We are delighted to report that there is an update on the paper in this post. Today, on the day before Thanksgiving, it was published on the...

Is there anything more delicious than a ripe peach or mango? Or, perhaps, you love biting into a sweet, crisp apple? I love my fresh fruit a...

The POMS (Production and Operations Management Society) Conference is now taking place in Washington DC. Although I could not go since thi...

This week has been off to a great start and the theme is clearly that of great doctoral student research! Yesterday morning, we heard tha...

We have certainly experienced a long list of supplier failures, whether from natural disasters, quality shortcomings (with the automotive in...

Thanks to INFORMS for already putting up the program for the San Francisco INFORMS Conference. I was asked by Professor Vladimir Bogins...

Very soon the conference in honor of Distinguished Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering Panos M. Pardalos of the University of Fl...

The production and delivery of products in a timely manner are essential not only to the satisfaction of consumer demands in many industries...

It is the first day of May and, although the academic semester is over in terms of teaching, faculty and doctoral students are, nevertheless...

I am excited about speaking at the upcoming  Learning and Intelligent Optimization (LION 8)  Conference in Gainesville, Florida later this ...

Quality of its products is the basis of a firm's reputation. And, needs for improvements in product quality drive innovation. Qualit...

Collaborations are great for science and they are also fun. It is very rewarding when you work together on challenging problems that you a...

With the heart-breaking disasters in Japan, and the tremendous human and economic impacts, and, now, with the radiation spreading and variou...

With the Super Bowl game later today in Dallas (although the Patriots won't be there, the Steelers and the Packers will) I thought it a...

I am very much looking forward to the Innovation Challenge that will take place tomorrow at UMass Amherst. Eleven student teams will compete...

Offshore outsourcing refers to the practice of procuring goods or services from outside foreign suppliers rather than producing them in-hous...