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Bert Zwart
Researcher at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica
Publications - 243
Citations - 3565
Bert Zwart is an academic researcher from Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica. The author has contributed to research in topics: Queue & Queueing theory. The author has an hindex of 32, co-authored 230 publications receiving 3202 citations. Previous affiliations of Bert Zwart include French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation & Georgia Institute of Technology.
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Simultaneously Learning and Optimizing Using Controlled Variance Pricing
Arnoud V. den Boer,Bert Zwart +1 more
TL;DR: The key idea of the policy is to enhance the certainty equivalent pricing policy with a taboo interval around the average of previously chosen prices, which means that eventually the value of the optimal price will be learned, and derive upper bounds on the regret.
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Block Rate Pricing of Water in Indonesia: An Analysis of Welfare Effects
TL;DR: In this paper, the Burtless and Hausman model is used to estimate household water demand in Salatiga city and find that its distribution is not unimodal, that data cluster around kinks.
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On the relationship between travel time and travel distance of commuters. Reported versus network travel data in the Netherlands
TL;DR: In this article, a detailed empirical analysis of the relationships between different indicators of commuting trips by car: difference as the crow flies, shortest travel time according to route planner, corresponding travel distance, and reported travel time is given.
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Refining Square-Root Safety Staffing by Expanding Erlang C
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors apply a corrected diffusion approximation for the Erlang C formula to determine staffing levels in large customer contact centers that are modeled as an M/M/s queue with s the number of servers or agents.
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Tails in scheduling
Onno Boxma,Bert Zwart +1 more
TL;DR: This paper gives an overview of recent research on the impact of scheduling on the tail behavior of the response time of a job, covering preemptive and non-preemptive scheduling disciplines, and considering light-tailed and heavy-tailed distributions.