Educational duties

Undergraduate courses mainly in Informatics

• Operating Systems
• Data Structures and Algorithms
• Initial Programming
• Object Oriented Programming
• Tools for Informaticians

Guest professor

• Guest professor at KaHo St.-Lieven
• ASAP, University of Nottingham
• Fachhochschule Konstanz

MSc Student projects

• Merel Veracx: Agenten voor het "Travelling Tournament Problem", rewarded the Jos Schepens memorial fund in 2007.
• Ruben Lagatie"

PhD Students

• Greet Vanden Berghe (Nurse Rostering, 2002)
• Peter Demeester (Timetabling, till 2010)
• Geert De Maere (Robust airline schedulingi, 2010)
• Wouter Souffriau (Tourist guide, 2010)
• Burak Bilgin (Personnel planning and optimisation, running)
• Francisco Bonachela (Clustering for gene priortisation, running)
• Stefaan Haspeslagh (Distributed scheduling, running)
• Igor Jacques (e-learning systems, running)
• Srikeerthana Kuchi (Gene prioritisation, running)
• Ruben Lagatie (e-learning systems, running)
• Joris Maervoet (Geo systems, running)
• Tommy Messelis (Performance estimates, running)
• Mustafa Misir (Heuristics, running)
• Ahmet Soylu (e-learning systems, running)
• Wim Vancroonenburg (Personnel planning and optimisation, running)
• Jannes Verstichel (Harbour logistics, running)
• Tony Wauters (Scheduling, running)

Miscelaneous/events

• Presentaties middelbaar onderwijs: Reizen Door De Tijd(1, 2, 3), Kwantumcomputer, Speltheorie in de computerwetenschappen

Research

My main research interests are

• Distributed decision support
• Agent based systems
• Heuristic optimisation
• Heuristics for datamining
• Distributed search

• Scheduling, Timetabling, Nurse Rostering
• Semantic web, e-learning, Audio/video archiving and search
• Bio informatics

Some links and industry related projects

• Functional prioritization and experimental validation of genes expressed in human blood platelets. (CIF/07/02)
• Collectieve intelligentie aangeboren in elektronische leeromgevingen (KPI/07/009)
• DiCoMaS (IWT SBO)
• MAPLE (IBBT)
• LLINGO (IBBT)
• Optimalisatie van een MES real-time scheduling en controlesysteem door terugkoppeling van KPI en OEE resultaten (IWT 090609), MESware (2009-2011)
• MountQ - Personnel rostering and routing (IWT 090549), FIT (2009-2011)
• Automatisch genereren van gepersonaliseerde feedback in elektronische leeromgevingen (IWT/Baekeland, Televic, Lagatie).
• Structuurheuristieken voor performante routes op maat (IWT/Baekeland, Routeyou, Maervoet)
• KULeuven VES/10/SOPHYS

• PISA (VRT/IBBT)
• VOLGES, Quality Gate (2 IWT O&O projects)
• Bioptrain, Presentation
• Framework for reactive dynamical resource scheduling RABBIT (with Yolande Berbers and Annick Dhooge)
• Intelligent communication platform for multimodal transportation MamMoeT (Greet Vanden Berghe)
• Negotiation in distributed personnel planning DINGO (with Greet Vanden Berghe)
• COoperating And Learning Agents COALA
• Component framework for timetabling applications CoFfTeA
• Application development for mobile devices AMOBE
• Advisory service for reconfigurable and embedded systems ADVIES
• PATAT 2004 PATAT 2002 ASAP Group University of Nottingham
• PATAT 2006
• Semantic Web and Applications 2002 Embedded Systems And Mobile Applications 2004