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This page was last updated on September 4, 2007.
Biographical Sketch
Andrew Johnson has recently completed a Ph.D.
degree in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE) at Georgia Institute of
Technology (GT). He received a
Master of Science Degree (2002) from Georgia Tech, and a Bachelor of Science
Degree (2001) in the Department of Industrial
and Systems Engineering at Virginia
Polytechnic Institute and State University. His research interests
include applied operations research, productivity and efficiency measurement,
mircoeconomics, warehouse design, material handling and Internet based database
applications. He is a member of the German
Club of Virginia Tech, Instintute of Industrial Engineers (IIE), National Eagle Scout Association and
Tau Beta Pi (TBP).
Research
The area I am most interested in is production theory or production economics. I have collected some links to other research in this area.
My research has two important components: 1) production economics and 2) warehouse design and operations. In my dissertation I combined these two topics and investigated the performance of warehouses. I used data collected via the iDEAs-W website to investigate the correction between practices of the warehouse and attributes of the warehouse with productivity levels. I am interested in production economics from an engineering point of view. Meaning I am interested not only in quantifying performance, but also I am interesting in identifying the connection improvement activities and changes in input and output consumption. There are many issues that make this task difficult.
Status Reports for my students
Links Connected to Productivity, Efficiency, Operations Research and Other Interesting Areas
Scientific Societies, Journals, Areas of Productivity and Efficiency Research, Conferences, Research Groups, Webpages of People Doing Research in Productivity and Efficiency, Webpages with Resources, Bibliographic Information, Data Resources, Software
Scientific Societies
- PARN (Productivity Analysis
Research Network)
- IIE (
- INFORMS (Institute for Operations
Research and the Management Sciences)
- FORS (International Federation of
Operational Research Societies)
- EURO Association of European
Operational Research Societies
Journals
- Annals
of Operations Research
- Applied
Economics Letters
- Applied Economics
- Computers & Operations Research
- Engineering Optimization
- European Journal of Operations Research
- Industrial
Management and Data Systems
- Interfaces
- International Journal of Production Economics
- Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications
- JORS
Journal of the Operations Research Society
- Journal
of Econometrics
- Journal
of Productivity Analysis Submission Site
- Journal
of the Operations Research Society Japan
- Management Science
- Omega Journal
- Operations Research
- Operations Research Letters
- Optimization and Engineering
- Socio-Economic
Planning Sciences
- Theoretical Economics
Searching for Journal Articles
- IEEE Xplore, IEEE (and IEE)
publications electronically
- ScienceDirect
- backfile collection of journal articles (published prior to 1995)
- MathematicsWeb, the new
information resource for Pure Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, Statistics
and Probability.
- Scirus, search
engine for scientific information only
Areas of Productivity and Efficiency Research
- And This is How it All
Started, The Cowles Foundation website which gives a historical
description of the Foundation that is responsible for so much of the basic
theory of production
- An
Introduction to Production Theory
- MyWiseOwl.com
Even more basic, less extensive introduction to Production Theory
- What
are the Essential Principles of Economics Let's go back to first
principles
Conferences
- NAPW 2004,
North American Productivity Workshop
- APPC
2004, The Asia Pacific Productivity Conference
- 4th International
Symposium on DEA Aston,
- EWEPA IX, Ninth European Workshop on
Efficiency and Productivity Analysis
- IGLS 2006, The 14th
International Working Seminar on Production Economics
- IMHRC
2006, The
- HEWPEM 2006, The 3rd
Hellenic Workshop on Efficiency and Productivity Measurement
- 1st Halle Efficiency and Productivity Analysis Workshop - HEPAW Halle, Halle Institute of Economic Research (IWH), June 20 - 21, 2006
- NAPW IV,
North American Productivity Workshop IV,
- EUROXXXI,
- APPC 2006, Asia-Pacific Productivity
Conference
- OR48 Annual
Conference,
- Workshop
on Productivity Analysis
- ICCMSE 2006, International Conference of
Computational Methods in Sciences and Engineering 2006,
- Informs Annual meeting,
- SIGEF'06, XIII Congress of International
Association for Fuzzy-Set Management and Economy: Optimization Techniques:
Fuzziness and Nonlinearity for Management and Economy,
- AEA 2007, The American
Economic Association Annual Meeting
- DEA2007, The 5th
International Symposium on DEA
- DEA
Symposium 2007, The Operations Research Society of
- IIE Annual Conference,
- IESM 2007, International Conference on
Industrial Engineering and Systems Management,
- EWEPA X, Tenth European Workshop on
Efficiency and Productivity Analysis
- INFORMS
International, Institute for Operations Research and the Management
Science International
- EURO XXII, 22nd European Conference on
Operational Research,
- OPTIMIZATION 2007,
- IFORS 2008, 18th Triennial Conference
of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies,
- Other
Upcoming Academic Conferences via e-Academe.org
Research Groups
- CEPA, The Centre for
Efficiency and Productivity Analysis at the
- VT Nova System Performance
Lab, at Virginia Tech's Northern Virginia Campus
- GAPEM MAIN PAGE, Group for Analysis of
Performance in Economics and Management at the Universite Catholique de
Louvain
- The Nonparametric
Approach to Production Analysis, A research project with a supporting
research group Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands
- Business
Efficiency and Competitiveness Group, A group of researchers in
- The Frisch Centre,
Ragnar Frisch Centre for Economic Research
- The SUMICSID Group, A consulting group
working in the area of efficiency
- Productivity Commission, Government Agency in
- NIESR, National
Institute of Economic and Social Research, Independent Research Institute
- Oviedo Efficiency Group, A
research group at Universidad de Oviedo in
Webpages with Resources
- DEA zone, Perhaps the most widely known DEA
site, run by Ali Emrouznejad
- Holger
Scheel's - DEA site
- Tim
Anderson's DEA page, contains a short introduction to DEA
- What
is Operations Research? An article devoted to operations research (OR)
in Computerworld. It examines the practical and IT aspects of OR.
- Mathematical
Programming Glossary
- Michael Trick's Operations Research Page
Bibliographic Information
- Lovell's
Reading List, Reading to take you from a beginner to an Expert
-
UCL_CORE - Discussion
Papers, from this page follow the link to "STAT
Publications ", An extensive list of working papers
- Grilliches'
Applied Econometrics Syllabus, Slightly off topic, but a good prep for
parametric efficiency methods
- Sieford's
Bibliography including Abstracts
- GRIPS Discussion Papers
Data Resources
- DEA Dataset Repository,
Tim Anderson and Paul Rouse Data Repository
- This
section needs more resources. Please send me any links you may know
of; ALJ .
Software
- A
review of some of the stochastic frontier and DEA software
- Banxia Software - Decision Support Software for
Professionals
- GAMS, interface to CPLEX
- Code for DEA in GAMS,
written by Ole Olesen
- GAMS code Resource, Erwin
Kalvelagen has written extensive code to do economic analysis
- LIMDEP, by William Greene, I am really
looking forward to 9.0 which will include the DEA bootstrap
Any of these Optimization Packages can be Programmed to Perform DEA Calculations
- CPLEX Optimization, Inc.
- Optimization technology Center
- NEOS
Guide to Optimization Resources
- NEOS Guide
Optimization Tree
- NEOS
Optimization Software Guide
- NEOS Server for Optimization;
for solving problems
- AMPL A Modeling Language for
Mathematical Programming
- Visual XPRESS An integrated LP
and MIP modeling and optimisation system
Other Optimization Software
- MINOS(IIS)
A Software Tool for Analyzing Infeasible Linear Programs
- MCF Network simplex
algorithm
- ABACUS
A Branch-And-Cut System
- New Optimization Technology
for Complex Technical Systems Efficiency Increasing
- Simplex
Pivot Tool, A java applet facilitating simplex pivots
- Network
Simplex Method, A java applet facilitating network simplex method
pivots
- MCS, Matlab
program for bound constrained global optimization
- Concorde, A code for solving
Traveling Salesman Problems