Degrees

D.Sc. Operations Research (Minor in Statistics), The George Washington University
M.S. Aeronautical Engineering (Concentration in Optimization and Control Theory), Stanford University
B.S. Aeronautical Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Research/Teaching Interests

Dr. Bard specializes in production planning and control, multiple criteria decision making, and the design of algorithms for solving large-scale optimization problems. He has served on the Cockrell School of Engineering faculty since 1984. Dr. Bard has 20 years of industrial experience, has published more than 100 technical articles and reports, and has authored or edited three books.

Among the many honors and awards Dr. Bard has received, the most recent is the 2004 Robert W. Hamilton Author Award for Operations Research: Models and Methods, cowritten with Dr. Paul Jensen. He received the David F. Baker Distinguished Research Award, which recognizes contributions to the advancement of the IE profession through outstanding research activity, for lifetime achievement from the Institute of Industrial Engineers in Spring 2002. The IIE also awarded him the Best Paper Award for Feature Applications in 2003 for the paper Optimizing aircraft routings in response to groundings and delays, co-written with Gang Yu and Michael F. Arguello. He was Named a Fellow of the Center for Decisions Under Uncertainty in the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2001. He 1997 Operations Research Division Outstanding Contribution Award from the Institute of Industrial Engineers. He was named a Fellow of the Institute of Industrial Engineers in 1996. In 1995 he received the Joint Publishers Book-of-the-Year Award from the Institute of Industrial Engineers and a LAIL Research Fellowship at the Ecole Centrale de Lille. In 1994 he was awarded the Outstanding IIE Publication, Institute of Industrial Engineers, a CORE Research Fellowship at the Center for Operations Research and Econometrics at the Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium, and was named a Distinguished Scholar by the Japanese Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications. The Institute of Industrial Engineers gave him the Operations Research Division Application Award in 1993.

Dr. Bard began his current fellowship, the Industrial Properties Corp. Endowed Faculty Fellow, here at The University of Texas at Austin Mechanical Engineering Department in 1990. In 1989 he received the Lady Davis Fellowship from The Technion Israel Institute of Technology (89-90) and a University Faculty Research Award from The University of Texas at Austin. The Vector to Excellence Award from the Austin Chapter of Institute of Industrial Engineers (88-89) and US Army-ASEE Summer Faculty Fellowship at the Belvoir RD&E Center were received in 1988. Dr. Bard earned a Sun Oil Fellowship in 1986. Dr. Bard won the NASA-ASEE Summer Faculty Fellowship jointly sponsored by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the California Institute of Technology in 1983, and again in 1985 when it was sponsored by the Johnson Space Center and Texas A&M University.

1. Vehicle Routing.
2. Machine Scheduling.
3. Hierarchical Optimization.

Publications

Books:

1. A. Shtub, J.F. Bard and S. Globerson (2005), Project Management: Processes, Methodologies, and Economics, Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ.
2. P.A. Jensen and J.F. Bard (2003), Operations Research: Models and Methods, John Wiley & Sons, New York.
3. J. Keogh, A. Shtub, J.F. Bard and S. Globerson (2000), Project Planning and Implementation, Pearson, Boston.
4. J.F. Bard (1998), Practical Bilevel Optimization: Algorithms and Applications, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston.
5. K. Shimizu, Y. Ishizuka and J.F. Bard (1997), Nondifferentiable and Two-Level Programming, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston.
6. A. Shtub, J.F. Bard and S. Globerson (1994), Project Management: Engineering, Technology and Implementation, Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ.
7. J.F. Bard (1975), Economic Principles of Remote Sensing Systems: Costs and Benefits, Allyn and Bacon, Boston.

Book Chapters:

1. J.F. Bard (2005), "Project Scheduling," in Handbook of Industrial & Systems Engineering, A. Badiru (ed.), Chapter 4, pp. 4.1-4.46, CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
2. J.F. Bard (2001), "Bilevel Linear Programming: Formulation and Properties," in Encyclopedia of Optimization, P.M. Pardalos and C.A. Floudas (eds.), Chapter 8, pp. 137-140, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Amsterdam.
3. J.F. Bard (2001), "Bilevel Linear Programming: Complexity and Equivalence to Minmax Problem," in Encyclopedia of Optimization, P.M. Pardalos and C.A. Floudas (eds.), Chapter 9, pp. 140-144, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Amsterdam.
4. J.F. Bard (2001), "Bilevel Programming in Management," in Encyclopedia of Optimization, P.M. Pardalos and C.A. Floudas (eds.), Chapter 17, pp. 173-177, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston.
5. J.F. Bard (1998), "Conceptual Design and Analysis of Rail Car Unloading Area," in Industrial Applications of Combinatorial Optimization, G. Yu (ed.), pp. 272-300, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston.
6. J.F. Bard, J. Plummer and J.C. Sourie (1998), "Determining Tax Credits for Converting Nonfood Crops to Biofuels: An Application of Bilevel Programming," in Multilevel Optimization: Algorithms and Applications, A. Migdalas, P.M. Pardalos, P. V"rbrand (eds.), pp. 23-50, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston.
7. M. Arg"ello, J.F. Bard and G. Yu (1998), "Models and Methods for Managing Airline Irregular Operations," in Operations Research in the Airline Industry, G. Yu (ed.), pp. 1-45, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston.
8. J.F. Bard (1989), "Optimizing the R&D Portfolio," in Early Warning Signals for R&D Projects, R. Balachandra, Chapter 6, pp. 107-121, Lexington Books, D.C. Heath and Company, Lexington, Mass.
9. J.F. Bard (1986), "The Evolution of Robotics in Manufacturing," in Modelling and Design of Flexible Manufacturing Systems, A. Kusiak (ed.), pp. 33-63, Elsevier Science Publishing Co., Amsterdam.

Journal Articles:

1. L. Wan and J.F. Bard (2006), "Weekly Scheduling with Workgroup Restrictions," to appear in the Journal of the Operational Research Society.
2. J.F. Bard and S. Rojanasoonthon (2006), " A Branch & Price Algorithm for Parallel Machine Scheduling with Time Windows and Job Priorities," Naval Research Logistics 53(1) 24-44.
3. G. Zhu, J.F. Bard and G. Yu (2006), "A Two-Stage Stochastic Programming Approach for Project Planning with Uncertain Activity Durations," to appear in the Journal of Scheduling..
4. J.F. Bard and H.W. Purnomo (2006), " Incremental Changes in the Workforce to Accommodate Changes in Demand," Health Care Management Science 9(1), 71-85.
5. J.F. Bard and L. Wan (2006), " The Task Assignment Problem for Unrestricted Movement between Workstation Groups," Journal of Scheduling 9(4), 315-342.
6. X. Qi, J.F. Bard and G. Yu (2006), "Disruption Management for Machine Scheduling: The Case of SPT Schedules," International Journal of Production Economics 103(1), 166-184.
7. J.F. Bard, D.P. Morton and Y.M. Wang (2006), "Workforce Planning at USPS Mail Processing & Distribution Centers Using Stochastic Optimization," to appear in Annals of Operations Research.
8. G. Zhu, J.F. Bard and G. Yu (2006), "A Branch-and-Cut Procedure for the Multi-mode Resource Constrained Project Scheduling Problem," to appear in INFORMS Journal on Computing.
9. X. Zhang and J.F. Bard (2006), "A Multi-Period Machine Assignment Problem," European Journal of Operational Research 170(2), 398-415.

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