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Frits C. R. Spieksma is affiliated with Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands. Their research spans multiple fields of study including Engineering, Computer Science, and Medicine, with a notable focus on subfields such as Management Science and Operations Research, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Economics and Econometrics, Computer Networks and Communications, and Computational Theory and Mathematics.

The scientist's research topics cover areas related to Scheduling and Timetabling Solutions, Sports Analytics and Performance, Optimization and Search Problems, Organ Transplantation Techniques and Outcomes, Organ Donation and Transplantation, Auction Theory and Applications, and Vehicle Routing Optimization Methods.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Frits C. R. Spieksma include:

  • "The multi-league sports scheduling problem, or how to schedule thousands of matches" (2020), published in Operations Research Letters
  • "Recourse in Kidney Exchange Programs" (2021), published in INFORMS Journal on Computing
  • "A mathematical analysis of fairness in shootouts" (2020), published in IMA Journal of Management Mathematics
  • "Immunized Patients Face Reduced Access to Transplantation in the Eurotransplant Kidney Allocation System" (2023), published in Transplantation
  • "Sex disparity in liver allocation within Eurotransplant" (2024), published in American Journal of Transplantation

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Spieksma include Roel Lambers, Bart Smeulders, Mark de Berg, Danny Blom, and Hans de Ferrante.

Frits C. R. Spieksma has published extensively in venues such as arXiv (Cornell University), Operations Research Letters, INFORMS Journal on Applied Analytics, European Journal of Operational Research, and Journal of Scheduling.

Best Publications

  • Interval scheduling: A survey

    Antoon W.J. Kolen;Jan Karel Lenstra;Christos H. Papadimitriou;Frits C.R. Spieksma

  • A metaheuristic for the school bus routing problem with bus stop selection

    Patrick Schittekat;Patrick Schittekat;Joris Kinable;Kenneth Sörensen;Marc Sevaux

  • Production planning problems in printed circuit board assembly

    Yves Crama;Joris van de Klundert;Frits C. R. Spieksma

  • Minimizing the number of tool switches on a flexible machine

    Yves Crama;Antoon W. J. Kolen;Alwin G. Oerlemans;Frits C. R. Spieksma

  • On the approximability of an interval scheduling problem

    Frits C. R. Spieksma

  • Approximation algorithms for three-dimensional assignment problems with triangle inequalities

    Yves Crama;Frits C.R. Spieksma

  • Modeling and solving the periodic maintenance problem

    Alexander Grigoriev;Joris van de Klundert;Frits C.R. Spieksma

  • Multi index assignment problems: complexity, approximation, applications

    Frederik Spieksma

  • The assembly of printed circuit boards: a case with multiple machines and multiple board types

    Yves Crama;Olaf E. Flippo;Joris van de Klundert;Frits C.R. Spieksma

  • An LP-based algorithm for the data association problem in multitarget tracking

    P. P. A. Storms;F. C. R. Spieksma

  • Throughput rate optimization in the automated assembly of printed circuit boards

    Y. Crama;A. W. J. Kolen;A. G. Oerlemans;F. C. R. Spieksma

  • Approximation algorithms for multi-dimensional assignment problems with decomposable costs

    Hans-Jürgen Bandelt;Yves Crama;Frits C. R. Spieksma

  • Scheduling the Belgian Soccer League

    Dries Goossens;Frits Spieksma

  • Exact algorithms for procurement problems under a total quantity discount structure

    D.R. Goossens;A.J.T. Maas;F.C.R. Spieksma;J.J. van de Klundert

  • Soccer schedules in Europe: an overview

    Dries R. Goossens;Frits C. Spieksma

  • A branch-and-bound algorithm for the two-dimensional vector packing problem

    Frits C. R. Spieksma

  • Modelling and optimisation in European Kidney Exchange Programmes

    Péter Biró;Joris van de Klundert;David F. Manlove;William Pettersson

  • The clique partitioning problem: Facets and patching facets

    Maarten Oosten;Jeroen H. G. C. Rutten;Frits C. R. Spieksma

  • Heuristics for the traveling repairman problem with profits

    T. Dewilde;D. Cattrysse;S. Coene;F. C. R. Spieksma

  • On a periodic vehicle routing problem

    Sofie Coene;A. Arnout;Frits C. R. Spieksma

  • Interval selection: applications, algorithms, and lower bounds

    Thomas Erlebach;Frits C. R. Spieksma

Frequent Co-Authors

Yves Crama
Yves Crama University of Liège
Gerhard J. Woeginger
Gerhard J. Woeginger RWTH Aachen University
Roel Leus
Roel Leus KU Leuven
Thomas Erlebach
Thomas Erlebach Durham University
Maurice Queyranne
Maurice Queyranne University of British Columbia
Peter Goos
Peter Goos KU Leuven
Johann L. Hurink
Johann L. Hurink University of Twente

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