Every
year, at this time, as the Center Director of the Virtual Center for Supernetworks, I prepare a Congratulations and Kudos piece on the
Supernetwork Team.
2018 was another exceptional year for the Supernetwork Team, one in
which we continued to make a global impact through fundamental network
research with a wide range of applications and activities! It is an
honor to highlight some of the accomplishments and achievements of the
Center Associates of the Virtual Center for Supernetwork in the past
year.
The book, Dynamics of Disasters: Algorithmic Approaches and Applications, which I co-edited with Professor Ilias S. Kotsireas of
Wilfrid Laurier University in Canada and Professor Panos M. Pardalos of
the University of Florida, was published by Springer. The collection of
refereed chapters includes several papers presented at the Dynamics of Disaster conference in the summer of 2017 in Kalamata, Greece, by Center
Associates, including: Advances in Disaster Communications: Broadband
Systems for First Responders by Dr. Ladimer S. Nagurney of the
University of Hartford, and A Variational Equilibrium Network Framework
for Humanitarian Organizations in Disaster Relief: Effective Product
Delivery Under Competition for Financial Funds, which I co-authored
with Dr. Patrizia Daniele of the University of Catania in Italy, Emilio
Alvarez Flores of Cisco, and Professor Daniele's former doctoral
student, Valeria Caruso. Also, while at the conference, a wonderful
collaboration was initiated with Professor Tina Wakolbinger of the
Vienna University of Economics and Business and her doctoral student
Timo Gossler, which resulted in the paper, How to Increase the Impact of Disaster Relief: A Study of Transportation Rates, Framework Agreements and Product Distribution, published open access in the European Journal of Operational Research, and co-authored with Professor
Patrizia Daniele and me.
A big congratulations to Professor Tina Wakolbinger, who was selected as
one of two keynote speakers for the 50th Anniversary Celebration of
the PhD Program of the Isenberg School of Management, which will take
place on April 5, 2019. The other keynote speaker is Dr. Dennis Hanno,
the President of Wheaton College in Massachusetts. I have organized a
panel of our Management Science PhD alums, which will include Center
Associate Professor Patrick Qiang of Penn State University Great Valley
and Center Associate Dr. Padma Ramanujam of SAS!
Also, a delightful collaboration of four females, resulted in the paper,
Cybersecurity Investments with Nonlinear Budget Constraints and
Conservation Laws: Variational Equilibrium, Marginal Expected Utilities,
and Lagrange Multipliers, Gabriella Colajanni (Professor Daniele's
doctoral student), Patrizia Daniele, Professor Sofia Giuffre, and me,
published in the International Transactions in Operational Research in
2018! Special thanks to Professor Patrizia Daniele for co-organizing an
incredible conference: Variational Inequalities, Nash Equilibrium Problems and Applications, March 8-9, 2018, in Reggio Calabria, Italy,
which took place in a castle! I had a marvelous time being a keynote
speaker and taking part in this exceptional scientific conference.
Center Associates had numerous speaking engagements at conferences
globally as well as many invited seminar talks. Professors Daniele,
Wakolbinger, and Jose Cruz presented at the 29th European Conference On
Operational Research, EURO2018, Valencia, Spain, July 8-11, 2018 and I
had the pleasure, as did Doctoral Student Center Associate Pritha Dutta,
to present at the CORS Conference in Halifax, Canada!
And, speaking of doctoral students, congratulations also to Deniz Besik,
on the acceptance of her paper, Tariffs and Quotas in World Trade: A
Unified Variational Inequality Framework, in the European Journal of
Operational Research, which was co-authored with Professor June Dong of
SUNY Oswego and me. This work began last summer when I was back at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University as a Summer Fellow and it was tremendous to have Professors June Dong, Amir M.
Masoumi of Manhattan College, and Michelle Li visit, as well as my
doctoral students Pritha Dutta and Deniz Besik. A big congratulations
also to Deniz, who served as last year's President of the UMass Amherst INFORMS Student Chapter and, this past November, the chapter was
recognized with its 12th consecutive award from INFORMS at the Annual
Meeting in Phoenix for its activities. Very active officers include
Doctoral Student Center Associates Pritha Dutta and Mojtaba Salarpour.
Congratulations also to Pritha on the acceptance of two papers: Supply
Chain Network Competition Among Blood Service Organizations: A
Generalized Nash Equilibrium Framework, in press in the Annals of
Operations Research, and Competition for Blood Donations, in press in
Omega. Pritha successfully defended her doctoral dissertation proposal
this past semester and also took part in the INFORMS Future Academicians
Doctoral Colloquium just prior to the INFORMS Conference in Phoenix in
November. Deniz also had a co-authored paper published in Chaos, which
was an Editor's Pick.
Kudos to Center Associate Dr. Michelle Li on her move to Babson College
as an Assistant Professor. Babson is considered the top entrepreneurial
college in the world! Also, congratulations to her on the publication of
the paper, The Sustainable Supply Chain Network Competition with
Environmental Tax Policies, co-authored with Center Associates Professor
Min Yu of the University of Portland and Jose Cruz of the University of
Connecticut! In addition, congrats on the publication of our
co-authored paper, Consumer Learning of Product Quality with Time Delay:
Insights from Spatial Price Equilibrium Models with Differentiated
Products, also with Dr. Yu, in Omega.
Kudos to Center Associate Dr. Sara Saberi of the Foisie School of
Business at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) in Massachusetts, who
is lead author of the paper, A Competitive Multiperiod Supply Chain
Network Model with Freight Carriers and Green Technology Investment
Option, with Center Associate Dr. Jose M. Cruz of the University of
Connecticut, her colleague, Dr. Joe Sarkis, and me, which was published
in the European Journal of Operational Research. Congratulations also to
Dr. Saberi on the publication of her paper, Sustainable, Multiperiod
Supply Chain Network Model with Freight Carrier Through Reduction in
Pollution Stock in Transportation Research E! Sara is now conducting
research with support from several grants and is an elected Officer of
WORMS (Women in Operations Research and the Management Sciences).
Congratulations to Center Associate Dr. Shivani Shukla, of the
University of San Francisco, who, along with Dr. Sara Saberi and
Professor Ladimer S. Nagurney, and me, had the paper, A Game Theory
Model for Freight Service Provision Security Investments for High-Value
Cargo, published in the Economics of Transportation.
The INFORMS Phoenix conference, November 4-7, 2018 served as a terrific
venue for many Center Associates to reconvene, with participants and
speakers including Center Associates: Professor Patrick Qiang of
Pennsylvania State University Great Valley, Professor Amir H. Masoumi
of Manhattan College, Professor Min Yu of the University of Portland,
Professor Dmytro Matsypura of the University of Sydney in Australia,
Professor Jose M. Cruz of the University of Connecticut, Professor Dong
Li of Babson, Professor Sara Saberi, and Professor Shivani Shukla as
well as Deniz Besik and Pritha Dutta. At the conference I was deeply
honored in being selected and delivering the Omega Rho Distinguished Lecture: Networks to Save the World: OR in Action. Special thanks also
to Lancaster University in England, where I not only gave a course last
March, but also was the plenary speaker in September for the 60th anniversary conference: OR60, and at the Early Career Researcher Workshop. The OR Society kindly made a videotape of my plenary talk and it is now posted on youtube.
Below are links to examples of some of our recent publications:
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