Ashbel Smith Professor of Operations Management,
School of Management,
(courtesy appointment) School of Computer Science,
Area Coordinator, Operations Management Group.
Ph: (972) 883-2793
Fax: (972) 883-5905
E-Mail: milind@utdallas.edu
Ph.D., Algorithms, Combinatorics, and Optimization, Carnegie Mellon University, 1997
Discrete Optimization Problems in Manufacturing and Service Operations, Supply Chain Management.
Some Recent Publications
Book
Throughput Optimization in Robotic Cells (with N. Geismar, S. Sethi, and C. Sriskandarajah), Springer, April 2007.
(434 pages, ISBN: 0387709878).
Journals
Optimal Software Reuse in Incremental Software Development: A Transfer Pricing Approach (with Y. Ceran, D. Liu, and V. Mookerjee) Management Science (to appear).
Efficient Distribution of Water Between Head-Reach and Tail-End Farms in Developing Countries (with M. Mehrotra, S. Gavirneni, and V. Mookerjee) Manufacturing and Service Operations Management (to appear).
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 (to appear).
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 and 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 and 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.
Current Research
An Approximation Scheme for Fixed Dimensional Stochastic Dynamic Programs (with W. Chen and G. Janakiraman)
Integrality in Stochastic Inventory Models (with W. Chen and G. Janakiraman)
Decentralized Bi-Criteria Timeshare Exchange Algorithms (with B. Cesaret and T. Rajapakshe)
Improving the Milk Supply Chain in Developing Countries: Analysis, Insights, and Recommendations (with L. Mu and V. Mookerjee)
Coordination in Software Reuse Decisions (with Y. Ceran, D. Liu and V. Mookerjee)
Designing Dedicated Transportation Subnetworks: Deadheading vs. Lane-sharing (with S. Gavirneni, T. Rajapakshe and C. Sriskandarajah)
IBM, BNSF, SmartOps, Ericsson
Current Professional Activities
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 (2004-2012; MBA)
OPRE 7330: Discrete Models in Operations Research (Fall 2000-2012; 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).