Tava Lennon Olsen Publications and Work-in-Progress

 

Operational and Supply-Chain Incentives and Games

Production and Inventory Control

Polling Models

Stochastic Scheduling for Telecommunications

Other

Conferences

 

See http://www.olin.wustl.edu/faculty/workingpapers/search.cfm for download of working papers.


Operational and Supply-Chain Pricing, Incentives, and Games

“Coordinating Production and Delivery Under a (z,Z)-type Vendor Managed Inventory System,” (with M. Fry and R. Kapuscinski). M&SOM, Spring 2001, Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 151-173.

 

“Vendor Managed Inventory in a Production Constrained Setting,” (with M. Fry and R. Kapuscinski), Book Chapter to appear in Future Directions in Supply Chain and Technology Management, The American Management Association (AMACOM), edited by Tonya Boone and Ram Ganeshan.

 

Supply Chain Management with Guaranteed Delivery,” (with E. Huggins). Management Science, September 2003, Vol. 49, No. 9, pp. 1154–1167.

 

Service Level Agreements in Call Centers: Perils and Prescriptions,” (with J. M. Milner).  Management Science, February 2008, Vol. 54, No. 2, pp. 238-252.

 

Inventory Management Under Market Size Dynamics,” (with R. Parker).  Management Science, Vol. 54, No. 10, pp. 1805-1821.

 

Near-Optimal Dynamic Leadtime Quotation and Scheduling Under Convex-Concave Customer Delay Costs,” (with B. Ata).  To Appear: Operations Research.

 

Inventory Competition with Subscriptions,” (with H.-S. Ahn).  Under Review.

 

“Congestion-Based Leadtime Quotation and Pricing for Revenue Maximization with Heterogeneous Customers,” (with M. Akan and B. Ata). Under Review.

 

Service Capacity Competition with Peak Arrivals and Delay Sensitive Customers,” (with H. Wang). Under Review.

 

“Supply Chain Coordination with Guaranteed Delivery,” (with E. Huggins).  Working paper available upon request.

 

“Service Capacity Management with Strategic Customers,” (with H. Wang). Working paper available upon request.

 

“Dynamic Inventory Competition with Stockout-Based Substitution,” (with R. Parker). Work in Progress (estimated percentage complete: 80%).

 

“Conditions for Supermodularity in Stochastic Games,” (with H.-S. Ahn).  Work in Progress (estimated percentage complete: 50%).

 

“Capacity Competition with Customer Delay Sensitivity,” (with S. Chayet). Work in Progress (estimated percentage complete: 10%).

 


Production and Inventory Control

 “Control of a Single-Server Tandem Queueing System with Setups,” (with I. Duenyas and D. Gupta).  Operations Research, March-April 1998, Vol. 46, No. 2, pp. 218-230.

 

 “A Practical Scheduling Method for Multi-Class Production Systems with Setups.” Management Science, January 1999, Vol. 45, No. 1, pp. 116-130.

 

 “Scheduling of a multi-class single server queue under non-traditional performance measures,” (with H. Ayhan). Operations Research, May-June 2000, Vol. 48, No. 3.

 

 “A Production/Inventory System Subject to Failure with Limited Repair Capacity,” (with S. M. Iravani and I. Duenyas). Operations Research, November-December 2000, Vol. 48, No. 6, pp. 951-964.

 

“Analytic Models for When and How to Expedite,” (with H. Arslan and H. Ayhan).  IIE Transactions, November 2001, Vol. 33, No. 11, pp. 1019-1029.

 

Multi-Product Systems with Both Setup Times and Costs: Fluid Bounds and Schedules,” (with W.-M. Lan).  Operations Research, May/June 2006, Vol. 54, No. 3, pp. 505-522.

 

“Setting Base-Stock Levels in Multi-Product Systems with Setups and Random Yield,” (with S. E. Grasman and J. R. Birge). IIE Transactions, Vol. 40, No. 12, pp. 1158-1170.

 

 Inventory Control with Generalized Expediting,” (with E. Huggins). Under Revision for Resubmission to: Operations Research.

 

“Heuristics for the Stochastic Scheduling of Multi-Product Systems with Both Setup Times and Costs,” (with W.-M. Lan and Z. Yu).  Work in Progress (estimated percentage complete: 80%).

 


Polling Models

“Limit Theorems for Polling Models with Increasing Setups.”  Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences, 2001, Vol. 15, pp 35-55.

 

“Approximations for the Waiting Time Distribution in Polling Models With and Without State-Dependent Setups.”  Operations Research Letters, April 2001, Vol. 28, No. 3, pp. 113-123.

 

Polling Systems with Periodic Server Routing in Heavy-Traffic: Distribution of the Delay,” (with R. D. van der Mei). Journal of Applied Probability, June 2003, Vol. 40, No. 2, pp. 305-326.

 

“Polling Systems with Periodic Server Routing in Heavy-Traffic: Renewal Arrivals,” (with R. D. van der Mei)).  Operations Research Letters, January 2005, Vol. 33, Issue 1, pp. 17-25.

 

“Finite Buffer Polling Models with Routing,” (with S. E. Grasman and J. R. Birge). European Journal of Operational Research, September 2005, Vol 165/3, pp. 794-809.

 


Stochastic Scheduling for Telecommunications

“On Mutually Interfering Parallel Servers Subject to External Disturbances,” (with K. M. Wasserman).  Operations Research, September-October 2001, Vol. 49, No. 5, pp. 700-709.

“Distributed Power Control and Spreading Gain Allocation in CDMA Data Networks,” (with S. Oh and K. M. Wasserman). Technical Report.


Other

“Optimally Efficient Estimation of the Statistics of Rare Events in Jackson Networks,” (with M.R. Frater and B.D.O. Anderson).  I.E.E.E. Transactions on Automatic Control, December 1991, Vol. 36, No. 12, pp. 1395-1405.

 

“A Descriptive Multi-Attribute Model for Reconfigurable Machining System Selection that Examines Buyer-Supplier Relationships,” (with S. Chick, K. Sethuraman, K. Stecke, and C. C. White, III). International Journal of Agile Management Systems, 2000, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp 33-48.

 

“An Approach to Scalability and Line Balancing for Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems,” (with S.-Y. Son and D. Yip-Hoi). Integrated Manufacturing Systems, 2001, Vol. 12, No. 7, pp. 500-511.

 

“Deming’s Quality Experiments Revisited.” To Appear: INFORMS Transactions on Education.

“A Critical Look at Critical Thinking,” ORMS Today, April 2008.

Cost Modeling in Hospital Emergency Rooms (with Wash. U. School of Medicine). Work in Progress (estimated percentage complete: 50%).


Conference Presentations and Proceedings

(Conferences marked with a * have conference proceedings.)

"Response-Time Approximations for Multi-Class Production Systems with Significant Setups," INFORMS National Meeting, Los Angeles, April 1995.

"Approximate Performance Analysis for Polling Models", INFORMS Applied Probability Conference, Atlanta, June 1995.

"Scheduling of a Single Station Machine with Setup Times," INFORMS National Meeting, New Orleans, October 1995, [invited talk, served as session chair].

"The Effect of Setups in the Presence of Random Yield Loss," (with J. Birge), INFORMS National Meeting, Washington D.C., May 1996, [invited talk].

"Scheduling of a Single Machine with Setups," (with I. Duenyas and D. Gupta), INFORMS National Meeting, Washington D.C., May 1996, [invited talk].

"A Practical Scheduling Method for Multi-Class Production Systems with Setups," INFORMS National Meeting, San Diego, May 1997, [invited talk, served as session chair].

*       "Optimal Control of Service Rates of Queues in the Presence of a Continuous Disturbance Process: Applications to Spread Spectrum Wireless Networks," (with K. M. Wasserman). Transactions of the 1997 Conference on Information Sciences and Systems.

"Parallel Queues with Interfering Servers: Applications to power control in spread-spectrum wireless networks," (with K. M. Wasserman), INFORMS Applied Probability Conference, Boston, June 1997, [invited talk].

"Production Strategies for Random Yield Processes," (with J. Birge and S. Grasman), INFORMS National Meeting, Montreal, April 1998.

"Production/Inventory Systems with Failures & Limited Repair Capacity," (with I. Duenyas and S. Iravani), INFORMS National Meeting, Montreal, April 1998, [invited talk].

"Asymptotics for Polling Models with Increasing Setups," INFORMS National Meeting, Montreal, April 1998, [invited talk].

*       "Practical Scheduling Methods for Multi-Class Production Systems," 1998 MSOM Conference, Seattle, June 1998.

"A Descriptive Multiattribute Model for Reconfigurable Machining System Selection that Examines Buyer-Supplier Relationships," (with C.C. White et al.), INFORMS National Meeting, Seattle, October 1998, [invited talk].

"Fluid Models of Queues with Setups," INFORMS National Meeting, Seattle, October 1998, [invited talk].

"The Effect of Product Rationing on the Supply Chain," (with R. Kapuscinski), INFORMS National Meeting, Seattle, October 1998, [invited talk].

"A Decision Support Model to Select Appropriate Reconfigurable or Other Machining Systems that Considers Buyer-Supplier Relationships," (with S. Chick et al.) 1998 Japan-USA Symposium on Flexible Automation.

"Polling Models with Finite Buffers & Routing," (with S. Grasman and J. Birge), INFORMS National Meeting, Cincinnati, April 1999.

"Real-Time Scheduling Policies of Flexible Manufacturing Systems with Both Setup Times & Cost," (with W.-M. Lan), INFORMS National Meeting, Cincinnati, April 1999.

"Modeling Vendor-Managed Inventory," (with M. Fry and R. Kapuscinski), INFORMS National Meeting, Cincinnati, April 1999, [invited talk, served as session chair].

*       "Interactively Learning about Markov Processes," (with J. Yen), Transactions of the 1999 ASEE Conference.

"Fluid Models for Polling Systems," INFORMS Applied Probability Conference, Ulm, Germany, July 1999.

*       “Distributed Power Control and Spreading Gain Allocation in CDMA Data Networks,  (with S.-J. Oh and K. M. Wasserman), 2000 IEEE Conference on computer communications (INFOCOM ‘00).

 

         “Analytic Models for Deciding when to Outsource,” (with H. Ayhan and H. Arslan), INFORMS National Meeting, Philadelphia, November 1999, [invited talk, served as session chair].

 

         “Fluid Models for Systems with Setups: Convergence and Lower Bounds,” (with W.-M. Lan), INFORMS National Meeting, Salt Lake City, May 2000, [invited talk].

 

         “Supply-Chain Performance of Vendor-Managed Inventory,” (with M. Fry and R. Kapuscinski), INFORMS National Meeting, Salt Lake City, May 2000, [invited talk].

 

         “Inventory Control with Overtime and Premium Freight,” (with E. Huggins), INFORMS National Meeting, Salt Lake City, May 2000, [invited talk].

 

*       “A Genetic Algorithm Approach for the Design of Machining System Families,” (with S.-Y. Son, and D. Yip-Hoi), 2000 International CIRP Design Seminar, Haifa, Israel, May 2000.

 

*       “Economic Benefits of Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems,” (with S.-Y. Son, and D. Yip-Hoi), 2000 Japan-USA Symposium on Flexible Automation (2000 JUSFA), Ann Arbor, July 2000.

 

         “Modeling & Analyzing Vendor Managed Inventory Agreements,” (with M. Fry and R. Kapuscinski), INFORMS National Meeting, San Antonio, November 2000, [invited talk].

 

*       “Inventory Control with Overtime and Premium Freight,” (with E. Huggins), ORSNZ Annual Conference, Wellington, New Zealand, December 2000.

 

         “Inventory Control with Overtime and Premium Freight,” (with E. Huggins), INFORMS International Meeting, Hawaii, June 2001, [invited talk, served as session chair].

 

         “Adjusting Demand Forecasts with Multiple Retailers under Vendor Managed Inventory,” (with M. Fry and R. Kapuscinski), INFORMS International Meeting, Hawaii, June 2001, [invited talk, served as session chair].

 

         “Inventory Control When Demand Must be Met,” (with E. Huggins).  Multi-Echelon Inventory Conference, University of California, Berkeley, June, 2001.

 

         “Joint Lead-Time & Pricing Decisions.”  INFORMS National Meeting, Miami, November 2001, [invited talk, served as session chair].

 

         “Channel Coordination of Supply Chains with Overtime & Premium Freight,” (with E. Huggins).  INFORMS National Meeting, Miami, November 2001, [invited talk, served as session chair].

 

         Dynamic Quotation of Prices and Lead-Times.”  MSOM, Cornell, June 2002.

 

*       “Supply Chain Coordination with Overtime & Premium Freight,” (with E. Huggins).  International Conference on Global Supply Chain Management, Beijing, August 2002.

 

         Cooperating on Demand Forecasts and Inventory Replenishment with Multiple Retailers and Outsourcing,  (with M. Fry and R. Kapuscinski).  INFORMS National Meeting, San Jose, November 2002, [invited talk].

 

         Supply Chain Coordination with Overtime and Premium Freight,” (with E. Huggins). INFORMS National Meeting, San Jose, November 2002, [invited talk].

 

         The Magazine Problem: Duopoly Competition in a Subscription Based Industry,” (with H.-S. Ahn).  INFORMS National Meeting, San Jose, November 2002, [invited talk].

 

         The Magazine Problem: Duopoly Competition in Subscription Based Industries,” (with H.-S. Ahn).  MSOM, USC, June 2003.

 

Leadtime Quotation and Pricing under Revenue Dependent Leadtimes. MSOM, Eindhoven, June 2004.

 

         Dynamic Competition Under Supermodularity,” with H.-S. Ahn).  INFORMS National Meeting, Denver, October 2004, [invited talk].

*       “Service Level Agreements in Call Centers: Perils and Prescriptions,” (with J. Milner). MSOM, Chicago, June 2005.

Heavy-traffic Limits for Polling Models: Results and Open Problems,” INFORMS Applied Probability Conference, Ottawa, Canada, July 2005, [invited talk].

“Service Levels Agreements in Call Centers,” (with J. Milner). INFORMS Applied Probability Conference, Ottawa, Canada, July 2005, [invited talk].

         Dynamic Competition Under Supermodularity,” (with H.-S. Ahn).  INFORMS National Meeting, San Francisco, November 2005, [invited talk].

 

         “Service Level Agreements in Call Centers: Perils and Prescriptions,” (with J. Milner). INFORMS National Meeting, San Francisco, November 2005, [invited talk, served as session chair].

 

         Consumer Behavior in Inventory Management,” (with R. Parker).  INFORMS National Meeting, San Francisco, November 2005, [invited talk].

 

         Consumer Behavior in Inventory Management,” (with R. Parker).  ORSIS Annual Meeting, Nahariya, Israel, May 2006 .

 

         “Service Level Agreements in Call Centers: Perils and Prescriptions,” (with J. Milner). ANZAM OM Symposium, Wellington, New Zealand, June 2006.

*       Consumer Behavior in Inventory Management,” (with R. Parker).  MSOM, Atlanta, June 2006.

“Capacity Decisions in a Food Court Environment,” (with H. Wang).  INFORMS National Meeting, Pittsburgh, November 2006, [invited talk].

Dynamic Leadtime Quotation Under General Customer Utilities,” (with B. Ata). INFORMS National Meeting, Pittsburgh, November 2006, [invited talk].

Inventory Management Under Market Size Dynamics,” (with R. Parker). INFORMS National Meeting, Pittsburgh, November 2006, [invited talk, served as session chair].

A Fluid Analysis for Service Capacity Decisions,” (with H. Wang).  INFORMS National Meeting, Seattle, November 2007, [invited talk].

Dynamic Leadtime Quotation Under General Customer Utilities,” (with B. Ata). INFORMS National Meeting, Seattle, November 2007, [invited talk].

“Dynamic Inventory Games with Substitution,” (with R. Parker). INFORMS National Meeting, Seattle, November 2007, [invited talk].

 “Inventory Competition with Market Share Dynamics,” (with R. Parker).  Workshop on Modelling Competition in Supply Chains, University of Auckland, November 2007, [invited talk].

*       “Dynamic Inventory Competition with Stockout-Based Substitution,” (with R. Parker).  MSOM, Maryland, June 2008.

A Multi-Period Inventory Duopoly with Substitutable Inventory,” (with R. Parker). INFORMS National Meeting, Washington DC, October 2008, [invited talk].

Congestion-based Leadtime Quotation and Pricing for Revenue Maximization with Heterogeneous Customer,” (with B. Ata). INFORMS National Meeting, Washington DC, October 2008, [invited talk].

Capacity Management with Strategic Customers,” (with H. Wang).  INFORMS National Meeting, Washington DC, October 2008, [invited talk, served as session chair].

 


Invited Seminars

         Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, 1994        

         IEOR Department, Columbia University, 1994

         Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, 1994

         Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, 1994

         IEEM Department, Northwestern University, 1994

         IOE Department, University of Michigan, 1994

         Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University, 1994

         IEOR Department, University of California, Berkeley, 1997

         EES&OR Department, Stanford University, 1997

         Graduate School of Industrial Administration, Carnegie Mellon University, 1999

         ISyE Department, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1999

         Olin School of Business, Washington University in St. Louis, 2000

         Statistics Department, University of Auckland, New Zealand, 2000

         Engineering Science Department, University of Auckland, New Zealand, 2000

         ORIE Department, Cornell University, 2002

         Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell, 2002

         School of Management, the University of Texas at Dallas, 2002

         Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, 2003

         TWI, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2004

         University of Michigan, Ross School of Business, 2005

         Yale School of Management, 2005

         Case Western Reserve, Weatherhead School of Management, 2005

         NYU Stern School of Business, 2005

         University of Maryland, Robert H. Smith School of Business, 2006

         Kellogg School of Management, 2006

         University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School, 2006

         Auckland Business School, University of Auckland, 2007

         Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, 2007

         Mays Business School, Texas A&M, 2008

         Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago, 2008 (pending)

         Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania, 2008 (pending)

 

 
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