A message to my students at the start of the new academic year: Embrace AI, but not always, and save room for happy accidents: Everyone seems to be embracing AI today, especially in education. And perhaps that is only logical. AI is here to stay, it is not going to disappear, and you, as students, will undoubtedly have to learn...
Two members of the Operations Research & Scheduling (OR&S) group (Guillaume Vermeire and Yuxuan Song) are currently in Passau, Germany, where they are presenting their research at the International Conference on Operations Research (OR 2026).
OR&S' Project Management book #8 has arrived! The book "Data-Driven Project Management with Python: Optimizing Schedules, Simulating Risk and Analyzing Project Performance through 10 Example Experiments" is now published by Springer Nature as part of the "Management for Professionals* series.
We are pleased to announce a new OR&S publication in Flexible Services and Manufacturing Journal: Servranckx, T., Verbanck, T., Song, J., & Vanhoucke, M. (2026). A genetic algorithm for seafood processing with flexible flow shops and sequence-dependent setups. Flexible Services and Manufacturing Journal, 38, 650–689.
Training project managers, whether young professionals at the start of their careers or seasoned practitioners with decades of experience, has always been a pleasure for me. Not only because I enjoy sharing my research and practical experience, but also because every training session becomes a learning opportunity in itself.
"Decision Making for Business" is a course module I have had the pleasure of teaching for many years in different parts of the world. Not only at Ghent University and Vlerick Business School in Belgium or at UCL School of Management, but also at business schools and universities across Europe, China and the Middle East.
Last week (May 2026), Walt Lipke and his wife Dianne visited Ghent for just three days. Short in time, but unforgettable in meaning. We have written about Walt many times before. As the founder of Earned Schedule, his work profoundly influenced the OR&S research journey. After reading his landmark 2003 article "Schedule is Different", we started...
The new OR-AS website is now online! Launching it has been a tremendous effort, not just in designing a fresh look or writing new content, but in deciding what to keep, what to update, and what to leave behind. Times change, yet OR-AS has a long history: the company was founded in 2001 as a project management consultancy, while...