Jaap Wessels
Jaap Wessels (born January 19, 1939 in Amsterdam , † July 30, 2009 in Veldhoven ) was a Dutch mathematician who dealt with stochastic (Markov) decision-making processes. He was a professor at the Technical University of Eindhoven .
Wessels studied at the University of Amsterdam with a diploma in 1963 (he was Jan Hemelrijk's assistant there ) and received his doctorate in 1968 at the TU Eindhoven under Jacques Benders (Decision Rules in Markovian Decision Problems with Incompletely Known Transition Probabilities). In 1973 he became professor for applied probability theory at the TU Eindhoven, where he retired in 2000. Wessels remained active at the Eurandom Institute (European Institute for Statistics, Probability, Stochastic Operations Research and its Applications), which he founded in Eindhoven in 1997 with Michael Sylvester Keane (* 1940) and Willem van Zwet (* 1934).
He was initially known for work on Markov decision-making processes, later he dealt with queue theory, neural networks and structured Markov processes.
His doctoral students include Kees van Hee , Henk Zijm (University of Twente), Eric van Damme (University of Tilburg), Jo van Nunen (University of Rotterdam, 1945–2010), Jacob Wijngaard , Geert-Jan van Houtum (Eindhoven) and Wil van der Aalst .
Fonts
- Editor with Andrzej P. Wierzbicki, Marek Makowski: Model-based decision support methodology with environmental applications, Kluwer 2000
- Rekenen with kansen, Groningen, Wolters-Noordhoff 1969
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jaap Wessels in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Wessels, Jaap |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 19, 1939 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Amsterdam |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 30, 2009 |
| Place of death | Veldhoven |