WORMS Rookies Directory

In this directory we list information about young (less than two years young) PhD and MSc dissertations in OR/MS and related areas.

Use the Registration form that is provided for this purpose. You are encouraged to advise your PhD supervisor of your intention and discuss the matter with her/him.

Please note that whereas in the past the entries did not include abstracts, as of February 2000 short abstracts can be included in the submission.

• Advertising Expenditures, A Game of Strategy (MSc, Navael Postgraduate School, Monterey, California,1993. Supervised by Pugh Warren)
  Francis Riley(Mr)
  Federal Emergency Management Agency
  2323 Grand Blvd, Suite 900
  Kansas City, Missouri 64108
  Email:friley@aol.com

• Nonlinear Bilevel Programming: Analysis and Application to Regional Hazardous Waste Management, (Ph.D, University of California at Los Angeles, March 1995, Supervised by Stephen E. Jacobsen)
  Dr Mahyar Amouzegar(Mr)
  Electrical Engineering Department
  University of California at Los Angeles
  Email:amouze@ee.ucla.edu

• An Optimum Capacity Expansion Plan for Manufacture of a Product and its Spares (PhD, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, India., April 1997. Supervised by KRISHNASWAMY K.N and (Late) RAGHAVENDRA B.G)
  Dr Mohanan Kakadavat Thevermannil
  Indian Institute of Science Bangalore
  India 560 012
  URL:http://www.iisc.ernet.in
  ktmohanan@hotmail.com

• Topics in Combinatorial Optimization: Graph Planarization and Product Sequencing in Assembly Lines, (PhD, Graduate Program in Operations Research, The University of Texas at Austin, May 1994. Supervised by Olivier Goldschmidt and Gang Yu)
  Dr Alexis Takvorian (Mr)
  RISC Software, MD: OE112
  MOTOROLA, Inc.
  6501 William Cannon Dr. West
  Austin, TX 78735
  alexis_takvorian@risc.sps.mot.com

• On the Relationship Between Dynamic Programming and Branch-and-Bound, (Ph.D., Department of Mathematics, The University of Melbourne, June 1995. Supervised by Moshe Sniedovich)
  Emmanuel Macalalag
  Department of Mathematics
  De La Salle University
  Taft Avenue
  Manila, Philippines
  E-mail:COSEBM@dlsu.edu.ph

• Towards Sensitivity Analysis in Dynamic Programming, (Ph.D., Department of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne, March 1997. Supervised by Moshe Sniedovich)
  Dr Susanne Irvine
  CRA - Advanced Technology Development
  Locked Bag 347
  Bentley Delivery Centre
  Western Australia 6983
  Australia
  E-mail: Susanne.Irvine@restech.cra.com.au

• The Plant ReLayout Problem : Analytical Models, (MSc, Industrial Engineering Department, University of Jordan, August 1995. Supervised by Dr. Zein E. Tahboub)
  Viswanathan Vishy Visweswaran (Mr)
  IMSE Department
  Iowa State University
  nhruhhal@iastate.edu

• Global Optimization of Nonconvex Nonlinear Problems,(PhD, Chemical Engineering Department, Princeton University, June 1995. Supervised by Christodoulos A. Floudas)
  Dr Viswanathan Vishy Visweswaran (Mr)
  Process Engineering Department
  Mobil Research and Development Corporation
  Pennington, New Jersey USA
  vishy@titan.princeton.edu

• The existence and construction of graceful valuations of quadratic graphs, (PhD, Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, December 1996. Supervised by Profs. Jaromir Abrham and Mike Carter)
  Dr Kourosh Eshghi
  Department of Industrial Engineering
  University of Toronto
  Toronto, Ontario
  Canada
  kourosh@ie.utoronto.ca

• Manufacturing Learning Theory of Managerial Attention Allocation for Production Technology Development: An Optimal Control Model for Production Knowledge Creation (Ph.D, Harvard University, Nov 1995, Supervised by Jai Jaikumar, David Upton and Ananth Raman)
  Bowon Kim(Mr)
  Technology and Operations Management
  Harvard Business School
  Harvard University
  Boston
  bkim@hbs.edu

• Approximation Results in Multicast Networks (Ph.D, Operations Research Program NC State University, August 1996, Supervised by Prof. Matthias Stallmann)
  Prabhu Manyem(Mr)
  Ryder Logistics
  Miami, Florida
  prabhu_manyem@ryder.com

• A Split-Graph and Cutting Plane Approach to Optimal Pricing and Seat Inventory Control in Origin-Destination Networks (Ph.D, Texas A&M University, August 1996, Supervised by Prof. Alberto Garcia-Diaz)
  Ahmet Kuyumcu (Mr)
  Operations Research Analyst
  Aeronomics Incorporated
  4751 Best Road
  Atlanta, GA 30337-5609
  E-Mail: Ahmet_Kuyumcu@Aeronomics.com

• Solving Combinatorial Optimization Problems Using Neural Network Techniques , (Ph.D, Department of Electrical Engineering, The University of Melbourne, 1996. Supervised by M.Palaniswami, M.Krishnamoorthy. )
  DR. Kate Smith.
  Department of Business Systems
  Monash University, Clayton, Victoria 3168
  AUSTRALIA
  E-mail: ksmith@bs.monash.edu.au

  Download thesis:ftp://ftp.bs.monash.edu.au/pub/staff/ksmith/thesis.ps

• Optimal Control of Stochastic Hybrid Systems, (Ph.D, Departemnt pf Mathematics, Indian Institute of Science,1997, Supervised by Vivek S. Borkar and Mrinal K. Gosh)
  Pankaj Sahay (Mr)
  Department of Mathematics
  Indian Institute of Science
  Bangabore -560012 INDIA
  pankaj@math.iisc.ernet.in

• Detecting Scheduling Infeasibilities in Multi-Stage, Finite Capacity, Production Environments, (Ph.D, Northwestern University, Dec 1994, Supervised by Mark L. Spearman)
  Dr Valerie Tardif (Ms)
  Graduate Program in Operations Research and Industrial Engineering
  The University of Texas at Austin
  vtardif@mail.utexas.edu

• Stochastic Production Planning and Inventory Control Models with Perishability and Random Yield(PhD, Asian Institute of Technology, Dec 1994, Supervised by Mario T. Tabucanon and Alberto Muyot)
  Dr Edgar, Egay, De Castro (Mr)
  Department of Industrial Engineering
  College of Engineering
  De La Salle University
  Manila, Philippines
  coeelc@coelan.dlsu.edu.ph

• Hierarchical Production Planning for Job Shops(PhD, Institute for System Research, University of Maryland at College Park and INRIA-Metz, June 1995, Supervised by Jean-Marie Proth and Ioanni Minis)
  Dr Anshu Mehra (Mr)
  Gensym Corporation
  125 CambridgePark Drive
  Cambridge, MA 02140, USA
  phone:617-547-2500 x 356
  fax: 617-547-1962
  email:am@gensym.com

• Analytic Solution of Stochastic Project Management Networks by the Method of Polygonal Approximation(PhD, Industrial and Management Systems Engineering Department, Arizona State University, Aug 1994, Supervised by Mark R. Henderson, Norma F. Hubele and Chell A. Roberts)
  Dr Frederick P. Lawrence (Mr)
  CIM Systems Research Center
  Arizona State University
  Tempe, AZ
  USA
  E-mail: lawrence@asu.edu
  http://enws324.eas.asu.edu

• An Optimal Job Shop Model with Multiple Objectives, (MSc, De La Salle University, June 1993, Supervised by Edgar L. De Castro)
  Dennis Tang Beng Hui(Mr)
  Industrial Engineering Department
  College of Engineering
  De La Salle University
  2401 Taft Ave.
  Manila, Philippines
  COEDTBH@coelan.dlsu.edu.ph

• The elaboration of the scientific methodical basis of the optimisation of the systemic design program upon the basis of Straight Methods of Stochastic programming, (PhD, Department of Economic Cybernetics, Kiev State University & Kiev Military Academy Of Management and Communications.,Ukraine, June 1994. Supervised by Alexander I. Iastremsky and Ivan I. Olijnyk)
  Alexander Burtaev (Mr)
  Department of Mathematics
  The University of Queensland
  Queensland, Australia
  E-mail: avb@maths.uq.oz.au

• The Vehicle Routing Problem and Local Search Metaheuristics, (PhD, Department of Engineering Science, The University of Auckland, October 1995. Supervised by David M. Ryan)
  Curt Alexander Hjorring
  Department of Mathematics
  The University of Queensland
  Queensland, Australia
  ch@maths.uq.oz.au