Z.-L. Chen and N.G. Hall, The coordination of pricing and scheduling decisions. Manufacturing
and Service Operations Management. 12 (2010), 77-92. (Click here to download main body & appendix).
M. Chen, Z.-L. Chen, G. Pundoor, S. Acharya, and J. Yi, Integrated inventory allocation and markdown
pricing at multiple stores. Working Paper, R.H. Smith School of Business, University
of Maryland. 2008.
Z.-L. Chen and N.G. Hall, Supply chain scheduling: Conflict and cooperation in assembly systems.
Operations Research, 55 (2007), 1072 - 1089. (Click here to download)
Z.-L. Chen and G. Pundoor, Order assignment and scheduling in a
supply chain. Operations Research, 54 (2006), 555 - 572.
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G. Pundoor and Z.-L. Chen, Scheduling a production-distribution
system to optimize the tradeoff between tardiness and total
distribution cost. Naval Research Logistics,
52 (2005), 571 - 589. (Click here to download)
Z.-L. Chen and G.L. Vairaktarakis, Integrated scheduling of
production and distribution operations. Management Science,
51 (2005), 614 - 628. (Click here to download)
Z.-L. Chen, Integrated production and distribution operations:
Taxonomy, models, and review. In: Handbook of Quantitative
Supply Chain Analysis: Modeling in the E-Business Era,
Edited by David Simchi-Levi, David Wu, & Z.-J. Shen, Kluwer Academic
Press, Boston, MA. 2004. (Click here to download)
C.-Y. Lee and Z.-L. Chen, Machine scheduling with transportation
considerations, Journal of Scheduling, 4 (2001), 3-24.
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Z.-L. Chen, L. Lei, and H. Zhong, Container vessel scheduling with bi-directional flows.
Operations Research Letters, 35 (2007), 186 - 194.
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C.-L. Li and Z.-L. Chen, Binpacking problem with concave costs of bin utilization.
Naval Research Logistics, 53 (2006), 298-308. (Click here to download)
Z.-L. Chen and H. Xu, Dynamic column generation for dynamic
vehicle routing. Transportation Science, 40 (2006), 74 - 88.
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H. Xu, Z.-L. Chen, and S. Rajagopal, Solving a practical pickup
and delivery problem. Transportation Science, 37
(2003), 347-364. (Click here to download)
Z.-L. Chen, and C.-Y. Lee, Scheduling of depalletizing and truck
loading operations in a food distribution system. Naval
Research Logistics, 50 (2003), 239-256.
Operations Scheduling (Production & service operations scheduling)
S. Li, Z.-L. Chen, and G. Tang, A note on the optimality proof of the Kise-Ibaraki-Mine algorithm. Operations Research. 58 (2010), 508-509. (Click here to download).
Z.-L. Chen, and N.G. Hall, Maximum profit scheduling.
Manufacturing & Service Operations Management. 10 (2008), 84-107.
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Z.-L. Chen, and C.-L. Li, Scheduling with subcontracting options.
IIE Transactions. 40 (2008), 1171-1184.
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Z.-L. Chen, Simultaneous job scheduling and resource allocation
on parallel machines. Annals of Operations Research.
129 (2004), 135-153.
Z.-L. Chen, and W.B. Powell, Exact Algorithms for Scheduling
Multiple Families of Jobs on Parallel Machines. Naval
Research Logistics, 50 (2003), 823-840.
Z.-L. Chen and C.-Y. Lee, Parallel machine scheduling with a common due window.
European Journal of Operational Research, 136 (2002), 512-527.
T.C.E. Cheng, Z.-L. Chen, and N.V. Shakhlevich, Common due date assignment and scheduling with ready times. Computers and Operations Research, 29 (2002), 1957-1967.
F. Zhang, G. Tang, and Z.-L. Chen, A 3/2-approximation algorithm
for parallel machine scheduling with controllable processing times.
Operations Research Letters, 29 (2001), 41-47.
C.-Y. Lee and Z.-L. Chen, Scheduling of jobs and maintenance activities on parallel machines,
Naval Research Logistics, 47 (2000), 145-165.
Z.-L. Chen and W.B. Powell, Solving parallel machine scheduling problems by column generation,
INFORMS Journal on Computing, 11 (1999), 78-94.
Z.-L. Chen and W.B. Powell, A column generation based decomposition algorithm
for a parallel machine just-in-time scheduling problem,
European Journal of Operational Research, 116 (1999), 221-233.
T.C.E. Cheng, Z.-L. Chen, C.-L. Li and B.M.T. Lin, Scheduling to minimize the
total compression and late costs, Naval Research Logistics,
45 (1998), 67-82.
Z.-L. Chen, S. Li, and D. Tirupati, A scenario based stochastic
programming approach for technology and capacity planning.
Computers and Operations Research, 29 (2002), 781-806.
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Z.-L. Chen, Solution algorithms for the parallel replacement problem
under economy of scale, Naval Research Logistics, 45 (1998), 279-295.
Optimization Theory
Z.-L. Chen and W.B. Powell, Convergent cutting-plane and partial-sampling algorithm for multistage stochastic linear programs with recourse,
Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, 102 (1999), 497-524.
