Anthonius Wilhelmus Johannes (Antoon) Kolen (22 May 1953 – 3 October 2004) was a Dutch

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and Professor at the

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, in the Department of Quantitative Economics. He is known for his work on

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, such as

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and

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Biography

Born in

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, Kolen obtained his engineering degree from the

Eindhoven University of Technology The Eindhoven University of Technology ( nl, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven), abbr. TU/e, is a public technical university in the Netherlands, located in the city of Eindhoven. In 2020–21, around 14,000 students were enrolled in its BSc a ...

in 1978. In 1982 he obtained his PhD at the

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University of Amsterdam The University of Amsterdam (abbreviated as UvA, nl, Universiteit van Amsterdam) is a public research university located in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The UvA is one of two large, publicly funded research universities in the city, the other being ...

under

Gijsbert de Leve Gijsbert (Gijs) de Leve (15 August 1926 – 19 November 2009) was a Dutch mathematician and operations researcher, known for his work on Markov decision process. Gijs de Leve is considered the founder of operations research in the Netherlands. B ...

and

Jan Karel Lenstra Jan Karel Lenstra (born 19 December 1947, in Zaandam) is a Dutch mathematician and operations researcher, known for his work on scheduling algorithms, local search, and the travelling salesman problem. Lenstra received his Ph.D. from the Univers ...

with the thesis, entitled "Location Problems on Trees and in the Rectilinear Plane." After his graduation Kolen started his academic career at the

Econometric Institute Econometric Institute (Dutch ''Econometrisch Instituut'') at the Erasmus University Rotterdam is a leading research institute in the fields of econometrics and management science in the Netherlands. The Institute offers advanced education in econom ...

Erasmus University Rotterdam Erasmus University Rotterdam (abbreviated as ''EUR'', nl, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam ) is a public research university located in Rotterdam, Netherlands. The university is named after Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus, a 15th-century humanist ...

. Late 1980s he moved to the

, where he was appointed Professor at the Department of Quantitative Economics and head of its operations research group.Editorial introduction
in ''Statistica Neerlandica'' (2007) Vol. 61, nr. 1, pp. 1–3 His PhD students at the Erasmus University Rotterdam were Leo Kroon (graduated in 1990),

Albert Wagelmans Albert Peter Marie (Albert) Wagelmans (born 1960) is a Dutch economist and Professor of Management Science at the Erasmus School of Economics (ESE) of the Erasmus University Rotterdam working in the fields of mathematical optimization methods for ...

(1990), C. Stan van Hoesel (1991), Wim Pijls (1991), Peter Verbeek (1991), and A. Woerlee (1991); W. Hennen at the Wageningen University and Research Centre (graduated in 1995), and at the Maastricht University Alwin Oerlemans (graduated in 1992), Ron van der Wal (1995), Maarten Oosten (1996), Jons van de Klundert (1996), Robert van de Leensel (1999), Arie Koster (1999), and Alexander Grigoriev (2003).

Selected publications

* Antoon Kolen. ''Location Problems on Trees and in the Rectilinear Plane.'' PhD thesis, Universiteit van Amsterdam, 1982. * Kolen, Antoon WJ, and Arie Tamir.
Covering problems
'' Econometric Institute, 1984. Articles, a selection: * Brouwer, Andries E., and Antoon WJ Kolen. "A super-balanced hypergraph has a nest point." ''Stichting Mathematisch Centrum. Zuivere Wiskunde'' ZW 146/80 (1980): 1-7. * Hoffman, Alan J., A. W. J. Kolen, and Michel Sakarovitch. "Totally-balanced and greedy matrices." ''SIAM Journal on Algebraic and Discrete Methods'' 6.4 (1985): 721-730. * Kolen, Antoon WJ, A. H. G. Rinnooy Kan, and H. W. J. M. Trienekens.
Vehicle routing with time windows
" Operations Research 35.2 (1987): 266-273. *

Wagelmans, Albert Albert Peter Marie (Albert) Wagelmans (born 1960) is a Dutch economist and Professor of Management Science at the Erasmus School of Economics (ESE) of the Erasmus University Rotterdam working in the fields of mathematical optimization methods for ...

, Stan Van Hoesel, and Antoon Kolen.
Economic lot sizing: an O (n log n) algorithm that runs in linear time in the Wagner-Whitin case
" ''Operations Research'' 40.1-Supplement - 1 (1992): pp. 145–156. * Koster, Arie MCA, Stan P.M. Van Hoesel, and Antoon WJ Kolen.
The partial constraint satisfaction problem: Facets and lifting theorems
" ''Operations research letters'' 23.3 (1998): 89-97. * Kolen, Antoon.
A genetic algorithm for the partial binary constraint satisfaction problem: an application to a frequency assignment problem
" ''Statistica Neerlandica'' 61.1 (2007): 4-15.

References

External links

Antoon Kolen
in Statistica Neerlandica, 2007 {{DEFAULTSORT:Kolen, Antoon 1953 births 2004 deaths Dutch mathematicians Dutch operations researchers Eindhoven University of Technology alumni University of Amsterdam alumni Erasmus University Rotterdam faculty Maastricht University faculty People from Tilburg