Tour Scheduling with Skill Based Costs (pdf, 222k), with Davidson, T., The 5th International Conference on the Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling, Pittsburgh, PA, August, 2004, 12 pages.
Multiproduct flowshops with reentrant jobs and sequence-dependent setups (pdf, 45k), with Kerbel, R., Proceedings, IIE 2003 Annual Research Conference, Portland, Oregon, May, 2003.
A university space use evaluation and allocation model (pdf, 373k), with Cole, M., and Barrett, P., presented at the INFORMS Annual Meeting, Atlanta, October, 2004.INFORMS Spring 2000 Meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah, May 7-10, 2000
Maximizing fleet performance with optimized load scheduling, INFORMS Spring 2000 Meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah, May 7-10, 2000
Dynamic biased sampling in a stochastic tabu search algorithm, 7th INFORMS Computing Society Conference on Computing and Optimization Tools for the New Millennium, Cancun, Mexico, January 5-7, 2000 (unable to present).
Single machine scheduling - a new approach, INFORMS Conference, Cincinatti, May 1999
Mixed models for general resource scheduling problems, IIE Research Conference, Banff, May 1998.
Heuristics for a proximity-based facility layout model (under construction), with R. Cimikowski, Computers and Industrial Engineering, 32:2, 1997, pages 341-349. Acrobat(pdf) format.
A stochastic tabu search algorithm, INFORMS Atlanta, November 5, 1996.
Large scale classroom scheduling, with W.J. Parmenter and R.L. Rardin, IIE Transactions, 28:5, May, 1996.Available: Acrobat(pdf), PostScript(ps - no figure), Figure 1 - Search Trajectory(jpg)
Tabu search for a class of scheduling problems, with R.L. Rardin, Annals of Operations Research, 41, 1993, pages 253-278.Available: Acrobat (pdf), PostScript (ps - no figures), Figure 2 - Multistart Trajectory (jpg), Figure 3 - Tabu Search Trajectory (jpg), Figure 4 - Dynamic Biased Sampling Search Trajectory (jpg), Figure 5 - Synthetic Problem Algorithm Ranking (jpg), Figure 6 - Real Problem Algorithm Ranking (jpg)
