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Areas of study and research
Communications Systems
- Network Design and Configuration
- Teletraffic Engineering
- Survivability and Quality of Service Modeling
Logistics and Supply Chain Management
- Multi-Commodity Flow Distribution Network Design
- Closed Loop Supply Chain
- Supply Chain Risk and Uncertainty
- Radio Frequency Identification
- Coordination of Inventory, Scheduling and Transportation
- Vendor Managed Inventory
- Warehousing, Transportation, and Supply Contracting
Modeling and Analysis of Production and Manufacturing
- Lean Manufacturing Practices
- Facility Design
- Material Handling
- Production Planning and Control
- Fast Hybrid Analytical Modeling/Simulation Capabilities
- Flow and Queue Analysis of Wafer Fabrication
- Electronics Manufacturing, Assembly, Packaging, and Testing
- Cost Modeling of Process Equipment and Facilities
Modeling and Analysis of Probabilistic Systems
- Air Traffic Scheduling
- Control Within Fabrication Facilities
- Optimal Replacement Analysis
- Queueing and Fluid-Flow Modeling
- Maintenance Science
Optimization
- Linear, Nonlinear and Integer Programming
- Intelligent Heuristics
- Graph Theory
- Stochastic Optimization
- Biological Systems (Bioinformatics)
Quality and Reliability Engineering
- Analysis and Design of Distributed Sensor Systems
- Data-Mining Methods
- Multivariate Analysis Methods for Process Monitoring, Diagnostics, and Control
- Systems Reliability and Maintainability
Sustainment Sciences and Remanufacturing
- Critical Part Procurement Practices
- Fatigue Life Enhancement
- Process Redesign
- Rotary Wing Aircraft Predictive and Preventive Maintenance
- Stochastic MRP
- Image Processing and 3D Reconstruction
Transportation Systems
- Human Interface with Equipment, Vehicles and Transportation Facilities
- Intelligent Vehicle/Highway Systems
- Operator Performance Measures
- Highway Traffic Operations
Homeland Security
- Test and Evaluation of First Responder Equipment
- Robotics Applications to Search and Rescue
- Situational Awareness Modeling
- Visualization and Virtual Environments
- Sensor Surveillance System Design
Enterprise Systems
- Capacity Planning
- Disruption Management
- Enterprise Risk Profiling
Modeling and Analysis of Biological Systems
- Forest Fire Spread Modeling
- Population Modeling for Pest Management Control
- Forest Biomass Utilization
Management and Decision Analysis
- Decision Making Under Uncertainty
- Modeling of Probabilistic Dependence
- Individual and Corporate Risk Preference and Analysis
- Probability Assessment
- Engineering and Project Management
Modeling and Analysis of Service Systems
- Revenue Management
- Workforce Agility
- Healthcare Delivery Systems
- Healthcare Treatment Planning
(updated Feb 13, 2006)