Research
Humanitarian Logistics
Supply Chain Design
Management of Large
Scale Networks
Post Disaster
Carrier Alliances
Incomplete Information
Humanitarian Operations
Efficient Implementation
Management Science
Industrial Ecology
Multi Stakeholder Case Analysis
Case Study, Case Studies
Multi Period Network Capacity Expansion Problems
Crisis Management
Inventory Routing
Allocating Cost, Allocating Costs
Debris Operations
Extended Producer Responsibility
Accepted Production
Demand Air Transportation Planning
Managing Bottlenecks
Integrated Model
Humanitarian Aid
Network Design
Operations Research Letters
Industrial Engineering
Allocation Mechanisms
Disposal Operations
Large Scale
Maximum Flow Problems
South Africa
Management Society
World Food Program
Computer Science, Computational Sciences, Computational Science
Capacity Exchange Mechanisms
Collaborative Networks
Operational Research Society, Operations Research Society
Collaborative Logistics
Service Network Alliances
Mechanism Design
Ship Scheduling
Multi Path Selection
Strategic Planning Problems
Transportation Analysis
Collaborative Transportation Procurement Network
Delivery Problem
Damaged Infrastructure
Capability Development
Design Incentives
Cost Efficiencies, Cost Efficiency
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Network Perspective
Collaboration Problem
Multiple Description
Image Communication
Signal Processing
Collaboration Mechanism
Capacity Exchange Prices
Computing Robust Minimum Cuts
Network Economics
Cargo Transportation
Engineering Enterprise
Transportation Networks
Video Streaming
Disaster Relief
International Series
Production Economics
Printing Industry
Vaccine Procurement
Pre Positioning
Quantitative Model, Quantitative Models
Better World
Junior Faculty
Hurricane Response
Army Corps
South Carolina
Fema Us
Us Earthquake
Design Service Networks
Sequencing Problems
Dynamic Programming Methodology
Cost Allocation
Smaller Ones
Single MacHine
Embedding Operations Research
Invention Disclosures
Real Time
List of Publications (112)
In 2015
112
(G) Invited seminars and tutorials 1. Tutorial on Humanitarian Logistics, CORS-INFORMS International Meeting, June 2015.
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In 2014
111
J. L. Heier*, O. Ergun, and J. Swann. Providing Information to Improve the Per- formance of Decentralized Logistics Systems. Submitted, 2014.
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110
L. Gui, A. Atasu, O. Ergun, and B. Toktay. Fair and Efficient Implementation of Collective Extended Producer Responsibility Legislation. Accepted Management Science, 2014.
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109
O.Ergun,G.Kuyzu*,and M.Savelsbergh. Bid price optimization for simultaneous truckload transportation auctions. Accepted Transportation Research Part B, 2014
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108
M. Celik, O. Ergun, P. Keskinocak. The Post-Disaster Debris Clearance Problem with Incomplete Information. Accepted Operations Research, 2014.
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107
(C) Submitted papers to refereed journals 1. M. Soldner*, O. Ergun, J. Goentzel, and J. Swann. Managing Bottlenecks in Port and Overland Transport Networks for Humanitarian Aid. Submitted 2014.
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106
M. Celik*, O. Ergun, P. Keskinocak. The Post-Disaster Debris Clearance Problem with Incomplete Information. Accepted Operations Research, 2014.
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105
O. Ergun, G. Kuyzu*, and M. Savelsbergh. Bid price optimization for simultaneous truckload transportation auctions. Accepted Transportation Research Part B, 2014.
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104
(B) Published papers in refereed journals 1. L. Gui*, A. Atasu, O. Ergun, and B. Toktay. Fair and Efficient Implementation of Collective Extended Producer Responsibility Legislation. Accepted Management Science, 2014.
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In 2013
103
O. O.zener*, O. Ergun, and M. Savelsbergh. Allocating Cost of Service to Customers in Inventory Routing. Operations Research. 61 (1), 112-125, 2013.
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102
O.Ergun, L. Gui, J. L. Heier Stamm, P. Keskinocak and J. L. Swann. Improving Humanitarian Operations through Collaboration. Accepted Production and Operations Management special issue on Humanitarian Operations and Crisis Management, 2013.
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101
O.Ozener,O.Ergun,andM.Savelsbergh. Allocating Cost of Service to Customers in Inventory Routing. Operations Research. 61 (1), 112-125, 2013.
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100
Analyzing and Managing Service Networks with Self-routing Users, Northeastern University, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, April 2013.
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99
J. Wade* , O. Ergun, D. Nazzal, and J. Swann. Global Humanitarian Supply Chain Improvements for the World Food Programme. Working paper, 2013.
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98
K. Stilp*, O. Ergun, and P. Kekinocak. Managing Debris Collection and Disposal Operations. Working paper, 2013.
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97
Humanitarian Logistics: A case study on post-disaster debris operations, Northwest- ern University, Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences Seminar Series, September 2013.
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96
Runner-up, The Production and Operations Management Society (POMS) Col- lege of Humanitarian Operations & Crisis Management best paper award, 2013.
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95
O.Ergun, L. Gui*, J. L. Heier Stamm*, P. Keskinocak and J. L. Swann. Improving Humanitarian Operations through Collaboration. Accepted Production and Oper- ations Management special issue on Humanitarian Operations and Crisis Manage- ment, 2013.
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94
Humanitarian Logistics: A case study on post-disaster debris operations, MIT, Civil and Environmental Engineering, May 2013.
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In 2012
93
Honorable mention, INFORMS Section on Public Programs, Service and Needs best paper award, 2012.
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92
Tutorial on Humanitarian Logistics with J. Swann, INFORMS Annual Meeting, October 2012.
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91
L. Gui, A. Atasu, O. Ergun and B. Toktay. Implementing Extended Producer Responsibility Legislation: A Multi-Stakeholder Case Analysis. Accepted Journal of Industrial Ecology, 2012.
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90
Analyzing and Managing Service Networks with Self-routing Users, Harvard Uni- versity, Computer Science Colloquium, November 2012.
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89
L. Gui*, A. Atasu, O. Ergun and B. Toktay. Design Incentives, Fairness and Cost Efficiency: A Network Perspective on Extended Producer Responsibility. Working paper, 2012.
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88
Humanitarian Logistics: A case study on post-disaster debris operations and solving multi-period network capacity expansion problems, MIT, Operations Management Seminars, March 2012.
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87
L. Gui* and O. Ergun. Managing Decentralized Resource Sharing in Multicommod- ity Networks. Working paper, 2012.
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86
Humanitarian Logistics: A case study on post-disaster debris operations and solv- ing multi-period network capacity expansion problems, Texas A&M, Industrial and Systems Engineering Seminar Series, November 2012.
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85
Humanitarian Logistics: A case study on post-disaster debris operations and solving multi-period network capacity expansion problems, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Industrial and Systems Engineering Seminar Series, May 2012.
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84
Implementing Extended Producer Responsibility Legislation: A Multi-Stakeholder Case Analysis. Accepted Journal of Industrial Ecology, 2012.
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83
(D) Publications in conference proceedings 1. N.M. Viljoen*, W. Cao*, M. Celik*, O. Ergun, J. Swann. Keeping it simple in a data-sparse environment: The case of donor breastmilk demand and supply in South Africa. Proceedings of the 41st Annual Conference of the Operations Research Society of South Africa. Muldersdrift, South Africa. September 16 19, 2012.
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Humanitarian Logistics: A case study on post-disaster debris operations and solv- ing multi-period network capacity expansion problems, Harvard University, Wildly Applied Mathematics Seminars, February 2012.
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In 2011
81
Humanitarian Logistics: A case study on post-disaster debris operations and solv- ing multi-period network capacity expansion problems, Michigan University, IOE Department Seminar Series, November 2011.
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80
L.Houghtalen,O .Ergun,and J.Sokol. Designing Mechanisms for the Management of Carrier Alliances. Transportation Science, 45(4), 465-482, 2011.
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79
O. Ozener, O. Ergun, and M. Savelsbergh. Collaboration for Truckload Carriers. Transportation Science, 45(1) 2011.
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78
D. Altner* and O. Ergun. Rapidly Computing a Robust Minimum Capacity s-t Cut: A Case Study in Solving a Sequence of Maximum Flow Problems. Annals of Operations Research, 184(1) 2011.
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77
Managing Collaborative Networks with Capacity Exchange Mechanisms, Harvard University, Econ/CS Group Seminars, December 2011.
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76
L. Houghtalen*, O. Ergun, and J. Sokol. Designing Mechanisms for the Management of Carrier Alliances. Transportation Science, 45(4), 465-482, 2011.
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In 2010
75
Pre-positioning in Humanitarian Logistics, presented at the IQPC Defence Logistics Middle East Summit 2010, Abu Dhabi, UAE, January 2010.
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74
O. Ergun, J.A. Carba jal*, P. Keskinocak, M. Stilp*, M. Villarreal*, Managing De- bris Collection and Disposal Operations, Proceedings of the Seventh Triennial Sym- posium on Transportation Analysis (TRISTAN VII), Tromso, Norway, June 20-25, 2010.
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73
A. Ekici*, O. Ergun, P. Keskinocak and M. G. Lagoudakis. Optimal job splitting on a multi-slot machine with applications in the printing industry. Naval Research Logistics, 57(3) 2010.
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72
O. Ergun, P. Keskinocak, J. Swann, J.H. Stamm and M. Villarreal*. How to Improve Humanitarian Logistics. Analytics, Winter, 31-34, 2010.
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71
(2010) Quantitative Models for Vaccine Procurement. To appear in D. Goldsman, P. Goldsman, and S. Kumar (eds.), Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chains: Case Studies and Research Issues. (Invited and refereed)
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70
R. Agarwal* and O. Ergun. Network design and allocation mechanisms for carrier alliances in liner shipping. Operations Research, 58(6) 2010.
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69
R. Agarwal and O. Ergun. Network design and allocation mechanisms for carrier alliances in liner shipping. Operations Research, 58(6) 2010.
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68
O.Ergun, J. L. Heier, P. Keskinocak, and J. Swann. Waffle House Restaurants Hurricane Response: A Case Study. International Journal of Production Economics special issue on Improving Disaster Supply Chain Management, 126, 111-120, 2010.
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67
O. Ergun, P. Keskinocak, and J. Swann. 'Logistics ignored in disaster relief.' Op-ed in Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Feb 3, 2010.
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66
Industrial Engineering for a Better World: Doing Good with Good IE, Plenary at the ACC Undergraduate Research Conference, April 2010.
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65
O.Ergun, J. L. Heier*, P. Keskinocak, and J. Swann. Waffle House Restaurants Hurricane Response: A Case Study. International Journal of Production Economics special issue on Improving Disaster Supply Chain Management, 126, 111-120, 2010.
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64
Finalist, INFORMS 2007 Junior Faculty Interest Group Paper Competition 12. D. Altner*, O. Ergun and N. A. Uhan*. On the Maximum Flow Network Interdiction Problem. Operations Research Letters, 38, 33-38, 2010.
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63
Fair and Efficient Implementation of Collective Extended Producer Responsibility Legislation, Columbia University IEOR-DRO Distinguished Seminar Series, Novem- ber 2010.
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62
Humanitarian Logistics, Keynote at the Moore School Industry Summit, University of South Carolina, April 2010.
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61
Applying lessons learned from Haiti to US earthquake, panelist at the FEMA-US Army Corps of Engineers Senior Leaders Symposium, Washington DC., April 2010.
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60
O. Ergun, L. Gui*, L. Houghtalen*, and O. O. Ozener*. (2010) Shipper and carrier collaboration. In J.J. Cochran (ed.) Wiley Encyclopedia of Operations Research and Management Science. John Wiley & Sons. (Invited and refereed)
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In 2009
59
D. S. Altner*, R. K. Ahuja, O. Ergun, and J. B. Orlin. (2009) Very Large-Scale Neighborhood Search.
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58
O. Ergun, P. Keskinocak, J. Swann, and M. Villarreal*. Humanitarian Logistics: Uncertainty, Damaged Infrastructure, and Politics Highlight Top- 10 Challenges Facing Analysts during Disasters. Analytics, Spring, 31-34, 2009.
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57
N. Maciek*, O. Ergun and C.C. White. An Empirical Study on the Benefit of Split Loads with the Pickup and Delivery Problem. European Journal of Operational Research, 198(3) 734-740, 2009.
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56
O. Ergun, G. Karakus*, P. Keskinocak, J. Swann, and M. Villarreal*. (2009) OR to Improve Disaster Supply Chain Management. In J.J. Cochran (ed.) Wiley En- cyclopedia of Operations Research and Management Science. John Wiley & Sons.
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55
System Transformations and Capability Development for Humanitarian Logistics, presented at the IQPC Defence Logistics Middle East Summit 2009, Abu Dhabi, UAE, January 2009.
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54
R. K. Ahuja, D. S. Altner*, O. Ergun, J. B. Orlin and A. Punnen. (2009) Very Large- Scale Neighborhood Search. To appear in Handbook of Discrete and Combinatorial Mathematics K. Rosen (ed.), CRC Press. (Invited and refereed)
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O. Ergun, G. Karakus, P. Keskinocak, J. Swann, and M. Villarreal*. Humanitarian Supply Chain Management - An Overview. C. Barnhart, U. Clausen, U. Lauther, and R. H. M ohring (eds). Models and Algorithms for Optimization in Logistics Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings, 2009.
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In 2008
52
O. Ozener* and O Ergun. Allocating Costs in a Collaborative Transportation Pro- curement Network. Transportation Science 42(2) 146-165, 2008.
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51
O. Ozener and O. Ergun. Allocating Costs in a Collaborative Transportation Procurement Network. Transportation Science 42(2) 146-165, 2008.
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50
R. Agarwal and O. Ergun. Mechanism design for a multicommodity flow game in service network alliances. Operations Research Letters 36(5) 520-524, 2008.
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R. Agarwal and O. Ergun. Ship scheduling and network design for cargo routing in liner shipping. Transportation Science 42(2) 175-196, 2008.
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48
R. Agarwal* and O. Ergun. Ship scheduling and network design for cargo routing in liner shipping. Transportation Science 42(2) 175-196, 2008.
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47
D. Altner* and O. Ergun, Rapidly Solving an Online Sequence of Maximum Flow Problems with Extensions to Computing Robust Minimum Cuts. L. Perron and M. A. Trick (eds.). Integration of AI and OR Techniques in Constraint Programming for Combinatorial Optimization Problems (CPAIOR) 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5015, pp. 283-288, Springer 2008.
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R. Agarwal* and O. Ergun. Mechanism design for a multicommodity flow game in service network alliances. Operations Research Letters 36(5) 520-524, 2008.
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45
L. Gui* and O. Ergun. Dual Payoffs, Core and a Collaboration Mechanism Based on Capacity Exchange Prices in Multicommodity Flow Games. C. Papadimitriou and S. Zhang (eds.). Workshop on Internet and Network Economics (WINE) 2008.
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Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5385, pp 61-69, Springer 2008.
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In 2007
43
R.K. Ahuja, O. Ergun, J.B. Orlin, and A.B. Punnen. (2007) Very large-scale neigh- borhood search: theory, algorithms and applications. In T.F. Gonzalez (ed.), Ap- proximation Algorithms and Metaheuristics, Computer & Information Science Se- ries, Chapman & Hall, Boca-Raton, FL. (Invited)
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O. Ergun, P. Keskinocak, J. Swann, Global Red Alert: Humanitarian Logistics Re- search at the Stewart School of ISyE, Georgia Tech ISyE /Engineering Enterprise/, Summer 2007.
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41
R. Agarwal*, O. Ergun, J.B. Orlin, and C.N. Potts. Solving parallel machine scheduling problems with very-large scale neighborhood search. To appear in Jour- nal of Scheduling, 2007.
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40
Winner, EURO/INFORMS 2007 Management Science Strategic Innovation Prize given on the sub ject of Logistics in 2007
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39
Computers and Operations Research, Odysseus 2003 Special Issue. 34 (6), 1551- 1560, 2007.
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38
Y. Yao*, O. Ergun, E. Johnson, W. Schultz, and J.M. Singleton. Strategic planning problems in fractional aircraft ownership programs. European Journal of Opera- tional Research 189, 526-539, 2007.
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Most Cited Paper Award, Signal Processing: Image Communication given to the most cited paper published between the years 2005-2007.
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36
O. Ergun, P. Keskinocak, and J. Swann. Humanitarian Relief Logistics. ORMS Today, December 2007.
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35
R. Agarwal* and O. Ergun. Designing Mechanisms for Sustainable Carrier Alliances in Transportation Networks. Proceedings of the Sixth Triennial Symposium on Transportation Analysis (TRISTAN IV), Phuket, Thailand, June 2007.
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34
O. Ergun, G. Kuyzu*, and M. Savelsbergh. Reducing truckload transportation costs through collaboration. Transportation Science. 41, 206-221, 2007.
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33
M. Novak*, O Ergun, and C.C. White. Pick-up and delivery with split loads. Trans- portation Science 42, 32-43, 2007.
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32
R. Agarwal*, O. Ergun, L. Houghtalen*, and O. O. Ozener*. (2007) Collaboration in Cargo Transportation. A. Chaovalitwongse and F. Roberts (eds.), Optimization and Logistics Chal lenges in the Enterprise. In press. Springer-Verlag. (Refereed)
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In 2006
31
O. Ergun and J.B. Orlin. A dynamic programming methodology in very large scale neighborhood search applied to the traveling salesman problem. Discrete Optimiza- tion. 3 (1), 78-85, 2006.
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Carrier Alliances: How Should Carrier Alliances Design Service Networks and Al- locate Capacity, Revenue, and Costs?, presented at the Decision and Information Technologies Seminar Series, R.H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, September 2006.
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O. Ergun, J.B. Orlin, and A. Steele-Feldman*. Creating very large-scale neighbor- hoods out of smaller ones by compounding moves. Journal of Heuristics. 12 (1-2), 115-140, 2006.
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O. Ergun and J.B. Orlin. Fast neighborhood search for the single machine total weighted tardiness problem. Operations Research Letters. 34 (1), 41-45, 2006.
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27
Strategic Planning in Fractional Aircraft Ownership Programs, presented at the Operations Management Seminar Series, Sloan School of Management, MIT, Cam- bridge, MA, December 2006.
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O. Ozener* and O. Ergun. Collaborative Logistics: Cost allocation for the Ship- per Collaboration Problem. Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, Atlanta, GA, June 2006.
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O. Ergun, E. Johnson, and K. Yao*. (2006) An integrated model for on-demand air transportation planning. In V. S. Zeimpekis, G. M. Giaglis, C. D. Tarantilis and I. Minis (eds.), Dynamic Fleet Management: Concepts, Systems, Algorithms & Case Studies , Management Science (Production/Logistics) discipline, Springer-Verlag.
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In 2005
24
A.C. Begen*, Y. Altunbasak, O Ergun, and M.H. Ammar. A multi-path selection for multiple description video streaming over overlay networks. EURASIP Signal Processing : Image Communication. 20(1), 39-60, 2005.
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R. Agarwal* and O. Ergun, Collaborative logistics in sea cargo industry. ORMS Tomorrow, Fall 2005.
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In 2004
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O. Ergun, G. Kuyzu*, and M. Savelsbergh. Collaborative Logistics: The Shipper Collaboration Problem. TRISTAN, Guadeloupe, June 2004.
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Collaborative Logistics, presented at the Operations Research Center Seminar Se- ries, MIT, Cambridge, MA, February 2004.
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In 2003
20
A.C. Begen*, Y. Altunbasak, and O Ergun. Fast heuristics for multi-path selection for multiple description encoded video streaming. IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, Baltimore, MD, July 2003.
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Collaborative Logistics, presented at the Department of Industrial Engineering, Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand, November 2003.
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A.C. Begen*, Y. Altunbasak, and O Ergun. Multi-path selection for multiple de- scription encoded video streaming. IEEE International Conference on Communica- tions, Anchorage, AK, May 2003.
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Collaborative Logistics, presented at the National University of Singapore, Singa- pore, November 2003.
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A.C. Begen*, Y. Altunbasak, O Ergun, and Mehmet A. Begen*. Multi-path selec- tion for real-time multiple description and layered encoded video streaming. IEEE International Conference on Computers and Communications, Antalya, Turkey, July 2003.
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In 2002
15
(H) Patent applications and invention disclosures 1. A.C. Begen, Y. Altunbasak, and O Ergun. Multimedia transport protocol: Opti- mal multi-path selection for multiple description encoded streaming. Filed in the USPTO (GTRC ID: 2739), August 2002.
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R.K. Ahuja, O. Ergun, J.B. Orlin, and A.B. Punnen. A survey of very large-scale neighborhood search techniques, Discrete Applied Mathematics 123, 75-102, 2002.
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In 2001
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Very Large Scale Neighborhood Search for Solving Sequencing Problems. Local Search Society Lecture Series, City University, London, UK, February 2001.
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In 1998
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O. Ergun. Tips for Embedding Operations Research into Transportation Manage- ment Software. ORMS Today, December 1998.
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Unspecified
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In J.J. Cochran (ed.) Wiley Encyclopedia of Operations Research and Management Science. John Wiley & Sons. (Invited and refereed)
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O. Ergun, G. Kuyzu*, and M. Savelsbergh. The shipper collaboration problem.
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9
A. Ak*, J.L. Heier*, C.L. Wardell III*, O. Ergun, P. Keskinocak, and J. Fitzimmons.
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K. Stilp* and O. Ergun. Observations on Maximum Flow Network Interdiction.
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(International Series in Operations Research and Management Science) Springer, New York, 181: 447-462. (Invited and refereed)
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Y. Li*, O. Ergun, G. Nemhauser. A Dual Heuristic for Mixed Integer Programming.
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L. Gui*, A. Atasu, O. Ergun and B. Toktay.
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(ed.) Handbook of Global Logistics: Transportation in International Supply Chains.
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'Haiti's Eternal Weight.' Op-ed in New (F) In Press 1. R. DesRoches, O. Ergun, and J. Swann.
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O. Ozener*, O. Ergun, and M. Savelsbergh. Collaboration for Truckload Carriers.
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A list of conference presentations in invited or sponsored sessions is available upon request.
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