Conference Presentations


" Incorporating Line Efficiency Considerations in Production Planning." Academy of Business Administration, Aruba, December 2005 (with M.S. Madan).


“Offering Assortment Depth in a Product Family by Exploiting Substitutability." IX Annual Conference of the Society of Operations Management, Pondicherry, India, December 2005 (with R.P. Sundarraj).


" Balancing Efficiency and Output Rates in Production Lines." International Applied Business Research Conference, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, March 2005 (with M.S. Madan).


“Integrated Modeling of Demand Forecasts, Production Levels, and Cash Flows.” Academy of Business Administration, Montego Bay, Jamaica, December 2004 (with Y. Chien).


“Integrating Pricing and Distribution in the Supply Chain.” International Applied Business Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico, March 2004 (with Y. Chien).


“Modeling the Trade-Offs Involved in Locating the Push-Pull Boundary of a Supply Chain.” International Applied Business Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico, March 2004 (with R.P. Sundarraj).


“Predictive Timing Models for Model Management of Block-Angular Linear Programs.” The Operational Research Society, Keele, England, September 2003 (with R.P. Sundarraj).


“Linear Programs with Alternative Block-Angular Structures: Implications for Parallelization and Model Management.” International Conference on High-Performance Scientific Computing, Hanoi, Vietnam, March 2003 (with R.P. Sundarraj).


“Efficient Solution of a Linear Programming Model for Simultaneous Material and Capacity Requirements Planning.” INFORMS, Miami Beach, November 2001 (with J.K. Ho).


“Spreadsheet Solution of Integrated Pricing-Transportation Models.” Academy of Business Administration, Cancun, Mexico, December 2000 (with Y. Chien).


“A Model for Optimal Product Variety when Substitutions are Allowed.” Academy of Business Administration, Vancouver, Canada, April 2000 (with R.P. Sundarraj).


“A Lower Bound and Heuristics for Uncapacitated Facility Location on Directed Networks.” Global Business and Technology Association, Jamaica, West Indies, April 1999 (with R.P. Sundarraj).


“A Methodology for Ordering Decisions in Metal Strip Manufacturing.” Global Business and Technology Association, Jamaica, West Indies, April 1999 (with M.S. Madan).


“A Transportation Model with Price-Sensitive Demands.” Academy of Business Administration, Acapulco, Mexico, December 1996.


“Computational Strategies for Solving Certain Linear Programming Models of Distribution Systems.” TIMS XXXIII, Singapore, June 1995 (with R.P. Sundarraj).


“Linear Programs for Multistage Production Scheduling: Some Computational Aspects." 15th International Symposium on Mathematical Programming, Ann Arbor, Michigan, August 1994 (with J.K. Ho).


“Distributed Price-Directive Decomposition Applications in Power Systems Operations.” IEEE Power Engineering Society Summer Meeting, San Francisco, July 1994 (with R.P. Sundarraj).


“On Exploiting Structure in Alternatively Decomposable Linear Programs.” TIMS XXXII, Anchorage, Alaska, June 1994 (with R. P. Sundarraj).


“A Model for Selecting an Optimal Subset of Items to Stock.” POMS, Boston, October 1993 (with R.P. Sundarraj and J.K. Ho).


“On Improving Speedup in a Distributed Lagrangean Relaxation Approach to Capacity-Oriented Scheduling." ORSA/TIMS, Chicago, May 1993 (with R. de Matta).


“Performance Evaluation of Intree Enumeration Methods." ORSA/TIMS, Orlando, April 1992 (with D.R. Fox).


“Process Overlap in Distributed LP Decomposition." ORSA/TIMS, Nashville, May 1991 (with J.K. Ho).


“Parallel Implementation of an Algorithm for Capacity-Oriented Production Scheduling." ORSA/TIMS, Nashville, May 1991 (with R. de Matta).


“Decomposition Strategies for Resource Allocation in Health Care Delivery Systems." ORSA/TIMS, Philadelphia, October 1990 (with P. Kakumanu).


“On the Solution of a Class of Non-Network LP's with Triangularizable Bases." ORSA/TIMS, Las Vegas, May 1990 (with J.K. Ho).


“Solving Large-Scale Linear Programs for Capacitated Material Requirements Planning." ORSA/TIMS, New York, October 1989 (with J.K. Ho).


“Parallel Decomposition of Structured LP's on a Hypercube Multicomputer." CORS/TIMS/ORSA, Vancouver, May 1989 (with J.K. Ho and R.P. Sundarraj).


“Parallel Computing for Large-Scale LP's with Network-like Subproblems." ORSA/TIMS, Washington, DC, April 1988 (with J.K. Ho, T.C. Lee and R.P. Sundarraj).


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