Management Science

Dr. Michael vonMassow

Thesis Title: Pricing Strategy with Reference Prices.
Supervisor: Dr. Elkafi Hassini

Dr. Mustafa Canbolat

Thesis Title: New Formulations and Approaches to Facility Location Problems in the Presence of Barriers.
Supervisor: Dr. George Wesolowsky

Dr. Canbolat is currently working as an Assistant Professor in the Business, Administration and Economics at State University of New York, College of Brockport. Please see more information at http://www.brockport.edu/bus-econ/faculty/canbolat.html .

Dr. Rui Zhang

Thesis Title: Supply Chain Scheduling With Delivery Costs.
Supervisor: Dr. George Steiner

Dr. Ozan Cakir

Dr. Chirag Surti

Thesis Title: Pricing and Inventory Models for a Retailer.
Supervisor: Dr. Elkafi Hassini

Dr. Yuvraj Gajpal

Graduated:  June 2008
Thesis Title:  Algorithms for Vehicle Routing Problem With Pickup and Delivery.
Supervisor: Dr. Prakash Abad

Dr. Jingpu Song

Graduated: June 2007
Thesis Title: Theoretic Revenue Management Models for Hotel Room.
Supervisor: Dr. Mahmut Parlar
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Shanghai Institute of Forein Trade, International School of Business

Dr. Esaignani Selvarajah

Thesis Title: Batch Scheduling in Supply Chains.
Supervisor: Dr. George Steiner

Dr. Mingming Leng

Thesis Title: Competition and Cooperation in Supply Chains: Game-Theoretic Models.
Supervisor: Dr. Mahmut Parlar

Dr. Leng is currently as Associate Professor of Operations Management in the Department of Computing and Decision Sciences at Lingnan University, Hong Kong
http://cptra.ln.edu.hk/~mmleng/mmleng.htm .

Dr. Zhihui Xue

Thesis Title: Shop Scheduling in Manufacturing Systems: Algorithms and Complexity.
Supervisor: Dr. George Steiner

Dr. Hassan Younies

Thesis Title: Planar Maximal Covering Location Problem Under Different Block Norms.
Supervisor: Dr. George Wesolowsky

Dr. Brian Denton

Thesis Title: Stochastic Optimization Models for Service and Manufacturing.
Supervisor: Dr. D. Gupta

Dr. Halit Uster

Thesis Title: Weighted Sum of Order p and Minisum Location Models.
Supervisor: Dr. Robert Love

Dr. Paul Stephenson

Thesis Title: New Dominance Orders for Scheduling Problems.
Supervisor: Dr. George Steiner

Dr. Dave Sparling

Thesis Title: Topics in U-Line Balancing.
Supervisor: Dr. John Miltenburg

Dr. Sparling is currently a Professor and Chair in Agri-Food Innovation and Regulation at the Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario. Before joining Ivey, David was a professor at the University of Guelph where he served as an Associate Dean and Execuative Director of the Institute of Agri-Food Policy Innovation. David was a senior Associate at the University of Melbroune and has taught at the Austrialian Graduate School of Management.

For more information, please see www.ivey.ca/agri-food/ .

Gulcan Yesilkokcen

Thesis Title: Supply Connected Location-Allocation Problem.
Supervisor: Dr. George Wesolowsky

Sila Cetinkaya

Thesis Title: Myopic Policies for Inventory Control.
Supervisor: Dr. Mahmut Parlar

Jiang Chen

Thesis Title: Lot Streaming Schedules in Flow Shops.
Supervisor: Dr. George Steiner

Dr. Yavuz Gunalay

Thesis Title: State Dependent Server Scheduling Rules in Polling Systems.
Supervisor: Dr. D. Gupta

Dr. Stefan Steiner

Thesis Title: Quality Control and Improvement Based on Grouped Data.
Supervisor: Dr. George Wesolowsky

Dr. Scot Yeomans

Thesis Title: Optimal Level Schedules For Mixed-Model, Just-In-Time Assembly Systems.
Supervisor: Dr. George Steiner

Dr. William Banks

Thesis Title: New Solution Algorithm For The Classification Problem.
Supervisor: Dr. Prakash Abad

Danny Cho

Thesis Title: Analyses of Optimal Policies For Dynamic Inventory and Maintenance Systems.
Supervisor: Dr. Mahmut Parlar

Dr. John Walker

Thesis Title: An Empirical Study of Round and Block Norms for Modelling Actual Distances.
Supervisor: Dr. Robert Love

Dr. Qinan Wang

Thesis Title: Game Theory Models and Their Applications in Some Inventory Control and New Product Management Models.
Supervisor: Dr. Mahmut Parlar

Dr. Jack Brimberg

Thesis Title: Properties of Distance Functions and Minisum location Models Minimax Location Problems.
Supervisor: Dr. Robert Love

Dr. Dave Buchanan

Thesis Title: Interactive Computer Graphical Approaches To Some Maximin and Minimax Location Problems.
Supervisor: Dr. George Wesolowsky

Dr. Paul Dowling

Thesis Title: Bounding Methods for Facilities Location Problems.
Supervisor: Dr. Robert Love