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Robert Jones Completes Ph.D. Defense

April 17, 2009

Robert Jones

Robert Jones successfully defended his dissertation on April 14, 2009 and will receive his Ph.D. in May. The defense announcement is given below:

Heuristic Algorithms for Solving the Interval Flow Transshipment Network
Robert H. Jones
Advisor: Dr. Richard Barr

This dissertation addresses the inclusion of semi-continuous variables into network formulations for minimum cost-flow transshipment problems with and without a fixed-charge. These models, termed interval-flow networks, are formulated mathematically and solution methods are proposed and tested computationally. Results are compared to state-of-the-art commercially available software. A solution for a real world scheduling problem and a well know NP-hard problem are included.

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