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Honorable mention Arnoud den Boer

Arnoud den Boer, former PhD student at the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam) has received an honorable mention from the jury of the VVS/OR van Zwet Award for his thesis …

New models for improving service levels in large scale ICT systems

ICT systems, such as international on-line banking and social media, have evolved into global-scale service chains and have become increasingly complex.

ERCIM News on Mobile Computing published

In April ERCIM News No. 93 on Mobile Computing was published (pdf).

Best Paper Award at ICORES 2013

Researchers Nir Perel from Tel Aviv University, Jan-Pieter Dorsman (CWI and TU/e) and Maria Vlasiou (CWI and TU/e) won the Best Paper Award for their paper ‘Cyclic-type polling models with preparation times’ …

CWI starts research on police service optimization

Researchers of the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) and the VU University Amsterdam join forces with the Amsterdam-Amstelland police force to optimize the planning of police services. New techniques allow a more …

Higher revenue with dynamic pricing

With dynamic pricing, vendors can adapt retail prices on the fly in order to raise their revenue. This strategy is used in a variety of business domains, including tourism, entertainment and the …

CWI granted two PhD positions in Shell-NWO programme

Wireless communication ten times faster with new techniques