Homepage Willem-Jan van Hoeve

Assistant Professor of Operations Research
Tepper School of Business
Carnegie Mellon University

Faculty Coordinator of the MBA Track on Business Analytics

Research and Teaching Interests

Operations research; optimization; constraint programming; hybrid solution methods; real-world applications of vehicle routing and scheduling

Curriculum Vitae

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Tepper School of Business
Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
USA

office: Posner Hall 239
phone: (+1) 412-268-9655
fax: (+1) 412-268-7345
email: vanhoeve@andrew.cmu.edu

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The history of the CPAIOR conference series can be found here.

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Teaching

2012/2013

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Publications

The documents on this page are preprints. The copyright for the published documents rests with the author(s) and the journals or conferences where they were published.

In Process

J. Schuijbroek, R. Hampshire, and W.-J. van Hoeve. Inventory Rebalancing and Vehicle Routing in Bike Sharing Systems. Under Review. Tepper School of Business Working Paper 2013-E1, Carnegie Mellon University, 2013.

D. Bergman, A. A. Cire, W.-J. van Hoeve, and T. Yunes. BDD-Based Heuristics for Binary Optimization. Under Review, 2013.

A. A. Cire and W.-J. van Hoeve. Multivalued Decision Diagrams for Sequencing Problems. Under review, December 2012.

D. Bergman, A. A. Cire, W.-J. van Hoeve, and J. N. Hooker. Optimization Bounds from Binary Decision Diagrams. INFORMS Journal on Computing, to appear.

2013

B. Kell and W.-J. van Hoeve. An MDD Approach to Multidimensional Bin Packing. In Proceedings of CPAIOR, LNCS 7874, pp. 128-143. Springer, 2013.

M. R. Slusky and W.-J. van Hoeve. A Lagrangian Relaxation for Golomb Rulers. In Proceedings of CPAIOR, LNCS 7874, pp. 251-267. Springer, 2013.

2012

P. Benchimol, W.-J. van Hoeve, J.-C. Régin, L.-M. Rousseau, and M. Rueher. Improved Filtering for Weighted Circuit Constraints. Constraints 17(3): 205-233, 2012.

A. A. Cire and W.-J. van Hoeve. MDD Propagation for Disjunctive Scheduling. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS), pp. 11-19. AAAI Press, 2012.

A. A. Cire, E. Coban, and W.-J. van Hoeve. Flow-Based Combinatorial Chance Constraints. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Integration of AI and OR Techniques in Constraint Programming for Combinatorial Optimization Problems (CPAIOR). LNCS 7298, pp. 129-145. Springer, 2012.

Note: The filtering rule for the `most likely matching' is incorrect as stated in the paper (Lemma 6 in Section 5.3). The experiments did not expose this error. A correction will be made in an extended version of the paper.

D. Bergman, A.A. Cire, W.-J. van Hoeve, and J.N. Hooker. Variable Ordering for the Application of BDDs to the Maximum Independent Set Problem. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Integration of AI and OR Techniques in Constraint Programming for Combinatorial Optimization Problems (CPAIOR). LNCS 7298, pp. 34-49. Springer, 2012.

W.-J. van Hoeve. Semidefinite Programming and Constraint Programming. Chapter 22 of M. F. Anjos and J. B. Lasserre (eds.), Handbook on Semidefinite, Cone and Polynomial Optimization: Theory, Algorithms, Software and Applications, Springer, 2012.

J. Conrad, C. P. Gomes, W.-J. van Hoeve, A. Sabharwal, and J. F. Suter. Wildlife corridors as a connected subgraph problem. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 63(1): 1-18, 2012.

2011

D. Bergman, W.-J. van Hoeve, and J. N. Hooker. Manipulating MDD Relaxations for Combinatorial Optimization. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Integration of AI and OR Techniques in Constraint Programming for Combinatorial Optimization Problems (CPAIOR), LNCS 6697, pp. 20-35. Springer, 2011.

W.-J. van Hoeve, M. Hunting, and C. Kuip. The Aimms Interface to Constraint Programming. In Proceedings of Late Breaking Abstracts of CPAIOR, pp. 41-43, 2011.

R. Steiger, W.-J. van Hoeve, and R. Szymanek. An Efficient Generic Network Flow Constraint. In Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC), pp. 893-900. ACM, 2011.

W.-J. van Hoeve. Over-Constrained Problems. Chapter in P. Van Hentenryck and M. Milano (eds.), Hybrid Optimization: The Ten Years of CPAIOR, pp. 191-225. Springer, 2011.

W.-J. van Hoeve. MDD Propagation for Sequence Constraints. Tepper School of Business Working Paper 2011-E12, Carnegie Mellon University, 2011.

2010

S. Hoda, W.-J. van Hoeve, and J. N. Hooker. A Systematic Approach to MDD-Based Constraint Programming. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Principles and Practices of Constraint Programming (CP). LNCS 6308, pp. 266-280. Springer, 2010.

P. Benchimol, J.-C. Régin, L.-M. Rousseau, M. Rueher, and W.-J. van Hoeve. Improving the Held and Karp Approach with Constraint Programming. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Integration of AI and OR Techniques in Constraint Programming for Combinatorial Optimization Problems (CPAIOR), LNCS 6140, pp. 40-44. Springer, 2010.

J.-C. Régin, L.-M. Rousseau, M. Rueher, and W.-J. van Hoeve. The Weighted Spanning Tree Constraint Revisited. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Integration of AI and OR Techniques in Constraint Programming for Combinatorial Optimization Problems (CPAIOR), LNCS 6140, pp. 176-180. Springer, 2010.

C. Gunes, W.-J. van Hoeve, and S. Tayur. Vehicle Routing for Food Rescue Programs: A Comparison of Different Approaches. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Integration of AI and OR Techniques in Constraint Programming for Combinatorial Optimization Problems (CPAIOR), LNCS 6140, pp. 287-291. Springer, 2010.

B. K. Peterson, W.-J. van Hoeve, L. G. Debo, and S. Kekre. Flexible Milk-Runs for Stochastic Vehicle Routing. Tepper School of Business Working Paper 2010-E78, Carnegie Mellon University, 2010.

2009

W.-J. van Hoeve and J. N. Hooker (eds.). Proceedings of the International Conference on Integration of AI and OR Techniques in Constraint Programming for Combinatorial Optimization Problems (CPAIOR), volume 5547 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, 2009.

W.-J. van Hoeve, G. Pesant, L.-M. Rousseau, and A. Sabharwal. New Filtering Algorithms for Combinations of Among Constraints. Constraints 14:273-292, 2009.

2008

Y. Malitsky, M. Sellmann, and W.-J. van Hoeve. Length-Lex Bounds Consistency for Knapsack Constraints. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP), LNCS 5202, pp. 266-281. Springer, 2008.

C. P. Gomes, W.-J. van Hoeve, and A. Sabharwal. Connections in Networks: A Hybrid Approach. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Integration of AI and OR Techniques in Constraint Programming for Combinatorial Optimization Problems (CPAIOR), LNCS 5015, pp. 303-307. Springer, 2008.

W.-J. van Hoeve and A. Sabharwal. Filtering Atmost1 on Pairs of Set Variables. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Integration of AI and OR Techniques in Constraint Programming for Combinatorial Optimization Problems (CPAIOR), LNCS 5015, pp. 382-386. Springer, 2008.

2007

C. P. Gomes, W.-J. van Hoeve, A. Sabharwal, and B. Selman. Counting CSP Solutions Using Generalized XOR Constraints. In Proceedings of the Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2007), 2007.

W.-J. van Hoeve, C. P. Gomes, M. Lombardi, and B. Selman. Optimal Multi-Agent Scheduling with Constraint Programming. In Proceedings of the Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI 2007), 2007.

J. Conrad, C. P. Gomes, W.-J. van Hoeve, A. Sabharwal, and J. Suter. Connections in Networks: Hardness of Feasibility versus Optimality. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Integration of AI and OR Techniques in Constraint Programming for Combinatorial Optimization Problems (CPAIOR), LNCS 4510, pp. 16-28. Springer, 2007.

W.-J. van Hoeve and A. Sabharwal. Two Set-Constraints for Modeling and Efficiency. In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Constraint Modelling and Reformulation (ModRef 2007), 2007.

G. Dooms, L. Mercier, P. Van Hentenryck, W.-J. van Hoeve and L. Michel. Length-Lex Open Constraints. Technical Report CS-07-09, Brown University, 2007.

2006

W.-J. van Hoeve and I. Katriel. Global Constraints. Chapter 6 of F. Rossi, P. van Beek and T. Walsh (eds.), Handbook of Constraint Programming, Elsevier 2006.

W.-J. van Hoeve, G. Pesant, L.-M. Rousseau and A. Sabharwal. Revisiting the Sequence Constraint. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP), pp. 620-634, LNCS 4204, 2006. Best paper award.

W.-J. van Hoeve, G. Pesant and L.-M. Rousseau. On Global Warming: Flow-Based Soft Global Constraints. Journal of Heuristics 12(4-5):347-373, 2006.

W.-J. van Hoeve and J.-C. Régin. Open Constraints in a Closed World. In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Integration of AI and OR Techniques in Constraint Programming for Combinatorial Optimization Problems (CPAIOR), LNCS 3990, pp. 244-257. Springer, 2006.

C. P. Gomes, W.-J. van Hoeve and L. Leahu. The Power of Semidefinite Programming Relaxations for MAX-SAT. In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Integration of AI and OR Techniques in Constraint Programming for Combinatorial Optimization Problems (CPAIOR), LNCS 3990, pp. 104-118. Springer, 2006.

C. P. Gomes, W.-J. van Hoeve and B. Selman. Constraint Programming for Distributed Planning and Scheduling. In AAAI Spring Symposium on Distributed Plan and Schedule Management, 2006.

W.J. van Hoeve. Exploiting Semidefinite Relaxations in Constraint Programming. Computers and Operations Research 33(10):2787-2804, 2006.

2005

W.-J. van Hoeve. Operations Research Techniques in Constraint Programming. PhD thesis, University of Amsterdam, 2005.

2004

W.J. van Hoeve. A Hyper-Arc Consistency Algorithm for the Soft Alldifferent Constraint. In International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP), LNCS 3258, pp. 679-689. Springer, 2004. Best student paper award.

W.J. van Hoeve, G. Pesant and L.-M. Rousseau. On Global Warming (Softening Global Constraints). In International Workshop on Preferences and Soft Constraints (held in conjunction with CP), 2004.

W.J. van Hoeve and M. Milano. Postponing Branching Decisions. In European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2004), pp. 1105-1106. IOS Press, 2004.
An extended version is also available.

2003

W.J. van Hoeve. A hybrid constraint programming and semidefinite programming approach for the stable set problem. In International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP), LNCS 2833, pp. 407-421. Springer, 2003.

W.J. van Hoeve. A hybrid constraint programming and semidefinite programming approach for the stable set problem. In International Workshop on Integration of AI and OR Techniques in Constraint Programming for Combinatorial Optimization Problems (CPAIOR), pp. 3-16, 2003.

W.J. van Hoeve and M. Milano. Decomposition Based Search. A theoretical and experimental evaluation. LIA Technical Report LIA00203, University of Bologna, 2003.

2002

M. Milano and W.J. van Hoeve. Reduced cost-based ranking for generating promising subproblems. In International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP), LNCS 2470, pp. 1-16. Springer, 2002.

M. Milano and W.J. van Hoeve. Reduced cost-based ranking for generating promising subproblems. Joint ERCIM - CologNet Workshop on Constraint Solving and Constraint Logic Programming, pp. 7-22, Cork (Ireland), June 2002.

2001

W.J. van Hoeve. The Alldifferent Constraint: A Survey. Annual Workshop of the ERCIM Working Group on Constraints, Prague, June 2001.
An extended version is also available.