Those interested in the research programs of the OR/IE faculty can look on the Faculty page.

2006

S. Monkman, D. Morrice and J.F. Bard (2006), "A Production Scheduling Heuristic for an Electronics Manufacturer with Sequence Dependent Setup Costs," Working paper, Graduate Program in Operations Research & Industrial Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas, Austin, TX.

K. McKinzie and J.W. Barnes (2006), "A Tabu Search Approach to the Strategic Mobility Mode Selection Problem," submitted to the Air Force Journal of Logistics.

Z. Liu, J. Howell and J.W. Barnes (2006), "Thermoeconomic Optimization of a Heat Recovery Steam Generator (HRSG) system using Tabu Search," working paper.

2005

L. Wan and J.F. Bard (2005), "Weekly Scheduling with Workgroup Restrictions," Working paper, Graduate Program in Operations Research & Industrial Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas, Austin, TX.
J.F. Bard and H.W. Purnomo (2005), "A Lagrangian Dual Heuristic for Cyclic Preference Scheduling," Working paper, Graduate Program in Operations Research & Industrial Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas, Austin, TX.
J.F. Bard and L. Wan (2005), "Workforce Design with Movement Restrictions between Workstation Groups," Working paper, Graduate Program in Operations Research & Industrial Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas, Austin, TX.
J.F. Bard and D.N. Mohan (2005), "Reallocating Arrival Slots during a Ground Delay Program Using Dynamic Programming," Working paper, Graduate Program in Operations Research & Industrial Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas, Austin, TX.

J.F. Bard, D.P. Morton and Y. Wang (2005), "Workforce planning at USPS mail processing distribution centers using stochastic optimization," Working paper, Graduate Program in Operations Research & Industrial Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas, Austin, TX.

B. Dimova, E. Popova and J.W. Barnes (2005), "Some Additional Properties of Elementary Landscapes," in second review after favorable initial review with Applied Mathematics Letters.

G. Lambert and J.W. Barnes (2005), "A Tabu Search Approach to the Strategic Airlift Problem," submitted to the Journal of Military Operations Research.

J. Porter, M. Larson, J. Howell and J.W. Barnes (2005), "Metaheuristic Optimization of A Discrete Array of Radiant Heaters," submitted to the Journal of Heat Transfer.

C. Pappas, R. Srinivasan, S. Sarkar and J.W. Barnes (2005), "A Comparison of Heuristic, Meta-Heuristic and Optimal Approaches to the Selection of Conservation Area Networks," submitted to the Journal of Environmental Modelling and Software.

T. Meyer, B. Colletti, L. Kocarev and J.W. Barnes (2005), "Using a Discrete Dynamic Systems Approach to Analyze Tabu Search Sequences," working paper.
D.P. Morton, F. Pan and K.J. Saeger (2005), "Models for nuclear smuggling interdiction,'' Working paper, Graduate Program in Operations Research & Industrial Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas, Austin, TX.
.G. Bayraksan and D.P. Morton (2005), "Assessing solution quality in stochastic programs," Working paper, Graduate Program in Operations Research & Industrial Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas, Austin, TX.
K.J. Daun, J.R. Howell, and D.P. Morton (2005) "Smoothing Monte Carlo exchange factors through constrained maximum likelihood estimation," Working paper, Graduate Program in Operations Research & Industrial Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas, Austin, TX.

2004

H.W. Purnomo and J.F. Bard (2004), "Cyclic Preference Scheduling for Nurses with Branch and Price," Working paper, Graduate Program in Operations Research & Industrial Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas, Austin, TX.
A. Chiralaksanakul and D.P. Morton (2004), "Assessing policy quality in multi-stage stochastic programming," Working paper, Graduate Program in Operations Research & Industrial Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas, Austin, TX.
D.P. Morton, E. Popova and I. Popova (2004), "Efficient fund of hedge funds construction under downside risk measures," Working paper, Graduate Program in Operations Research & Industrial Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas, Austin, TX.
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