Description
Leader of the group Stochastics: Bert Zwart.
Many natural and man-made systems and processes are driven by random phenomena. Examples can be found in areas such as communication, energy, information, logistics, and transportation systems. In order to model, describe, and improve such systems, our group develops and studies probabilistic, operational and statistical models. Our group’s analysis of these models relies on techniques from fundamental probability theory, queueing theory, stochastic scheduling, spatial stochastics and stochastic geometry. Our work with various companies in these areas, as well as with top researchers and universities across the globe, ensures our position at the forefront of every aspect of this research field.
Vacancies
PhD student on the subject of Planning and Optimization of Production Systems
Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) has a vacancy in the Stochastics and Intelligent and Autonomous Systems research groups for a talented PhD student on the subject of Planning and Optimization of Production Systems.
News
Stochastics group leader Bert Zwart in 'Economentop 40' of 2017
Stochastics researcher and group leader Bert Zwart is selected to be part of the 'Economentop 40' of 2017, which lists the forty Dutch economists with the highest publication rate in peer reviewed magazines over the past five years.
Caroline Jagtenberg awarded with prestigious Jo van Nunen award
Caroline Jagtenberg, former PhD student of CWI, received the prestigious Jo van Nunen award for her CWI PhD thesis “Efficiency and Fairness in Ambulance Planning” on 30 November. The prize has been awarded by VLM (Vereniging Logistiek Management).
CWI and ProRail predict railway incidents
Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica and ProRail recently started a research collaboration in the area of the handling of incidents at the Dutch railways. It concerns a public private partnership between CWI and ProRail striking up a four year period. The research is aimed at prevention and handling of a broad spectrum of railway incidents, like disturbance of the railway infrastructure, people walking on the tracks and collisions.
CWI participates in impact study North/Southline
The North/Southline is the largest operation in Amsterdam’s public transport in decades. That is why the municipality of Amsterdam will start an extensive impact study together with knowledge institutions, the transport region Amsterdam and GVB (public transport company Amsterdam). Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) will act as one of the main research partners.
Members
Associated Members
Publications
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van Lieshout, M.N.M. (2019). Theory of Spatial Statistics: A Concise Introduction.
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van Lieshout, M.N.M. (2018). Nearest-neighbour Markov point processes on graphs with Euclidean edges. Advances in Applied Probability, 50(4), 1275–1293. doi:10.1017/apr.2018.60
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Mahfoud Peetoom, M, Bhulai, S, van der Mei, R.D, Erkin, D, & Dugundji, E.R. (2018). Forecasting Burglary Risk in Small Areas via Network Analysis of City Streets. In Proceedings IARIA Data Analytics (Athens, Greece, 2018).
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Kleinrouweler, J.W.M, Meixner, B, Bosman, J.W, van den Berg, J.L, van der Mei, R.D, & Cesar Garcia, P.S. (2018). Improving mobile video quality through predictive channel quality based buffering. In Proceedings of the 30th International Teletraffic Congress, ITC 2018 (pp. 236–244). doi:10.1109/ITC30.2018.00042
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Hristov, A. V. (2018, September 18). Performance models for analysis and control of IT systems.
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Sloothaak, F, Wachtel, V, & Zwart, A.P. (2018). First-passage time asymptotics over moving boundaries for random walk bridges.
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Iftimi, A, van Lieshout, M.N.M, & Montes, F. (2018). A multi-scale area-interaction model for spatio-temporal point patterns. Spatial Statistics, 26, 38–55. doi:10.1016/j.spasta.2018.06.001
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van den Berg, J, Kiss, D, & Nolin, P. (2018). Two-dimensional volume-frozen percolation: deconcentration and prevalence of mesoscopic clusters. Annales Scientifiques de l'École Normale Supérieure, 51, 1017–1084.
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Hristov, A, Bosman, J.W, van der Mei, R.D, & Bhulai, S. (2018). Throughput and bottleneck analysis of tandem queues with nested sessions. Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences, 32(3), 396–408.
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Nesti, T, Zocca, A, & Zwart, A.P. (2018). Emergent Failures and Cascades in Power Grids: A Statistical Physics Perspective. Physical Review Letters, 120(25). doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.258301
Current projects with external funding
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Rare events: Asymptotics, Algorithms, Applications ()
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Impactstudie Noord/Zuidlijn Gemeente Amsterdam
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Ontwikkeling van Data Analytics, Data Science en Crypto Analyse technieken
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PPS met Cofely
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Samenwerkingsovereenkomst Stichting 113 / CWI - Zelfmoordpreventie
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Verbeteren van de efficiency en prestatie van logistieke processen in de binnenvaart
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Dynamic urban traffic flow management using floating-car, planning, and infrastructure data (Dynafloat)
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Emergency Service Logistics: Network Design and Dynamic Dispatching (DYNAMERGE)
Related partners
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CTVrede
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De Verkeersonderneming
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Gemeente Amsterdam
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Stichting 113
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Stichting Sensor City
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Cofely West Nederland