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New PhD Vacancies   Currently, we have the following open PhD positions at the Rotterdam School of Management:
17-01-2012
Cassandra-Energy: EU project to model future energy market With changes already happening in both production technologies and consumer behaviour, what might the energy markets of the future look like, and how might the dynamics change? A new cross-European project, co-directed by Wolf Ketter, will be finding out.
01-11-2011
A Star Publication on Energy Research Led by Wolfgang Ketter The paper “Demand Side Management - A simulation of household behavior under variable prices” (Sebastian Gottwalt, Wolfgang Ketter, Carsten Block, John Collins, and Christof Weinhardt) has been accepted by Energy Policy, the authoritative journal addressing those issues such as energy supply, demand and utilization that confront decision makers, managers, consultants, politicians, planners and researchers.
12-10-2011
Wolfgang Ketter Talks about Designing Smart Market on the First RSM Alumni Day By offering more choices, do you make your customers happy and generate more profit? Or can people be paralyzed by having too many options? Operating in today’s highly dynamic and uncertainty environment, you are routinely faced with complex strategic, tactical, and operational decisions; decisions ranging from the macroscopic, such as which markets we should enter and when to the microscopic such as what products should be packed on which pallet.
20-05-2011
Wolfgang Ketter Act as Program Chair of the 13th International Conference on Electronic Commerce (ICEC) Wolfgang Ketter will act as Program Chair of the 13 International Conference on Electronic Commerce (ICEC) which will take place in the historical trading and shipping city of Liverpool, England on August 2-5th.
07-04-2011
Prestigious NWO grant and Fulbright Fellowship for ERIM/LARGE research visitor Amy Greenwald Dr. Amy Greenwald, Associate Professor at Brown University, Rhode Island, USA, who currently spends her sabbatical (from January to August) at ERIM’s Learning Agent Research Group at Erasmus (LARGE), has just received an NWO research visitor grant and the prestigious Fulbright Fellowship.
10-03-2011
New PhD Vacancy: A Competitive Agent-based Market Laboratory for Complex Energy Networks Sustainable energy systems of the future will need more than efficient, clean, low-cost, renewable energy sources; they will also need efficient price signals that motivate sustainable energy consumption as well as a better real-time alignment of energy demand and supply. At its core, this is a problem of distributing resources among self-interested parties, a problem that markets can solve. Such a market will have considerable complexity and potential for unintended negative consequences. The risks involved in establishing such markets are high without solid research guidance. This PhD research project aims to develop results that will provide well-founded guidance on the structure of and the participants in such markets to guide future energy policy. The core research question is: What combinations of market mechanisms and decision support can effectively manage future smart energy grids on behalf of individual, commercial, and public sector stakeholders? To answer this question, the PhD student will work on a rich, competitive simulation environment – a laboratory for developing a clear understanding of the emergent phenomena arising from complex interactions of market mechanisms with adaptive, self-interested agents, under the technical and economic constraints of future energy markets.
13-12-2010
Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce and Trading Agent Design and Analysis This volume contains 13 thoroughly refereed and revised papers detailing recent advances in research on trading agents, negotiating agents, dynamic pricing, and auctions.
04-10-2010
Best Paper Nomination for Wolfgang Ketter The paper entitled “A Kalman Filter Approach to Analyze Multivariate Hedonic Pricing in Dynamic Supply-Chain Markets.” by Jan van Dalen, Wolfgang Ketter, Gianfranco Lucchese, and John Collins received a best paper nomination at the 12th International Conference of Electronic Commerce, the premier conference on electronic commerce.
23-08-2010
Recognition for know-how on trading in electronic markets MinneTAC, an autonomous Supply-Chain Management Trading Agent from the University of Minnesota in cooperation with Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (LARGE) won a 3rd place at this year’s Trading Agent Competition for Supply-Chain Management (TAC SCM) at Harvard University. The research team was composed of Alexander Hogenboom, Frederik Hogenboom, Jan van Dalen, Uzay Kaymak, Wolf Ketter, Otto ter Haar, Jeroen Ruigrok, and Romke de Vries. Research members associated with LARGE from the University of Minnesota are John Collins, Maria Gini, Alok Gupta, and Paul Schrater. The top three teams of TAC SCM 2010 were TacTex (University of Texas), DeepMaize (University of Michigan) and MinneTAC (University of Minnesota/RSM).
30-06-2010
New intelligence on future energy markets The face of Europe’s energy supply is set to change. If latest plans by nine European countries go ahead, the North Sea could become home to an intricate network of undersea cables – part of Europe’s first supergrid for renewable energy. Initiatives of this type signal a marked departure from the traditional model of energy supply management, says Wolfgang Ketter. Until now a few large companies have held centre stage in each country, operating in a largely top-down, command-and-control fashion.
02-03-2010
Best Poster Paper Award for Alok Gupta, Wolfgang Ketter, Eric van Heck, and Meditya Wasesa At the Eighth Workshop on eBusiness (WeB-09) at the International Conference for Information Systems (ICIS) in Phoenix, Arizona, USA, on December 15, 2009, Alok Gupta, Wolfgang Ketter, Eric van Heck, and Meditya Wasesa have been awarded wit the Best Poster Paper Award. The price-winning article entitled ‘Real-time Support for Auctioneers to Determine Optimal Clock Start for Multi-unit Sequential Dutch Auctions’.
27-01-2010
Best Paper Award Nomination for Learning Agents Research Group At the 11th International Conference of Electronic Commerce (ICEC) in Taipei, Taiwan this August, Alexander Hogenboom, Wolf Ketter, Jan van Dalen, Uzay Kaymak, John Collins, and Alok Gupta received a Best Paper Award Nomination for their paper “Product Pricing using Adaptive Real-Time Probability of Acceptance Estimations based on Economic Regimes”.
05-09-2009
MinneTAC 3rd place at Trading Agent Competition for Supply-Chain Management MinneTAC, an autonomous Supply-Chain Management Agent, from the University of Minnesota and Erasmus University (LARGE) won a 3rd place at this year’s Trading Agent Competition for Supply-Chain Management (TAC SCM). This is a tournament witch attracts the best research teams world-wide. Wolf Ketter was the General Chair of this year’s event; he is also at the board of directors of the Association for Trading Agent Research.
28-07-2009
 
 
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