VOORBERG Simon

PhD Operations Management & Business Process Management

Simon VOORBERG is an Assistant professor of Operations and Information management at NEOMA Business School in France. He has a BSc in Industrial Engineering and a MSc in Applied Mathematics. Simon’s research includes optimization of business processes and maintenance optimization in a network setting. Particular methods that are used by Simon are Markov Decision Processes and (deep) Reinforcement Learning. His research has appeared in Decision Support Systems journal and European Journal of Operational Research. His PhD research was in cooperation with international companies such as Philips, Dutch Railways and Fokker Services and focused on real-time decision support for semi-structured data-driven processes.

VOORBERG, S., "Optimizing Fuel Delivery Routes Under Operational Constraints: A Comparative Evaluation of Exact and Heuristic Models" in IFORS conference, 2026, Vienna, Austria
VOORBERG, S., "Scalable algorithms for throughput-time constrained complex decision making processes" in ISIR, 2026, Budapest, Hungary
BEN ABDELAZIZ, F., Y. SHI, M. PERON, Y. QU, S. VOORBERG, P. QUAN, J. LI, G. KOU, J. M. TIEN, D. BERG, "AI and Business in Green and Digital Era: Preface for ITQM 2026", Procedia Computer Science, 2026, vol. 287, pp. 1-8

BEN ABDELAZIZ, F., Y. SHI, M. PERON, Y. QU, S. VOORBERG, P. QUAN, J. LI, G. KOU, J. M. TIEN, D. BERG, "AI and Business in Green and Digital Era: Preface for ITQM 2026", Procedia Computer Science, 2026, vol. 287, pp. 1-8
VAN JAARSVELD, W., A. AKCAY, L. BLIEK, P. DA COSTA, M. DE WEERDT, R. ESHUIS, S. KAPODISTRIA, U. KAYMAK, V. PRONK, G.-J. VAN HOUTUM, P. VERLEIJSDONK, S. VERWER, S. VOORBERG, Y. ZHANG, "Real-Time Data-Driven Maintenance Logistics: A Public-Private Collaboration", Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), October 2024, vol. 124 Commit2Data, no. 5, pp. 1-13
VOORBERG, S., W. VAN JAARSVELD, R. ESHUIS, G. J. VAN HOUTUM, "Information acquisition for service contract quotations made by repair shops", European Journal of Operational Research, July 2023
DA COSTA, P., P. VERLEIJSDONK, S. VOORBERG, A. AKCAY, S. KAPODISTRIA, W. VAN JAARSVELD, Y. ZHANG, "Policies for the dynamic traveling maintainer problem with alerts", European Journal of Operational Research, June 2023
VOORBERG, S., R. ESHUIS, W. VAN JAARSVELD, G. J. VAN HOUTUM, "Decisions for information or information for decisions? Optimizing information gathering in decision-intensive processes", Decision Support Systems, December 2021, vol. 151, pp. 113632

VOORBERG, S., R. ESHUIS, W. VAN JAARSVELD, G.-J. VAN HOUTUM, "Decision Support for Declarative Artifact-Centric Process Models" in Business Process Management Forum., Thomas Hildebrandt, Boudewijn F. van Dongen, Maximilian Röglinger, Jan Mendling Eds, Springer International Publishing, pp. 36-52, 2019

VOORBERG, S., "Optimizing Fuel Delivery Routes Under Operational Constraints: A Comparative Evaluation of Exact and Heuristic Models" in IFORS conference, 2026, Vienna, Austria
VOORBERG, S., "Scalable algorithms for throughput-time constrained complex decision making processes" in ISIR, 2026, Budapest, Hungary