] (1994) Van der Duyn Schouten, F.A., & Wartenhorst, P. Transient analysis of a two-unit standby system with Markovian degrading units. Management Science, 40, 418-428.
[18] (1994) Van der Duyn Schouten, F.A., Van Eijs, M.J.G., & Heuts, R.M.J. The value of supplier information to improve management of a retailer's inventory. Decision Sciences, 25, 1-14.
[19] (1994) Van der Duyn Schouten, F.A., Van Eijs, M.J.G., & Heuts, R.M.J. Coordinated replenishment systems with discount opportunities. International Journal of ProductionResearch,32 (12), 2879-2895.
[20] (1995) Van der Duyn Schouten, F.A., & Vanneste, S.G. Maintenance optimization of a production system with buffercapacity. European Journal of Operational Research, 82, 323-338.
[21] (1995) Jansen, J., & Van der Duyn Schouten, F.A. Maintenance optimization on parallel production units. IMA Journal of Mathematics Applied in Business and Industry, 6, 113-134.
[22] (1996) Pourbabai, B., Blanc, J.P.C., & Van der Duyn Schouten, F.A. Optimizing flow rates in a queueing network with side constraints. European Journal of Operational Research, 88 (3), 586-591.
[23] (1997) Dekker, R., Van der Duyn Schouten, F.A., & Wildeman, R.E. A review of multi-component maintenance models with economic dependence. Mathematical Methods of Operations Research, 45, 411-435.
[24] (1997) Smith, M., Aven, T., Dekker, R., and Van der Duyn Schouten, F.A. A survey on the interval distribution of failure prone systems. Advances in Safety and Reliability, 3, 1727-1740.
[25] (1998) Berg, M., Van der Duyn Schouten, F.A., & Jansen, J. Optimal batch provisioning to customers subject to a delay-limit. Management Science, 44, 684-697.
[26] (1998) Van der Duyn Schouten, F.A., Van Vlijmen, S.F.M., & Vos de Wael, S.L.E. Replacement policies for traffic control signals. IMA Journal of Mathematics Applied in Business and Industry, 9, 325-346.
[27] (1999) Boxma, O.J., Perry,D., & Van der Duyn Schouten, F.A. Fluid queues and montain processes. Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences, to appear.

Proceedings and Encyclopedia:
[1] (1979) Hordijk, A., & Van der Duyn Schouten, F.A. Discretization procedures for continuous time decision processes. Transactions of the 8th Prague conference on information theory. Prague, (pp. 143-154).
[2] (1980) Hordijk, A., & Van der Duyn Schouten, F.A. Weak convergence of decision processes. In: Recent developments in Markov decision processes, R. Hartley, L.C. Thomas, and D.J. White (Eds.), Academic Press (pp. 323-334).
[3] (1984) De Kok, A.G., Tijms, H.C., & Van der Duyn Schouten, F.A. Approximations for a constrained production/inventory system in which the production can be switched off. In: Sitzungsbericht 84 der IG Lagerhaltungsmodelle der Math. Gesellschaft der D.D.R., H.-J. Girlich (Ed), (pp. 62-70).
[4] (1986) Hordijk, A., & Van der Duyn Schouten, F.A. Markov decision drift processes. In: Semi Markov models: theory and applications J. Janssen (Ed.), Plenum, (pp. 63-78).
[5] (1991) Wartenhorst, P., & Van der Duyn Schouten, F.A. Availability analysis of a two-unit standby system with preemptive repair. In: Proceedings of the First International workshop on Performability Modelling of Computer and Communication Systems. B. Haverkort, I. Niemegeers and N. Van Dijk (Eds.), Enschede, (pp. 107-116).
[6] (1996) Van der Duyn Schouten, F.A. Maintenance policies for multi component systems: an overview. In S. Özekici (Ed.), Reliability and Maintenance of Complex Systems (NATO ASI Series, vol. 154) (pp.117-136). Berlin: Springer. ISBN 3 540 61109 6.
[7] (1999) Van der Duyn Schouten, F.A. and Dekker, R. Maintenance Management. In: Encyclopedia of Production and Manufacturing Management, Kluwer; to appear.

Reports:
[1] (1995) Janssen, F.B.S.L.P., Kok, T. de, & Van der Duyn Schouten, F.A. Approximations for the delivery splitting model (CentER Discussion Paper 9584). Tilburg: Katholieke Universiteit Brabant, CentER for Economic Research, pp. 1-39.
[2] (1998) Karaesmen, F., Van der Duyn Schouten, F.A., and Van Wassenhove, L.N. Dedication versus flexibility in field service operation (CentER Discussion Paper 9824). Tilburg: Katholieke Universiteit Brabant, CentER for Economic Research, pp. 1-31.