In addition to its many publications, the Operations Department also holds a number of Research Seminars.
Technical Reports
TM-830R: Discounting Axioms Imply Risk Neutrality
Matthew J. Sobel
July 2011; revised November 2011
Annals of Operations Research, to appear (available at DOI 10.1007/s10479-012-1066-9).
TM-829: Setting Safety Stocks and Production Quantities for Product Families
A. Dale Flowers, Serge Karalli
September 2010
TM-828: The JRP with Multiple Replenishment Sources
Serge Karalli, A. Dale Flowers
September 2010
TM-827: The Multiple-Family ELSP with Fill Rates
Serge Karalli, A. Dale Flowers
September 2010
TM-826: Time, Risk, and Trojan Horse Preferences
Risk and Optimization in an Uncertain World: Tutorials in Operations Research 2010, J. J. Hasenbein, ed., pp. 99-115, INFORMS, Hanover, MD, 2010
Matthew J. Sobel
TM-825: Optimization of Inventory and Dividends with Risky Debt
Quaohai (Joice) Hu, Matthew Sobel, & Danko Turcic
May 2010
TM-824: Tardiness Risk at a Steel Mill
Matthew J. Sobel
September 2009
TM-823: Risk Aversion and Supply Chain Contract Negotiation
Matthew J. Sobel, Danko Turcic
December 2008
TM-822: Non-Cooperative Games for Outsourcing Operations
George Vairaktarakis
January 2008
TM-821: Financially Optimal Inventory Policies with Nonlinear Replenishment Costs
Asia-Pacific Journal of Operational Research, Vol. 27, No. 4, pp. 477-492
Jiang Zhang, Matthew J. Sobel
TM-820: Cooperative Strategies for Manufacturing Planning with Negotiable Third-Party Capacity
Xiaoqiang Cai, George L. Vairaktarakis
October 2007
TM-819: Centralization vs. Competition in Subcontracting Operations
George L. Vairaktarakis, Tolga Aydinliyim
October 2007
TM-818: Coordination of Outsourcing Operations
Tolga Aydinliyim, George L. Vairaktarakis
September 2007
TM-817: Subcontracting Strategies with Stochastic Third-Party Capacity and Tardiness Penalty Contracts
Tolga Aydinliyim, George L. Vairaktarakis
September 2007
TM-816: Coordination of Inventory, Capital and Dividends
in Nascent Firms
Matthew J. Sobel, Danko Turcic
June 2007
TM-815: Bigger Slice or Larger Pie? Optimal Marketing Strategies for New Firms
John Angelis, Moren Lévesque
June 2006
TM-814: Structured Maintenance Policies on Interior Sample Paths
Naval Research Logistics, to appear
Lisa Maillart, Ludmila Zheltova
TM-813: Channel Strategies for Durable Goods: Coexistence of Selling and Leasing to Individual and Corporate Consumers
Vera Tilson, Yunzeng Wang, Wei Yang.
September 2006
TM-812: Scheduling Projects with Stochastic Activity Duration to Maximize Expected Net Present Value
European Journal of Operational Research, Vol. 198, No. 3, pp. 697-705
Matthew J. Sobel, Joseph G. Szmerekovsky, Vera Tilson.
TM-811:
Locating and Staffing Service Centers Under Service Level Constraints
European Journal of Operational Research, to appear
Prahalad Venkateshan, Kamlesh Mathur, Ronald Ballou.
TM-810R: Myopic Solutions of Homogeneous Sequential Decision Processes
Operations Research, Vol. 58, No. 4, Part 2, pp. 1235-1246, 2010
Matthew Sobel, Wei Wei.
Revised October 2008
TM-809: Forecasting Effects of Global Warming on Biodiversity
BioScience, Vol. 57 (2007), pp. 227-236.
Daniel B. Botkin, Henrik Saxe, Miguel B. Araujo, Richard Betts, Richard H.W. Bradshaw, Tomas Cedhagen, Peter Chesson, Margaret B. Davis, Terry P. Dawson, Julie Etterson, Daniel P. Faith, Simon Ferrier, Antoine Guisan, Anja Skjoldborg Hansen, David W. Hilbert, Craig Loehle, Chris Margules, Mark New, Matthew J. Sobel, and David R.B. Stockwell
TM-808C: Preferences, Risk Neutrality, and Utility Functions
James Alexander, Matthew Sobel
Revised August 2009.
TM-807: Selective Maintenance Decision-Making over Extended Planning Horizons
Lisa Maillart, Richard Cassady, Chase Rainwater, Kellie Schneider
October 2005.
TM-806: Echelon Base-Stock Policies are Financially Sub-Optimal
Operations Research Letters, Vol. 35 (2007), pp. 561-566.
Qiaohai Hu, Matthew Sobel
TM-805: Are CEOs Myopic? A Dynamic Model of the Ongoing Debate
Maya Waisman, Moren Levesque, Phillip Phan
September 2005.
TM-804: Information Delivery, Ecological Rationality, and Expected Utility: An Experimental Study
Christian Schade, Moren Levesque
September 2005.
TM-803: Improving the Efficiency of the Simplex Algorithm Based on a Geometric Explanation of Phase 1
Daniel Solow, Hans Halim
September 2005.
TM-802: Supply Chain Games
Qiaohai Hu, Matthew Sobel
August 2005.
TM-801R: Capital Structure and Inventory Management
Qiaohai Hu, Matthew Sobel
Revised October 2008.
TM-800: Are Hub-and-Spoke Networks Better than Point-to-Point Networks?
Qiaohai Hu
August 2005.
TM-799: Option and Forward Contracting with Assymetric Information: Valuation Issues in Supply Chains
Hantao Li, Peter Ritchken, Yunzeng Wang
July 2005.
TM-798: Component Procurement Strategies in Decentralized Assembled-to-Order Systems with Leadtime-Dependent Product Pricing
Xiang Fang, Yunzeng Wang, Rick So
July 2005.
TM-797: Demographic Structure and Entrepreneurial Activity
Moren Lévesque, Maria Minniti
December 2004.
TM-796: Optimal Maintenance Policies for Serial Multi-Machine Systems with Non-Instantaneous Repairs
Lisa Maillart, Xiang Fang.
December 2004.
TM-795: Business Opportunity Assessment with Costly, Imperfect Information
IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, forthcoming.
Moren Levesque, Lisa Maillart.
November 2004.
TM-794: Expressing Inventory Control Policy in the Turnover Curve
Ronald Ballou.
October 2004.
TM-793:
Reverse Logistics : Managing Returns on a Delivery Route
Ahmed
Alshamrani, Kamlesh Mathur, Ronald Ballou.
October 2004.
TM-792R:
Determining the Acceptance of Cadaveric Livers Using an Implicit Model of
the Waiting List
Operations Research, 2007, 55(1) 24-36
Oguzhan Alagoz, Lisa M. Maillart, Andrew J. Schaefer,
Mark S. Roberts.
TM-791:
Selecting Projects for Venture Capital Funding : A Multiple Criteria
Decision Approach
Gina Beim, Moren Levesque.
October 2004.
TM-790:
Allocation of Attention Within Venture Capital Firms : A Queueing Network
Model
European
Journal of Operational Research, 163(2), 545-564, 2005.
Shepherd D.A., Armstrong M.J., M. Levesque.
TM-789:
The Family Periodic Loading Problem
Dale
Flowers, Serge Karalli.
October 2004.
TM-788:
ASP, The Art and Science of Practice : Getting the R in
Contact
Interfaces,
Vol. 34, No. 5, 377-382, September-October 2004.
Dale Flowers.
TM-787:
Machine Scheduling with Deliveries to Multiple Customer
Locations
European
Journal of Operational Research, Vol. 164, Issue 1, 1 July 2005, pp. 39-51.
Chung-Lun Li, George Vairaktarakis, Chung-Yee Lee.
TM-786: Integrated Scheduling of Production and Distribution Operations
Management
Science, Vol. 51, No 4, April 2005, pp. 614-628.
Zhi-Long Chen, George L. Vairaktarakis.
TM-785:
Risk-Sensitive Markov-Perfect Equilibria
Madhvi Bhatt, Matthew Sobel.
September 2004.
TM-784R:
On Interdependence and Modularity: How to Divide a Team
William Millhiser, Daniel Solow, Corinne Coen.
August 2004, Revised November 2005.
TM-783: When Should Entrepreneurs Expedite or Delay Opportunity Exploitation?
Young Rok Choi, Moren Levesque, Dean Shepherd. Forthcoming in the Journal of Business Venturing.
TM-782:
How Long Should "Followers" Delay Market Entry?
Moren Levesque, Dean Shepherd.
August 2004.
TM-781:
Ranking Sports Teams: A Customizable Quadratic
Assignment Approach
Interfaces,
Vol. 35, No. 6, 497-510,
November-December 2005.
Richard Cassady, Lisa Maillart, Sinan Salman
TM-780:
A Constrained Optimization Approach to Solving Certain Systems of Convex Equations
European Journal of Operational Research , 176(3), 1334 - 1347, February 2007.
Daniel Solow and Hantao Li.
TM-779:
Interchanging Fillrate Constraints and Backorder Costs
in Inventory Models
International Journal of Mathematics in Operational Research, forthcoming
Matthew Sobel,
Jiang Zhang.
April 2004.
TM-778: Optimal Condition-Monitoring Schedules for Multi-State Deterioration Systems with Obvious Failures
IIE Transactions, to appear
Lisa Maillart.
TM-777:
Scheduling Multiple Types of Fractional Ownership
Aircraft with Crew Duty Restrictions
Itir
Karaesman, Pinar Keskinocak, Sridhar Tayur and Wei Yang.
December 2003.
TM-776R: Country Selection for New Business Venturing: A Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis
Gina Beim and Moren
Lévesque.
Long Range Planning. Forthcoming.
TM-775:
Intuitive Optimizing : Experimental Findings on Time
Allocation Decisions with Newly Formed Ventures
Journal of Business Venturing, 20(3), 313-342, 2005.
Moren Lévesque and
Christian Schade.
TM-774:
The Effect of Aging on Entrepreneurial Behaviour
Journal of Business Venturing, Vol. 21, Issue 2, March 2006, pp. 177-194.
Moren Lévesque and Maria
Minniti.
TM-773:
Mathematics, Theory and Entrepreneurship
Journal of Business Venturing, Vol. 19,
Issue 5, 743-765, 2004.
Moren Lévesque.
TM-772:
Input Control in a Batch Production System with Random
Yields, Lead Times and Due Dates
European Journal of Operations Research,
Vol. 126, No. 2, 371 - 385, 2000.
Yunzeng Wang, Yigal Gerchak.
TM-771:
The Optimality of Myopic Stocking Policies for Systems
with Decreasing Purchasing Prices
European Journal of Operations Research,
Vol. 133, No. 1, 153 - 159, 2001.
Yunzeng Wang.
TM-770:
Coordination of Joint Price-Production Decisions in a
Supply Chain
IIE Transactions, Vol. 34, No. 8, 701 -
715, 2002.
Wen Zhao, Yunzeng Wang.
TM-769:
Capacity Games in Assembly Systems with Uncertain Demand
Manufacturing & Service Operation Management,
Vol. 5, No. 3, 252 - 267,
2003
Yunzeng Wang, Yigal Gerchak.
TM-768:
Channel Performance Under Consignment Contract with
Revenue Sharing
Management Science, Vol. 50, No. 1, 34 - 47
Yunzeng
Wang, Li Jiang, Zuo-Jun Shen.
TM-767:
Joint Pricing-Production Decisions in Supply Chains of
Complementary Products with Uncertain Demand
Yunzeng Wang
January 2004, Revised September 2004 and May 2005
TM-766:
Dynamic Inventory Competition and Customer Retention
Serguei Netessine, Nils Rudi,
Yunzeng Wang
July 2003
TM-765R:
How Large Should a Complex System Be? An Application in Organizational Teams
Complexity, 12(4), 54-70, March/April 2007.
Will Millhiser and Daniel Solow
TM-764:
Vehicle Routing and Scheduling with Full Truckloads
Transportation Science, 37(2), 170 - 182,
May 2003
Arunapuram, S., Mathur, Kamlesh., Solow, Daniel.
TM-763R:
Control of Dividends, Capital Subscriptions, and
Physical Inventories
Lode Li,
Martin Shubik, Matthew Sobel
December 2003, Revised January 2009.
A revision of this working paper will appear in Management Science.
TM-762:
The Optimal Timing of Living-Donor Liver Transplantation
Management Science, Vol. 50, No. 10, pp. 1420-1430
Oguzhan Alagoz, Lisa M Maillart, Andrew
J Schaefer, Mark S Roberts
TM-761:
On Credit Risks in Supply Chains : Is Negative Default Correlation
Among Suppliers Desirable?
Volodymyr Babich, Apostolos Burnetas and
Peter Ritchken
April 2003
TM-760R:
Pre-IPO Operational and Financial Decisions
Management Science, Vol. 50, Number 7,
(July 2004), pp. 935-948
Volodymyr Babich and Matthew J Sobel
TM-759: Loading and Unloading Operations of Multiple
Quay Cranes in Container Terminals
IIE Transactions,
to appear
George L. Vairaktarakis and
Chung-Lun Li
TM-758: The Multiple-Family ELSP with Safety Stocks
Serge Karalli and A. Dale Flowers
January 2003
TM-757: Hazardous Waste Disposal: A Waste-Fuel
Blending Approach
A. Dale Flowers, Kevin Linderman
January 2003
TM-756:
On Convergent Sequences of Linear Programs
Daniel Solow, Kamlesh Mathur, Joseph G. Szmerekovsky
August 2002
TM-755:
Mathematical Models for Studying the Value of Cooperational Leadership
in Team Replacement
Computational and
Mathematical Organization Theory, 9(1), 61-81, May 2003
Daniel Solow and Chartchai Leenawong
TM-754R: Fill
Rates of Single-Stage and Multi-Stage Supply Systems
Manufacturing & Service
Operations Management, Volume 6, Number 1, January(2004), pp. 41-52
Matthew J. Sobel
TM-753: Maximizing Project Cash Availability
Joseph G. Szmerekovsky ; George
Vairaktarakis
October 2001
TM-752: Mathematical Models for Studying the Value of
Motivational Leadership in Team Replacement
Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory, 11(1),
5-36, May 2005
Daniel Solow; Apostolos Burnetas; Sandy
Kristin Piderit; Chartchai Leenawong
TM-751: Mathematical Models for Explaining the
Emergence of Specialization in Performing Tasks
Complexity, 10(1), 37-48, September/October, 2004.
Daniel Solow; Joseph Szmerekovsky
TM-750: On Gilmore-Gomory’s Open Question for the
Bottleneck TSP
Operations Research Letters, Volume 31(6), 483-491,
2003
George Vairaktarakis
TM-749:
Complexity of Workforce Scheduling in Transfer Lines
Journal of Global Optimization, 27 : 273-291,
2003
George L. Vairaktarakis; Xiaoqiang Cai
TM-748: An Efficient Algorithm for the Complementary
Hamiltonian Cycle Problem in Bipartite Graphs
George Vairaktarakis; Daniel Solow
August 2001
TM-747: Level Workforce Schedule for 2-stage Transfer
Lines
George L. Vairaktarakis; Joseph
Szmerekovsky
August 2001
TM-746: Analysis of Algorithms for Two-stage Flowshops
with Multi-processor Task Flexibility
Naval
Research Logistics, Vol. 50, 2003
George L. Vairaktarakis; Chung-Yee Lee
TM-745: Loading and Unloading Operations in Container
Terminals
IIE
Transactions, Vol. 36, No. 4, April 2004, pp. 287-297.
Chung-Lun Li; George L. Vairaktarakis
TM-744:The Value of Processing Flexibility in
Multipurpose Machines
IIE
Transactions, 35(8), 763-774, 2003
George Vairaktarakis; Xiaoqiang Cai
TM-743: Lead-Time Rules in Distributed Manufacturing
Systems
Appeared as "Manufacturing Lead-Time Rules : Customer Retention vs.
Tardiness Costs" in European Journal of Operational Research, Vol 163, No. 3, 825-856, 2005.
Susan A. Slotnick; Matthew J. Sobel
TM-742: Planning Virtual Inventories
Appeared in
Journal of Business Logistics, Vol 24, No. 2, pp.
65-89 as "Planning Multiple Location Inventories"
Ronald H. Ballou; Apostolos N. Burnetas
TM-741:
Managerial Insights into the Effects of Interactions on Replacing
Members of a Team
Management Science, 48(8), 1060-1073, 2002
Daniel Solow; George Vairaktarakis; Sandy
Kristin Piderit; Ming Chi Tsai
TM-740: On the
Expected Performance of Systems with Complex Interactions Among
Components
Complex
Systems, 12(4), 423-456, 2000
Daniel Solow; Apostolos N. Burnetas; Ming Chi Tsai; Neil S. Greenspan
June 2000
TM-739: Incorporating Dynamic Aspects and Uncertainty
in 1-Median Location Problems
Naval
Research Logistics, 46 : 147-168,1999
George L. Vairaktarakis; Panagiotis
Kouvelis
TM-738: The Value of Resource Flexibility in the
Resource Constrained Job Assignment Problem
Management Science, 49(6), 718-732, 2003
George L. Vairaktarakis
TM-737: Optimization Tools for Design and Marketing of
New/Improved Products Using the House of Quality
Journal
of Operations Management, 17(6), 645-663, 1999
George L. Vairaktarakis
TM-736: The Use of Flowlines to Simplify Routing
Complexity in Two-Stage Flowshops
George L. Vairaktarakis; Mohsen Elhafsi
August 2000
TM-735: Worker Cross-Training in Paced Assembly Lines
Manufacturing
& Service Operations Management, 1(2) : 112-131,
1999
George L. Vairaktarakis; Janice Kim Winch
TM-734: An Empirical Comparison of GARCH Option
Pricing Models
K.C. Hsieh; Peter Ritchken
September 2000
TM-733: Revenue-Sharing vs. Wholesale-Price Contracts
in Assembly Systems with Random Demand
Production & Operations Management, Vol. 13, No.
1, 23-33, 2004.
Yigal Gerchak; Yunzeng Wang
TM-732: Supply Chain Coordination When Demand is
Shelf-Space- Dependent
Manufacturing
& Service Operations Management, 3, 2001
Yunzeng Wang; Yigal Gerchak
TM-731: Differentiating Customer Service on the Basis
of Delivery Lead-Times for Repairables
IIE
Transactions, Vol. 34, No. 11, 979 - 989, 2002
Yunzeng Wang; Morris Cohen; Yu-Sheng
Zheng
TM-730: A Two-Echelon Repairable Inventory System with
Stocking-Center-Dependent Depot Replenishment Lead Times
Management Science, 46, 2000
Yunzeng Wang; Morris Cohen; Yu-Sheng
Zheng
TM-729: On the
Challenge of Developing a Formal Mathematical Theory for Establishing
Emergence in Complex Systems
Complexity, 6(1), 49-52, 2000
Daniel Solow
August 2000
TM-728: Option Contracts in Supply Chains
Apostolos N. Burnetas; Peter Ritchken
May 2000
TM-727: Future Capacity Procurements under Unknown
Demand and Increasing Costs
Apostolos N. Burnetas; Stephen M. Gilbert
January 2000
TM-726: Dynamic Policies of Admission to a Two-Class
System Based on Customer Offers
E. Lerzan Örmeci; Apostolos N.
Burnetas; Hamilton Emmons
April 2000
TM-725: Admission Policies for a Two Class Loss System
E. Lerzan Örmeci; Apostolos N.
Burnetas; Jan van der Wal
January 2000
TM-724F : Discounting and Risk Neutrality
Matthew J. Sobel
September 2006
TM-723: Environmental Variation And Population Change:
Forecasting Spring Chinook Runs In Two Oregon Coastal Rivers
Daniel B. Botkin; Matthew J. Sobel;
Lloyd G. Simpson; Kenneth Cummins; Lee M. Talbot
August 2000
TM-722: Inventory
Policies for Systems with Stochastic and Deterministic Demand
Operations Research, Vol. 49, No. 1,
pp., 157-162
Matthew J. Sobel; Rachel Q. Zhang
August 2000
TM 721 : Delivery
Guarantees and the Interdependence of Marketing and Operations
Subimal Chatterjee; Susan A. Slotnick;
Matthew J. Sobel
Production
and Operations management, Vol. 11, No.
3, Fall 2002, pp. 393-410
June 2001
TM 720R Radical
Innovation for Multi-dimensional Technologies
Management Science, 48 (10), 1268-1284, 2002
Kathy A. Paulson Gjerde; Susan A. Slotnick; Matthew J. Sobel
March 2001
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