Edit Profile (opens in new tab) van der Wal, Jan Compute Distance To: Compute Author ID: van-der-wal.jan Published as: van der Wal, Jan; Van der Wal, Jan; van der Wal, J. more...less Documents Indexed: 52 Publications since 1976, including 2 Books 1 Contribution as Editor Co-Authors: 24 Co-Authors with 31 Joint Publications 582 Co-Co-Authors all top 5 Co-Authors 15 single-authored 7 Adan, Ivo J. B. F. 5 Haijema, René 4 van Dijk, Nico M. 3 Haviv, Moshe 2 Boxma, Onno Johan 2 Brouns, Gido A. J. F. 2 Örmeci, Egemen Lerzan 2 Sassen, Simone Annetta Everdina 2 van Hee, Kees Max 2 van Houtum, Geert-Jan 2 Veugen, L. M. M. 2 Yechiali, Uri 1 Adan, Ivoal Jan 1 Al-lbrahim, Assil 1 Boucherie, Richard J. 1 Burnetas, Apostolos N. 1 Halachmi, Ilan 1 Heesterbeek, J. A. P. 1 Hendrix, Eligius M. T. 1 Hill, Theodore Preston 1 Hordijk, Arie 1 Keizers, Joris 1 Schweitzer, Paul J. 1 Tijms, Henk C. 1 van der Sluis, Erik H. J. 1 van Eenige, Michel J. A. 1 Van Nunen, Johannes Arnoldus Elisabeth Emmanuel 1 Wessels, Jaap all top 5 Serials 5 Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences 4 Statistica Neerlandica 4 OR Spektrum 3 European Journal of Operational Research 3 Stochastic Models 2 International Journal of Game Theory 2 Mathematics of Operations Research 2 Communications in Statistics. Stochastic Models 2 Queueing Systems 1 Computing 1 Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications 1 Naval Research Logistics 1 Operations Research 1 Wissenschaftliche Zeitschrift 1 Operations Research Letters 1 Statistics & Decisions 1 Computers & Operations Research 1 Annals of Operations Research 1 Stochastic Processes and their Applications 1 Mathematical Methods of Operations Research 1 Computer Networks all top 5 Fields 43 Operations research, mathematical programming (90-XX) 22 Probability theory and stochastic processes (60-XX) 10 Game theory, economics, finance, and other social and behavioral sciences (91-XX) 5 Computer science (68-XX) 5 Systems theory; control (93-XX) 3 Calculus of variations and optimal control; optimization (49-XX) 2 Numerical analysis (65-XX) 1 General and overarching topics; collections (00-XX) 1 History and biography (01-XX) 1 Statistics (62-XX) 1 Biology and other natural sciences (92-XX) Publications by Year all cited Publications top 5 cited Publications Citations contained in zbMATH Open 39 Publications have been cited 200 times in 158 Documents Cited by ▼ Year ▼ Blood platelet production: optimization by dynamic programming and simulation. Zbl 1125.90057Haijema, René; van der Wal, Jan; van Dijk, Nico M. 23 2007 Simple bounds and monotonicity results for finite multi-server exponential tandem queues. Zbl 0664.60093van Dijk, Nico M.; van der Wal, Jan 19 1989 Polling with batch service. Zbl 1158.60040Boxma, Onno; van der Wal, Jan; Yechiali, Uri 18 2008 Stochastic dynamic programming. Successive approximations and nearly optimal strategies for Markov decision processes and Markov games. Zbl 0462.90055van der Wal, J. 17 1981 Dynamic visit-order rules for batch-service polling. Zbl 1336.90027van der Wal, Jan; Yechiali, Uri 17 2003 Admission policies for a two class loss system. Zbl 0995.60086Örmeci, E. Lerzan; Burnetas, Apostolos; van der Wal, Jan 14 2001 Monotonicity of the throughput of a closed queueing network in the number of jobs. Zbl 0696.60087Adan, Ivo; Van der Wal, Jan 13 1989 Upper and lower bounds for the waiting time in the symmetric shortest queue system. Zbl 0795.60090Adan, Ivo; van Houtum, Geert-Jan; van der Wal, Jan 13 1994 Equilibrium strategies for processor sharing and random queues with relative priorities. Zbl 1096.60521Haviv, Moshe; van der Wal, Jan 12 1997 Combining make to order and make to stock. Zbl 0903.90047Adan, Ivo J. B. F.; van der Wal, Jan 12 1998 Discounted Markov games: Generalized policy iteration method. Zbl 0352.90071van der Wal, J. 9 1978 Monotonicity of the throughput of a closed exponential queueing network in the number of jobs. Zbl 0666.60091van der Wal, J. 7 1989 The symmetric longest queue system. Zbl 0871.60069Van Houtum, Geert-Jan; Adan, Ivoal Jan; Van der Wal, Jan 7 1997 Admission policies for a two class loss system with general interarrival times. Zbl 1127.90073Örmeci, E. Lerzan; van der Wal, Jan 7 2006 Discounted Markov games; successive approximation and stopping times. Zbl 0363.90113van der Wal, J. 6 1977 Mean sojourn times for phase-type discriminatory processor sharing systems. Zbl 1149.90324Haviv, Moshe; van der Wal, Jan 6 2008 Optimal threshold policies in a two-class preemptive priority queue with admission and termination control. Zbl 1137.90416Brouns, Gido A. J. F.; van der Wal, Jan 5 2006 Waiting times in queues with relative priorities. Zbl 1129.60082Haviv, Moshe; van der Wal, Jan 5 2007 Successive approximations for convergent dynamic programming. Zbl 0406.49013van Hee, K. M.; Hordijk, Arie; van der Wal, J. 5 1977 On stationary strategies in countable state total reward Markov decision processes. Zbl 0544.90099van der Wal, Jan 4 1984 The numerical exploitation of periodicity in Markov decision processes. Zbl 0526.90095Veugen, L. M. M.; van der Wal, J.; Wessels, J. 4 1983 An MDP decomposition approach for traffic control at isolated signalized intersections. Zbl 1152.90386Haijema, René; van der Wal, Jan 4 2008 The method of value oriented successive approximations for the average reward Markov decision process. Zbl 0443.90109van der Wal, J. 3 1980 The maximization of CP utilization in an exponential CP-terminal system with different think times and different job sizes. Zbl 0557.90030van der Wal, J. 3 1984 The design of robotic dairy barns using closed queueing networks. Zbl 0969.90016Halachmi, I.; Adan, I. J. B. F.; van der Wal, J.; Heesterbeek, J. A. P.; van Beek, P. 3 2000 Transient handover blocking probabilities in road covering cellular mobile networks. Zbl 1059.68006Boucherie, Richard J.; van der Wal, Jan 3 2003 Iterative bounds on the equilibrium distribution of a finite Markov chain. Zbl 1133.60330van der Wal, Jan; Schweitzer, Paul J. 3 1987 A real-world stochastic two-person game. Zbl 1120.91002Tijms, Henk; Van der Wal, Jan 3 2006 A successive approximation algorithm for an undiscounted Markov decision process. Zbl 0339.60069van der Wal, J. 3 1976 Optimal threshold policies in a workload model with a variable number of service phases per job. Zbl 1083.90045Brouns, Gido A. J. F.; van der Wal, Jan 3 2003 On uniformly nearly-optimal Markov strategies. Zbl 0526.90096van der Wal, Jan 2 1983 On Markov games. Zbl 0333.90057van der Wal, J.; Wessels, J. 2 1976 Mean values techniques. Zbl 1216.90028Adan, Ivo; van der Wal, Jan 1 2011 On the use of information in Markov decision processes. Zbl 0529.90094van der Wal, Jan; Wessels, Jaap 1 1984 Aggregation and disaggregation in Markov decision models for inventory control. Zbl 0573.90100Veugen, L. M. M.; van der Wal, J.; Wessels, J. 1 1985 Strongly convergent dynamic programming: some results. Zbl 0404.49030van Hee, K. M.; van der Wal, J. 1 1977 Blood platelet inventory management. Zbl 1375.90011Haijema, Rene; van Dijk, Nico M.; van der Wal, Jan 1 2017 OR and simulation in combination for optimization. Zbl 1192.90259van Dijk, Nico M.; van der Sluis, Erik; Haijema, René; Al-lbrahim, Assil; van der Wal, Jan 1 2009 Successive approximations for average reward Markov games. Zbl 0428.90093Van der Wal, J. 1 1980 Blood platelet inventory management. Zbl 1375.90011Haijema, Rene; van Dijk, Nico M.; van der Wal, Jan 1 2017 Mean values techniques. Zbl 1216.90028Adan, Ivo; van der Wal, Jan 1 2011 OR and simulation in combination for optimization. Zbl 1192.90259van Dijk, Nico M.; van der Sluis, Erik; Haijema, René; Al-lbrahim, Assil; van der Wal, Jan 1 2009 Polling with batch service. Zbl 1158.60040Boxma, Onno; van der Wal, Jan; Yechiali, Uri 18 2008 Mean sojourn times for phase-type discriminatory processor sharing systems. Zbl 1149.90324Haviv, Moshe; van der Wal, Jan 6 2008 An MDP decomposition approach for traffic control at isolated signalized intersections. Zbl 1152.90386Haijema, René; van der Wal, Jan 4 2008 Blood platelet production: optimization by dynamic programming and simulation. Zbl 1125.90057Haijema, René; van der Wal, Jan; van Dijk, Nico M. 23 2007 Waiting times in queues with relative priorities. Zbl 1129.60082Haviv, Moshe; van der Wal, Jan 5 2007 Admission policies for a two class loss system with general interarrival times. Zbl 1127.90073Örmeci, E. Lerzan; van der Wal, Jan 7 2006 Optimal threshold policies in a two-class preemptive priority queue with admission and termination control. Zbl 1137.90416Brouns, Gido A. J. F.; van der Wal, Jan 5 2006 A real-world stochastic two-person game. Zbl 1120.91002Tijms, Henk; Van der Wal, Jan 3 2006 Dynamic visit-order rules for batch-service polling. Zbl 1336.90027van der Wal, Jan; Yechiali, Uri 17 2003 Transient handover blocking probabilities in road covering cellular mobile networks. Zbl 1059.68006Boucherie, Richard J.; van der Wal, Jan 3 2003 Optimal threshold policies in a workload model with a variable number of service phases per job. Zbl 1083.90045Brouns, Gido A. J. F.; van der Wal, Jan 3 2003 Admission policies for a two class loss system. Zbl 0995.60086Örmeci, E. Lerzan; Burnetas, Apostolos; van der Wal, Jan 14 2001 The design of robotic dairy barns using closed queueing networks. Zbl 0969.90016Halachmi, I.; Adan, I. J. B. F.; van der Wal, J.; Heesterbeek, J. A. P.; van Beek, P. 3 2000 Combining make to order and make to stock. Zbl 0903.90047Adan, Ivo J. B. F.; van der Wal, Jan 12 1998 Equilibrium strategies for processor sharing and random queues with relative priorities. Zbl 1096.60521Haviv, Moshe; van der Wal, Jan 12 1997 The symmetric longest queue system. Zbl 0871.60069Van Houtum, Geert-Jan; Adan, Ivoal Jan; Van der Wal, Jan 7 1997 Upper and lower bounds for the waiting time in the symmetric shortest queue system. Zbl 0795.60090Adan, Ivo; van Houtum, Geert-Jan; van der Wal, Jan 13 1994 Simple bounds and monotonicity results for finite multi-server exponential tandem queues. Zbl 0664.60093van Dijk, Nico M.; van der Wal, Jan 19 1989 Monotonicity of the throughput of a closed queueing network in the number of jobs. Zbl 0696.60087Adan, Ivo; Van der Wal, Jan 13 1989 Monotonicity of the throughput of a closed exponential queueing network in the number of jobs. Zbl 0666.60091van der Wal, J. 7 1989 Iterative bounds on the equilibrium distribution of a finite Markov chain. Zbl 1133.60330van der Wal, Jan; Schweitzer, Paul J. 3 1987 Aggregation and disaggregation in Markov decision models for inventory control. Zbl 0573.90100Veugen, L. M. M.; van der Wal, J.; Wessels, J. 1 1985 On stationary strategies in countable state total reward Markov decision processes. Zbl 0544.90099van der Wal, Jan 4 1984 The maximization of CP utilization in an exponential CP-terminal system with different think times and different job sizes. Zbl 0557.90030van der Wal, J. 3 1984 On the use of information in Markov decision processes. Zbl 0529.90094van der Wal, Jan; Wessels, Jaap 1 1984 The numerical exploitation of periodicity in Markov decision processes. Zbl 0526.90095Veugen, L. M. M.; van der Wal, J.; Wessels, J. 4 1983 On uniformly nearly-optimal Markov strategies. Zbl 0526.90096van der Wal, Jan 2 1983 Stochastic dynamic programming. Successive approximations and nearly optimal strategies for Markov decision processes and Markov games. Zbl 0462.90055van der Wal, J. 17 1981 The method of value oriented successive approximations for the average reward Markov decision process. Zbl 0443.90109van der Wal, J. 3 1980 Successive approximations for average reward Markov games. Zbl 0428.90093Van der Wal, J. 1 1980 Discounted Markov games: Generalized policy iteration method. Zbl 0352.90071van der Wal, J. 9 1978 Discounted Markov games; successive approximation and stopping times. Zbl 0363.90113van der Wal, J. 6 1977 Successive approximations for convergent dynamic programming. Zbl 0406.49013van Hee, K. M.; Hordijk, Arie; van der Wal, J. 5 1977 Strongly convergent dynamic programming: some results. Zbl 0404.49030van Hee, K. M.; van der Wal, J. 1 1977 A successive approximation algorithm for an undiscounted Markov decision process. Zbl 0339.60069van der Wal, J. 3 1976 On Markov games. Zbl 0333.90057van der Wal, J.; Wessels, J. 2 1976 all cited Publications top 5 cited Publications all top 5 Cited by 274 Authors 14 van Dijk, Nico M. 7 Yechiali, Uri 6 Haviv, Moshe 6 van der Wal, Jan 5 Adan, Ivo J. B. F. 5 Bruneel, Herwig 5 Örmeci, Egemen Lerzan 5 Perel, Nir 4 Jiang, Tao 4 Van der Mei, Robert Douwe 4 Winands, Erik M. M. 3 Baetens, Jens 3 Boucherie, Richard J. 3 Burnetas, Apostolos N. 3 Claeys, Dieter 3 Knessl, Charles 3 Legros, Benjamin 3 Steyaert, Bart 3 van Houtum, Geert-Jan 3 Yao, Haishen 2 Ayesta, Urtzi 2 Boxma, Onno Johan 2 Chen, Shih-Pin 2 Çil, Eren Başar 2 Crocce, Fabián 2 Economou, Antonis 2 Ekici, Ali 2 Feinberg, Eugene Aleksandrovich 2 Goseling, Jasper 2 Jouini, Oualid 2 Karaesmen, Fikri 2 Levy, Hanoch 2 Liu, Liwei 2 Liu, Lu 2 Mordecki, Ernesto 2 Örmeci, Lerzan 2 Oz, Binyamin 2 Ozener, Okan Orsan 2 Ravid, Rachel 2 Scheller-Wolf, Alan 2 Smith, James MacGregor 2 Tarabia, Ahmed M. K. 2 Tibi, Danielle 2 van Leeuwaarden, Johan S. H. 1 Akkerman, Renzo 1 Alanyali, Murat 1 Alexandros, Diamantidis C. 1 Altman, Eitan 1 Ammar, Sherif Ibrahim 1 Ansell, P. S. 1 Argon, Nilay Tanık 1 Ariafar, Shahram 1 Ariffin, M. K. A. M. 1 Artalejo, Jesus R. 1 Ata, Baris 1 Avrachenkov, Konstantin Evgen’evich 1 Avsar, Zeynep Muge 1 Ayhan, Hayriye 1 Azevedo, Américo 1 Bai, Xinwei 1 Bavafa, Hessam 1 Ben Mamoun, Mouad 1 Bhulai, Sandjai 1 Blanc, Johannes Pieter Cornelis 1 Boute, Robert N. 1 Broekmeulen, Rob A. C. M. 1 Brouns, Gido A. J. F. 1 Bušić, Ana 1 Centeno, Grisselle 1 Chai, Xudong 1 Chang, Kuo-Hwa 1 Chao, Xiuli 1 Chen, Yanting 1 Cheraghi, Sara 1 Chikhale, Nikhil 1 Chin, Ke-tsai E. 1 Chong, Kenneth C. 1 Chrissoleon, Papadopoulos T. 1 Chydzinski, Andrzej 1 Civelek, Ismail 1 Coban, Elvin 1 Czerniak, Omer 1 Daduna, Hans 1 Dai, Wanyang 1 de Graaf, Maurits 1 de Koster, René B. M. 1 De Moor, Bram J. 1 De Vuyst, Stijn 1 Dester, Plinio S. 1 Diabat, Ali H. 1 Dijkhuizen, A. A. 1 Dong, Zeqing 1 Doroudi, Sherwin 1 Lodewijk Dorsman, Jan-Pieter 1 Duan, Yongrui 1 Dunn, R. T. 1 Dzidic, A. 1 Elalouf, Amir 1 Fan, Ruina 1 Fernández García, Francisco Ramón ...and 174 more Authors all top 5 Cited in 43 Serials 20 European Journal of Operational Research 19 Queueing Systems 13 Computers & Operations Research 12 Stochastic Models 10 Operations Research Letters 10 Annals of Operations Research 10 Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences 6 Operations Research 5 Applied Mathematical Modelling 4 Journal of Applied Probability 4 Mathematical Methods of Operations Research 3 Kybernetika 3 Opsearch 3 Stochastic Processes and their Applications 3 OR Spectrum 2 Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications 2 Applied Mathematics and Computation 2 Journal of Industrial and Management Optimization 1 Advances in Applied Probability 1 Indian Journal of Pure & Applied Mathematics 1 Cybernetics and Systems 1 Acta Mathematicae Applicatae Sinica. 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Principles and Applications of Systems and Integration all top 5 Cited in 12 Fields 141 Operations research, mathematical programming (90-XX) 78 Probability theory and stochastic processes (60-XX) 15 Computer science (68-XX) 12 Game theory, economics, finance, and other social and behavioral sciences (91-XX) 7 Systems theory; control (93-XX) 3 Calculus of variations and optimal control; optimization (49-XX) 2 Biology and other natural sciences (92-XX) 1 History and biography (01-XX) 1 Ordinary differential equations (34-XX) 1 Approximations and expansions (41-XX) 1 Statistics (62-XX) 1 Statistical mechanics, structure of matter (82-XX) Citations by Year