| Selected Recent Presentations | |
| 2013 | |
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Some Interesting and Important Vehicle Routing Research Topics (PDF ) (PPT ) |
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Detecting Prostate Cancer Using MRI Data ( PDF ) |
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Design and Scheduling of Proton Therapy Treatment Centers ( PDF ) |
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Long-Range Triage: Assessing Patient Risk From a Distance ( PDF, PPT ) |
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The Min-Max Multi-Depot Vehicle Routing Problem: Three-Stage Heuristic and Computational Results ( PDF, PPT ) |
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Design and Scheduling of Proton Therapy Treatment Centers ( PPT ) |
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Detecting Prostate Cancer Using MRI Data ( PPT) |
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The Hierarchical Traveling Salesman Problem: Some Worst-Case
Results ( PDF ) |
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Some Interesting Vehicle Routing Research Topics: Suggestions from an Oldtimer ( PPT, PDF ) |
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HIT Implementation Results ( PPT, PDF ) |
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Detecting Prostate Cancer Using MRI Data ( PPT, PDF ) |
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Simulating Potential Layouts for a Proton Therapy Treatment Center ( PPT, PDF ) |
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Data Mining to Aid Beam Angle Selection for IMRT ( PPT ) |
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Empirical Analysis of the Effect Residents Have on Treatment Times in an Emergency Department ( PPT ) |
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Long-Range Triage: Assessing Patient Risk From a Distance ( PPT ) |
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The Min-Max Multi-Depot Vehicle Routing Problem: Three-Stage Heuristic and Computational Results ( PPT ) |
| 2012 | |
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Multi-Period Street Scheduling and Sweeping ( PDF ) |
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Early Detection of Bioterrorism: Monitoring Disease Spread Through a
Multilayered Network ( PDF ) |
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The Downhill Plow Problem with Multiple Plows ( PDF ) |
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Long-Range Triage: Assessing Patient Risk From a Distance ( PDF ) |
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Data Mining to Aid Beam Angle Selection for IMRT ( PDF ) |
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Interesting Research in Vehicle Routing and Healthcare Analytics ( PDF ) |
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Plowing with Multiple Plows: A Variant of the Windy Postman Problem ( PDF ) |
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Healthcare Analytics: Strength in Numbers ( PDF ) |
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Plowing with Precedence: A Variant of the Windy Postman Problem ( PDF ) |
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Multi-Period Vehicle Routing: Some New Applications ( PDF ) |
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Empirical Analysis of the Effect Residents Have on Treatment Times in an
Emergency Department ( PDF ) |
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Life is All About Timing: An Examination of Differences in
Treatment Quality for Trauma Patients Based on Hospital Arrival Time ( PDF ) |
| 2011 | |
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What is Operations Management? ( PPT ) |
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Comparison of Heuristics for the Colorful
Traveling Salesman Problem ( PDF ) |
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The Effects of ICU Utilization on Discharge
and Readmission Rates ( PDF ) |
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An Application of Factorial Design to Compare
the Relative Effectiveness of Hospital Infection Control Measures ( PDF ) |
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A Dynamic Patient Network Model of
Hospital-Acquired Infections ( PDF ) |
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Effects of Residents on Efficiency in an
Emergency Department ( PPT ) |
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Plowing with Precedence: A Variant of
the Windy Postman Problem ( PDF ) |
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The Hierarchical Traveling Salesman Problem ( PPT , PDF ) |
| 2010 | |
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A Dynamic Patient Network Model of
Hospital-Acquired Infections ( PDF ) |
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Factorial Design Quantifies Effects of Hand
Hygiene and Nurse-to-Patient Ratio on MRSA Acquisition ( PDF ) |
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A Dynamic Patient Network of Hospital-Acquired
Infections ( PDF ) |
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Factorial Design Quantifies Effects of Hand
Hygiene and Nurse-to-Patient Ratio on MRSA Acquisition ( PDF ) |
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Effects of Residents on Efficiency in an Emergency Department ( PPT ) |
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Worst-case
Analysis for the Split Delivery VRP with Minimum Delivery Amounts |
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MSOM
Healthcare Operations Management Workshop Opening Remarks
( PDF ) |
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Multi-Period Street Scheduling and Sweeping ( PDF ) |
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Team HOPE: Hospital Optimal Productivity Enterprise
( PDF ) |
| 2009 | |
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Multi-Period Vehicle Routing
( PDF ) |
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Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Transmission
Reduction using Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation
( PDF ) |
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An Integer Programming-Based Heuristic for the Period Vehicle Routing
Problem
( PDF ) |
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An Integer Programming-Based Heuristic for the Period Vehicle Routing
Problem
( PDF ) |
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The Effective Application of a New Approach to the Generalized
Orienteering Problem
( PDF ) |
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( PDF ) |
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( PDF ) |
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( PDF ) |
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( PDF ) |
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The Split
Delivery Vehicle Routing Problem with Minimum Delivery Amounts
( PDF ) |
| 2008 | |
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Balanced
Billing Cycles and Vehicle Routing of Meter Readers
( PDF ) |
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Reducing PACU
Boarding by Altering the Block Schedule
( PDF ) |
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Balanced
Billing Cycles and Vehicle Routing of Meter Readers
( PDF ) |
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The
Split Delivery Vehicle Routing Problem
( PDF ) |
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The
Consistent Vehicle Routing Problem
( PDF ) |
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Metaheuristics and Combinatorial Optimization
( PDF ) |
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The
Consistent Vehicle Routing Problem
( PDF ) |
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Reducing PACU
Boarding by Altering the Block Schedule
( PDF ) |
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Maximizing
Cardiac Surgery Throughput at a Major Hospital
( PDF ) |
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Team H.O.P.E.
Hospital Optimal Productivity Enterprise
( PDF ) |
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Comparison of
Heuristics for Solving the GMLST Problem
( PDF ) |
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The
Label-Constrained Minimum Spanning Tree (LCMST) Problem
( PDF ) |
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Solving the
Close Enough Traveling Salesman Problem
( PDF ) |
| 2007 | |
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Capacity
Management in a Cardiac Surgery Line
( PDF ) |
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Probabilistic
Arc Routing Problem
( PDF ) |
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Balanced
Billing Cycles and Vehicle Routing of Meter Readers
( PowerPoint , PDF ) |
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Increasing
Throughput in Health Services Organizations
( PowerPoint , PDF ) |
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Optimization
and Applications: Some Recent Research
( PowerPoint , PDF ) |
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Metaheuristics and Combinatorial Optimization: Ideas, Insights, and
Observations
( PowerPoint , PDF ) |
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The Computerized Routing of Meter Readers over
Street Networks: New Technologies Turn Old Problems into New Opportunities ( PowerPoint , PDF ) |
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The Billing Cycle Vehicle Routing Problem ( PDF ) |
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The Colorful Traveling Salesman Problem ( PowerPoint , PDF ) |
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The Generalized Traveling Salesman Problem: A
New Genetic Algorithm Approach ( PowerPoint , PDF ) |
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Solving the Euclidean Non-Uniform Steiner Tree
Problem Using a Genetic Algorithm ( PowerPoint , PDF ) |
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Solving the Maximum Cardinality Bin Packing
Problem with a Weight Annealing-Based Algorithm ( PowerPoint , PDF ) |
| 2006 | |
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A Genetic Algorithm-Based Approach for
Building Accurate Decision Trees ( PowerPoint , PDF ) |
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New Developments in the Computerized Routing
of Meter Readers over Street Networks ( PowerPoint , PDF ) |
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A Visualization Model Based on Adjacency Data ( PDF ) |
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Weight Annealing Heuristics for Solving
Bin Packing Problems ( PowerPoint , PDF ) |
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Go with the Flow: Improving Red
Cross Bloodmobiles Using Simulation Analysis ( PowerPoint , PDF ) |
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A Guided Tour of Several New and
Interesting Routing Problems
( PowerPoint , PDF ) |
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Solving the Concave Cost Supply Scheduling
Problem ( PowerPoint , PDF ) |
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The Split Delivery Vehicle Routing
Problem: Applications, Algorithms, Test Problems, and Computational Results ( PDF ) |
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The Minimum Label Spanning Tree Problem:
Illustrating the Utility of Genetic Algorithms ( PowerPoint , PDF ) |
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The Split Delivery Vehicle Routing
Problem: Using Mixed Integer Programming within a Heuristic Framework ( PowerPoint , PDF ) |
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Ben Franklin: America's First Operations
Researcher ( PowerPoint , PDF ) |
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The Minimum Label Spanning Tree Problem:
Some Genetic Algorithm Approaches ( PowerPoint , PDF ) |
| 2005 | |
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Solving the Time Dependent Traveling Salesman Problem ( PowerPoint , PDF ) |
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The Minimum Label Spanning Tree
Problem and Some Variants ( PowerPoint , PDF ) |
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Solving the Open Vehicle Routing Problem:
New Heuristic and Test Problems
( PowerPoint , PDF ) |
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2004 |
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The Minimum Labeling Spanning Tree Problem: Heuristic and Metaheuristic Approaches ( PowerPoint , PDF ) |
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Visualization in Operations Research ( PowerPoint , PDF ) |
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Generating and Solving Very Large-Scale Vehicle Routing Problems ( PowerPoint , PDF ) |
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Some Recent Developments in the Analytic Hierarchy Process ( PowerPoint , PDF ) |
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The Euclidean Non-uniform Steiner Tree Problem ( PowerPoint , PDF ) |
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The Minimum Labeling Spanning Tree Problem: Heuristic and Metaheuristic Approaches ( PowerPoint , PDF ) |
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2003 |
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A Computational Study of Three Demon Algorithm Variants for Solving the TSP ( PowerPoint , PDF ) |
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Identifying Investment Investment Opportunities in International Telecommunications Markets Using Regression Models ( PowerPoint , PDF ) |
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Metaheuristics for the New Millennium ( PowerPoint , PDF ) |
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Solving the Minimum Labeling Spanning Tree Problem ( PowerPoint , PDF ) |
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2002 |
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Some Examples of Visualization in Data Mining ( PowerPoint , PDF ) |
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A Comparison of Software Implementations of SOM Clustering Procedures ( PDF ) |
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2001 |
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An Example of Visualization in Data Mining ( PowerPoint , PDF ) |
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A Visualization Model Based on Adjacency Data ( PowerPoint , PDF ) |
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Clustering Rules Using Empirical Similarity of Support Sets |
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2000 and earlier |
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Algorithms, Logistics, and the New Economy ( PowerPoint , PDF ) |
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Solving the TSP with Demon Algorithms and Variants ( PDF ) |
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The Cost of Delivering Small Orders ( PDF ) |
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Modeling First-day Returns of Initial Public Offerings with Neural Networks ( PDF ) |
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Data Analysis for the New Millennium: Data Mining, Genetic Algorithms, and Visualization ( PowerPoint , PDF ) |
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An Experimental Design-Based Method for Finding Effective Parameter Values for Heuristic Methods ( PDF ) |
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The Impact of Metaheuristics on Solving the Vehicle Routing Problem: Algorithms, Problem Sets, and Computational Results ( PDF ) |
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A Neural Network Solution to the Generalized Orienteering Problem ( PDF ) |
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A Fine-tuned Learning Approach to Optimization ( PDF ) |
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Predicting Salinity in the Chesapeake Bay using Neural Networks ( PowerPoint , PDF ) |
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Modeling Salinity Dynamics in the Chesapeake Bay ( PDF ) |
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Ranking Outstanding Sports Records ( PowerPoint , PDF ) |
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