Mike Redeker Distinguished Professor of Management,
School of Management,
(courtesy appointment) School of Computer Science,
Area Coordinator, Operations Management Group.
Ph: (972) 883-2793
E-Mail: milind@utdallas.edu
Ph.D., Algorithms, Combinatorics, and Optimization, Carnegie Mellon University, 1997
Optimization Theory and its applications in Manufacturing and Service Operations Management.
Working Papers
Non-Profit Support in Education: Resource Allocation and Students' Lifetime Outcomes (with H. Guda, G. Takasi, and G. Janakiraman). 2024. SSRN.
Service Systems with On-Demand and Reserved Servers (with Z. Feng, G. Janakiraman, and A. Qi). 2024. SSRN
Combating Overbilling in Outsourced Projects: A Dynamic Auditing Mechanism (with L. Bu, S. Gupta, and G. Janakiraman). 2023. SSRN.
Pay With Your Data: Optimal Data-Sharing Mechanisms for AI Services (with S. Mehta, C. Manchiraju, and G. Janakiraman). 2023. SSRN.
Food-Delivery Platforms: A Near-Optimal Policy for Capacity Sizing, Order Batching, and Spatial Routing (with Y. Bo and G. Janakiraman). 2023. SSRN
Seeing Beauty in Ugly Produce: A Food Waste Perspective (with Z. Han and B. Hu). 2023. SSRN
A Prior-Free, Asymptotically Efficient Mechanism for Two-Sided Platforms with Dynamic Arrivals (with A. Rout and G. Janakiraman). 2023. SSRN
Procurement for Assembly Systems under Disruption Risk: Optimal Mechanisms (with L. Bu and G. Janakiraman). 2023. SSRN.
Recent Publications
Journals
Avoiding Fields on Fire: Information Dissemination Policies for Environmentally Safe Crop-Residue Management (with M. Farahani, G. Janakiraman, and S. Wang), Management Science, Forthcoming. SSRN.
Cloud Cost Optimization: Model, Bounds, and Asymptotics (with Z. Qu and G. Janakiraman), Operations Research, Forthcoming. SSRN.
Dynamic Pricing and Capacity Optimization in Railways (with C. Manchiraju, G. Janakiraman, and A. Raghunathan), Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Forthcoming. SSRN.
Trust-and-Evaluate: A Dynamic Non-Monetary Mechanism for Internal Capital Allocation (with S. Gupta, S. Bansal, and G. Janakiraman), Management Science, Forthcoming. SSRN.
Cloud Kitchens: Value Creation Through Co-location (with A. Rout and G. Janakiraman), Production and Operations Management, Forthcoming. SSRN.
Dynamic Pricing and Learning with Discounting (with Z. Feng, G. Janakiraman, and A. Qi), Operations Research, Forthcoming. SSRN.
A Note on State-Independent Policies in Network Revenue Management (with C. Manchiraju and G. Janakiraman), Operations Research, Forthcoming. SSRN.
Optimal Cardinal Contests (with G. Takasi and G. Janakiraman), Production and Operations Management, Vol. 32, No. 11, 3433-3451, 2023. SSRN.
Robin Hood to the Rescue: Sustainable Revenue-Allocation Schemes for Data Cooperatives (with S. Mehta and L. Mu), Production and Operations Management, Vol. 32, No. 8, 2560-2577, 2023. SSRN. Related article in World Economic Forum
3 Years, 2 Papers, 1 Course Off: Optimal Non-Monetary Reward Policies (with W. Chen, S. Gupta, G. Janakiraman), Management Science, Vol. 69, No. 5, 2852-2869, 2023. SSRN.
The Economics of Process Transparency (with H. Guda, G. Janakiraman), Production and Operations Management, Vol. 32, No. 6, 1812-1829, 2023. SSRN. A blog in LSE Business Review
An Asymptotically Tight Learning Algorithm for Mobile-Promotion Platforms (with Z. Feng, G. Janakiraman, A. Qi), Management Science, Vol. 69, No. 3, 1536-1554, 2023.
Curbing Emissions: Environmental Regulations and Product Offerings Across Markets (with Z. Han and B. Hu), Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Vol. 24, No. 6, 3236-3251, 2022.
A Near-Optimal Algorithm for Real-Time Order Acceptance: An Application in Post-Acute Healthcare Services (with Z. Qu and G. Janakiraman), Operations Research, Vol 70, No. 4, 2213-2225, 2022.
Multiproduct Pricing with Discrete Price Sets (with C. Manchiraju and G. Janakiraman), Operations Research, Vol. 70, No. 4, 2185-2193, 2022.
Order Now, Pickup in 30 Minutes: Managing Queues with Static Delivery Guarantees (with M. Farahani and G. Janakiraman) Operations Research, Vol. 70, No. 4, 2013-2031, 2022.
An Approximation Scheme for Data Monetization (with S. Mehta, G. Janakiraman, and V. Mookerjee) Production and Operations Management Vol. 31, No. 6, 2412-2428, 2022.
How to Sell a Dataset? Pricing Policies for Data Monetization (with S. Mehta, G. Janakiraman, and V. Mookerjee) Information Systems Research Vol 32, No. 4, 1281-1297, 2021. Version presented at EC'19. A blog in LSE Business Review
Procurement with Cost and Non-Cost Attributes: Cost-Sharing Mechanisms (with S. Gupta, G. Janakiraman, and S. Wang) Operations Research Vol. 69, No. 5, 1349-1367, 2021.
On the Structure of Bottlenecks in Processes (with Z. Feng and G. Janakiraman) Management Science Vol. 67, No. 6, 3853-3870, 2021.
"Seemingly-Beneficial" Interventions (with H. Guda and G. Janakiraman) Production and Operations Management Vol. 30, No. 10, 3337-3353, 2021.
Better to Bend than Break: Sharing Supply Risk Using the Supply-Flexibility Contract (with M. Farahani, H. Gurnani, and G. Janakiraman) Manufacturing & Service Operations Management Vol. 23, No. 5, 1257-1274, 2021.
On the Capacity of a Process with Batch Processing and Setup times (with Z. Feng and G. Janakiraman) Production and Operations Management Vol. 30, No. 11, 4273-4287, 2021.
An Economic Analysis of Agricultural Support Prices in Developing Economies (with H. Guda, G. Janakiraman, and T. Rajapakshe) Production and Operations Management Vol. 30, No. 9, 3036-3053, 2021. Related newspaper articles: The Tribune , Economic and Political Weekly
Ad-Blockers: A Blessing or a Curse? (with M. Aseri, G. Janakiraman, and V. Mookerjee) Information Systems Research Vol 31, No. 2, 627-646, 2020.
Supplier Centrality and Auditing Priority in Socially-Responsible Supply Chains (with J. Chen and A. Qi) Manufacturing & Service Operations Management Vol. 22, No. 6, 1199-1214, 2020.
Retail Delivery by Drones: How Will Logistics Networks Change? (with S. Perera, G. Janakiraman, V. Mookerjee) Production and Operations Management Vol. 29, No. 9, 2019-2034, 2020. Related news article: Spectrum News
Sustaining a Good Impression: Mechanisms for Selling “Partitioned” Impressions at Ad-Exchanges (with S. Mehta, G. Janakiraman, and V. Mookerjee) Information Systems Research Vol. 31, No. 1, 126-147, 2020.
Shaping the Values of a Milk Cooperative: Theoretical and Practical Considerations (with L. Mu and V. Mookerjee) Production and Operations Management Vol. 28, No. 9, 2259-2278, 2019.
Optimal Incentive Contracts in Project Management (with G. Janakiraman, A. Qi, and Q. Wu) Production and Operations Management Vol. 28, No. 6, 1431-1445, 2019.
Determining Process Capacity: Intractability and Efficient Special Cases (with Y. Bo, T. Huh, G. Janakiraman, and M. Nagarajan) Manufacturing & Service Operations Management Vol. 21, No. 1, 139-153, 2019.
Data-Driven Decisions for Problems with an Unspecified Objective Function (with Z. Sun, G. Janakiraman, and V. Mookerjee) INFORMS Journal on Computing Vol. 31, No. 1, 2-20, 2019.
Analysis of Scrip Systems: On an Open Question in Johnson et al. (2014) (with Y. Bo and G. Janakiraman) Operations Research Vol. 66, No. 3, 611-619 2018.
Optimal Procurement Auctions under Multi-Stage Supplier Qualification (with W. Chen and G. Janakiraman) Manufacturing & Service Operations Management Vol. 20, No. 3, 566-582, 2018.
Procurement Policies for Mobile-Promotion Platforms (with M. Aseri, G. Janakiraman, and V. Mookerjee) Management Science Vol. 64, No. 10, 4590-4607, 2018.
Distressed Selling by Farmers: Model, Analysis, and Use in Policy-Making (with S. Gupta, G. Janakiraman, A. Sarkar) Production and Operations Management Vol. 26, Issue 10, 1803-1818, 2017.
On Integral Policies in Deterministic and Stochastic Distribution Systems (with Y. Bo, G. Janakiraman, and S. T. McCormick) Operations Research Vol. 65, Issue 2, 703-711, 2017.
Not Just a Fad: Optimal Sequencing in Mobile In-App Advertising (with Z. Sun, G. Janakiraman, and V. Mookerjee) Information Systems Research Vol. 28, Issue 3, 511-528, 2017.
The Making of a Good Impression: Information Hiding in Ad Exchanges (with Z. Sun, G. Janakiraman, and V. Mookerjee) MIS Quarterly Vol. 40, No. 3, 717-739, 2016.
Optimal Coordination in Distributed Software Development (with H. Xia and V. Mookerjee) Production and Operations Management Vol. 25, No. 1, 56-76, 2016.
Milking the Quality Test: Improving the Milk Supply Chain under Competing Collection Intermediaries (with L. Mu, X. Geng, V. Mookerjee) Management Science Vol. 62, No. 5, 1259-1277, 2016.
Optimal Descending Mechanisms for Constrained Procurement (with S. Gupta, W. Chen, and G. Janakiraman) Production and Operations Management Vol. 24, No. 12, 1955-1965, 2015.
Maximizing Revenue through Two-Dimensional Shelf-Space Allocation (with N. Geismar, BPS Murthi, and C. Sriskandarajah) Production and Operations Management Vol. 24, No. 7, 1148-1163, 2015.
Role Refinement in Access Control: Model and Analysis (with H. Xia and V. Mookerjee) INFORMS Journal on Computing Vol 26, No. 4, 866-884, 2014.
Fixed-Dimensional Stochastic Dynamic Programs: An Approximation Scheme and an Inventory Application (with W. Chen and G. Janakiraman) Operations Research Vol 62, No. 1, 81-103, 2014.
Improving the Milk Supply Chain in Developing Countries: Analysis, Insights, and Recommendations (with L. Mu and V. Mookerjee) Production and Operations Management Vol. 23, No. 7, 1098-1112, 2014.
Integrality in Stochastic Inventory Models (with W. Chen and G. Janakiraman) Production and Operations Management Vol. 23, No. 9, 1646-1663, 2014.
Optimal Software Reuse in Incremental Software Development: A Transfer Pricing Approach (with Y. Ceran, D. Liu, and V. Mookerjee) Management Science Vol. 60, No. 3, 541-559, 2014.
Dedicated Transportation Subnetworks: Design, Analysis, and Insights (with T. Rajapakshe, S. Gavirneni, P. Rao, C. Sriskandarajah) Production and Operations Management Vol. 23, No. 1, 138-159, 2014.
Efficient Distribution of Water Between Head-Reach and Tail-End Farms in Developing Countries (with M. Mehrotra, S. Gavirneni, and V. Mookerjee) Manufacturing & Service Operations Management Vol. 15, No. 2, 221-238, 2013.
Forecast and Rolling Horizons under Demand Substitution and Production Changeovers: Analysis and Insights (with A. Bardhan, Y. Mu, S. Gavirneni, and S. Sethi) IIE Transactions Vol. 45, 323-340, 2013.
Pricing and Logistics Decisions for a Service Provider in the Cash Supply Chain (with M. Mehrotra, V. Mookerjee, and C. Sriskandarajah) Production and Operations Management Vol. 21, No. 5, 954-974, 2012.
Structural Search and Optimization in Social Networks (with Y. Zhu, V. Mookerjee, and C. Sriskandarajah) INFORMS Journal on Computing Vol. 24, No. 4, 611-623, 2012.
Balancing Perfectly Periodic Service Schedules: An Application from Recycling and Waste Management (with O. Kazan, C. Sriskandarajah, and K. Stecke) Naval Research Logistics Vol. 59, No. 2, 160-171, 2012.
Value of Local Cash Reuse: Inventory Models for Medium-Size Depository Institutions under the New Federal Reserve Policy (with Yunxia Zhu and Chelliah Sriskandarajah) Manufacturing & Service Operations Management Vol. 13, No. 4, 508-524, 2011.
On a Labeling Problem in Graphs (with R. Chandrasekaran and M. Baysan) Discrete Applied Mathematics Vol. 159, No. 8, 746-759, 2011.
Production Planning with Patterns: A Problem from Processed Food Manufacturing (with M. Mehrotra, S. Gavirneni, M. Demirci, and S. Tayur), Operations Research Vol. 59, No. 2, 267-282, 2011.
Short-Range Order Processing at Blockbuster (with C. Chung, D. Rajamani, C. Sriskandarajah), Interfaces Vol. 41, No. 5, 466-484, 2011. Finalist, INFORMS 2010 Wagner Prize for Excellence in OR Practice
Quantifying the Impact of Layout on Productivity: An Analysis from Robotic-Cell Manufacturing (with T. Rajapakshe and C. Sriskandarajah), Operations Research Vol. 59, No. 2, 440-454, 2011.
Pool-Point Distribution of Zero-Inventory Products (with N. Geismar and C. Sriskandarajah), Production and Operations Management Vol. 20, No. 5, 737-753, 2011.
Productivity Improvement from Using Machine Buffers in Dual-Gripper Cluster Tools (with N. Geismar and C. Sriskandarajah), IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering Vol. 8, No. 1, 29-41, 2011.
On the Interaction between Demand Substitution and Production Changeovers (with S. Gavirneni, Y. Mu, S. Sethi and C. Sriskandarajah), Manufacturing & Service Operations Management Vol. 12, No. 4, 682-691, 2010.
A Depository Institution's Optimal Currency Supply Network under the Fed's New Guidelines: Operating Policies, Logistics, and Impact (with M. Mehrotra and C. Sriskandarajah), Production and Operations Management Vol. 19, 709-724, 2010.
An Analysis of Coordination Mechanisms for the U.S. Cash Supply Chain (with M. Mehrotra, V. Mookerjee and C. Sriskandarajah), Management Science Vol. 56, No. 3, 553-570, 2010.
Revenue Maximization under Two Movie-Screening Policies (with I. Drobouchevitch, T. Rajapakshe and C. Sriskandarajah), Production and Operations Management Vol. 19, No. 1, 1-15, 2010.
Throughput Optimization in Dual-Gripper Interval Robotic Cells (with N. Geismar, M. Pinedo and C. Sriskandarajah) IIE Transactions, Vol. 42, No. 1, 1-15, 2010.
Structural Analysis of a Fractional Matching Problem (with R. Chandrasekaran), Discrete Applied Mathematics Vol. 157, No. 18, 3708-3720, 2009.
Multiple-Part-Type Production in Robotic Cells: The Equivalence of Two Real-World Models (with M. Pinedo and C. Sriskandarajah) Manufacturing & Service Operations Management Vol. 11, No. 1, 210-228, 2009.
Approximation Algorithms for Optimal k-Unit Cycles in Dual-Gripper Robotic Cells (with L.M.A. Chan, N. Geismar and C. Sriskandarajah), Production and Operations Management Vol. 17, No. 5, 551-563, 2008.
Distributed Edge-Coloring Revisited: Link Scheduling in Sensor Networks (with S. Gandham and R. Prakash) Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing Vol. 68(8), 1122-1134, 2008.
A Comparison of Pair Versus Solo Programming Under Different Objectives: An Analytical Approach (with M. Johar, S. Kumar, and V. Mookerjee) Information Systems Research Vol. 19, 71-92, 2008.
Maximum Commonality Problems: Applications and Analysis (with S. Kumar, V. Mookerjee and C. Sriskandarajah) Management Science , Vol. 54, 194-207, 2008.
Assigning Support-Times to Satellites with Overlapping Visibilities: Complexity Analysis (with G. Arkali and C. Sriskandarajah) Production and Operations Management Vol. 17, No. 2, 224-234, 2008.
Optimal Scheduling and Placement of Internet Banner Advertisements (with S. Kumar and V. Mookerjee) IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (to appear), Vol. 19, Issue 11, 1571-1584, 2007.
An Integer Programming Approach to the Bi-Criteria Multicasting Problem in Optical Networks (with R. Gupta) IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol 55, No 2, 752-785, 2007.
Managing a Bank's Currency Inventory Under New Federal Reserve Guidelines (with N. Geismar, D. Rajamani, C. Sriskandarajah) Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Vol. 9, No. 2, 147-167, 2007.
Sequencing the Release of Modules in Software Development: Early Functionality Versus Reuse (with D. Liu and V. Mookerjee) Production and Operations Management, Vol. 16, No. 3, 381-399, 2007.
Forecast Horizons for a Class of Dynamic Lot-Size Problems Under Discrete Future Demand (with S. Gavirneni, S. Naranpanawe, and S. Sethi) Operations Research, Vol. 55, No. 4, 688-702, 2007.
A Traffic-Grooming Algorithm for Wavelength-Routed Optical Networks (with R. Gupta, S. Naranpanawe, and C. Sriskandarajah) INFORMS Journal on Computing, Vol. 19, 565-574, 2007.
A 10/7-Approximation Algorithm for an Optimum Cyclic Solution in Additive Travel-Time Robotic Cells (with N. Geismar and C. Sriskandarajah), IIE Transactions, Vol. 39, 217-227, 2007.
Supply Chain Scheduling: Distribution Systems (with N. Geismar, N. Hall and C. Sriskandarajah), Production and Operations Management, Vol. 15, No. 2, 243-261, 2006.
Throughput Optimization in Constant Travel-time Dual Gripper Robotic Cells with Parallel Machines (with N. Geismar and C. Sriskandarajah), Production and Operations Management, Vol. 15, No. 2, 311-328, 2006.
Effective Heuristics for Multi-Product Partial Shipment Models (with S. Gavirneni and S. Tayur), Operations Research, 2006, Vol. 54.
Dominance of Cyclic Solutions and Challenges in the Scheduling of Robotic Cells (with N. Geismar and S. Sethi), SIAM Review (to appear), Vol. 47, No. 4, 709-721, 2005.
Computing Minimal Forecast Horizons: An Integer Programming Approach (with S. Gavirneni, S. Naranpanawe and S. Sethi), Journal of Mathematical Modelling and Algorithms, Vol. 5, No. 2, 239-258, 2006.
Scheduling Web Advertisements: A Note on the MINSPACE Problem (with S. Kumar and C. Sriskandarajah), Journal of Scheduling, 2005, Vol. 8.
Sequencing and Scheduling in Robotic Cells: Recent Developments (with N. Geismar, S. Sethi and C. Sriskandarajah), Journal of Scheduling, 2005, Vol. 8. (this is a fairly comprehensive survey of the recent throughput optimization literarure in robotic cells).
Robotic Cells with Parallel Machines: Throughput Maximization in Constant Travel-Time Robotic Cells (with N. Geismar and C. Sriskandarajah), Journal of Scheduling, 2004, Vol. 7.
Approximation Algorithms for k-unit Cyclic Solutions in Robotic Cells (with N. Geismar and C. Sriskandarajah), European Journal of Operational Research, 2005, Vol. 162.
The Slab Design Problem in the Steel Industry (with J. Kalagnanam, H. S. Lee, C. Reddy, S. Siegel and M. Trumbo), Interfaces, 2004, Vol. 34.
Cross-Perfect Bipartite Graphs, Information Processing Letters, 2003, Vol. 88.
Algorithms for Scheduling Advertisements on a Web Page: New and Improved Performance Bounds (with S. Kumar and C. Sriskandarajah), Journal of Scheduling, 2003, Vol. 6.
On Throughput Maximization in Constant Travel-Time Robotic Cells (with C. Sriskandarajah and S. Sethi), Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 2002, Vol. 4.
On Bipartite and Multipartite Clique Problems (with P. Keskinocak, S. Tayur and J. Swaminathan), Journal of Algorithms, 2001, Vol. 41.
Variable Sized Bin-Packing With Color Constraints (with J. Kalagnanam and J. Sethuraman), Electronic Notes in Discrete Mathematics 7, 2001.
OCTANE: A New Heuristic for Pure 0-1 Programs (with E. Balas, S. Ceria, F. Margot and G. Pataki), Operations Research, 2001, Vol. 49, No. 2.
Inference-Based Sensitivity Analysis for Mixed Integer/Linear Programming (with J. N. Hooker), Operations Research, 2000, Vol. 48, No. 4.
The Surplus Inventory Matching Problem in the Process Industry (with J. Kalagnanam, M. Trumbo and H. S. Lee), Operations Research, 2000, Vol. 48, No. 4.
Approximation Algorithms for the Multiple Knapsack problem with Assignment Restrictions (with J. Kalagnanam, P. Keskinocak, R. Ravi and F.S. Salman), Journal of Combinatorial Optimization, 2000, Vol. 4.
A Class of Hard Small Integer Programs (with G. Cornuejols), INFORMS Journal of Computing, 1999, Vol. 11, No. 2.
Optimal Reliability Allocation with Discrete Cost-Reliability Data (with S. Majety and J. Rajgopal), Operations Research, 1999, Vol. 47, No. 6.
Book
Throughput Optimization in Robotic Cells (with N. Geismar, S. Sethi, and C. Sriskandarajah), Springer, April 2007.
(434 pages, ISBN: 0387709878).
Mitsubishi Electric Research Lab, AccentCare, Tuebora, IBM, BNSF, SmartOps, Ericsson
Professional Activities (past/present)
Department Editor, Manufacturing Operations Department, Production and Operations Management.
Associate Editor, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management.
Senior Editor, Production and Operations Management.
Associate Editor, IIE Transactions.
Associate Editor, Journal of Scheduling.
Associate Editor, Dynamics of Continuous, Discrete, and Impulsive Systems (Series B: Applications and Algorithms).
Teaching
OPRE 6302: Operations Management (2004-2023; MBA)
OPRE 7353: Optimization (Fall 2014-2023; PhD)
OPRE 7330: Deterministic Models in Operations Research (Fall 2023, 2021, 2019, 2000-2016; MS, PhD).
OPRE 7313: Network Flows. (Spring 2003, Summer 2004, 2006, Fall 2008, Spring 2011; PhD)
MAS 6V08: Logistics and Distribution. (Fall 2003-2004; MS, MBA, PhD)
Operations Management Implementations in the Industry. (Spring 2004; MS, MBA)
OPRE 6201: Introduction to Operations Research (Fall/Spring/Summer 2000-2003; MS).