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Mario Vanhoucke

Mario Vanhoucke

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Business and Management
Belgium
2026
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Engineering and Technology
Belgium
2023

D-Index & Metrics

Business and Management

D-Index
57
Citations
12290
World Ranking
663
National Ranking
8

Engineering and Technology

D-Index
58
Citations
12843
World Ranking
2481
National Ranking
30

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Business and Management in Belgium Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Business and Management in Belgium Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Business and Management in Belgium Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in Belgium Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in Belgium Leader Award

Overview

Mario Vanhoucke is affiliated with Ghent University in Belgium. Their research primarily focuses on decision sciences and engineering, with significant contributions to management science, operations research, and industrial engineering fields.

The main topics of Mario Vanhoucke's research include:

  • Resource-Constrained Project Scheduling
  • Construction Project Management and Performance
  • Scheduling and Optimization Algorithms
  • BIM and Construction Integration
  • Scheduling and Timetabling Solutions
  • Software Engineering Techniques and Practices
  • Manufacturing Process and Optimization

Vanhoucke has coauthored research with several frequent collaborators:

  • José Coelho
  • Tom Servranckx
  • Jakob Snauwaert
  • Annelies Martens
  • Rob Van Eynde

Their work is regularly published in several specialized academic venues, including:

  • European Journal of Operational Research
  • Computers & Operations Research
  • Annals of Operations Research
  • Computers & Industrial Engineering
  • Engineering Construction & Architectural Management

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Mario Vanhoucke include:

  • A new algorithm for resource-constrained project scheduling with breadth and depth of skills, 2020, European Journal of Operational Research
  • A classification and new benchmark instances for the multi-skilled resource-constrained project scheduling problem, 2022, European Journal of Operational Research
  • Going to the core of hard resource-constrained project scheduling instances, 2020, Computers & Operations Research
  • Practical application of reference class forecasting for cost and time estimations: Identifying the properties of similarity, 2021, European Journal of Operational Research
  • Integrating Corrective Actions in Project Time Forecasting Using Exponential Smoothing, 2020, Journal of Management in Engineering

Mario Vanhoucke has authored a book published by Springer Nature:

  • The Illusion of Control, 2023

Best Publications

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  • A comparison of different project duration forecasting methods using earned value metrics

    Stephan Vandevoorde;Mario Vanhoucke;Mario Vanhoucke

  • A hybrid scatter search/electromagnetism meta-heuristic for project scheduling

    Dieter Debels;Bert De Reyck;Roel Leus;Mario Vanhoucke;Mario Vanhoucke

  • A genetic algorithm for the preemptive and non-preemptive multi-mode resource-constrained project scheduling problem

    Vincent Van Peteghem;Mario Vanhoucke;Mario Vanhoucke

  • RanGen: A Random Network Generator for Activity-on-the-Node Networks

    Erik Demeulemeester;Mario Vanhoucke;Willy Herroelen

  • A Decomposition-Based Genetic Algorithm for the Resource-Constrained Project-Scheduling Problem

    Dieter Debels;Mario Vanhoucke

  • A simulation and evaluation of earned value metrics to forecast the project duration

    Mario Vanhoucke;Mario Vanhoucke;S Vandevoorde

  • An integrated nurse staffing and scheduling analysis for longer-term nursing staff allocation problems

    Broos Maenhout;Mario Vanhoucke;Mario Vanhoucke;Mario Vanhoucke

  • An evaluation of the adequacy of project network generators with systematically sampled networks

    Mario Vanhoucke;Mario Vanhoucke;José Coelho;José Coelho;Dieter Debels;Broos Maenhout

  • An experimental investigation of metaheuristics for the multi-mode resource-constrained project scheduling problem on new dataset instances

    Vincent Van Peteghem;Vincent Van Peteghem;Mario Vanhoucke;Mario Vanhoucke;Mario Vanhoucke

  • Measuring Time: Improving Project Performance Using Earned Value Management

    Mario Vanhoucke

  • On the dynamic use of project performance and schedule risk information during projecttracking

    Mario Vanhoucke;Mario Vanhoucke

  • Measuring the efficiency of project control using fictitious and empirical project data

    Mario Vanhoucke;Mario Vanhoucke;Mario Vanhoucke

  • On Maximizing the Net Present Value of a Project Under Renewable Resource Constraints

    Mario Vanhoucke;Erik Demeulemeester;Willy Herroelen

  • The discrete time/cost trade-off problem: extensions and heuristic procedures

    Mario Vanhoucke;Dieter Debels

  • Multi-mode resource-constrained project scheduling using RCPSP and SAT solvers

    José Coelho;José Coelho;Mario Vanhoucke;Mario Vanhoucke;Mario Vanhoucke

  • New computational results on the discrete time/cost trade-off problem in project networks

    Erik Demeulemeester;B De Reyck;B Foubert;Willy Herroelen

  • A comparison of priority rules for the job shop scheduling problem under different flow time- and tardiness-related objective functions

    Veronique Sels;Nele Gheysen;Mario Vanhoucke

  • Ribosomal ribonucleic acid cistron similarities and taxonomic neighborhood of Brucella and CDC group Vd

    J. De Ley;W. Mannheim;P. Segers;A. Lievens

  • Branching strategies in a branch-and-price approach for a multiple objective nurse scheduling problem

    Broos Maenhout;Mario Vanhoucke

  • A hybrid scatter search / Electromagnetism meta-heuristic for project scheduling

    Dieter Debels;B. De Reyck;R. Leus;Mario Vanhoucke

Frequent Co-Authors

Roel Leus
Roel Leus KU Leuven
Ioannis Brilakis
Ioannis Brilakis University of Cambridge
Miroslaw J. Skibniewski
Miroslaw J. Skibniewski University of Maryland, College Park
El-Houssaine Aghezzaf
El-Houssaine Aghezzaf Ghent University
Monique Gillis
Monique Gillis Ghent University
J. De Ley
J. De Ley Ghent University
Magne Bisgaard
Magne Bisgaard Bisgaard Consulting

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