Publications Relating to Operations

  1. Hundal, T. S. and Rajgopal, J.; "An Extension of Palmer's Heuristic for the Flow‑Shop Scheduling Problem," International Journal of Production Research, Vol. 26, No. 6, June 1988.

  2. Bidanda, B. and Rajgopal, J.; "Optimal Selection of Workholding Devices for Concentric Rotational Parts", IIE Transactions, Vol. 22, No. 1, March 1990.

  3. Rajgopal, J. and Bidanda, B.; "Scheduling Parallel Machines with Two Setup Classes", International Journal of Production Research, Vol. 28, 1991.

  4. Aiyer, J. P. and Rajgopal, J.; �Commercial Sales in Cable Television - An Overview and a Linear Model,� Mid-American Journal of Business, Vol. 12, No. 1, 1997.

  5. Aiyer, J. P. and Rajgopal, J.; �Managing Cable TV Commercial Inventories via Program Promotion,� Marketing Intelligence and Planning, Vol. 19, No. 1, pp. 45-54, 2001.

  6. Adickes, M. D., Billo, R. E., Norman, B. A., Banerjee, S., Nnaji, B. O. and Rajgopal, J.; "Optimization of Indoor Wireless Communication Network Layouts," IIE Transactions, Vol. 34, No. 9, pp. 823-836, 2002.

  7. Abdullah, F. & Rajgopal, J.; "Lean Manufacturing in the Process Industry," Proceedings of the IIE Research Conference, (CD-ROM), Portland, OR, May 2003.

  8. Olson, S. Boros, S., Schaefer, A.J. and Rajgopal, J.; �Evaluation of Operating Policies for Remnant Inventory Systems via Simulation,� Proceedings of the IIE Research Conference, (CD-ROM), Houston, TX, May 2004.

  9. Abdulmalek, F. A., Rajgopal, J. and K. Needy, K. L.; "A Classification Model for the Process Industry to Guide the Implementation of Lean," Engineering Management Journal Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 15-25, 2006.

  10. Abdulmalek, F. A. and Rajgopal, J.; �Analyzing the Benefits of Lean Manufacturing and Value Stream Mapping via Simulation: A Process Sector Case Study,� International Journal of Production EconomicsVol. 107, No. 1pp. 223-236, 2007.

  11. Wang, L., Norman, B. A. and Rajgopal, J.; "Placement of Multiple RFID Reader Antennas to Maximise Portal Read Aaccuracy,"   International Journal of Radio Frequency Identification Technology and Applications, Vol. 1, No. 3,  pp. 260 � 277, 2007.

  12. Wang, L., Norman, B. A. and Rajgopal, J.; "Maximizing Read Accuracy by Optimally Locating RFID Interrogators," RFID Handbook: Applications, Technology, Security, and Privacy, S. Ahson & M. Ilyas (Eds.), pp. 181-198, 2007.

  13. Rajgopal, J., B. A., Norman, L. Wang & F. Abdulmalek;  �A Simulation Study of RFID for Retail Shelf Replenishment,� Proceedings of 2008 Industrial Engineering Research Conference, May 2008, pp. 758-763, (CD-ROM), Vancouver, BC.

  14. Rajgopal, J., Wang, Z., Prokopyev, O. A. and Schaefer, A. J.; "Effective management Policies for Remnant Inventory Supply Chains," IIE Transactions, Vol. 41, No. 5, pp. 437-447, 2009.

  15. Scala, N. M., J.  Rajgopal, K. L. Needy; �Risk and Spare Parts Inventory in Electric Utilities,� Proceedings of the 2009 IIE Research Conference, May 2009, (CD-ROM), Miami, FL.

  16. Scala, N. M., K. L. Needy,  and J. Rajgopal; �Decision Making and Tradeoffs in the Management of Spare Parts Inventory at Utilities,�  Proceedings of the 30th ASEM National Conference, October 2009, Springfield, MO.

  17. Maillart, L., Kamrani, A., Norman, B. A., Rajgopal J. and Hawrylak, P.; �Optimizing RFID Tag-Inventorying Algorithms,� IIE Transactions, Vol. 42, No. 9, pp. 690-702, 2010.

  18. Scala, N. M., J.  Rajgopal, K. L. Needy; �Influence Diagram Modeling of Nuclear Spare Parts Process,� Proceedings of the 2010 IIE Research Conference, May 2010, (CD-ROM), Cancun, MX.

  19. Scala, N. M., K. L. Needy, and J. Rajgopal; �Using the Analytic Hierarchy Process in Group Decision Making for Nuclear Spare Parts,� Proceedings of the 31st ASEM National Conference, October, 2010.

  20. Rajgopal, J., Wang, Z., Prokopyev, O. A. and Schaefer, A. J.; "Integrated Design and Operation of Remnant Inventory Supply Chains under Uncertainty," European Journal of Operational Research, Vol. 214, pp. 358-364, 2011.

  21. Abdulmalek, F., Wang, L., Norman, B. A. and Rajgopal, J.; �Analyzing the Benefits of RFID in Reducing Off-Shelf Out-of-stock: A Simulation Approach,� International Journal of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 19-37, 2011

  22. Scala, N. M., Rajgopal, J., and Needy, K. L.; �A Base Stock Inventory Management System for Intermittent Spare Parts,� Military Operations Research , Vol. 18, No. 3, pp. 63-67, 2013.

  23. Scala, N. M., Rajgopal, J., and Needy, K. L.; �Managing Nuclear Spare Parts Inventories: A Data Driven Methodology,� IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Vol. 61, No. 1, pp. 28-37, 2014.

  24. Scala, N. M., Rajgopal, J., Vargas, L. and Needy, K. L.; �Using Principal Components Analysis for Aggregating Judgments in the Analytic Hierarchy Process,� Group Decisions and Negotiation, Vol. 25, No. 2, pp. 355-372, 2016.
  25. Yang, Y., Hefley, W. E. and Rajgopal, J., �The economics of Distributed Power: A Marcellus Shale Case Study,� Computers and Industrial Engineering, Vol. 113, pp. 558-569, 2017.

  26. Esmaili, N., Norman, B. A. and Rajgopal, J., "Shelf-Space Optimization Models in Decentralized Automated Dispensing Devices," Operations Research for Healthcare, Vol. 19, pp. 92-106, 2018.

  27. Esmaili, N., Norman, B. A. and Rajgopal, J., "Exact Analysis of a Class of (R,s,S) Inventory Control Systems," Naval Research Logistics, Vol. 66, pp. 123-132, 2019.


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