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Willy Herroelen

Willy Herroelen

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Business and Management
Belgium
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Business and Management

D-Index
57
Citations
13522
World Ranking
662
National Ranking
7

Engineering and Technology

D-Index
57
Citations
13505
World Ranking
2613
National Ranking
34

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 Business and Management in Belgium Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Business and Management in Belgium Leader Award

Overview

Willy Herroelen is affiliated with KU Leuven in Belgium and focuses their research on various aspects of operational research, business management, and engineering. Their work spans multiple fields of study, including Business, Management and Accounting, and Engineering. Within these areas, Herroelen has contributed research related to Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, and Control and Systems Engineering.

Their research topics cover a range of themes primarily centered on Facility Location and Emergency Management, Advanced Manufacturing and Logistics Optimization, as well as Optimization and Mathematical Programming.

Herroelen has published in different academic venues, notably the Journal of the Operational Research Society and ePrints Soton (University of Southampton).

  • Operational Research: methods and applications, 2023, Journal of the Operational Research Society
  • Operational Research: Methods and Applications, 2023, ePrints Soton (University of Southampton)

Collaboration plays a significant role in Herroelen's research, with frequent co-authors including Fotios Petropoulos, Gilbert Laporte, Emel Aktaş, Sibel A. Alumur, and Claudia Archetti.

  • Fotios Petropoulos
  • Gilbert Laporte
  • Emel Aktaş
  • Sibel A. Alumur
  • Claudia Archetti

Best Publications

  • Project scheduling under uncertainty: survey and research potentials

    Willy Herroelen;Roel Leus

  • Project Scheduling: A Research Handbook

    Erik L. Demeulemeester;Willy S. Herroelen

  • Resource-constrained project scheduling: a survey of recent developments

    Willy Herroelen;Bert De Reyck;Erik Demeulemeester

  • A branch-and-bound procedure for the multiple resource-constrained project scheduling problem

    Erik Demeulemeester;Willy Herroelen

  • On the merits and pitfalls of critical chain scheduling

    Willy Herroelen;Roel Leus

  • Robust and reactive project scheduling: a review and classification of procedures

    Willy Herroelen;Roel Leus

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

    Erik L. Demeulemeester;Willy S. Herroelen

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

    Erik Demeulemeester;Mario Vanhoucke;Willy Herroelen

  • The use of buffers in project management: The trade-off between stability and makespan

    Stijn Van de Vonder;Erik Demeulemeester;Willy Herroelen;Roel Leus

  • Proactive heuristic procedures for robust project scheduling: An experimental analysis

    Stijn Van de Vonder;Erik Demeulemeester;Willy Herroelen

  • Proactive and reactive strategies for resource-constrained project scheduling with uncertain resource availabilities

    Olivier Lambrechts;Erik Demeulemeester;Willy Herroelen

  • The construction of stable project baseline schedules

    Willy Herroelen;Roel Leus

  • A branch-and-bound procedure for the resource-constrained project scheduling problem with generalized precedence relations

    Bert De Reyck;willy Herroelen

  • A hierarchical approach to multi-project planning under uncertainty

    EW Hans;Willy Herroelen;Roel Leus;G Wullink

  • A classification scheme for project scheduling

    Willy Herroelen;Erik Demeulemeester;Bert De Reyck

  • Critical Chain Project Scheduling: Do Not Oversimplify:

    Willy Herroelen;Roel Leus;Erik Demeulemeester

  • Project network models with discounted cash flows a guided tour through recent developments

    Willy S. Herroelen;Patrick Van Dommelen;Erik L. Demeulemeester

  • Project Scheduling—Theory and Practice

    Willy Herroelen

  • THE MULTI-MODE RESOURCE-CONSTRAINED PROJECT SCHEDULING PROBLEM WITH GENERALIZED PRECEDENCE RELATIONS

    Bert De Reyck;Willy Herroelen

  • Optimal procedures for the discrete time/cost trade-off problem in project networks

    Erik L. Demeulemeester;Willy S. Herroelen;Salah E. Elmaghraby

  • Resource-constrained project scheduling - A survey of recent developments

    W Herroelen;B De Reyck;E Demeulemeester

Frequent Co-Authors

Roel Leus
Roel Leus KU Leuven
Mario Vanhoucke
Mario Vanhoucke Ghent University
Salah E. Elmaghraby
Salah E. Elmaghraby North Carolina State University

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