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dr. L. Xie (Lin)

Visiting Professor
BMS-HBE-IEBIS
Ravelijn 4410
lin.xie@utwente.nl
+31534899143
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Lin Xie is a visiting professor in the High Tech Business and Entrepreneurship (HBE) department at the University of Twente. As of February 2025, she has taken up the role of Chair of Information Systems and Business Analytics at the Brandenburg University of Technology.

From 2023 to 2024, she served as an assistant professor of AI/OR for Smart & Sustainable Industry within the HBE department. Between 2015 and 2022, Lin was an assistant professor of Information Systems and Operations Research at Leuphana University of Lüneburg, where she contributed to research and teaching at the intersection of digital systems and operational efficiency.

Lin holds both bachelor's (2008) and master's (2010) degrees in Information Systems, and she earned her Ph.D. in the same field from the University of Paderborn in 2014. Following her doctoral studies, she continued as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Paderborn.

Lin's research includes both industry and sustainability focuses. The industry focus includes digital logistics (robotics in warehouses, last-mile logistics) and intelligent transportation, while the sustainability focus includes robust planning in public transit (e-buses, personnel planning), and robotics services in data center maintenance, in Agri-PV systems and in sports. 

The decision support methods she applies to solve the important and practice-oriented problems in the areas mentioned above are operations research/artificial intelligence methods (discrete-event simulation, mathematical modeling, metaheuristics, queueing theory, column generation, data mining and machine learning) and emerging technologies (digital twinning, virtual reality).

Lin has participated in various research and implementation projects funded by the German Research Foundation, the European Social Fund, the German Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure and industrial partners. 

In teaching, Lin received the best teaching award in 2018 from the Leuphana University of Lüneburg.

Expertise

  • Computer Science

    • Robot
    • Mobile Robotics
    • Models
    • Public Bus
    • Real World

  • Social Sciences

    • Problem
    • Public Transport
    • Scheduling

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Publications

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2024

Security and Human-Safety by Applying Last-Mile Robots in Urban Environments (2024)In SENSEI 2024: International Workshop on Safety-Security Interaction (pp. 34-46). Kolb, C. & Xie, L.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-68738-9_Security and Safety in Urban Environments: Evaluating Threats and Risks of Autonomous Last-Mile Delivery Robots (2024)In SAFECOMP 2024: 43rd International Conference on Computer Safety, Reliability and Security (pp. 34-46) (Lecture notes in computer science; Vol. 14989). Kolb, C. & Xie, L.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-68738-9_3Introducing Combi-Stations in Robotic Mobile Fulfilment Systems: A Queueing-Theory-Based Efficiency Analysis (2024)In Computational Logistics: 15th International Conference, ICCL 2024, Monterrey, Mexico, September 8-10, 2024. Proceedings (pp. 3-17) (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 15168). Springer. Xie, L. & Otten, S.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-71993-6_1PARCO: Learning Parallel Autoregressive Policies for Efficient Multi-Agent Combinatorial Optimization (2024)[Working paper › Working paper]. ArXiv.org. Berto, F., Hua, C., Luttmann, L., Son, J., Park, J., Ahn, K., Kwon, C., Xie, L. & Park, J.https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.03811RL4CO: an Extensive Reinforcement Learning for Combinatorial Optimization Benchmark (2024)[Working paper › Preprint]. ArXiv.org. Berto, F., Hua, C., Park, J., Luttmann, L., Ma, Y., Bu, F., Wang, J., Ye, H., Kim, M., Choi, S., Zepeda, N. G., Hottung, A., Zhou, J., Bi, J., Hu, Y., Liu, F., Kim, H., Son, J., Kim, H., … Park, J.https://doi.org/10.48550/ARXIV.2306.17100Vehicle Scheduling (2024)In Encyclopedia of Optimization. Daduna, J. R. & Xie, L.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54621-2_704-1Introducing Combi-Stations in Robotic Mobile Fulfilment Systems: A Queueing-Theory-Based Efficiency Analysis (2024)[Working paper › Preprint]. ArXiv.org. Xie, L. & Otten, S.https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2403.12798Revisiting the richness of integrated vehicle and crew scheduling (2024)Public transport, 16, 775-801. Ge, L., Kliewer, N., Nourmohammadzadeh, A., Voß, S. & Xie, L.https://doi.org/10.1007/s12469-022-00292-6Neural Combinatorial Optimization on Heterogeneous Graphs: An Application to the Picker Routing Problem in Mixed-Shelves Warehouses (2024)In The 34th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling. AAAI. Luttmann, L. & Xie, L.

2023

An overview of optimization approaches for scheduling and rostering resources in public transportation (2023)[Working paper › Preprint]. Mertens, L., Wolbeck, L.-A., Rößler, D., Xie, L. & Kliewer, N.https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2310.13425Formulating and solving integrated order batching and routing in multi-depot AGV-assisted mixed-shelves warehouses (2023)European journal of operational research, 307(2), 713-730. Xie, L., Li, H. & Luttmann, L.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2022.08.047

2022

Robustness and disturbances in public transport (2022)Public transport, 14, 191-261. Ge, L., Voß, S. & Xie, L.https://doi.org/10.1007/s12469-022-00301-8Mobile Lagersysteme – intelligent und lernfähig (2022)In Technologie-Informationen (Technologie-Informationen). Xie, L.Comparing two hybrid neural network models to predict real-world bus travel time (2022)Transportation research procedia, 62, 393-400. Nimpanomprasert, Xie, L. & Kliewer, N.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trpro.2022.02.049How to Integrate Digital Twin and Virtual Reality in Robotics Systems? -- Design and Implementation for Providing Robotics Maintenance Services in Data Centers (2022)[Working paper › Working paper]. Xie, L. & Li, H.Robust Optimization for Integrated Vehicle and Crew Scheduling Based on Uncertainty in the Main Inputs (2022)In The Fifth Data Science Meets Optimisation Workshop at IJCAI-22. Ge, L., Nourmohammadzadeh, A., Voß, S. & Xie, L.

2021

Analysis of semi-open queueing networks using lost customers approximation with an application to robotic mobile fulfilment systems (2021)OR Spectrum = OR Spektrum, 44, 603-648. Otten, S., Krenzler, R., Xie, L., Daduna, H. & Kruse, K.https://doi.org/10.1007/s00291-021-00662-9Data for Analysis of semi-open queueing networks using lost customers approximation with an application to robotic mobile fulfilment systems (2021)[Dataset Types › Dataset]. TORE. Otten, S., Krenzler, R., Xie, L., Daduna, H. & Kruse, K.https://doi.org/10.15480/336.3943Review of Transit Data Sources: Potentials, Challenges and Complementarity (2021)Sustainability and climate change, 13(20). Article 11450. Ge, L., Sarhani, M., Voß, S. & Xie, L.https://doi.org/10.3390/su132011450Introducing split orders and optimizing operational policies in robotic mobile fulfillment systems (2021)European journal of operational research, 288(1), 80-97. Xie, L., Thieme, N., Krenzler, R. & Li, H.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2020.05.032

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Courses academic year 2023/2024

Current projects

Usage Scenarios for Innovation Networks in 5G

Finished projects

Robonatives Initiative Roll Out Nordostniedersachsen (RoboNord)

Robust integrated vehicle, crew scheduling and rostering in public transport

Robotic Mobile Fulfillment Systems

Optimization and Simulation for Robotic Mobile Fulfillment Systems

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