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Researcher

David Van Bulck

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Awards & Distinctions

68 Results

2026

Designing a sports orienteering contest : physical versus cognitive skills in rogaining

David Van BulckJoonas PääkkönenBenjamin JacquetDries Goossens

A1 Journal Article in INTERNATIONAL TRANSACTIONS IN OPERATIONAL RESEARCH

Novel neighborhood structures for incomplete round robin tournaments

Karel DevriesereDavid Van BulckDries Goossens

The (a)social exam invigilator assignment problem

Hannah VerplanckeDavid Van BulckVeronique LimèreNico Schmid

A1 Journal Article in JOURNAL OF SCHEDULING

The incomplete traveling tournament problem (iTTP)

David Van BulckKarel DevriesereDries Goossens

2025

A column generation approach for first-break-then-schedule

David Van BulckJasper van DoornmalenDries Goossens

An iterated local search approach for the Integrated Healthcare Timetabling Competition (IHTC)

Lisa Garcia TerceroDavid Van BulckKarel DevriesereSamuel BakkerDries Goossens

Beyond leagues : a single incomplete round robin tournament for multi-league sports timetabling

Miao LiDavid Van BulckDries Goossens

A1 Journal Article in EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF OPERATIONAL RESEARCH

Brains or legs : how to organize a fair rogaining competition?

Dries GoossensDavid Van BulckBenjamin JacquetJoonas Pääkkönen

Brains or legs: how to organize a fair rogaining competition?

Dries GoossensDavid Van BulckJoonas PääkkönnenBenjamin Jacquet

Designing a fair orienteering contest using bilevel optimization

David Van BulckJoonas PääkkönenBenjamin JacquetDries Goossens

Intervene or ignore? Teaching quality management with the control chart game

David Van Bulck

Minimal and fair waiting times for single-day sports tournaments with multiple fields

Lisa Garcia TerceroDavid Van BulckFabien NießenDries Goossens

A1 Journal Article in OPERATIONS RESEARCH LETTERS

Minimal and fair waiting times for single-day sports tournaments with multiple fields

Lisa Garcia TerceroDavid Van BulckFabien NiessenDries Goossens

Multi-neighbourhood simulated annealing for the ITC-2007 capacitated examination timetabling problem

David Van BulckDries GoossensAndrea Schaerf

A1 Journal Article in JOURNAL OF SCHEDULING

2024

Beyond leagues : a single incomplete round-robin tournament for multi- league sports timetabling

Dries GoossensMiao LiDavid Van Bulck

Capacitated examination timetabling : multi-neighbourhood simulated annealing

David Van BulckDries GoossensAndrea Schaerf

How to organize a fair rogaining competition?

David Van BulckJoonas PääkkönenBenjamin JacquetDries Goossens

How to organize a fair rogaining competition?

David Van BulckJoonas PääkkönenBenjamin JacquetDries Goossens

Minimal and fair presence times for single-day sports tournaments with multiple fields

Lisa Garcia TerceroDries GoossensDavid Van Bulck

Minimal and fair waiting times for single-day sports tournaments with multiple fields

Lisa Garcia TerceroDries GoossensDavid Van Bulck

Minimal and fair waiting times for single-day sports tournaments with multiple fields

Lisa Garcia TerceroDries GoossensDavid Van Bulck

Sports timetabling : towards generic algorithms and performance insights

David Van BulckDries Goossens

The invigilator assignment problem

Hannah VerplanckeDavid Van BulckVeronique LimèreNico Schmid

Which algorithm to select in sports timetabling?

David Van BulckDries GoossensJan-Patrick ClarnerAngelos DimitsasGeorge H.G. FonsecaCarlos Lamas-FernandezMartin Mariusz LesterJaap PedersenAntony E. PhillipsRoberto Maria Rosati

A1 Journal Article in EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF OPERATIONAL RESEARCH

2023

A traditional Benders’ approach to sports timetabling

David Van BulckDries Goossens

A1 Journal Article in EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF OPERATIONAL RESEARCH

First-break-heuristically-schedule : constructing highly-constrained sports timetables

David Van BulckDries Goossens

A1 Journal Article in OPERATIONS RESEARCH LETTERS

Result-based talent identification in road cycling : discovering the next Eddy Merckx

David Van BulckArthur Vande WegheDries Goossens

A1 Journal Article in ANNALS OF OPERATIONS RESEARCH

Scheduling the Belgian soccer leagues

Dries GoossensDavid Van BulckFrits C.R. Spieksma

The international timetabling competition on sports timetabling (ITC2021)

David Van BulckDries Goossens

A1 Journal Article in EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF OPERATIONAL RESEARCH

What algorithm to select to create your sports schedule?

David Van BulckDries GoossensJan-Patrick ClarnerAngelos DimitsasGeorge H. G. FonsecaCarlos Lamas-FernandezAntony E. PhillipsRoberto Maria Rosati

2022

A traditional Benders’ approach to sports timetabling

David Van BulckDries Goossens

Backtracking in sports timetabling : a traditional Benders’ decomposition approach

David Van BulckDries Goossens

Generating a diverse and challenging set of sports timetabling problem instances

Dries GoossensDavid Van BulckMorteza DavariJeroen Beliën

Instance space analysis : the traveling tournament problem explained

David Van BulckFan YangDries Goossens

Optimizing rest times and differences in games played : an iterative two-phase approach

David Van BulckDries Goossens

A1 Journal Article in JOURNAL OF SCHEDULING

Result-based talent identification in road cycling

Dries GoossensDavid Van BulckArthur Vande Weghe

Using Benders’ cuts to backtrack in sports timetabling

David Van BulckDries Goossens

2021

Decomposition approaches for time-relaxed scheduling : optimizing rest times and differences in games played

David Van BulckDries Goossens

Decomposition in time-relaxed sports scheduling : the first-off-day-then-schedule approach

David Van BulckDries Goossens

Discovering the next Eddy Merckx

Dries GoossensDavid Van BulckArthur Vande Weghe

Relax-fix-optimize heuristics for time-relaxed sports timetabling

David Van BulckDries Goossens

A1 Journal Article in INFOR

Sports timetabling : theoretical results and new insights in algorithm performance

David Van Bulck

Editorial material

The fifth International Timetabling Competition (ITC 2021) : sports timetabling

David Van BulckDries GoossensJeroen BelienMorteza Davari

2020

An instance data repository for the round-robin sports timetabling problem

David Van BulckDries GoossensJörn SchönbergerMario Guajardo

A2 Journal Article in MANAGEMENT AND LABOUR STUDIES

Balancing rest time over teams in football timetabling

David Van BulckDries Goossens

Fair sports timetabling : balancing timetabling inconveniences in time-relaxed sports timetabling

David Van BulckDries Goossens

Fairness trade-offs in sports timetabling

Dries GoossensXiajie YiDavid Van Bulck

Bookchapter in Science meets sports : when statistics are more than numbers

Generalizing first-break-then-schedule to time-relaxed sports timetabling

David Van BulckDries Goossens

Handling fairness issues in time-relaxed tournaments with availability constraints

David Van BulckDries Goossens

A1 Journal Article in COMPUTERS & OPERATIONS RESEARCH

On the complexity of pattern feasibility problems in time-relaxed sports timetabling

David Van BulckDries Goossens

A1 Journal Article in OPERATIONS RESEARCH LETTERS

RobinX : a three-field classification and unified data format for round-robin sports timetabling

David Van BulckDries GoossensJörn SchönbergerMario Guajardo

A1 Journal Article in EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF OPERATIONAL RESEARCH

Sports timetabling : theoretical results and new insights in algorithm performance

David Van BulckDries Goossens

The international timetabling competition 2021 : sports timetabling

Dries GoossensJeroen BelienMorteza DavariDavid Van Bulck

What algorithms to select in time-relaxed sports timetabling?

David Van BulckDries Goossens

2019

RobinX : an XML-driven three-field classification for round-robin sports timetabling

Dries GoossensDavid Van BulckMario GuajardoJörn Schönberger

RobinX : an XML-driven three-field notation for round-robin sports timetabling

Dries GoossensDavid Van BulckJörn SchönbergerMario Guajardo

Scheduling a non-professional indoor football league : a tabu search based approach

David Van BulckDries GoossensFrits C. R. Spieksma

A1 Journal Article in ANNALS OF OPERATIONS RESEARCH

Using a memetic algorithm to handle fairness issues in time-relaxed sports timetabling

David Van BulckDries Goossens

What algorithms to select in sports timetabling?

David Van BulckDries Goossens

What algorithms to select in sports timetabling?

David Van BulckDries Goossens

2018

A classification and XML framework for round robin sports timetabling problems

Dries GoossensDavid Van BulckJörn SchönbergerMario Guajardo

RobinX : an XML driven classification for round-robin sports timetabling

David Van BulckDries GoossensJörn SchönbergerMario Guajardo

RobinX: an XML-driven classification for round-robin sports timetabling

David Van BulckDries GoossensJörn SchönbergerMario Guajardo

Scheduling time-relaxed double round-robin tournaments with availability constraints

David Van BulckDries Goossens

Scheduling time-relaxed double round-robin tournaments with availability constraints

David Van BulckDries Goossens

Scheduling time-relaxed double round-robin tournaments with availability constraints

David Van BulckDries Goossens

2017

Scheduling an Indoor Football League: a Tabu Search Based Approach

David Van BulckDries GoossensFrits Spieksma

Scheduling an indoor football league: a tabu search based approach

David Van BulckDries GoossensFrits Spieksma