Jeffrey Camm

Jeffrey D. Camm is an Emeriti Professor of Business Analytics at the Carl H. Lindner College of Business. Jeff has been at the University of Cincinnati since 1984 and was visiting scholar at Stanford University in 1992. In 2004, he was visiting professor of business administration at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. Dr. Camm has published four management science texts and over thirty papers in the general area of optimization applied to problems in operations management. His work in supply chain optimization with Procter & Gamble was a 1996 Edelman Award Finalist and is credited with helping P&G save over $250,000,000 annually in their North American supply chain. In 1998, his joint work on nature reserve site selection for efficient conservation, published in Science, appeared in a brief to President Clinton.

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Teaching Interest
Operations Research/ Management Science
Optimization Models

Research Interest
Optimization in resource allocation, location, product design, supply chain and distribution system design. Modeling techniques and algorithms for integer programming.

History
Institution: University of Cincinnati
Title: Fellow of the Graduate School

Institution: University of Cincinnati
Title: Department of Quantitative Analysis and Operations Management - Department Head

Institution: Dartmouth College
Title: Visiting Professor of Business Administration
End Date: 2006-12-31

Institution: Standford University
Title: Visiting Scholar
End Date: 1992-12-31

Awards | Honors
Organization: Beta Gamma Sigma - International Honor Society of Business Administration

Organization: Omega Rho - Operations Research Honor Society

Organization: Pi Mu Epsilon - National Mathematics Honor Fraternity

Organization: Sigma Xi - Research Honorary

Name: Who's Who in American Colleges and Universities

Organization: University of Cincinnati Graduate School
Name: Fellow
Year Received: 2006

Name: INFORMS Prize for the Teaching of OR/MS Practice
Year Received: 2006

Organization: DC Velocity Magaize
Name: Rainmaker Award
Year Received: 2006

Organization: University of Cincinnati College of Business
Name: Research Fellow
Year Received: 2001

Name: Ronald J. Dornoff Fellow of Teaching Excellence
Year Received: 1999

Organization: University of Cincinnati
Name: MBA Association QAOM Teacher of the Year
Year Received: 1995

Organization: University of Cincinnati
Name: MBA Assoctiation Award for Teaching Excellence
Year Received: 1995

Organization: University of Cincinnati
Name: MBA Association QAOM Teacher of the Year
Year Received: 1994

Name: Harold Grilliot Award for outstanding faculty/student relations
Year Received: 1987

Education
Institution: Clemson University
Location: Clemson, South Carolina
Major: Management Science
Dissertation: An Assembly Line Model of the Made-to-Order Production Situation
Completed: 1984
Degree: Ph D

Institution: Xavier University
Location: Cincinnati, Ohio
Major: Mathematics
Completed: 1980
Degree: BS

Published Contributions
David Anderson, Dennis Sweeney, Tom Williams, Jeff Camm, Jim Cochran, Michael Fry, Jeff Ohlmann, (2020). Statistics for Business and Economics, 14th Edition. Cengage.

David Anderson, Dennis Sweeney, Tom Williams, Jeff Camm, Jim Cochran, Michael Fry, Jeff Ohlmann, (2018). An Introduction to Management Science, 15th Edition. Cengage.

Jeff Camm, James Cochran, Michael Fry, Jeff Ohlmann, David Anderson, Dennis Sweeney, Tom Williams,  (2017). Essentials of Business Analytics, 2nd Edition. Cengage.

Jeff Camm, Michael Fry, Jeffrey Shaffer,  (2017). A Practitioner's Guide to Best Practices in Data Visualization. Interfaces.

Michael Magazine, Jeff Camm, Saravanan Kuppusamy, Kipp  Martin,  (2017). Demand Weighted Vehicle Routing Problem. European Journal of Operational Research, 151-162.

David Anderson, Dennis Sweeney, Tom Williams, Jeff Camm, Michael Fry, Jim Cochran, Jeff Ohlmann,  (2016). Quantitative Methods for Business, 13th Edition. Cengage.

David Anderson, Dennis Sweeney, Tom Williams, Jeff Camm, James Cochran, Michael Fry, Jeffrey Ohlmann,  (2016). An Introduction to Management Science, 14th Edition. South-Western, Cengage Learning.

Jeffrey Camm,  (2014). A (very) Short Course on Suboptimization. Interfaces, 428-431.

David Anderson, Dennis Sweeney, Tom Williams, Jeff Camm, James Cochran, Michael Fry, Jeffrey Ohlmann,  (2012). Quantitative Methods for Business, 12th Edition. South-Western, Cengage Learning, .

James Cochran, Martin Levy, Jeff Camm,  (2010). Bayesian Coverage Optimization Models. The Journal of Combinatorial Optimization, 158-173.

Xinfang (Jocelyn) Wang, Jeff Camm, David Curry,  (2009). A Branch-and-Price Approach to the Share-of-Choice Product Line Design Problem. Management Science, 1718-1728.

Martin Levy, J Cochran, Jeff Camm,  (2008). Bayesian Coverage Optimization Models. Journal of Combinatorial Optimization.

Jeff Camm, Michael Magazine, George Polak, Greg Zaric,  (2008). Scheduling Parallel Assembly Lines to Minimize a Shared Pool of Labor. IIE Transactions, 749-758.

Jeff Camm,  Polasky et al,  (2008). Where to Put Things? Spatial Land Management to Sustain Biodiversity and Economic Returns. Biological Conservation, 1505-1524.

Jeff Camm, David Curry, J Cochran, S Kannan,  (2006). Conjoint Optimization:  An Exact Algorithm for the Share-of-Choice Problem. Management Science, 435-447.

Jeff Camm, R Bollapragada, Uday Rao, J Wu,  (2005). Two-stage Greedy Hub Location-Allocation for Fixed-wireless Broadband-access. Operations Research Letters, 134-142.

Jeff Camm, Ken Baker,  (2005). On the Use of Integer Programming versus Evolutionary Solver in Spreadsheet Optimization. INFORMS Transactions on Education, .

Jeff Camm, S Norman,  (2002). Nature Reserve Site Selection to Maximize Expected Species Covered. Operations Research, 946-955.

Jeff Camm, A Ando, S Polasky, A Solow,  (1998). Species Distributions, Land Values and Efficient Conservation. Science, 2126-2128.

James Evans, Jeff Camm, T.E. Chorman, F.A. Dill, D.J. Sweeney, G.W. Wegryn,  (1997). Blending OR/MS, Judgment, and GIS:  Restructuring P&G’s Supply Chain. Interfaces, 128-142.

Jeff Camm, E Pratsini, Amit Raturi,  (1994). Capacitated Lot Sizing Under Setup Learning. European Journal of Operations Research, 15-24.

Jeff Camm, E Pratsini, Amit Raturi,  (1993). Effect of Process Learning on Manufacturing Schedules. Computers and Operations Research, 15-24.

Amit Raturi,  Pratsini, Jeff Camm,  (1993). Capacitated Lot Sizing Under Setup Learning. European Journal of Operational Research.

Jeff Camm, Amit Raturi,  (1990). Coping with the Build-to-Forecast Environment. Journal of Operations Management, 230-249.

Jeff Camm, Amit Raturi, S Tsubakitani,  (1990). Cutting Big M Down to Size. Interfaces, 61-66.

Amit Raturi, Jeff Camm,  Tsubakitani,  (1990). Cutting Big M Down to Size. Interfaces, .

James Evans, N.T. Bruvold, Jeff Camm, Bob Dwyer,  (1987). Selecting a Mix of Magazines for Delivering Targeted Sales Promotion. Journal of Direct Marketing, 51-62.

Accepted Contributions
Jeffrey Camm,  (Accepted). A Survey of Academic Use of Interfaces. Interfaces.

Research in progress
Title: A Contract Design Model for Power Interruption Contracts
Description: Demand Response (DR) is a mechanism of changing electricity usage in response to peak demand and prices. DR reduces the overall cost of electricity for service providers and promotes energy savings. We study a DR program involving resi- dential customers. We develop a model that determines when to turn which power unit on or off, how much power to cut during peak demand hours, and what con- tract parameters to use in designing contracts between the provider and residential customers. In numerical experiments, the proposed model leads to projected cost savings of the order of 20%, compared to a current share-of-choice (SOC) bench- mark model used in practice. We also identify factors contributing to cost savings, quantify their impact, and study characteristics of customers picked by different contracts.
Status: Writing Results
Research Type: Scholarly

Title: An Integrated Model for Power Interruption Contracts
Description: Developed a novel integrated model for minimizing total costs of utility providers while power interruption contracts are used. Isolated parameters influencing contract design and total costs.
Status: Writing Results
Research Type: Scholarly

Title: Models for Robust Optimization
Status: On-Going
Research Type: Scholarly

Title: Practice of the Alternative

Presentations
Title: Experiential Analytics
Organization: DSI
Location: Tampa, FLA
Year: 2014

Title: Insights from Data Visualization
Organization: Black Data Processing Associates
Location: Cincinnati, Ohio
Year: 2014

Title: What is Industry Looking for in Analytics Hires?
Organization: INFORMS
Location: San Francisco, CA
Year: 2014

Title: What’s New with Analytics in Academia?:  Building the Analyst of the Future
Organization: Infotrust
Location: Cincinnati, Ohio
Year: 2014

Title: Analytics @ UC
Organization: GE Aviation
Location: Cincinnati, Ohio
Year: 2014

Title: Modeling for Insights
Organization: Croatian OR Society
Location: Osijek, Croatia
Year: 2014

Title: Back to the Future:  Best Practices in Analytics
Organization: Kroger
Location: Cincinnati, Ohio
Year: 2014

Title: Analytics Training Workshop
Organization: UC Center of Business Analytics
Location: Cincinnati, Ohio
Year: 2014

Title: Analytics in Excel
Organization: Cincinnati IIBA
Location: Cincinnati, Ohio
Year: 2014

Title: Lessons for Analytics from Grandad Operations Research
Organization: INFORMS
Location: Boston, MA
Year: 2014

Title: Big Data:  What It Is and Why It Is Useful
Organization: Cincinnati Tech Olympics
Location: Cincinnati, Ohio
Year: 2014

Title: The Bearcats Transportation System:  A New Vehicle Routing Formulation
Location: CHARLOTTE,NC
Year: 2011

Title: Practice of the Alternative
Organization: INFORMS
Location: Chiacgo, IL
Year: 2011

Title: University Transit System design
Year: 2010

Title: Practice of the Alternative
Organization: INFORMS
Location: Huntsville, Alabama
Year: 2010

Title: Business Analytics
Organization: Great American Insurance
Location: Great American Insurance Company
Year: 2009

Title: Robust Optimization:  A Practical Discussion with Examples
Organization: University of Alabama College of Business
Location: University of Alabama
Year: 2009

Title: Real World Optimization Modeling
Organization: Bowling Green State University
Location: Bowling Green, Ohio
Year: 2008

Title:  Invited Tutorial:  The Art of Modeling
Organization: INFORMS
Location: Baltimore, MD
Year: 2008

Title: How Can You Get Real World Experience before Leaving the Graduate School Womb?
Organization: INFORMS
Location: Seattle, Washington
Year: 2007

Title: Conjoint Optimization
Location: University of Mississippi, School of Business
Year: 2006

Title: Optimization Models for Nature Reserve Site Selection
Location: Argonne National Labs
Year: 2006

Title: Could Kerry Have Won? Optimal Political Platform Design:  A Special Case of the Share-of-Choice
Organization: American Statistical Association and INFORMS
Location: Minneapolis
Year: 2005

Title: Conjoint Optimization
Location: Dartmouth College, Tuck School of Business
Year: 2004

Title: Making an Impact through Optimization:  Restructuring Procter & Gamble’s Supply Chain
Location: Institute of Operations Research, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland
Year: 2002

Title: Conjoint Optimization
Location: University of Chicago Graduate School of Business
Year: 2000

Title: Optimization with Spreadsheets
Location: College of Business, Indiana University
Year: 2000

Title: Core Carrier Selection
Location: University of Mississippi School of Business
Year: 1999

Title: LP and IP in Spreadsheets
Location: Dartmouth College
Year: 1998

Title: Core Carrier Selection
Location: Cox School of Business, Southern Methodist University
Year: 1997

Title: What’s Happening to What-If
Location: Farmer School of Business, Miami University
Year: 1997

Title: Reaction to Inefficiency in Data Envelopment Analysis
Location: San Francisco, California
Year: 1992

Title: Some Production Scheduling Problems in the Build to Forecast Environment
Location: New Orleans, LA
Year: 1989

Title: Some Production Scheduling Problems in the Build-to-Forecast Environment
Location: New Orleans, LA
Year: 1989

Title: A Mathematical Programming Formulation of the Capacity Constrained Production Scheduling Problem with Learning
Location: Cincinnati, Ohio
Year: 1989

Title: A Mathematical Programming Formulation of the Capacity Constrained Production Scheduling Problem with Learning
Location: Cincinnati, OH
Year: 1989

Title: A Study of the Effectiveness of the Contingent Critical Ratio Rule for Assigning Job Priorities in an Open Job Shop
Location: Myrtle Beach, SC
Year: 1988

Title: Optimal Production Lot Sizing in Capacity Constrained Production Scheduling under Process and Setup Learning
Location: Washington
Year: 1988

Title: Structuring the Modeling Process for Linear Programming
Location: Boston, MA
Year: 1987

Title: The impact of learning on the Capacity Constrained MRP Scheduling Problem
Location: New Orleans, LA
Year: 1987

Title: Measuring Production Rate in Aircraft Repricing Models
Location: Cincinnati, OH
Year: 1987

Title: Improvement Curves, Production Rate and Optimal Contractor Behavior
Location: New Orleans, LA
Year: 1985