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Recent Publications

As a Carnegie Research I institution, high-impact research plays a prominent role at UC and in the College of Business . This Recent Publications site showcases current faculty and doctoral student research.

Jeffrey D. Camm, PhD - Professor and Department Head, CoB Research Fellow

  • “Bayesian Coverage Optimization Models,” with J. Cochran and Martin Levy, The Journal of Combinatorial Optimization, Vol. 19, No. 2, pp. 158-173,F ebruary, 2010 .
  • “A Branch-and-Price Approach to the Share-of-Choice Product Line Design Problem,” with X. Wang and D. Curry, Management Science, Vol. 55, No. 10, pp. 1718-1728, October, 2009.
  • “Scheduling Parallel Assembly Lines to Minimize a Shared Pool of Labor,” (with M. Magazine, G. Polak and G. Zaric), IIE Transactions, Vol. 40, Issue 8, pp. 749-758, August, 2008.
  • “Where to put things? Spatial land management to sustain biodiversity and economic returns,” with S. Polasky et al,Biological Conservation, 141, pp. 1505-1524, 2008.
  • Camm, J. Cochran, J. , Curry, D. and S. Kannan, "Conjoint Optimization: An Exact Algorithm for the Share-of-Choice Problem," Management Science, Vol. 52, No. 3, March 2006, pp. 435-447.
  • Baker, K. and J. Camm, “On the Use of Integer Programming versus Evolutionary Solver in Spreadsheet Optimization ,” INFORMS Transactions on Education, Vol. 5, No. 3, May, 2005.
  • Bollapragada, R., Camm, J.D., Rao, U. and J. Wu “A two-phase greedy algorithm to locate and allocate hubs for fixed-wireless broadband access,” Operations Research Letters, Vol. 33, pp. 134-142, 2005.
  • Arthur, J., Camm, J., Haight, R., Montgomery, C. and S. Polasky, “Weighing Conservation Objectives: Maximum Expected Coverage Versus Endangered Species Protection,” Ecological Applications,14(6), pp. 1936-1945, 2004.
  • "Nature Reserve Site Selection to Maximize Expected Species Covered," (with S. Norman et al), Operations Research, Vol. 50, No. 6, pp. 946-955, 2002.
  • "Selecting Biological Reserves Cost Effectively: An Application to Terrestrial Vertebrate in Oregon," (with S. Polasky et al), Land Economics, Vol. 77, No.1, pp.68-78, 2001.

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James R. Evans, PhD - Professor of Quantitative Analysis and Operations Management; Dir., TQM Center

  • “An Exploratory Study of Performance Measurement Systems and Relationships with Performance Results,” Journal of Operations Management Vol. 22, Issue 3, June 2004, pp. 219-232.
  • “Validating Key Linkages in the Baldrige Performance Excellence Model” (with E. Jack), Quality Management Journal, Vol. 10, Issue 2, 2003, pp. 7-24.
  • “The Impact of Team and Partner Characteristics on Cooperative Benchmarking Outcomes,” (with R. Ramabadron, A.S. Raturi, and J. W. Dean, Jr.), IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Vol. 51, No. 2, 2004, 208-225.
  • “The Role of Follow-Up in Achieving Results from Self-Assessment Processes, (with M.W. Ford), International Journal of Quality and Reliability Management (in press).
  • “Importance and Implementation of Baldrige Practices for Small Businesses,” (with P.R, Stephens, and C.H. Matthews), Quality Management Journal (in press).
  • “Selecting and Using Models for Organizational Self-Assessment,” (with M. Ford), Business Horizons, Vol. 45, No. 6, Nov.-Dec. 2002, 25-32.

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Craig M. Froehle, PhD - Associate Professor of Operations Management

  • Halsted, M.J., Froehle, C.M. 2008. Design, Implementation, and Assessment of a Radiology Workflow System. American Journal of Roentgenology, 191, 1-7.
  • Roth, A.V., Cattani, K.D., Froehle, C.M. 2008. Antecedents and Performance Outcomes of Global Competence: An Empirical Investigation. Journal of Engineering and Technology Management, 25, 75-92.
  • Froehle, C.M., Roth, A.V. 2007. A Resource-Process Framework of New Service Development. Production and Operations Management, 16:2, 169-188.
  • Sampson, S.E., Froehle, C.M. 2006. Foundations and Implications of a Proposed Unified Services Theory. Production and Operations Management, 15:2, 329-343.
  • Froehle, C.M. 2006. Service Personnel, Technology, and Their Interaction in Influencing Customer Satisfaction. Decision Sciences, 37:1, 5-38.
  • Froehle, C.M., Roth, A.V. 2004. New Measurement Scales for Evaluating Perceptions of the Technology-Mediated Customer Service Experience. Journal of Operations Management, 22:1, 1-21.
  • Hill, A.V., Collier, D.A., Froehle, C.M., Goodale, J.C., Metters, R.D., Verma, R. 2002. Research Opportunities in Service Process Design. Journal of Operations Management, 20:2, 189-202.
  • Froehle, C.M., Roth, A.V., Chase, R.B., Voss, C.A. 2000. Antecedents of New Service Development Effectiveness: An Exploratory Examination of Strategic Operations Choices. Journal of Service Research, 3:1, 3-17.

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Michael J. Fry, PhD - Associate Professor

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W. David Kelton, PhD - Professor and MSQA Program Director


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Martin S. Levy, PhD - Professor of Applied Statistics/Quantitative Analysis

  • "BLINEX: A Bounded Asymmetric Loss Function with Application to Bayesian Estimation", (2001), Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods (with Daling Wen)
  • "Admissibility of Bayes Estimates under BLINEX Loss for the Normal Mean Problem", (2001), Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods, (with Daling Wen)
  • “The role of the popliteofibular ligament and the tendon of popliteus in providing stability in the human knee”, (2003), Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery - British Volume, (with C. Pasque, FR Noyes, M. Gibbons, E. Grood)
  • “The effects of matrix stabilization using glutaraldehyde on the material properties of porcine meniscus", (2003) Journal of Biomedical Materials Research. (with Hunter, Shawn S., Butler, David L., Noyes, Frank R. Haridas, Balakrishna)
  • “Subject variation in caprine anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction”. (2003). J Orthop Res., (with Cummings JF, Grood ES, Butler DL.)
  • “The effects of graft width and graft laxity on the outcome of caprine anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction”. (2003) J Orthop Res. (with Cummings JF, Grood ES, Korvick DL, Wyatt R, Noyes FR.)
  • “Posterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction: An In Vivo Study of Femoral and Tibial Graft Placement”, (2003), The American Journal of Sports Medicine (with M.T. Galloway, E.S. Grood, J.N. Mehalik, S.C. Saddler, F.R. Noyes)
  • “Algorithms for fitting BLINEX loss parameters”, (2004), Communications in Statistics: Computation and Simulation, (with Daling Wen)
  • “Two-Bundle Posterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction: How Bundle Tension Depends on Femoral Placement”, (2004), Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, (with Shearn,J.T., Grood,E.S., Noyes, F.R.)
  • "Planning a Sample Survey with a Many-To-Many Frame Structure: An Empirical Investigation of the Effects of Frame Imperfections on Estimates of Population Totals", (2005), Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, (with T. Byczkowski)
  • “Meniscal material properties are minimally affected by matrix stabilization using glutaraldehyde and glycation with ribose”, (2005), Journal of Orthopaedic Research, (with Hunter, S., Noyes, F., Haridas, B., Butler, D.)
  • "Effect of age on collagen fibril diameter in rabbit patellar tendon repair”, (2006) Comparative Medicine, (with Greg Boivin, Angela M. Sklenka)
  • “Effects of cell seeding density and collagen concentration on contraction kinetics of msc-seeded collagen constructs", (2006) Tissue Engineering, (with Nirmalanandhan, V.S., Huth, A.J., Butler, D.L.)
  • “One- and two-strand posterior cruciate ligament reconstructions: Cyclic fatigue testing”, (2006) Journal of Orthopedic Research, (with Shearn, J., Grood, E., Noyes, F.)
  • “The Effect of Gamma Irradiation on Anterior Cruciate Ligament Allograft Biomechanical and Biochemical Properties in the Caprine Model at Time Zero and at 6 Months After Surgery“, (2006) American Journal of Sports Medicine, (with Schwartz,H.E., Matava,M.J., Proch, F.S., Butler, D.L., Ratcliff)
  • "Bayesian Models for Stochastic Coverage Optimization, (2008), Journal of Combinatorial Optimization (with James Cochran and Jeff Camm)
  • “Obesity does not reduce maximum acceptable weights of lift”, (2009), Journal of Applied Ergonomics, (with Devender Singh, W. Park)
  • “The effects of obesity and standing time on postural sway during prolonged quiet standing”, (2009), Journal of Ergonomics, (with Devender Singh, Woojin Park),

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Michael Magazine, PhD - Professor and Ohio Eminent Scholar

  • Quantitative Models for Supply Chain Management,Kluwer,1999
  • G.Graman and M.Magazine. A Numerical Analysis of Capacitated Postponement, POM, v11,3,340-357,2002
  • M.Magazine,G.Polak and D.Sharma. A Multi-exchange Neighborhood Search Heuristic for PCB Manufacturing, Jnl of Electronis Mfg., v11,2, 107-119,2002
  • M. Magazine and G Polak. Job Release Policy and Printed Circuit Board Assembly, IIE Transactions, v35,379-387,2003
  • S. Kulkarni, A. Raturi and M. Magazine. How Does Risk Pooling Impact Manufacturing Configuration, accepted in POMS, 2003
  • A. Grosfeld-Nir and M. Magazine, Gated Max WIP: A Strategy for Controlling Multistage Production Systems, IJPR, v40,11, 2557-2567,2002
  • A. Grosfeld-Nir, M. Magazine and A. Vanberkel. Push and Pull Strategies for Controlling Multistage Production Systems, IJPR, v38, 11, 2361-2375, 2000
  • K. Baker and M. Magazine. Minimizing Maximum Lateness with Job Families, EJOR, v127, 126-139, 2000
  • K. Doerr and M. Magazine. Design, Coordination and Contol of Hybrid Factories:An Exploratory Field Study, IntlJnl of O&PM, v20,1,85-102, 2000
  • Baker, K. R., M. J. Magazine and G. G. Polak. Optimal block design models for course timetabling," O.R. Letters 30:1-8,2002
  • K. Doerr, T. Klastorin and M. Magazine. Synchronous Unpaced Flow Lines with Worker Differences and Overtime Costs,MgtSci v46,3, 421-435, 2000
  • S. Kulkarni, A. Raturi and M. Magazine. An Analysis of Multi-plant Configuration with Component Commonality, to appear in IIE, 2004
  • S. Williams and M. Magazine.Heuristic Approaches for Batching Jobs in Printed Circuit Board Assembly. to appear in C&OR
  • S. Williams and M. Magazine. Heuristic approaches for batching Jobs in printed circuit board assembly, to appear in Computers and OR
  • "Factors Influencing the Decision to Adopt a Postponement Strategy",with Greg Graman, to appear in IJOPM.
  • “An experimental design comparison of four heuristic approaches for batching jobs in printed circuit board assembly”, with Susan Williams, to appear in the Academy of Information and Management Sciences Journal.
  • Camm, J., Magazine, M., Polak, G., Zaric, G. (2008) Scheduling Parallel Assembly Lines to Minimize a Shared Pool of Labor. IIE Transactions, 40(8), 749-758

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Uday S. Rao, PhD - Associate Professor of Operations Management

  • Multi-Product Inventory Problem with Downward Substitution, Setup Costs, and Stochastic Demand (with Jayashankar M. Swaminathan and Jun Zhang), IIE Transactions, 36:59-71, 2004.
  • Reconfiguring a Remanufacturing Line at Visteon, Mexico (with S. Kekre, J. Swaminathan, and J. Zhang), Interfaces, 33:30-43, 2003.
  • Convexity and Sensitivity Properties of the (R,T) Inventory Control Policy for Stochastic Demand (single-author), Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 5:37-53, 2003.
  • Development of a Rapid-Response Supply Chain at Caterpillar (with Alan Scheller-Wolf and Sridhar Tayur), Operations Research, 48:189-204, 2000.
  • Single Stage, Resource Allocation and Economic Lot Scheduling on Multiple, Non-Identical Production Lines (with Ramesh Bollapragada), Management Science, 45:889-904, 1999.
  • Estimating Performance Measures in Stochastic Cyclic Schedules (with P. L. Jackson), IIE Transactions, 28:929-939, 1996
  • Risk-based Integration of Strategic and Tactical Capacity Planning (with Sunder Kekre, Samarth Sarthi, and Jinxin Yi), Annals of Operations Research, 132, 85-108, 2004
  • Firefighter Staffing Including Temporary Absences and Wastage with Mike Fry and Mike Magazine, accepted in Operations Research, Dec 2004.
  • Budget-constrained, Capacitated Hub Location to Maximize Expected Demand Coverage in Fixed-wireless (Broadband-Access) Telecommunication Networks,

    Paper 1, on Worst-case Analysis, with Ramesh Bollapragada and Yanjun Li accepted in INFORMS Journal on Computing, Dec 2004;

    Paper 2, on Greedy Heuristics for the Two-phase version, with Ramesh Bollapragada, Jeff Camm, and Joy Wu, to appear in Operations Research Letters, Mar 2005.
  • Managing Component and End-product Inventories with Uncertainty and Service Level Requirements (with Ramesh Bollapragada, and Jun Zhang),

    Paper 1 on Serial Systems in IIE Transactions, 36:73-85, 2004;

    Paper 2 on Assembly Systems Management Science, 50, 12, 1729-1743, 2004.

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Amitabh S. Raturi, PhD, MBA - Professor and SAP Research Fellow

  • Retail Price Markup Commitment in Decentralized Supply Chains, with Y. Liu and Mike Fry, European Journal of Operations Research, 192:1, 277-292, 2009.
  • Lessons learned from methodological triangulation in management research, EP Jack, AS Raturi, Management Research News, 2006
  • Vertically Restrictive Pricing in Supply Chains with Price Dependent Demand, with Y. Liu and A. Raturi, Naval Research Logistics, 53:6, 485-501, 2006
  • On the trade-offs between risk-pooling and logistics costs in a multi-plant network with commonality, SS Kulkarni, MJ Magazine, AS Raturi - IIE Transactions, 2005
  • Risk Pooling Advantages of Manufacturing Network Configuration, POMS Journal, Volume: 13 | Issue: 2, Page(s): 186-199, 2004
  • Creating a volume-flexible firm AS Raturi, EP Jack - Business Horizons, 2004
  • Testing the relationship between team and partner characteristics and cooperative benchmarking outcomes Ramabadran, R. Dean, J.W., Jr. Evans, J.R. Raturi, A.S, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Volume: 51, Issue: 2 On page(s): 208- 225, 2004
  • Measuring and Comparing Volume Flexibility In the Capital Goods Industry, POMS Journal 2003.
  • On incorporating business risk into continuous review inventory models, European Journal of Operational Research. Volume 75 Issue 1, Pages: 136-150, 2004
  • Sources of volume flexibility and their impact on performance, Journal of Operations Management, 2002, Vol 20, Iss 5, pp 519-548
  • Capacity-constrained reorder intervals for materials requirements planning systems IIE Transactions, 1997, Vol 29, Iss 11, pp 951-963
  • The Customization responsiveness Squeeze, Sloan management Review, 1994, Vol 35, Iss 2, pp 89-99
  • Effect of process learning on manufacturing schedules E Pratsini, JD Camm, AS Ratur - Computers and Operations Research, 1993
  • Capacitated lot sizing under setup learning E Pratsini, JD Camm, AS Raturi - European Journal of Operational Research, 1994
  • A comparison of tool management strategies and part selection rules for a flexible manufacturing system, International journal of production research, 1992, vol. 30, no4, pp. 733-748
  • A Model for Determining Tactical Parameters for Materials Requirements Planning Systems, Journal of Operational Research Society, 1 June 1992, Volume 43, Number 6, Pages 605-620
  • The effect of inventory decisions and parameters on the opportunity cost of capital VR Singhal, AS Raturi - Journal of Operations Management, 1990
  • Estimating the opportunity cost of capital for inventory investment S Raturi, V Singhal, Omega, 1990
  • Coping with the Build to Forecast Environment, Journal of Operations Management, Vol 9 No 2, 1990.
  • Alternative Research Paradigms in Operations (with Meredith, Kaplan, Gyampah), Journal of Operations Management, Vol 8 No 4, 1989.
  • Cutting Big M Down to Size Jeffrey D. Camm, Amitabh S. Raturi, Shigeru Tsubakitani , Interfaces, Vol. 20, No. 5, September-October 1990, pp. 61-66
  • Confidence interval for the total advertising impact and its mean duration under Koyck models JM McCann, RC Morey, AS Raturi - Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, 1991
  • An Experimental Analysis of Capacity Sensitive Lotsizing Procedures for MRP Systems (with Hill), Decision Sciences, Vol 19 No 4, Fall 1988
  • Heuristic part selection procedures for flexible manufacturing systems AS Raturi, J Meredith, M Vineyard - Recent Developments in Production Research, Elsevier, 1988
  • Incorporating the effects of setups in lotsizing procedures AS Raturi - Engineering Costs and Production Economics, 1989

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David F. Rogers, PhD - Associate Professor of QAOM

  • "Optimal Bivariate Clustering and a Genetic Algorithm with an Application in Cellular Manufacturing", European Journal of Operational Research (with S.S. Kulkarni), forthcoming.
  • "Aggregation and Disaggregation Techniques and Methodology in Optimization", Operations Research, Vol. 39, No. 4, pp. 553-582, July-August, 1991 (with R.D. Plante, R.T. Wong, and J.R. Evans).
  • "Pareto-Optimality of the Balinski Cut for the Uncapacitated Facility Location Problem", International Journal of Operations Research, June, 2007.
  • "Delivery Delay Variation in Multi-Echelon Inventory Problems", Journal of the Operational Research Society, Vol. 48, pp. 1029-1036, 1997 (with G.A. Graman).
  • "A Goal Programming Approach to the Cell Formation Problem in Cellular Manufacturing", Journal of Operations Management, Special Issue on Group Technology and Cellular Manufacturing, Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 28-43, 1991 (with S.M. Shafer).

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Yan Yu, PhD - Associate Professor, CoB Research Fellow

  • "Semiparametric Estimation for a Class of Time-Inhomogeneous Diffusions", Accepted, Statistica Sinica,Yan Yu, K. Yu, H. Wang, M. Li.
  • “Application of Multidimensional Selective Item Response Regression Model", JASA, 2007, Accepted, H. Lin, Feng ZD, Yan Yu etc.
  • "Estimating the interest rate term structure of corporate debt with a semiparametric penalized spline model", (with Robert Jarrow and David Ruppert), JASA, 2004, 99, 57-66.
  • “Penalized Spline Estimation for Partially Linear Single-Index Models”,Yan Yu and David Ruppert, JASA, 2002,1042-1054
  • "Root-n Consistency of Penalized Spline Estimator for Partially Linear Single-Index Models under General Euclidean Space", Yan Yu and David Ruppert, Statistica Sinica, April 2004, 14.
  • “Estimating the Term Structure of Treasury and Corporate Debt with Bayesian Penalized Splines,” (with Min Li), 2005, Journal of Data Science, 3, 223 - 240.
  • “A Bayesian Regression Spline Approach to Estimation of the Term Structure of Interest Rates,” (with Min Li), 2005, Accepted, Journal of Academy of Business and Economics.
  • “A Robust Approach to the Interest Rate Term Structure Estimation,” (with Min Li), 2005, Accepted, Journal of Data Science.
  • “Fitting Trees to Functional Data: With an Application to Time-of-day Pattens”,Yan Yu and Diance Lambert, JCGS, 1999, 749-762

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