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 Economics, Vol. 107, No. 1, pp. 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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