Journal Articles

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Learning Effects on Maintenance Outsourcing (with Kwei Tang and Sunantha Teyarachakul), European Journal of Operational Reearch (2009)

The objective of this paper is to study learning effects on maintenance outsourcing. We consider...

 

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On the staffing policy and technology investment in a specialty hospital offering telemedicine (with Zafer Ozdemir and Moosa Sharafali), Decision Support Systems (2009)

We study a specialty hospital providing traditional face-to-face consultations by experts and telemedicine services by...

 

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Incentive maintenance outsourcing contracts for channel coordination and improvement (with Kwei Tang, Herb Moskowitz, and Robert Plante), IIE Transactions (2006)

Consider a manufacturer who has a process with an increasing failure rate over time. In...

 

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Maintenance outsourcing of a Multi-process Manufacturing System with Multiple Contractors (with Kwei Tang, Herb Moskowitz, and Robert Plante), IIE Transactions (2006)

Consider a manufacturer with a manufacturing system that consists of multiple processes. The manufacturer’s revenue...

 

Working Paper

Learning and Forgetting in Maintenance Outsourcing (with Sunantha Teyarachakul and Kwei Tang) (2009)

We study the effects of learning and forgetting on maintenance outsourcing in this paper. This...

 

On the Problem of Production Deadline and Maintenance Outsourcing (with Sharafali Moosa) (2009)

In this paper we consider a production-maintenance problem in which a buyer and a supplier...

 

The Convergence in Workers’ Skill Levels Under Learning and Forgetting: The Fixed-Point-Property Approach (with Sunantha Teyarachakul and Dogan Comez) (2009)

This paper presents a study on the convergence of workers’ skill levels under learning and...

 

Conference Proceedings

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Optimal Staffing Policy and Telemedicine (with Zafer Ozdemir and Moosa Sharafali), 13th Americas Conference on Information Systems (2007)

We study the optimal strategy of a specialty hospital in providing traditional face-to-face consultations via...

 

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Learning and Maintenance Outsourcing (with Kwei Tang and Sunantha Teyarachakul), Annual Decision Sciences Institute Conference (2006)

In this paper, we discuss learning in maintenance outsourcing. We consider a manufacturer that outsources...

 

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Incentive Maintenance Contracts for Optimizing Channel Profit (with Kwei Tang), Annual Decision Sciences Institute Conference (2003)

We discuss channel coordination in maintenance outsourcing contracts. We consider a service chain, including a...

 

PhD Dissertation

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Coordination in maintenance outsourcing, PhD Dissertation: ETD Collection for Purdue University (2004)

In the first part of this thesis, we consider a manufacturer who has a process...