Selected Recent Presentations
 
 
  2008
   
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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  )
   
● 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  )
   
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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
   
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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
   
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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  )

   

 
 

 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  )  

   

 
 

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  )  

   

 
 

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

( 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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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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