Selected Recent Presentations
 
  2013
● Some Interesting and Important Vehicle Routing Research Topics
(PDF ) (PPT )
   
● Detecting Prostate Cancer Using MRI Data
( PDF )
   
● Design and Scheduling of Proton Therapy Treatment Centers
( PDF )
   
● Long-Range Triage: Assessing Patient Risk From a Distance
( PDF, PPT )
   
● The Min-Max Multi-Depot Vehicle Routing Problem: Three-Stage Heuristic and Computational Results
( PDF, PPT )
   
● Design and Scheduling of Proton Therapy Treatment Centers
( PPT )
   
● Detecting Prostate Cancer Using MRI Data
( PPT)
   
● The Hierarchical Traveling Salesman Problem: Some Worst-Case Results
( PDF )
   
● Some Interesting Vehicle Routing Research Topics:
Suggestions from an Oldtimer
( PPT, PDF )
   
● HIT Implementation Results
( PPT, PDF )
   
● Detecting Prostate Cancer Using MRI Data
( PPT, PDF )
   
● Simulating Potential Layouts for a Proton Therapy Treatment Center
( PPT, PDF )
   
● Data Mining to Aid Beam Angle Selection for IMRT
( PPT )
   
● Empirical Analysis of the Effect Residents Have on Treatment Times in an Emergency Department
( PPT )
   
● Long-Range Triage: Assessing Patient Risk From a Distance
( PPT )
   
● The Min-Max Multi-Depot Vehicle Routing Problem: Three-Stage Heuristic and Computational Results
( PPT )
   
  2012
   
● Multi-Period Street Scheduling and Sweeping
( PDF )
   
● Early Detection of Bioterrorism: Monitoring Disease Spread Through a Multilayered Network
( PDF )
   
● The Downhill Plow Problem with Multiple Plows
( PDF )
   
● Long-Range Triage: Assessing Patient Risk From a Distance
( PDF )
   
● Data Mining to Aid Beam Angle Selection for IMRT
( PDF )
   
● Interesting Research in Vehicle Routing and Healthcare Analytics
( PDF )
   
● Plowing with Multiple Plows: A Variant of the Windy Postman Problem
( PDF )
   
● Healthcare Analytics: Strength in Numbers
( PDF )
   
● Plowing with Precedence: A Variant of the Windy Postman Problem
( PDF )
   
● Multi-Period Vehicle Routing: Some New Applications
( PDF )
   
● Empirical Analysis of the Effect Residents Have on Treatment Times in an Emergency Department
( PDF )

   
● Life is All About Timing: An Examination of Differences in Treatment Quality for Trauma Patients Based on Hospital Arrival Time
( PDF )
   
  2011
   
● What is Operations Management?
( PPT )
   
● Comparison of Heuristics for the Colorful Traveling Salesman Problem
( PDF )
   
● The Effects of ICU Utilization on Discharge and Readmission Rates
( PDF )
   
● An Application of Factorial Design to Compare the Relative Effectiveness of Hospital Infection Control Measures
( PDF )
   
● A Dynamic Patient Network Model of Hospital-Acquired Infections
( PDF )
   
● Effects of Residents on Efficiency in an Emergency Department
( PPT )
   
●  Plowing with Precedence: A Variant of the Windy Postman Problem
( PDF )
   
● The Hierarchical Traveling Salesman Problem
( PPT , PDF )
   
  2010
   
● A Dynamic Patient Network Model of Hospital-Acquired Infections
( PDF )
   
● Factorial Design Quantifies Effects of Hand Hygiene and Nurse-to-Patient Ratio on MRSA Acquisition
( PDF )
   
● A Dynamic Patient Network of Hospital-Acquired Infections
( PDF )
   
● Factorial Design Quantifies Effects of Hand Hygiene and Nurse-to-Patient Ratio on MRSA Acquisition
( PDF )
   
● Effects of Residents on Efficiency in an Emergency Department
( PPT )
   
●

Worst-case Analysis for the Split Delivery VRP with Minimum Delivery Amounts
( PPT )

   
●
MSOM Healthcare Operations Management Workshop Opening Remarks

(  PDF  )

   
●

Multi-Period Street Scheduling and Sweeping

(  PDF  )

   
●
Team HOPE: Hospital Optimal Productivity Enterprise

(  PDF  )

   
  2009
   
●
Multi-Period Vehicle Routing

(  PDF  )

   
●
Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Transmission Reduction using Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation

(  PDF  )

   
●
An Integer Programming-Based Heuristic for the Period Vehicle Routing Problem

(  PDF  )

   
●
An Integer Programming-Based Heuristic for the Period Vehicle Routing Problem

(  PDF  )

   
●
The Effective Application of a New Approach to the Generalized Orienteering Problem

(  PDF  )

   
●
Solving the Close-Enough Traveling Salesman Problem: New Algorithms and Computational Results

(  PDF  )

   
●
Solving the Maximum Cardinality Bin Packing Problem with a Weight Annealing-Based Algorithm

(  PDF  )

   
●
The Effective Application of a New Approach to the Generalized Orienteering Problem

(  PDF  )

   
●
Weight Annealing Heuristics for Solving the Two-Dimensional Bin Packing Problem

(  PDF  )

   
●
The Split Delivery Vehicle Routing Problem with Minimum Delivery Amounts

(  PDF  )

   
  2008
   
●
Balanced Billing Cycles and Vehicle Routing of Meter Readers

(  PDF  )

   
●
Reducing PACU Boarding by Altering the Block Schedule

(  PDF  )

   
●
Balanced Billing Cycles and Vehicle Routing of Meter Readers

(  PDF  )

   
●
The Split Delivery Vehicle Routing Problem

(  PDF  )

   
●
The Consistent Vehicle Routing Problem

(  PDF  )

   
●
Metaheuristics and Combinatorial Optimization

(  PDF  )

   
●
The Consistent Vehicle Routing Problem

(  PDF  )

   
●
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
   
●
Capacity Management in a Cardiac Surgery Line

(  PDF  )

   
●
Probabilistic Arc Routing Problem

(  PDF  )

   
●
Balanced Billing Cycles and Vehicle Routing of Meter Readers

( PowerPoint  ,  PDF  )

   
●
Increasing Throughput in Health Services Organizations

( PowerPoint  ,  PDF  )

   
●
Optimization and Applications: Some Recent Research

( PowerPoint  ,  PDF  )

   
●
Metaheuristics and Combinatorial Optimization: Ideas, Insights, and Observations

( PowerPoint  ,  PDF  )

   
● The Computerized Routing of Meter Readers over Street Networks:  New Technologies Turn Old Problems into New Opportunities

( PowerPoint  ,  PDF  )

   
● The Billing Cycle Vehicle Routing Problem

( PDF )

   
● The Colorful Traveling Salesman Problem

( PowerPoint  ,  PDF  )

   
● The Generalized Traveling Salesman Problem: A New Genetic Algorithm Approach

( PowerPoint  ,  PDF  )

   
● Solving the Euclidean Non-Uniform Steiner Tree Problem Using a Genetic Algorithm

( PowerPoint  ,  PDF  )

   
● Solving the Maximum Cardinality Bin Packing Problem with a Weight Annealing-Based Algorithm

( PowerPoint  ,  PDF  )

   
  2006
   
● A Genetic Algorithm-Based Approach for Building Accurate Decision Trees

( PowerPoint  ,  PDF  )

   
● New Developments in the Computerized Routing of Meter Readers over Street Networks

(  PowerPoint  ,  PDF  )

   
● A Visualization Model Based on Adjacency Data

(  PDF  )

   
● Weight Annealing Heuristics for Solving Bin Packing Problems

( PowerPoint  ,  PDF  )

   
● Go with the Flow:  Improving Red Cross Bloodmobiles Using Simulation Analysis

( PowerPoint  ,  PDF  )

   
●
A Guided Tour of Several New and Interesting Routing Problems

( PowerPoint  ,  PDF  )

   
● Solving the Concave Cost Supply Scheduling Problem

( PowerPoint  ,  PDF  )

   
● The Split Delivery Vehicle Routing Problem: Applications, Algorithms, Test Problems, and Computational Results

( PDF )

   
● The Minimum Label Spanning Tree Problem: Illustrating the Utility of Genetic Algorithms

( PowerPoint  ,  PDF  )

   
● The Split Delivery Vehicle Routing Problem: Using Mixed Integer Programming within a Heuristic Framework 

( PowerPoint  ,  PDF  )

   
● Ben Franklin: America's First Operations Researcher 

( PowerPoint  ,  PDF  )

   
● The Minimum Label Spanning Tree Problem: Some Genetic Algorithm Approaches

( PowerPoint  ,  PDF  )

   
  2005
   
●

Solving the Time Dependent Traveling Salesman Problem

( PowerPoint  ,  PDF  )

   
● The Minimum Label Spanning Tree Problem and Some Variants

( PowerPoint  ,  PDF  )

   
● Solving the Open Vehicle Routing Problem:  New Heuristic and Test Problems

( PowerPoint  ,  PDF  )

   

 

 

 2004

   
●

The Minimum Labeling Spanning Tree Problem: Heuristic and Metaheuristic Approaches

( PowerPoint  , PDF  )

   
●

Visualization in Operations Research

( PowerPoint  ,  PDF  )

   
●

Generating and Solving Very Large-Scale Vehicle Routing Problems

( PowerPoint  ,  PDF )

   
●

Some Recent Developments in the Analytic Hierarchy Process

(  PowerPoint  ,  PDF  )

   
●

The Euclidean Non-uniform Steiner Tree Problem

( PowerPoint  ,  PDF  )  

   
●

The Minimum Labeling Spanning Tree Problem: Heuristic and Metaheuristic Approaches

( PowerPoint  ,  PDF  )

   

 

 

 2003

   
●

A Computational Study of Three Demon Algorithm Variants for Solving the TSP

( PowerPoint  ,  PDF  )  

   
●

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  )  

   

 

 

2002

   
●

Some Examples of Visualization in Data Mining

( PowerPoint  ,  PDF  )  

   
●

A Comparison of Software Implementations of SOM Clustering Procedures

(  PDF  )  

   

 

 

2001

   
●

An Example of Visualization in Data Mining

( PowerPoint  ,  PDF  )  

   
●

A Visualization Model Based on Adjacency Data

( PowerPoint  ,  PDF  )  

   
●

Clustering Rules Using Empirical Similarity of Support Sets

( PowerPoint  ,  PDF  ) 

   

 

 

 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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