Kaspar Schüpbach

Education

MSc Computational Science and Engineering, ETH Zurich

Master Project: Flexible Timetables for Railway Networks (spring term 2007, supervised by G. Caimi and M. Fuchsberger)

Research interests

• Automated Guided Vehicles (AGV), Personal Rapid Transit (PRT)
• Railway Timetable Generation
• Optimization Algorithms and Applications

Student Projects

Master Projects

• Silva Lieberherr, Creating Value through Product Portfolio Optimization, Spring Term 2010
• Raphael Richli, Approaches in Simultaneous AGV Routing, Spring Term 2009
• Stefan Ravizza, AGV Routing, Autumn Term 2008

Term Projects

• Martina Furrer, Routing in Personal Rapid Transit, Spring Term 2011
• Jesco Jung, Taxi Service Optimization with Ride Sharing Option, Autumn Term 2010
• Stephanie Werren, Feasibility of the conflict-free routing Problem, Spring Term 2010
• Jesco Jung, Robust Ressource Allocation and Scheduling in Container Terminals, Spring Term 2009

Teaching Assistance

• System Modeling and Optimization (Autumn Term 09 and 10)
• Robust Planning Methods in Operations Management (Spring Term 10)
• Einführung in die Optimierung (Spring Term 09)
• Optimization Techniques (Autumn Term 08)

Publications

• K. Schüpbach, R. Zenklusen: "Approximation Algorithms for Conflict-Free Vehicle Routing." Proceedings of the 19th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA), 2011(url).
• G. Caimi, M. Laumanns, K. Schüpbach, S. Wörner, M. Fuchsberger: "The Periodic Service Intention as a Conceptual Frame for Generating Timetables with Partial Periodicity." Transportation Planning and Technology, 34(4):323-339, 2011(url).
• G. Caimi, M. Fuchsberger, M. Laumanns, K. Schüpbach: "Periodic Railway Timetabling with Event Flexibility." Networks, Volume 57, 2011 (pdf).
• Laumanns M., Zenklusen R., Schüpbach K., Hendriks M., Lefeber E., Udding J. (2010): "Robust Adaptive Resource Allocation in Container Terminals." In: Henggeler Antunes C., Rios Insua D., Candido Dias L. (eds.): Proceedings of the 25th Mini-EURO Conference Uncertainty and Robustness in Planning and Decision Making (URPDM 2010), University of Coimbra, Portugal, April 15-17, 2010
• G. Caimi, M. Fuchsberger, M. Laumanns, H.-J. Lüthi, K. Schüpbach: "Fahrplanerstellung in stark ausgelasteten Eisenbahnnetzen." OR News 35:6-11, März 2009. In German.
• G. Caimi, M. Laumanns, K. Schüpbach, S. Wörner, M. Fuchsberger: "The Periodic Service Intention as a Conceptual Frame for Generating Timetables with Partial Periodicity." In: ISROR Proceedings, February 2009. (pdf)
• G. Caimi, M. Fuchsberger, M. Laumanns, K. Schüpbach. Periodic Railway Timetabling with Event Flexibility. Proceedings of ATMOS Workshop, November 2007. (pdf)
• Winnen B, Schlumberger MC, Sturm A, Schüpbach K, Siebenmann S, Jenny P, Hardt W-D. (2008) Hierarchical Effector Protein Transport by the Salmonella Typhimurium SPI-1 Type III Secretion System. PLoS ONE 3(5): e2178. (pdf)

Conferences, Seminars, Courses

• ESA 2011, Saarbrücken: European Symposium on Algorithms, September 5-7, 2011
• OR 2011, Zürich: International Conference on Operations Research, August 30 - September 2 2011
• SVOR Days 2011, Bern: 9th Joint Operations Research Days, 12-13 Mai 2011
• Podcar City Conference, Malmö, 9-10 December 2009
• SVOR Days 2009, Lugano: 7th Joint Operations Research Days, 3-4 September 2009
• CASPT 2009, Hong Kong: The 11th International Conference on Advanced Szstems for Public Transport, 20-22 July 2009
• RailZurich 2009, Zurich: 3rd International Seminar on Railway Operations Modelling and Analysis, 11-13 February 2009
• Zinal Seminar 2009: Seminar of the "3ème cycle romand de Recherche Opérationnelle", 18-22 January 2009
• Urbanpromo 2008, Venezia: International Conference on Transportation decision making: issues, tools, models and case studies, 13-14 November 2008
• IAROR Summer Course 2008, Delft: IAROR Summer Course Railway Tibetable Optimisation, 14-18 July 2008
• NAPIO 2008, Ascona: New Algorithmic Paradigms in Optimization, 22-28 June 2008