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Researcher
David Van Bulck
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65
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2026
Designing a sports orienteering contest : physical versus cognitive skills in rogaining
David Van Bulck
Joonas Pääkkönen
Benjamin Jacquet
Dries Goossens
A1
Journal Article
in
INTERNATIONAL TRANSACTIONS IN OPERATIONAL RESEARCH
2026
2025
A column generation approach for first-break-then-schedule
David Van Bulck
Jasper van Doornmalen
Dries Goossens
C3
Conference
2025
An iterated local search approach for the Integrated Healthcare Timetabling Competition (IHTC)
Lisa Garcia Tercero
David Van Bulck
Karel Devriesere
Samuel Bakker
Dries Goossens
C3
Conference
2025
Beyond leagues : a single incomplete round robin tournament for multi-league sports timetabling
Miao Li
David Van Bulck
Dries Goossens
A1
Journal Article
in
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF OPERATIONAL RESEARCH
2025
Brains or legs : how to organize a fair rogaining competition?
Dries Goossens
David Van Bulck
Benjamin Jacquet
Joonas Pääkkönen
C3
Conference
2025
Brains or legs: how to organize a fair rogaining competition?
Dries Goossens
David Van Bulck
Joonas Pääkkönnen
Benjamin Jacquet
C3
Conference
2025
Designing a fair orienteering contest using bilevel optimization
David Van Bulck
Joonas Pääkkönen
Benjamin Jacquet
Dries Goossens
C3
Conference
2025
Intervene or ignore? Teaching quality management with the control chart game
David Van Bulck
C3
Conference
2025
Minimal and fair waiting times for single-day sports tournaments with multiple fields
Lisa Garcia Tercero
David Van Bulck
Fabien Nießen
Dries Goossens
A1
Journal Article
in
OPERATIONS RESEARCH LETTERS
2025
Minimal and fair waiting times for single-day sports tournaments with multiple fields
Lisa Garcia Tercero
David Van Bulck
Fabien Niessen
Dries Goossens
C3
Conference
2025
Multi-neighbourhood simulated annealing for the ITC-2007 capacitated examination timetabling problem
David Van Bulck
Dries Goossens
Andrea Schaerf
A1
Journal Article
in
JOURNAL OF SCHEDULING
2025
2024
Beyond leagues : a single incomplete round-robin tournament for multi- league sports timetabling
Dries Goossens
Miao Li
David Van Bulck
C3
Conference
2024
Capacitated examination timetabling : multi-neighbourhood simulated annealing
David Van Bulck
Dries Goossens
Andrea Schaerf
C3
Conference
2024
How to organize a fair rogaining competition?
David Van Bulck
Joonas Pääkkönen
Benjamin Jacquet
Dries Goossens
C3
Conference
2024
How to organize a fair rogaining competition?
David Van Bulck
Joonas Pääkkönen
Benjamin Jacquet
Dries Goossens
C3
Conference
2024
Minimal and fair presence times for single-day sports tournaments with multiple fields
Lisa Garcia Tercero
Dries Goossens
David Van Bulck
C3
Conference
2024
Minimal and fair waiting times for single-day sports tournaments with multiple fields
Lisa Garcia Tercero
Dries Goossens
David Van Bulck
C1
Conference
2024
Minimal and fair waiting times for single-day sports tournaments with multiple fields
Lisa Garcia Tercero
Dries Goossens
David Van Bulck
C3
Conference
2024
Sports timetabling : towards generic algorithms and performance insights
David Van Bulck
Dries Goossens
C1
Conference
2024
The invigilator assignment problem
Hannah Verplancke
David Van Bulck
Veronique Limère
Nico Schmid
C1
Conference
2024
Which algorithm to select in sports timetabling?
David Van Bulck
Dries Goossens
Jan-Patrick Clarner
Angelos Dimitsas
George H.G. Fonseca
Carlos Lamas-Fernandez
Martin Mariusz Lester
Jaap Pedersen
Antony E. Phillips
Roberto Maria Rosati
A1
Journal Article
in
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF OPERATIONAL RESEARCH
2024
2023
A traditional Benders’ approach to sports timetabling
David Van Bulck
Dries Goossens
A1
Journal Article
in
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF OPERATIONAL RESEARCH
2023
First-break-heuristically-schedule : constructing highly-constrained sports timetables
David Van Bulck
Dries Goossens
A1
Journal Article
in
OPERATIONS RESEARCH LETTERS
2023
Result-based talent identification in road cycling : discovering the next Eddy Merckx
David Van Bulck
Arthur Vande Weghe
Dries Goossens
A1
Journal Article
in
ANNALS OF OPERATIONS RESEARCH
2023
Scheduling the Belgian soccer leagues
Dries Goossens
David Van Bulck
Frits C.R. Spieksma
C3
Conference
2023
The international timetabling competition on sports timetabling (ITC2021)
David Van Bulck
Dries Goossens
A1
Journal Article
in
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF OPERATIONAL RESEARCH
2023
What algorithm to select to create your sports schedule?
David Van Bulck
Dries Goossens
Jan-Patrick Clarner
Angelos Dimitsas
George H. G. Fonseca
Carlos Lamas-Fernandez
Antony E. Phillips
Roberto Maria Rosati
C3
Conference
2023
2022
A traditional Benders’ approach to sports timetabling
David Van Bulck
Dries Goossens
C3
Conference
2022
Backtracking in sports timetabling : a traditional Benders’ decomposition approach
David Van Bulck
Dries Goossens
C3
Conference
2022
Generating a diverse and challenging set of sports timetabling problem instances
Dries Goossens
David Van Bulck
Morteza Davari
Jeroen Beliën
C3
Conference
2022
Instance space analysis : the traveling tournament problem explained
David Van Bulck
Fan Yang
Dries Goossens
C3
Conference
2022
Optimizing rest times and differences in games played : an iterative two-phase approach
David Van Bulck
Dries Goossens
A1
Journal Article
in
JOURNAL OF SCHEDULING
2022
Result-based talent identification in road cycling
Dries Goossens
David Van Bulck
Arthur Vande Weghe
C3
Conference
2022
Using Benders’ cuts to backtrack in sports timetabling
David Van Bulck
Dries Goossens
C1
Conference
2022
2021
Decomposition approaches for time-relaxed scheduling : optimizing rest times and differences in games played
David Van Bulck
Dries Goossens
C3
Conference
2021
Decomposition in time-relaxed sports scheduling : the first-off-day-then-schedule approach
David Van Bulck
Dries Goossens
C3
Conference
2021
Discovering the next Eddy Merckx
Dries Goossens
David Van Bulck
Arthur Vande Weghe
C3
Conference
2021
Relax-fix-optimize heuristics for time-relaxed sports timetabling
David Van Bulck
Dries Goossens
A1
Journal Article
in
INFOR
2021
Sports timetabling : theoretical results and new insights in algorithm performance
David Van Bulck
Editorial material
2021
The fifth International Timetabling Competition (ITC 2021) : sports timetabling
David Van Bulck
Dries Goossens
Jeroen Belien
Morteza Davari
C1
Conference
2021
2020
An instance data repository for the round-robin sports timetabling problem
David Van Bulck
Dries Goossens
Jörn Schönberger
Mario Guajardo
A2
Journal Article
in
MANAGEMENT AND LABOUR STUDIES
2020
Balancing rest time over teams in football timetabling
David Van Bulck
Dries Goossens
C3
Conference
2020
Fair sports timetabling : balancing timetabling inconveniences in time-relaxed sports timetabling
David Van Bulck
Dries Goossens
C3
Conference
2020
Fairness trade-offs in sports timetabling
Dries Goossens
Xiajie Yi
David Van Bulck
Bookchapter
in
Science meets sports : when statistics are more than numbers
2020
Generalizing first-break-then-schedule to time-relaxed sports timetabling
David Van Bulck
Dries Goossens
C1
Conference
2020
Handling fairness issues in time-relaxed tournaments with availability constraints
David Van Bulck
Dries Goossens
A1
Journal Article
in
COMPUTERS & OPERATIONS RESEARCH
2020
On the complexity of pattern feasibility problems in time-relaxed sports timetabling
David Van Bulck
Dries Goossens
A1
Journal Article
in
OPERATIONS RESEARCH LETTERS
2020
RobinX : a three-field classification and unified data format for round-robin sports timetabling
David Van Bulck
Dries Goossens
Jörn Schönberger
Mario Guajardo
A1
Journal Article
in
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF OPERATIONAL RESEARCH
2020
Sports timetabling : theoretical results and new insights in algorithm performance
David Van Bulck
Dries Goossens
Dissertation
2020
The international timetabling competition 2021 : sports timetabling
Dries Goossens
Jeroen Belien
Morteza Davari
David Van Bulck
C3
Conference
2020
What algorithms to select in time-relaxed sports timetabling?
David Van Bulck
Dries Goossens
C3
Conference
2020
2019
RobinX : an XML-driven three-field classification for round-robin sports timetabling
Dries Goossens
David Van Bulck
Mario Guajardo
Jörn Schönberger
C3
Conference
2019
RobinX : an XML-driven three-field notation for round-robin sports timetabling
Dries Goossens
David Van Bulck
Jörn Schönberger
Mario Guajardo
C3
Conference
2019
Scheduling a non-professional indoor football league : a tabu search based approach
David Van Bulck
Dries Goossens
Frits C. R. Spieksma
A1
Journal Article
in
ANNALS OF OPERATIONS RESEARCH
2019
Using a memetic algorithm to handle fairness issues in time-relaxed sports timetabling
David Van Bulck
Dries Goossens
C3
Conference
2019
What algorithms to select in sports timetabling?
David Van Bulck
Dries Goossens
C3
Conference
2019
What algorithms to select in sports timetabling?
David Van Bulck
Dries Goossens
C3
Conference
2019
2018
A classification and XML framework for round robin sports timetabling problems
Dries Goossens
David Van Bulck
Jörn Schönberger
Mario Guajardo
C3
Conference
2018
RobinX : an XML driven classification for round-robin sports timetabling
David Van Bulck
Dries Goossens
Jörn Schönberger
Mario Guajardo
C1
Conference
2018
RobinX: an XML-driven classification for round-robin sports timetabling
David Van Bulck
Dries Goossens
Jörn Schönberger
Mario Guajardo
C3
Conference
2018
Scheduling time-relaxed double round-robin tournaments with availability constraints
David Van Bulck
Dries Goossens
C3
Conference
2018
Scheduling time-relaxed double round-robin tournaments with availability constraints
David Van Bulck
Dries Goossens
C3
Conference
2018
Scheduling time-relaxed double round-robin tournaments with availability constraints
David Van Bulck
Dries Goossens
C3
Conference
2018
2017
Scheduling an Indoor Football League: a Tabu Search Based Approach
David Van Bulck
Dries Goossens
Frits Spieksma
C3
Conference
2017
Scheduling an indoor football league: a tabu search based approach
David Van Bulck
Dries Goossens
Frits Spieksma
C3
Conference
2017